Originally from the Van Empire, Keel is of mixed human and Shewish blood. Around seven feet tall and very well-built. Originally blue-eyed and blond, he currently has one blue eye and one silver, and hair streaked with grey and silver (really silver, not just white hair) as the result of his long stay in a Chaos Gate. A warrior in the army with which Sheila Greywand drove back the hordes of Chaos five hundred years ago, Keel was one of those chosen to remain inside the gates and see that they remained closed. Unfortunately, as things turned out, the Chaos Gates remained closed on the Alastari side for centuries. When Sheila finally reopened them, most of the guardians were dead or insane. Keel was alive, and, just barely, sane; when a party of Lord Protectors finally arrived to relieve him, he managed to foil an attempt by the creatures on the other side of the Gate to trick the Lord Protectors into letting them through into Alastari. The Gate itself was destroyed in the process, and Keel rescued barely in time.

Keel is not insane, but he isn't exactly stable, either. His speech is sometimes fractured and bizarre. He is an intelligent man, though he prefers a crude dumb-jock warrior image. He is often reckless. He is an honorary Lord Protector, and a Primus-quality warrior by today's standards. He is still catching up on the five hundred years that passed while he was in the Gate. He was, before his involuntary exile, romantically attached to Sheila Greywand, and is extremely bitter at her (as he sees it) abandonment of him and the other original Gate wardens. Sheila apparently feels some amount of responsibility for him, but does not seem inclined to re-open their old relationship.

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