Tekeli-li

Tekeli-li () was a gnoll vampire, and a former Fang of Yeenoghu that lurked in Icewind Dale during the 14 and 15 centuries DR.
==History==
Tekeli-li was once a mortal gnoll, who led his pack across the frozen lands of Icewind Dale. In the , the local Reghedmen barbarians routed the pack, forcing them to flee across the Reghed Glacier. To ensure their survival, the pack sacrificed themselves one by one to their Fang Tekeli-li, granting him sustenance to live through the winter.
To the goddess Auril, Tekeli-li's ravenous hunger represented the unending "consumption" of winter. Auril interred the vampiric gnoll within the Caves of Hunger, imprisoning him in the ice of the Reghed Glacier as the passageway out froze over. He remained trapped there for over a century until a group of adventurers re-opened the passageway.
==Appendix==
===Trivia===
The name "Tekeli-li" comes from the cry of a shoggoth, a creature in Antarctica from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. This was in turn taken from "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" by Edgar Allan Poe, where it is an exclamation of woe and suffering by a people of Antarctica.
===Appearances===
:;Adventures
:: Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
:;Video Games
::Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
===Gallery===
TorchGnoll.png|Tekeli-li stalks an adventurer wielding a lit torch.
===References===
Category:Gnolls
Category:Vampires
Category:Worshipers of Auril
Category:Worshipers of Yeenoghu
Category:Inhabitants of the Caves of Hunger
Category:Inhabitants of the Reghed Glacier
Category:Inhabitants of Icewind Dale
Category:Inhabitants of the Frozenfar
Category:Inhabitants of the Sword Coast North
Category:Inhabitants of Northwest Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Faerûn
Category:Inhabitants of Toril