Cat's Gate

The Cat's Gate is a Netherilese extra-planar portal, located in Anauroch.

Description
Most of this gate is buried by the shifting sands. What is exposed stands fifty feet tall. The gate is composed of two worn stone pillars, both fifty feet apart. The surface of the pillars are covered with carvings of cats. Three sides of each pillar are straight, but the fourth is pyramidal.

In operation, the active region shows as a pane of green light, rippling with green lightning bolts.

The gate on the other side is inclined at a forty-five degree angle, to prevent the sands from draining away through the gate. The exit is near the home of Gzemnid, god of eye tyrants.

Destination
The gate leads to the Plane of Concordant Opposition (The Outlands).

History
Built during the height of Netheril, this gate was erected as part of an attempt to conquer the Outlands. The gate is large enough to admit an army for that reason. However, other more powerful beings of that plane had the same idea about Netheril. The city was abandoned after about a century of warfare, as the sands encroached.