Gregor, his sister, and a group of Regalians go on a journey to rescue Gregor's father and recruit allies for a war against the rats. The quest group is challenged to successfully recruit allies for the Regalians, and then journeys to find Gregor's dad emaciated and tortured in the personal prison of King Gorger. When the rat king discovers their rescue attempt, Henry reveals that he has been helping the rats all along, hoping to ally them with the Regalians and conquer the entire Underland. During the questers' attempt to escape, Gregor sacrifices himself to lure the rats' attack force — King Gorger and Henry among them — off the edge of a cliff.
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He started a distillery at Thebarton, which was subsequently acquired by Milne and Co. He was one of the first members of the South Australian Licensed Victuallers' Association. He was one of the founders of the Grand Hotel in Melbourne, with other South Australians Dr. Cawley, Mr. John Frew. Dr. Gorger, A. B. Murray, W. H. Simms and J. B. Spence. He devoted much of his spare time cultivating a farm and orchard at Virginia.
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But gather your neighbors and follow his call Or rats will most surely devour us all. Meaning: Gregor is an Overlander and the son of another fallen Overlander (thus a "son" of the "sun", in multiple ways). He brings the Regalians "light" (an Underland idiom for "life") by killing King Gorger and the traitor Henry. The humans ally themselves with the other species of their world, warding off an attack by the rats, who are carnivores and occasionally cannibalistic.
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These events all transpired before the main character, Gregor, had discovered the Underland. The first time Ripred appears in the series is in the first book, Gregor the Overlander, to act as a guide for Gregor and other characters attempting to find and rescue Gregor's father from the rats. He fulfills the role of "one gnawer beside", as the Prophecy of Grey foretold. Ripred's goal in this quest was to overthrow the rats' monstrous king, King Gorger, and attempt to gain power.
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Eleven- year-old Gregor is left home alone in his family's New York City apartment to watch his sister and grandmother. When Gregor's baby sister Boots falls through an old air duct grate in the building's basement, he dives in after her. The two fall miles below into the Underland: a subterranean world home to humans with near-translucent skin; giant sentient bats, rodents, and insects; and an escalating conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats' King Gorger. They meet several "Underlanders", among them the Regalians' crown princess Luxa, her cousin Henry, and the bats who are "bonded" to them.
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Ripred is in general recognized by most rats as an outcast. He does, however, live with a small band of rats away from others, and appeared to be on good terms with Lapblood and Mange, rats who also represented their species in the quest for a cure to the plague in the third book. He overthrows the rat king, King Gorger, in the first book, in hopes of gaining power or instating a ruler who will strive for peace between rats and the other species of the Underland. He later reveals to Gregor that he doesn't really want to be king, but instead that the warring end.
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