Ulgulu

Ulgulu was a barghest whelp from the planes of Gehenna.

Description
Ulgulu was a huge purple-skinned goblin-like creature with glowing orange eyes. He was bigger than his brother Kempfana.

History
Sent to the Material Plane to eat and grow, Ulgulu and his brother Kempfana made their home in the cave of a hill giant, Lagerbottoms, where they could safely mature before returning to their home plane.

Around 1340 DR, the barghests sent their main force of gnolls to capture a human man and his eldest son from the Thistledown farm, but the raiders never returned. Ulgulu and his brother sent Nathak to scout out what happened, and he returned reporting their raiding party of five gnolls were dead. After that, Ulgulu sent his quickling ally, Tephanis, to discover exactly what had happened. When Tephanis returned, he told them a newly surfaced drow, Drizzt Do'Urden, had slain the monsters. In rage, Ulgulu asked the quickling steal one of Drizzt's scimitars. After receiving the blade, Ulgulu used his shape-changing abilities to make himself appear as a drow, and attacked the Thistledown farmstead. After slaying the residents, he left the broken scimitar to frame Drizzt as the killer of the family.

When Drizzt learned what had happened, he and Guenhwyvar attacked the cave's inhabitants, destroying the two barghests and many of their goblin allies.

His twisted remains were later found by the party that tried to elucidate the death of the Thistledowns and of Drizzt's intentions. Dove Falconhand would then come to the conclusion that Drizzt battled Ulgulu and Kempfana to avenge the deaths of the Thistledown family.

Death
When Drizzt and Guenhwyvar attacked the barghest brothers, both Ulgulu and Kempfana ended up focusing on one single contender each. With Kempfana trying to eat and kill Drizzt, Ulgulu morphed into a monstrous wolf and pursued Guenhwyvar to a cliff, where he was sure of his victory. However, he was tricked, for when he pounced on Guenhwyvar, the panther dissolved into black mist, going back to the Astral Plane and Ulgulu fell to his death. He tried morphing back into a more humanoid shape in order to levitate and save his own life, but the process was too slow. He slammed against the bottom floor and died, the transformation process halted, leaving a corpse that looked like a mix of a wolf and a monstrous humanoid.

Novels

 * Sojourn