Xingax

Xingax is an undead creature from the Abyss.

Appearance
Xingax looks like an oversized, freakishly deformed stillborn or aborted fetus - the pure ugliness with asymmetrical features. He has small rotting fingers at twisted stubby arms. A frayed, greasy length of umbilicus dangles from his belly. Xingax is shortsighted - he sees through an array of lenses poised on swiveling steel arms.

He eminates an aura of malign energy, which leads people not shielding themselves from it to vomiting, blinding headaches and collapsing in convulsions.

Xingax is carried around by a giant zombie though he could move about quite adequately on his own. He just likes others to think of him as physically helpless. When necessary, he can just float in the air.

He was injured during a fight with the bard Bareris Anskuld but repaired that damage with the oversized shadow-black hand and an eye from the body of the fallen Nighthaunt Ysval. He learned to wield their innate magical abilities such as summoning darkness to shut out the daylight.

Personality
Xingax is incapable of love in both the spiritual and anatomical senses but he finds the alien matter of sexuality intriguing as well as repugnant. He sees himself as inventor, sage, artist, thus detests fighting at the front of an army.

Background
His mother's husband once tore him from her womb. If his mother had carried him to full term he would have been a demigod.

Xingax spent his existence primarily in the Abyss.

Importance
In 1375 DR, Xingax establishes an undead manufactory somewhere in Thay and raises an army of powerful, sentient undead creatures, types of undead that became extinct long ago known and breeds others altogether new. His mission is to conquer Thay with that army. One of his major "achievments" is to turn Tammith Iltazyarra into a special type of vampire. He proudly refers to her as his "daughter".