Imgig Zu

Imgig Zu was an extraplanar monster.

Possessions
Imgig Zu wielded the Staff of Withering, a powerful staff that could magically age a struck creature, and even leave the struck limb withered and crippled.

He rode upon the back of a winged, horned, gray-scaled, dragon-like creature.

Abilities
Imgig Zu could cast a number of spells, including flesh to stone and rock to mud.

History
Imgig Zu once forcibly transported the fire elemental Jogaoh from his home plane to the world of Toril. Employing a Lockstone, Imgig Zu then trapped the powerful fire elemental in the form of a weak dwarf, which in turn bound him to Toril, and furthermore used his Staff of Withering to drain the strength from Jogaoh's limbs. Nevertheless, Jogaoh was able to escape. Thus Imgig Zu placed the Lockstone atop Stoner's Needle in the Sword Coast lands with a frozen greater basilisk as guardian. The Lockstone also proved the key to Jogaoh's release. Its conditions were the passing of two centuries and to be touched by a living creature. Once these were met, it would restore withered or lost limbs to the one who touched it and transform them back to their original form, but also awake the greater basilisk guardian. Jogaoh feared the basilisk too much to make the climb up and take the Lockstone.

In the Year of the Dragon, 1352 DR, Imgig Zu broke through the wall of Ostus's Hold and attacked Ostus Agrivar and his son Priam. Imgig Zu crippled Priam with the Staff of Withering and slew Ostus with a death spell. Then he seized the powerful Selûne's Eye artifact and left, mocking Priam for his crippled state and inability to threaten him.

However, some six years later, Imgig Zu was yet unable to use the Eye. By this time, he'd joined forces with a drow mage named Kilili, a yuan-ti abomination, gargoyles, and a number of chasme minions, and sought out one who could command the powers of Selûne's Eye. In one day in Year of the Prince, 1357 DR, Imgig Zu erected a magical tower a day's ride north of Waterdeep, and had his minions find and kidnap magic-users in the area for Kilili to test their power in magical combat. The chasme brought back Jalma and two other elf women, but failed to capture Cybriana, with three killed in the process. For their failure and deaths, Imgig Zu killed the chasme leader. When the City Guard of Waterdeep discovered his tower, Imgig Zu sent his gargoyles to destroy them.

Imgig Zu later used magic to contact his kin, who were trapped within Selûne's Eye and longed for release. Imgig Zu promised that he was close to succeeding.