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.

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.

Novels

 * Sojourn