Witch-Queen of Perrenland

The Witch-Queen of Perrenland

The infamous archmage Iggwilv, author of the dreaded Demonomicon, rose to power just over a century ago when she emerged from the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and conquered the northern realm of Perrenland. With the aid of her captive and lover, the demon prince Graz’zt, and their cambion son, Iuz, she crushed her enemies with ruthless sorcery, subjecting the land to a decade of terror.

However, her reign was not eternal. Seizing on a moment of weakness, Graz’zt broke free, and their ensuing battle shook mountains and shattered the very caverns she had once ruled from. Though Iggwilv ultimately banished Graz’zt’s material form from Oerth for a century, the battle left her drained of power, unable to quell the revolts rising against her. As Iuz carved his own bloody empire in the east, Iggwilv vanished from history, only to be betrayed and imprisoned in Azzagrat, the Abyssal domain of her former consort.

Recently, she escaped. Her first act upon returning to the Material Plane was an attempt to claim the legendary Crook of Rao from the Isle of the Ape, hoping to turn its divine magic to her own ends. This scheme, however, was thwarted by the Circle of Eight under Mordenkainen’s leadership. Though her plots in Greyhawk ultimately crumbled, Iggwilv did not fall—she simply turned her attention back to the Outer Planes, where she moves among demon lords and hero-deities as an equal, observing the mortal world with cold, condescending amusement.

To most of Oerth, Iggwilv is a legend, a shadowy nightmare used to frighten children into obedience. But to one, she is much more. Iuz the Evil, her son by Graz’zt, inherited her cunning, ambition, and hunger for power. His rise in Furyondy’s Northern Reaches mirrored her own conquest of Perrenland, and by the time she fell, it was too late to stop his dominion from taking root.

Yet Iggwilv’s influence persists in more than just Iuz. The wizard Vayne, wary of her treachery yet eager to exploit her wisdom, created a simulacrum of Iggwilv using a lock of her stolen hair. Though this being wields only a fraction of her true power, it remains a deadly force, utterly loyal to Vayne—a cruel irony, given Iggwilv’s own history of betrayal.