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A Return to Greyhawk
Four decades have passed since Mordenkainen first delved Castle Greyhawk. In the company of his apprentice Bigby, the fearless Lord Robilar, and the willful cleric Riggby, the wizard relentlessly explored the ruins of Zagigs castle, charting its secrets and plundering its priceless treasures. Before his adventures, Mordenkainen knew of Zagig as an eccentric, the long-lived former Lord Mayor during the City of Greyhawks renaissance. He was the founder of the citys world-renowned Guild of Wizardr y and one of the greatest adventuring mages ever to cast a spell.
Mordenkainen would come to learn that Zagig had cheated death by becoming a deity, piecing together the legend over several forays spanning thirteen years. At the culmination of his research, in the shadow of a dozen lost companions, Mordenkainen finally discovered Zagigs Prison, an entire dungeon level designed to imprison nine demigods encountered by Zagig on his travels. In his final act as a mortal, Zagig carved an essence of their divine power and claimed it as his own, departing the Material Plane as the newly divine Zagyg to serve in the court of Boccob, Archmage of the Gods. But the nine prisoners remained.
Among them was Iuz the Old, the half-demon son of the Witch-Queen Iggwilv and the demon prince Grazzt. The fi endish t y rant had vanished from his nor thern empire in Mordenkainens youth, leaving savage humanoid hordes and diabolical societies in the ensuing power vacuum. Over the years a handful of lesser demons and shape-shifters appeared on the scene claiming Iuzs Throne of Bone, whipping the fractured cult of the Old One into tem-porary frenzy until being dispatched by rivals. These false Iuzes threw the nations into turmoil and brought savage armies across civilized borders. If the real Iuz returns, the disaster could be incalculable. With the discovery of Zagigs Prison, Mordenkainen decided to try to prevent that return from ever happening. Iuz remained imprisoned just as Zagig had left him sixty-fi ve years prior.
But Mordenkainen knew that the archmages prison would not last forever. If Mordenkainen could fi nd the deity trap, so could someone else. Only a fi nal solution would suffice, and a final solution required the enlistment of Lord Robilar. The gregarious fighter lord thrilled at the audacity of Mordenkainens suggestion.
The fearless swordsman chased adventure with the enthusiasm of an addict, often venturing into Castle Greyhawk on highly dangerous solo missions, facing every challenge with a wide grin and a clever rejoin-der. In the company of his orc henchman Quij and the cleric Riggby, Robilar confidently set into motion Mordenkainens grand plan to save the future of the Flanaess. Then everything started to go wrong. Just as Robilar dispelled the barriers keeping Iuz at bay so that he might be slain, the w izard Tenser appeared w ith Bigby and the warrior Neb Retnar at his back. The trio had come to stop the dangerous gambit, but arrived too late. The six adventurers were no match for the enraged Iuz, who escaped certain death in the clutches of Bigbys notorious crushing hand by plane shifting to the Abyss. That magical warp freed the additional gods and caved in many of Castle Greyhawks deepest dungeon complexes. After it was all over, safe on the skull-adorned battlements of his grisly palace, Iuz swore vengeance upon the adventurers who had attempted to kill him, dedicating a portion of his eternal rage to plotting their destruction.
Twenty-seven years have passed. To the west, in the not-so-distant city of Verbobonc, Riggby has escaped Iuzs vengeance by dying of natural causes in his twilight years. His body now travels by sacred procession along the Western Road toward Greyhawk, drawing the clerics former companions from their sanctuaries and schemes to the city that once bound them together in long-dead friendships and alliances.
Iuzs patience for the perfect moment to smite his enemies grows thin, and Riggbys funeral provides all the excuse he needs to initiate a scheme designed to bring Greyhawk to its knees and deliver his enemies into the hands of his torturers. Already his soldiers have tunneled into the lowest levels of Castle Greyhawk from the Underdark, and although their ranks have not yet swelled enough to besiege the city, the time will shortly arrive. Everything is in place for Iuzs final vengeance against the adventuring heroes of the last generation.
But time does not stand still in Greyhawk, and the demon-god of the north has not accounted for the citys next generation of heroes.
Your Destiny Awaits