Iuz, Lord of Evil (evil Demi-god)

Humanoids: Few
Capital: Molag (pop. 10,000 +)
Humanoids: Many (numbers unknown)
Resources: furs, electrum .

Iuz, old luz of fearbabe talk, may be human - or may once have been human, but this is not known for certain one way or another. Some of Nyrundian belief, think he was a Pattern Mage of the Balcuni-Sulouisie Empire who disturbed Tiamat sleeping at the Gates of Hell while he was on a quest for greater power and thereby caused Tiamat's creation of the Dark One. He has ruled the lands from the Howling Hills south to the Lake of Whyestil for ages longer than anyone can remember. The lands between the Dulsi and the Opicm Rivers are steeped in wickedness and evil, so much so that the otherwise fearless Wolf Nomads and Rovers of the Barrens shun the Land of Iuz. For a time the land was leaderless, for Iuz himself was missing. For many decades the evil of the place was in relative quietude for lack of evil direction, and the neighbors of good ilk prospered. Iuz had been trapped by the mirthful and mad Zagig, locked away in a strange chamber deep below the ruins of Greyhawk Castle, one of nine powerful demi-gods so confined. These prisoners were loosed in 570 CY. After their own version of the Night of Blood where the human rulers of Molag city and the chief clerics were duped into losing their souls (kind of a house cleaning) once again Iuz ruled, and his forces gatherd for fell purposes. In the first year of the Dark Times, CY 576, Iuz led a great army south through the Vesve Forest killing most of the elves in a war called the Secret War. From there they launched a surprise attack into Veluna just one day after the assasination of the Velunian King by Stilleto Jim. Veluna was quickly conquered and its population interred into death/food camps for the gnolls and goblins in Iuz' armies. The forces of Iuz then pushed south while the Horned Society kept Furyondy busy with a war of their own. Bissel and the Gran March fell quickly but the forces of Iuz were ousted from this region by the Ketian armies advancing eastward under the power of the Mindsword sword of power.
Iuz's avatar fell to Gorkin of Good and Finerio McBain in CY 578, and clerics of Ninerta from Furyundy created a huge wall of ice between the two kingdoms.  The lands have been quiet ever since.

In addition to the many evil clerics, thieves, fighters, assassins, and magic-users who have gathered under the grim banner of Iuz, numbers of the foulest tribes of humanoids have grown in strength and are ready to march again. Goblins, orcs, and hobgoblins in the thousands are known to be in arms, swelling the human contingents of Iuz's armies.