Ityak - Ortheel Ityak - Ortheel , commonly called the Elf Eater , is a monstrous creature that dwells in the Abyss , waiting for the god Malar , the Beastlord , to summon it to Faerûn to destroy life . Physical description . The Elf Eater is a thirty - foot - tall monstrosity that stands on three enormous , trunk - like legs . Its flesh is tannish - brown , and its midsection is a flat , round blob of flesh with an extremely hard , domed resting atop it . The midsection is surrounded by forty tentacles , each a hundred feet long and lined by large suckers . Ityak - Ortheel can re - grow severed tentacles and legs . It can also instantly reattach a severed leg by holding it to the stump . On Ityak - Ortheel ’ s underside , protruding from between its three legs , is an enormous maw . The maw is toothless and constantly emits a slurping sound , with wet flaps of skin sucking in and out of the darkness within . The mouth is the color of blood and can expand to a great width or extend downward into a long snout similar to that of an . Within the mouth , hard plates of constantly grind together . Ityak - Ortheel slowly digests the souls of those it devours , keeping it satisfied and tormenting those whom it devoured . This slow digestion lets the Elf Eater go for hundreds or thousands of years without eating . Although the Elf Eater has no eyes or ears , it can sense all life within a radius of five miles . This sense can discern what kind of life that it is detecting , allowing Ityak - Ortheel to hunt down the elves it so hates . History . Ityak - Ortheel was created early in Abeir - Toril ' s history . It was spawned from the mingled blood of Gruumsh , the supreme god of the orc s , and Corellon Larethian , the supreme deity of the elves . Ityak - Ortheel came into being in the aftermath of their titanic struggle , and it immediately fled to a deep layer of the Abyss , where it still lives in solitude . Ityak - Ortheel cannot travel voluntarily between the planes , so it relies on Malar to transport it to the Material Plane to punish the elves , wreaking havoc and destruction . Ityak - Ortheel once relied on other deities and powerful mortals to transport it from the Abyss . Now that Malar favors it as an instrument of terror , the Elf Eater has begun to visit Faerûn at least once per century , where it rampages around elf communities . As a result of Ityak - Ortheel ’ s tendency for terrorizing elves , the elves built a portal known as Fey - Alamtine on the isle of Gwynneth in the Moonshae Isles . This portal in the kingdom of Synnoria could be accessed by anyone with a platinum Alamtine triangle ; every elf community on Faerûn was given one such triangle . When the Elf Eater attacked , entire elven villages and tribes would retreat to the Moonshaes , often going on to Evermeet from there . This plan worked for centuries ; however , in 1365 DR ( the Year of the Sword ) , Malar divined the location of the elves ’ portal and with the help of Talos the Destroyer sent Ityak - Ortheel through the portal , permanently destroying it . Thus , the Elf Eater rampaged across Gwynneth , the capital city of Chysalis , and the ancient Palace of Ages ( Argen - Tellirynd ) before being banished back to the Abyss by the human princess Alicia Kendrick of the Ffolk . Ityak - Ortheel has not returned to Faerûn proper since its rampage across the island of Gwynneth . Malar however , with the aid of Lloth , Ghaunadaur , and a renegade sun elf named Kymil Nimesen , managed to send the Elf - Eater to Evermeet via an undersea tunnel . Ityak _ Ortheel destroyed many elves before being dragged to Arvandor by an avatar of a large group of elven clerics . With the reemergence of elves on the continent , some believe another rampage is imminent . Malarite schemes . A group of Malarites in the Forgotten Forest west of Evereska came across one of the Alamtine triangles that their god used to track down the portal of Fey - Alamtine . They do not understand the triangle ’ s significance and treat it as a holy relic , although it has lost all of its power . The Malarites are led by a cruel half - elf werewolf named Tagress . They worship the triangle and offer it blood sacrifices at least four times every moon cycle , hoping to summon Ityak - Ortheel so that it may destroy the lands of Evereska and its people . The group feverishly works to find out how the triangle is related to the summoning of Ityak - Ortheel . They kidnap mage s and other masters of lore , torture information out of them , and then sacrifice them to the relic . In response to the group ’ s plots , elven leaders have launched a war against the followers of Malar . The Malarites are waging their own war against the elves in retaliation .