Vreesar

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Vreesar has an extremely large, insectoid body, as do all gelugons. He has huge claws on his hands and feet and sports sharp pincers at his mouth. His head bulges with large, multifaceted eyes, and his most formidable weapon is his long, thick tail, which is covered with razor-sharp spikes. He communicates telepathically.
==Combat==
Vreesar has 18/76 Strength (therefore the +4 damage bonus), and he normally attacks with two claws (1d4+4 damage each), his giant pincers (2d4+4 damage), and his wickedly spiked tail. Any target struck by Vreesar's tail takes 3d4+4 points of damage and must successfully save vs. paralyzation or be frozen in place by the numbing cold emanating from the tail for 1d6 rounds. Vreesar can attack up to four different foes if he so chooses.
Vreesar also the following spell-like powers that are usable at will, once per round: detect invisibility (always active), detect magic, fly, polymorph self, wall of ice.
Additionally, gelugons normally can gate in the following: 2d6 barbazu (50% chance, once per day), 2d4 osyluth (35% chance, once per day), or 1d2 other gelugons (15% chance, once per day). Vreesar seemed incapable of this unless the rift through which he entered the Realms (see History below) was open.
Vreesar sees perfectly well in darkness, regenerates 2 hp per round, and radiates fear in a 10' radius (successfully save vs. rod, staff, wand, or flee in panic for 1d6 rounds).
==Habitat/Society==
Gelugons normally hold important positions in Baator. Second in power only to the dreaded pit fiends, gelugons are the guardians of the layer known as Caina, and it was either from this horrid, frozen place or from the Plane of Paraelemental Ice that the rift Vreesar used to reach Faerûn opened from.
Once here, Vreesar promptly took command of a local gnoll tribe by killing its leader in personal combat. Vreesar then began assembling all the nearby humanoids into his army-an army he hoped would be led by many more of his kind, which he would bring through the open interplanar rift.
==Ecology==
As noted, gelugons are the strangest looking of all baatezu, and they use their alien appearance to intimidate all around them. Gelugons who perform their evil duties well enough are "promoted" to become a pit fiend. This process involves 1,001 days of vicious torture in a pool of fire. If they survive the experience, a new pit fiend emerges from the pool.
Vreesar functioned well enough in the frozen tundra where he appeared, but he noted that he and his kind could never venture much farther south due to the "heat" of the Realms' midwinter. Vreesar simply stated that other baatezu would assemble and command the armies that would conquer all such balmy climes of Faerûn.
==History==
In the year 1366 DR, an interplanar rift opened north of Damara, near the Great Glacier. The Harper wizard Jazrac believed that it opened onto the Paraelemental Plane of Ice and sent the Harper and ranger known as Martine north to close it with some magical stones he'd prepared.
After reaching the region, Martine encountered an ice mephit that called itself Icy-White, which "captured' her. (See the MONSTROUS MANUAL tome.)
Icy-White then introduced Martine to Vreesar, a gelugon from Baator. Whether the rift Vreesar passed through opened onto the frigid layer of that plane, known as Caina, or if Vreesar happened to be on the Paraelemental Plane of Ice (a not unlikely possibility) when the rift opened there is not conclusively known. However, Vreesar planned to use the rift to bring more of his kind-meaning more gelugons in particular and more baatezu in general-to Toril in order to attack and conquer it. This would have provided the baatezu with a strategically important base in the Prime for the baatezus' fight against the tanarri in the Blood War. Vreesar conquered a gnoll tribe by defeating its chieftain in combat, and the humanoids served as the beginning of Vreesar's soon-to-be-vast army.
Martine, with the fallen paladin Vilheim, managed to close the rift, but then Vreesar sought a means to reopen it. Though Vilheim perished, Martine managed to kill Vreesar with Vilheims magical sword, ending the fiends threat to the North.
Sources: Soldiers of Ice, MC 8: Outer Planes Appendix, MONSTROUS MANUAL tome
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