Kyuss

Kyuss was once a high priest of Nerull, but when he discovered an ancient and mysterious obelisk on Wormcrawl Island, he became fascinated by the power that it might hold. He sacrificed his entire flock of ten-thousand followers to the obelisk and fashioned a cloak out of their flayed skin. Then in the shadow of the obelisk, he was reborn - as the Worm That Walks, a terrifying demigod of worms, pestilence and death. 
He was trapped inside the mysterious obelisk by an alliance of the gods. Over the millennia of being trapped, he slowly influenced many to his cause and gained a cult of insane worshipers. He influenced the dragon, Dragotha, to betray Tiamat and become his faithful guardian, while he sent out the Herald of Kyuss to spread his cult across the continent. 
Hundreds of years later, Kyuss transformed Edwin Tolstoff into a form similar to Kyuss' own and tasked him with freeing Kyuss from his imprisonment. Edwin was imprisoned soon after by his own daughter, but then unwittingly freed by the Hindenburg Ground Crew. 
Kyuss was finally freed when Edwin brought a folding dimensional gate to Wormcrawl Island and opened it at the exact times that the outer planes were in orbital alignment. Before Kyuss could destroy the Hindenburg Ground Crew, he was driven off by the Zodar. 
Kyuss spread his influence throughout Awbor, recruiting the Lords of Dust, the undead of Hollowheart and the Carnival of Shadows to his cause. After Awbor was in turmoil, he launched an all out assault on Caldor. His goal was to take control of the Well Of Tears and lead his armies through it: to the Grey Wastes of Hades. 
Here Kyuss' forces fought with those that guard the Tower of Khin-Oin, a mystical place where all disease is said to flow from. Any who sit upon its throne can command pestilence. In the following battle, Kyuss slew the current Prince who sat upon the throne, but Azrael managed to sit upon the throne while Kyuss was distracted, becoming the new Lord of Disease. 
In the following battle Kyuss nearly wiped out the Hindenburg Ground Crew, but after a well placed arrow from Sparrow, and the destruction of the Rod of Wonder by Tardigrade, Kyuss was defeated. A vast obelisk appeared before the party, trapping Kyuss, The Worm That Walks, once more. 
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