[Balanor]

The most powerful resident of the Bezantur City Tombs is the ancient Zulkir Ythazz Buvaar, one of the founders of the modern nation of Thay. Unknown to those modern zulkirs who have forgotten Ythazz and his contributions, the zulkir lives on, still clinging to the elaborate throne upon which his embalmed body once sat. He is now a demilich, but his life force is such that he still schemes to return and visit terrible vengeance upon those Thayans who do not honor his memory. Currently he seeks a mortal body to inhabit, and he sends his various minions – vampires, wights, ghosts, and lesser forms of undead – forth to obtain a suitable victim. So far all candidates have proved unworthy, dying of fright or other stresses well before Ythazz can steal their mortal bodies.