A difficult task! Taking the most recent elements, Iggwilv (Natasha) was adopted as a child by Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is one of the most famous evil witches in the multiverse. Natasha learns magic from the Mother of Witches. Then we find Iggwilv in Ket under the name of Hura. Then she studies under the name of Tasha with Zagyg and the Company of Seven, notably demonology. She seizes the lair of Tsojcanth in the Yatil Mountains. She imprisons the prince of Demons Graz'zt from whom she has a son, Iuz. Iggwilv seizes Perrenland as Queen.
The first S4 in 75 indicates that Graz'zt kills Iggwilv by freeing herself, the second module indicates that she banishes Graz'zt to the Abyss but the fight drains her of all her strength and she loses her powers and Perrenland.
She appears in "The Return of the Eight". She lived in Hades.
Finally, the 5E adventure "The Wild beyond the Witchlight" indicates that Iggwilv is Zylbina, leader of a domain of Delights, in the Feywild.
Let's start again! Iggwilv is the daughter of an impossible union between the Queen of Air and Darkness and a very powerful prince of the Feywild. She is born in the Shadowfell but a few days after her birth, she is the victim of an assassination attempt. The Queen summons the giant Baba Yaga to take charge of her daughter. The Shadowfell is evil, Baba Yaga too, it is normal that Iggwilv is evil. Everything else goes as planned until in Hades, Iggwilv meets an Arcanaloth who, smiling, reveals the story of his birth. Eager to know her father, she goes incognito to Feywild, a beauty she has never known. She discovers her father there, and decides to stay in Feywild, abandoning her evil and adventurous life. She is given a domain of Delight and she takes the name Zylbina with an alignment that goes from CE to CN. It's over!
Are you assuming Iggwilv's father was a good prince of the Feywild, or that the beauty of the realm converted her to goodness after all the evil she has done?
You left out Iggwilv's inclusion in The Savage Tide Adventure Path in Dungeon Magazine. Therein, she lives in the Abyss as a 26th level Wizard/4th level Archmage, and has several Arcanoloths as apprentices. I think she is also statted as a 30th level Wizard in another product, though I am not familiar with it.
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Both. The father found (good alignment) and the permanent action of the Feywild is impressive.
Of course, the article aims to reconcile Iggwilv and Zylbina for those who are tempted to use the 5E adventure in the Feywild.
Also, if Iggwilv is not a child of the Shadowfell, what is the explanation for her longevity?
Also, if Iggwilv is not a child of the Shadowfell, what is the explanation for her longevity?
It is my theory that Iggwilv and her lover, Lerrek, had a falling out over this very issue.
Lerrek, a high-level cleric, believed that the surest way to longevity was via undeath. He sought lichdom and achieved it. He also secretly manipulated their daughter, Drelnza, into being turned into a vampire by Strahd Von Zarovich. When Iggwilv found out, they had an epic fight and parted ways. Iggwilv sequestered their daughter within Tsojcanth's lair and set up a magical system she hoped would cure her daughter of vampirism (having no idea that she was actually a spawn of Strahd). [Edit: This last bit I stole from Kurt's campaign, It Started in Saltmarsh.]
I intend to run a campaign where Lerrek sends the PCs to Ravenloft, then to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. His secret agenda is for the PCs to kill Strahd, freeing Drelnza from the vampire's control, then setting her free from the prison her mother has trapped her in. He hopes she will then join him and they can work toward mutual goals together, forever.
Iggwilv, having been raised by Baba Yaga, has seen that it is possible to live an extremely long life without having to resort to undeath. She has managed so far, but still seeks a permanent solution.
This is a worthy exercise and I love the Greyhawk tradition of tying together disparate bits of canon, however, this is a rare circumstance where I agree with the Greyhawkers who write-off and ignore some canon, attributing things to imposters (Leomund, Robilar) or unrelated things (Olidamara not being one of the Nine).
IMO, Iggwilv, like Vecna, has become an overly burdened kitchen sink of canon, grabbed whenever authors need a witch or the IP holder needs a Greyhawk easter egg to sell a few more books.
IMO, Greyhawk is richer if Iggwilv's focus stays on things witchy and demonic. A lot can be added by further developing her alliances and machinations with the underworld. Likewise, it's cool to develop Zylbina as a different, new character and make the world bigger instead of smaller.
Just my two cents. Thanks for collecting all of these references!
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