| Relatives | Ash RavenSkull, Julian McFlair, Ashley Angelbane |
|---|---|
| Languages | Common, Sylvan, Elvish |
| Affiliations | Sick of this Shit Inc. (Both the company and the founders) |
| Aliases | "Tunt" |
| Marital Status | Unattached |
| Date of Birth | 620 PR |
| Place of Birth | Galik |
| Date of Death | 826 PR (Age 106) |
| Place of Death | Umbralhound (Isonhound) |
| Species | Half-Elf, later Shadar Kai |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 5'9" |
| Eye Color | Black |
Zugs McFlair was responsible for the release of 100 Guneia Pigs into the wilds of Pteris the year 691 PR.
History
Zugs was born in poverty in Galik, and killed his parents as a young man because he believed death was preferable to the pains of living in the slums. He ran from home and eventually after years serving in the Galik thieves guilds, arrived in Seawell to take an escape trip overseas and avoid the heat he had gained in Galik. It was on that voyage that he met Anema E. Core, another elf with a much cooler hat who was also fleeing Galik.
He stole Anema's hat. Anema will never get it back. Take that, Thomas, it's on the wiki so it's canon now.
Residence in Sneerwell
Zugs quickly found the city's thieves guild, a group known as the Padlock Gang, who worked under a mysterious benefactor, and hid out in a secret hideout in the sewers.
Zugs was able to rise through the ranks and become a noble in the city of Sneerwell after doing dirty jobs for Montane Capella, including the assassination of then-king of Sneerwell Kenneth Pendergras. In reward for his loyalty and service to the city, Zugs was given the keys to the city's largest mansion, previously known as "Capella Manor", now "McFlair Manor".
However trouble set in for Zugs as he was caught in the streets in the presence of Anema E. Core, who at the time had taken the form of a werewolf. The city wanted promises from Montane that Zugs was handling the werewolf problem, so Montane sent Zugs to capture the werewolf on the loose.
The werewolf had a vendetta, as Zugs came home to his manor and found a landle hanging on his doorknob with a note asking to meet him inside. It was there that Zugs met with Montane's representation and formulated a plan that should ease the worries of the city. Capture the werewolf, and begin the steps needed to perform a massive anti-magic ritual over the whole city. But to also make the city believe that these dramatic measures of full anti-magic were necessary, Zugs was also sent to place a package in the city's market, which wound up being a bomb that cast fireball on the market square, further heightening the fear of the citizens and reinforcing the need for an anti-magic field.
After placing the bomb, Zugs would go on to find one of the phylacteries of the Capella Brothers, the 3 undead wizards living under Sneerwell. Montane needed their help in casting a large enough anti-magic circle, and by having their phylacteries "hostage", they would be forced to help.
In Service of the Raven Queen
When Zugs was killed by Killis Goodman via Magic Jar in 695 PR, Zugs' soul did not go to his god Bane, but was intercepted on the way there by the Raven Queen, who was intensely interested with who Zugs was, his obsession with death, the way it was an artform to him. Instead of passing Zugs over to the afterlife, the Raven Queen kept his soul as a pet, or a courtier, or a slave, depending on your perspective. Zugs would serve the Raven Queen in her Shadowfell palace for an undetermined amount of time (though to his soul it felt like centuries, he was only dead on Quelmar for less than a week).
Zugs would get resurrected via clerical services, but would return to Quelmar changed. His soul and body were deeply affected by the torment and service, and he racially was considered a Shadar-Kai, touched by the shadows permanently and in strange ways.
The "Death" of Zugs
On the 17th of December, the Founders had taken another march to Breme, home of some of their least favorite memories...But one light in this dark frost was Atnas. A year after they last met, the Founders were invited to dinner with the jolly man to see how much progress had been made. This opportunity allowed Anema to check on the status of his most prized posession. Recent fatal events have left much mystery regarding the Horn, and dinner with friends was a great excuse to travel back north. Complications arose as Anema had to abandon his hunt. Out of the chilly storm arose a group of foreign travelers. Keeping the holiday spirit in mind, Anema....invited them all in for dinner. - The Legend of Sick of this Shit, Chapter 11
While visiting Colin and Atnas for a christmas dinner one year, Zugs was shocked to find that his arch enemy, Killis Goodman, had done the impossible and tracked him down. Over a very awkward dinner, Killis and his hired hands (a group of criminals pulled from SotS Inc) informed Zugs they came to finish the job.
Unfortunately, what Killis didn't realize is that Zugs had already been hugged by Krampus and lived a painful life of goodness at this point in time. On one hand, Zugs was adamant to just let himself be killed or taken, but on the other hand, the presence of all of his friends, and the weaponization of his company's members, meant that this simply wasn't the solution.
Before deciding the just let Killis and his team do the job, Zugs was saved. One of the SotS Inc members revealed that he was playing "the long con" and had went on the mission with the hope of saving zugs and killing Killis.
After watching how his mere existance walking the realm still invited people to "Hunt" him down, violence which threatened everyone he knew around him, Zugs made the ultimate decision to fade into nonexistence. Disappearing into the Shadowfell and abandoning Quelmar, Zugs would never be seen again, becoming a Legend, a whisper, a myth: "The Shadow Man"
Unknown to everyone else, Zugs' loyalty to the Shadowfell, and his "permanent" return to live there very quickly appeased the Raven Queen. In reward for this return, he was gifted one of the Raven Queen's very own shadow dragons, the last version of Darastrix that Zugs would partner with.
After the End
30 years later, when the Shadowfell devoured Isonhound in 826 PR, Zugs was shocked to find McFlair Manor sitting in the umbral field where he had taken up hermitage. Investigating it, he didn't realize that he had in fact stepped back into Quelmar, and that the veils between the worlds were destroyed, causing the two to be interlocked at this moment.
Unintentionally having returned to Quelmar in one form or another, Zugs was almost immediately set upon by visitors, including Cornelia, Ash, and Giustino. The three of them would join Zugs in one last mission to stop the archlich Vecna. However, when Vecna was stopped after a wild multiversal mission, and the visitors to Sigil were returned to Quelmar, Zugs was nowhere to be seen, nor Anema nor Doraleous. The trio having decided their time in Quelmar was over, their legacies established, their legends told, and all they wanted to do now was explore new frontiers, following the yellow-brick road of Sigil to whatever Planescapes the 3 of them would encounter next.
