Monsters - Phaerimm
Phaerimms are evil magicians who would gladly erase all other beings from existence, except that they would consequently lack for serviceable slaves capable of being tortured for sport.
Phaerimms resemble 10-to-12-foot-tall windsocks underneath an ovoid head.
The head disk contains a huge toothed maw and is surrounded by four clawed arms. Beneath their top disk, their long, sinuous bodies taper down to a lethal stinger. They are powerful magicians, gaining levels as sorcerers over lives that span centuries.
If phaerimms were less evil, they would be more alien and difficult to understand, but their overwhelming drive toward inflicting pain makes them somewhat predictable. They communicate with one another by varying the wind speed around their bodies. They communicate with others using telepathy.
They understand Common and several other languages.
Millennia ago, the phaerimms plotted to destroy all life in Faerûn.
They succeeded in toppling the mighty Netherese empire and devastating the area now known as the Anauroch Desert, but were foiled by the intervention of the elder sharns. The sharns imprisoned most of the phaerimms in a magical field beneath Anauroch.
Only a few phaerimms escaped this imprisonment. Some of these escapees live in Myth Drannor, squandering their power on internal political squabbles.
Others have conquered the beholder city of Ooltul and are attempting to break through the sharns’ barrier to free their fellows.