Urikel Zarl, a druidic liche with a lion fetish, makes his home in a desert in central Amn. His domain is secured by a magical mythal which draws power from the elemental plains of air and fire.
“The great druid of the story, was in fact the leader of a cruel lion cult based in the Central regions of Amn. His people were not the noble nomads legend recalls, but feral cannibals who believed that in death their bodies would transform into lions and thereafter live forever. They worshiped Malar, god of the hunt. Urikel Zarl was their undying lord and master, who had long before turned his back on the natural world for the tainted promises of eternal undeath. When the lords of Purskul sought to challenge his power and subjugate the region, their cavalry and the cultists destroyed each other; in the years to come, both Purskul and the lion’s plains fell to ruin as a result.”
-Prita Hati