Shar sneered, her voice thick with irritation. "That woman always thinks she's the cleverest, most capable witch of all.
"Only when you crush her completely and leave her with nothing will she know when to stop.
"Until then, even if she knows I possess greater divine power and am stronger than Heironeous, who nearly killed her back then, she won't believe it until I beat her to death.
"Do you think Iggwilv is normal?
"Once she decided that the demigod children she had with Graz'zt had good attributes, she set her sights on Demogorgon.
"The only time that two-headed baboon ever fled at the first sign of trouble was probably when he heard that woman wanted to have his child."
A glimmer of understanding finally appeared in Hill's bewildered eyes... Oh, they were talking about that Witch-Queen, Iggwilv!
Larloch's student, the powerful witch who had stolen most of his divine artifacts. Even though the Sorcerer-King had recovered some of them, she still had plenty of good things in her possession.
Although he knew about her, he really had never known that her full name was Iggwilv.
He had seen the name Iggwilv before, catching a few glimpses of it while reading Mordenkainen's biography.
Naturally, the reason Larloch could not bring himself to deal harshly with his disastrous female apprentice was that the Witch-Queen's first child was his.
Although Larloch was now a lich sorcerer... well, when the Witch-Queen had been at his side, he had still been alive.
And the Queen of Witches' eventual decision to leave him in such a drastic fashion had also been related to Larloch's final choice to become a lich.
How to put it... Neglecting your lovely wife was one thing, but once you had nothing left down there, who would still want to play