Ilimahg is a Goliath residing in the Firesteap mountains with his nomadic tribe the Kalukathai. As a barbarian and protector of the tribe's revered shaman, Ilimagh was a warrior whose strength matched the very mountains that surrounded his people. A profound change occured when he began to hear a haunting voice in his mind, a voice that spoke with chilling authority and claimed itself to be the god Malar, deity of hunt and savagery. The voice urged Ilimahg to revel in the hunt, to embrace the beast within and pursue glory for his tribe. Torn between his duty to his tribe and the divine annoyance that echoed through his skull, llimahg confided in the tribe's shaman. The shaman, sceptical about the divine visitor, spoke of Beholders- abberations whose great eye has the ability to silence magic, and hopefully bring peace back to Ilimahg's mind. After the Spellplague, the Shaar region had become a wasteland, filled with chasms that led directly to the Underdark. That would be where Ilimahg would find a Beholder. Granted permission from the chieftan, Ilimahg set off Southward.