Illuyanka (pronounced ill-ooh-YON-kah) is an evil black dragon that wanders the swamps and wetlands of Brightmarch with her nomadic kobold army. She greatly resents the presence of large cities and towns of humanoids in the region and holds a special hatred for the city-state of Sharruma. She has attacked the city and the outposts around its platinum mines repeatedly in the last few centuries; the militarization of the city-state has occurred in large part due to the dragon's actions.
The thousands of kobolds that follow Illuyanka widely consider the dragon to be a deity and follow her every order without hesitation. To Illuyanka, however, the kobolds are merely annoying creatures that she only tolerates as long as they continue to assist in her unending fights against any who attempt to settle in the large territory she considers her own. She looks upon the kobolds' prayers and offerings with disdain - if anything, such actions only make them more contemptible in her mind.