Crisp evening descends as a furtive group of druids converges upon a weathered stone dais. As the druids chant in unison, a quarreling flock of birds falls silent and takes to the sky, fleeing a terrible threat yet unseen. An expectant hush builds as if the forest itself holds its breath until a deep and vibrant thrumming beats from the heart of the earth. A tumultuous crash rattles the boiling sky and screaming lightning rips an ancient tree in twane. Nearby, an inert hill heaves with life as a sleeping giant wakes and rises towards the angry clouds above and rooted trees cling as if desperate to hang onto its broad back. It lets out a thunderous roar that's heard for leagues. Earth and stone, mud and gravel, moss and silt slough from the giant in massive slopping heaps while it moves forth with languid ease. Lumbering and heavy, its height seemingly unlimited, and the earth itself sighs while cracking beneath its weight. And now the maddened and feverish worshipers exclaim, “Arise, Zuth, arise!” Laws of nature are unavoidable, absolute and eternal. What is born surely dies. For every balmy, warm summer, there is a chilling, cruel winter. Day invariably gives way to night. Just as above has below and black has white, all that is good has an opposite and equal reflection in evil. In short, each thing that exists has its direct counterpoint, a reversed mirror image that balances its place, and indeed its meaning, in the whole of existence. All natural things have their respective opposites, except Zuth. Zuth is the personification of this harmonious force of balance and opposites. Zuth is ancient; it is enormous and it is the ultimate expression of nature's absolute and impersonal will. Legend tells that Zuth was created from all elements. The supra-personal Will of Nature drew from itself a powerful being to act as a counter to the presence of dragons. After all, being that they are creatures of magic, dragons are outside the bounds of natural order. Zuth rises from its deep slumber when it senses the call to restore symmetry between all dragons: good or evil, gold or black, fire or ice. If there are too many green dragons in the world, Zuth corrects this dysfunction. If there's a surplus of bronze dragons, Zuth restores the average. Zuth is forever. Even if destroyed, it is always birthed again in time. When Zuth sheds one of its scales, that scale works its way deep into the earth like an oak seed. There, within a cradle of dirt and stone and throughout several centuries, the scale forms an exact duplicate of Zuth. Therefore, even if one version of Zuth is defeated, another will always return to take its place in order to restore nature's order. Zuth possesses non-verbal intelligence. It thinks only in images and only has the base emotions of an animal. Its communication is telepathic, expressing its will with imagery and emotional impressions. Often it is difficult to determine its exact motives and aims, as the images often have no context, leaving the guesswork entirely in the hands of those who receive the impressions. The presence of Zuth has fueled many speculations as to why it exists in the world, and some druids have come to revere this mighty creature, lending to it a status of a demi-god or a potent spirit of nature itself. Zuth awakens when the stars align in a particular formation once in a century. Additionally, once every thousand years, a purge occurs. In this purge, Zuth rises to destroy dragons indiscriminately. Other dragons of all types seem to sense each upcoming cleansing. The world sees far more dragon activity as they collectively panic in the months before a forthcoming purge. Zuth destroys all the unlucky dragons that are in its path. During such purging events, the dragon population is culled without any logical pattern, and the events last until Zuth is destroyed. A great mystery lies in Zuth's designless cullings. How can there be any balance in absolute destruction? It is a question that none but nature itself can answer.

Zuth does not have a lair but these actions can be used within 300 feet of Zuth

Lair Actions

On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Zuth takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; Zuth can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:

• A tremor shakes the area in a 60 foot area around Zuth. Each creature on the ground must succeed a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone 
• Zuth summons (1d4) [creature]treant[/creature]  to his aid. These creatures act on their own initiative according to Zuth's will but will become free creatures in the event of his death.
• Any creature with a direct tie to the natural order at GM discretion (nature clerics, oath of the ancients paladins or druids in general) must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or fall under Zuth's sway intil the start of the next round per initiative. Their actions are at GM discretion and must serve the larger purpose Zuth was summoned to pursue.