So wizards just posted Graz'zt's 4e stats here:
http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dramp/20081003
It's funny, I'm just running Test of the Smoking Eye and re-read about how graz'zt ties in to the shackled city story.
Anyone got any ideas on how to use Graz'zt in Shackled City? Maybe as a post-campaign event? I mean, they printed the stats.. might as well use them.
And who is that female behind Graz'zt in the picture? In my game, I have made Athux a female, and I might say that she is Athux.
Generally when I hear about a female connected with Graz'zt, I think rightaway of Iggwilv. However, when I looked at the picture I saw six arms and a snake tail, which looks like a marilith/type V true demon.
Any shapeshifting aside, wasn't Athux a tiefling or a half-fiend of some sort?
In delvedeep's alternate structure he took one of the Adimarchus fights out and replaced it with a Graz'zt confrontation. Check out his awesome Adimarchus & the Cagewrights document over at theRPGenius.com for more.
As far as the girl in the background there, I'd say it's probably just a marilith of some kind. My original thought was Iggwilv but once I saw the picture it's clearly not her. Unless WotC changed her considerably, which is also an possibility.