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Kyuss is a fun guy. Genius necromancer of Orcus (or, I guess, Tenebrous at the time), his obsession with worms made him create many aberrations (Avolakia, "lesser" worm that walks (the epic monster)...), undead (Ulgurstasta, Spawn of Kyuss, Gravecrawler...) and vermin (leechwalkers...). But he wanted to become a god himself, and gathered a cult around him, using their worship to become a demigod. But he was still not satisfied, and channeling his inner Karsus, researched a ritual that would make him a true deity. He succeeded, but the ritual involved sacrificing hundreds of people, and Kyuss decided that the best way to do that was to slaughter his own cult. As the last body hit the floor, he gained the power of a true deity, but immediately found himself with no worshipper, and lost his godhood instantaneously, thus becoming the Elder Evil we now know and loathe. Do NOT try to cheat your way into godhood, it's not that complicated, and has a 100% chance of something bad happening to you. Like changing into a rock with weird patterns. Which happened both for Kyuss and Karsus. It's not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I remember Kyuss' story being different (probably some 3.x retcons). Kyuss was a worshipper of Nerull, not Orcus, and his ascension to divinity was sponsored. A cosmic accident caused the lob of divinity Nerull to veer off, trapping Kyuss in the obelisk and making someone else, who was completely unrelated and just happened to conduct a big ritual at the same time, into a god. And this is how Mellifleur, God of Liches, came to be. Nerull is still angry about that.