Cynnigig was a Jaghut. He was described as "bent and gaunt to the point of emaciation, wearing ragged skins and hides, long grey hair hanging in strands over a blotched, wrinkled brow, eyes the colour of the surrounding grass" with yellowed tusks. Long ago, he had joined with T'lan Imass and some other Jaghut to defeat four Jaghut Tyrants. Later, the T'lan Imass turned upon these Jaghut, but he managed to escape with little more than a damaged spine.