The Amazons are a truly fascinating race from beyond the deserts, while the females are great warriors, males are barely sentient and are almost treated like just another animal, if it weren't for their necessity in breeding.
— Sultan Saafir
To those outside the Amazon culture, they seem like a fearsome race of warrior women. In truth it's not that the all their women are warriors, but that all their warriors are women. This is for the fact that male amazons are a barely sentient, small and weak creatures compared to their female counterparts. Amazons Woman can also be scholars, mages, artisans, farmers or whatever other role their society needs.
This does not take away that Amazons do have a fearsome war tradition and those girls wishing to become soldiers are trained from a young age and are known for great discipline and zeal.
Divine Traditions
Many Amazons have a strong connection to their chosen gods, and many of their warriors learn how to battle as paladins or clerics. Among the most important gods in their pantheons are Queen Allara and her three wives, Rhamnesis the goddess of Vengeance and Farit the crafter. Those who leave their commune or are raised outside their culture are often drawn to female war or matriarchal gods like Athena, the Morrigan, the Red Knight and Lolth.
The fiercest Amazons belong to the cult of Houzi. These women are known for their great skill at mounted archery and are even said to amputate one or both breasts to be able to better perform with a bow.
Amazon Names
Amazons will often take up three names. A matriarchal name, a public name and a secret name. Matriarchal names are chosen by the amazon's mother and are often a family or clan name. Public names are chosen by the community or family of the amazon. The secret name is chosen by the amazon themselves and may only be revealed to their closest friends. Revealing an amazon's secret name to those outside the amazon's chosen is a very severe crime in amazon culture. Names are often inventions of the respective amazons picking them, or may be based on the names of others.
Amazon Traits
Your amazon character must be female and has the following racial traits.
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age
Female amazons reach maturity at the age 20, and can live to be 250. Male amazons mature at the age of 12 and rarely exceed 50 years.
Size
Female amazons are between 6 and 7 feet tall and weigh between 150 and 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Male amazons are below 5 feet.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
Divine Spark
Thanks to your connection to the divine you learn one cantrip from the cleric spell list, your spellcasting modifier for this spell is constitution. Once per long rest when you make an attack roll against another creature you may add 1d8 radiant damage to the damage roll.
Martial Training
You are proficient with two martial weapons of your choice and with light armor.
Natural Beast Handler
Amazon culture is filled with horse riding, falconry, dog training and bear wrestling. As a result you have a natural proficiency in Animal Handling.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur.
Nice! Amazons are very cool too. Why do they speak Minotaur?
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Ah, that's a lore thing, Minotaurs and Amazons originally hail from the same continent, so I just made Minotaur the common language of that continent since there isn't an amazon language in dnd beyond and no way to easily make a homebrew language.
Ah, that's a lore thing, Minotaurs and Amazons originally hail from the same continent, so I just made Minotaur the common language of that continent since there isn't an amazon language in dnd beyond and no way to easily make a homebrew language.
Brilliant! Are the Minotaurs like an Ancient Greek or Roman society?
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They were orignally like greek city states, but got pushed out by the amazons, until they fled into the frozen North, were they set up a scoiety around a single Tyrant. The bullman were better adapted to the cold of the north thanks to their fur, and as such managed to keep the amazons out.
I have long endured the Siren's call. They beckon me into their waters and onto their cliffs. They have allied themselves with the Eastern Rebels, but I will not falter. Even if I must deafen myself to face them. They come by Sea and Sky, but the Land is mine.
— Revenex Esma, Great Matriarch of the Southern Amazons
Sirens are a race of strange humanoids that live on the cliffs of Kumaros and in the waters of the Siren Straights. They are long time rivals of the Amazons and one of the few races in the east strong enough to keep the conquering might of Queen Allara's armies at bay. Sirens defend their waters with charming song and many ships have been led into their doom by a chorus of voices. Recently relations between sirens and amazons have calmed down somewhat as the Eastern Amazons share their waters as close allies.
Siren Society
Recently sirens, before being mostly feral and wild, have adopted a form of civilization based on that of their Amazon allies. Females are leading and they too have Matriarchs in charge of Tribes. Sirens are an egg-laying species and the males are in charge of raising their young. There are two types of Sirens, Sirens of the Air, and Sirens of the Sea. While being unrelated, these subspecies seem to have convergent traits of Harpies and Merfolk respectively. They seem most closely related to the Medusa, who are sometimes referred to as the Sirens of the Land, and share many values with the snake-haired. This includes their preference for curt and harsh speech. A siren will often be very clear about hating or liking you. But even a siren that likes you might threaten your life if you annoy them. Death threads are common in Siren society and rarely serious. Merely being used in the same way another race might give a warning. Sirens can also be notoriously stubborn.
Siren Dimorphism
While females are higher in their society, both genders are very alike and there is less dimorphism then most other species. Both sexes can have breasts as these are not meant for breastfeeding, but as a lure for victims. In addition, unlike with amazons, males are just as intelligent and strong as females and can leave behind siren society to seek the equality of the western lands. The main difference within the species is between air and sea sirens. Both species can interbreed. The male young of such a mating always take on the subspecies of their mother, while female young can take on the subspecies of either parent.
Siren Names
Siren only recently started using names and as such most siren names are flights of fancy and prone to change. When a Siren interacts with a race or culture for a long time, they might take on a name in the tradition of the people it is interacting with. Parents rarely name their young, letting the child decide their own name when it is old enough to speak. Until a siren picks a name, it is often referred to by their appearance, such as the Black-feathered One or the Smaller One. Some sirens will add these descriptions to their chosen name.
Subrace
Choose one of the subraces below or one from another source.
Siren Traits
Your siren character has certain characteristics in common with all other sirens.
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Age
Sirens mature at the age of 10, but can commonly reach 150 years.
Size
Sirens are between 4 and 6 feet tall and average about 100 pounds. With Sirens of the Air commonly being smaller than their sea counterparts. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Malevolent Song
You know the vicious mockery cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the charm person spell as a 2nd-level spell on a creature that can hear you once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Siren Stubbornness
Thanks to the stubbornness ingrained in sirens and their relation to Medusa, you have advantage on saving throws to end the charmed condition on yourself. In addition you have advantages on saving throws against the petrified condition.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
Siren of the Air
Sirens of the Air are sirens with flying adaptations. They are the smaller of the two subspecies. They have a set of wings and bare vicious talons on their feet instead of nails.
Built for the Air
Thanks to your wings, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can’t use this flying speed if you’re wearing medium or heavy armor. While wearing medium or heavy armor, you can instead use your wings for extra defense. As a reaction when you are about to be hit, once per short rest, you can add your proficiency bonus to your AC until the start of your next turn.
Deadly Talons
Your talons are natural weapons, which you can use to make a melee weapon attack. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Siren of the Sea
Sirens of the Sea are sirens with aquatic adaptations. They are the larger of the two subspecies. While underwater they have a fish-like tail with which to swim, but as they move onto land a fold in their tail will open to reveal two legs that they can walk upon, dragging their fishy tails behind them.
Built for the Sea
You can breathe air and water, and have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Slippery Scales
When you become wet, your scales secrete a slippery oil that makes you harder to grab. While you are wet, you have advantage on saving throws and ability checks to escape being grappled, but not if you are also restrained.
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The great noble lines of Amazon are protected by law to keep their names pure. It is forbidden for amazon mothers to grant these names to their children as matriarchal name unless they have permission from the current head of the name. This shows which amazons belong to nobility. Besides the twelve active lines, there are four more protected names: Axel, Argentix, Ellen and Allara. But as these four names have no current head, no new child can be granted these names.
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
Then probably. A lot of this was inspired by the original poem vorpal swords came from, Jabberwocky.
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
Then probably. A lot of this was inspired by the original poem vorpal swords came from, Jabberwocky.
Oh wow! I didn’t know that. They actually have a Jabberwock in Wild Beyond the Witchlight that is most easily killed by a vorpal sword named Snicker-Snack.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
Then probably. A lot of this was inspired by the original poem vorpal swords came from, Jabberwocky.
Oh wow! I didn’t know that. They actually have a Jabberwock in Wild Beyond the Witchlight that is most easily killed by a vorpal sword named Snicker-Snack.
Yeah, it’s super cool there’s an official statblock for the jabberwock, which is one of my favorite monsters. Snicker-snack was the sound the vorpal sword made when it decapitated A Jabberwock in The poem.
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
Then probably. A lot of this was inspired by the original poem vorpal swords came from, Jabberwocky.
Oh wow! I didn’t know that. They actually have a Jabberwock in Wild Beyond the Witchlight that is most easily killed by a vorpal sword named Snicker-Snack.
Yeah, it’s super cool there’s an official statblock for the jabberwock, which is one of my favorite monsters. Snicker-snack was the sound the vorpal sword made when it decapitated A Jabberwock in The poem.
Wow. Wild Beyond the Witchlight really is cool. Though it only describes one small section of the Feywild. Other areas are more adult or are derived from non-Western traditions.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
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Nice! Amazons are very cool too. Why do they speak Minotaur?
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Ah, that's a lore thing, Minotaurs and Amazons originally hail from the same continent, so I just made Minotaur the common language of that continent since there isn't an amazon language in dnd beyond and no way to easily make a homebrew language.
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Brilliant! Are the Minotaurs like an Ancient Greek or Roman society?
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They were orignally like greek city states, but got pushed out by the amazons, until they fled into the frozen North, were they set up a scoiety around a single Tyrant. The bullman were better adapted to the cold of the north thanks to their fur, and as such managed to keep the amazons out.
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I like it. Minotaur society makes a good contrast to Amazon society.
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Great Noble Lines of Amazon
The great noble lines of Amazon are protected by law to keep their names pure. It is forbidden for amazon mothers to grant these names to their children as matriarchal name unless they have permission from the current head of the name. This shows which amazons belong to nobility. Besides the twelve active lines, there are four more protected names: Axel, Argentix, Ellen and Allara. But as these four names have no current head, no new child can be granted these names.
The twelve protected noble lines are:
Name
Founder
Fame
Tribe
Current Head
Alderxia
Mellan Alderxia
Founder of Alderxia Dax
East
Alderxia Mellan
Exalia
Argentix Exalia
First Western Matriarch
West
Exalia Elvira
Ferrus
Argentix Ferrus
Daughter of Cassandra
West
Ferrus Cassandra
Giandra
Giandra Exalia
General at Schism
North
Giandra Ellanor
Lenox
Revenex Lenox
Greatest Warrior Ever
South
Lenox Philae
Madden
Neverox Madden
First Amazon in Bay Isles
North
Madden Maxima
Marrax
Ferrus Marrax
High Priestess at Schism
West
Marrax Gea
Maxaria
Axel Maxaria
Last Northern Matriarch
North
Maxaria Revenex
Nero
Argentix Nero
Daughter of Aunt Thea
South
Nero Zenovia
Red
Red Stewardess
Peace Advocate
East
Red Varrix
Revenex
Argentix Revenex
First Southern Matriarch
South
Revenex Esma
Uluxis
Argentix Uluxis
First Eastern Matriarch
East
Uluxis Evanlyn
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Vorpal swords
All vorpal swords come from the feywild. This is because it is impossible to craft one outside the feywild. And even then, blacksmiths must train for hundreds of years to perfect the technique to make a vorpal sword, as a vorpal sword must be perfect, otherwise it isn’t a true vorpal sword.
the process of crafting a vorpal sword takes several hours. First, you must gather the metal hair of a Korred or use metal that was used to kill something, and melt it. The fire must be fueled by the wood of a TumTum tree, occasionally found in forests in the feywild, known for their orange and pink leaves during Autumn. While the metal is heating up, you must not speak. You then must forge it into a perfect three foot long sword that is extremely sharp, which you must do while singing. It then must be cooled in the blood of a bandersnatch. After that, you wait for a time between 3 minutes and nine hours. (The maker instinctively knows when in that timeframe to do this) Once you do, swing the sword in the air facing west. If, and only if the sword makes a snicker-snack sound, is it a vorpal sword. A vorpal sword can cut through any nonmagical material and it never dulls. And, when fighting an opponent, the vorpal sword leaps towards the neck, usually decapitating them instantly.
only around a quarter of potential vorpal swords make a snicker-snack sound, so most of the swords a blacksmith makes using this technique aren’t even vorpal swords.
Vorpal swords were originally designed as a way to kill the bandersnatch, which is one of the only two ways to kill one. A bandersnatch’s blood is exceptionally hard to get from a living specimen, considering they can run as fast as quicklings, but it’s possible. However, Vorpal swords are now more commonly used as weapons for fey knights and champions as well as adventurers who can pay a Fey blacksmith the extreme price to make one for them. Winxy pistols are now the main method of killing bandersnatches, although vorpal swords still work.
any creature could theoretically create a Vorpal sword, but most can’t as it requires hundreds of years of training in order to learn how to do it perfectly, so fey are usually the only creatures that have the time.
Very cool. Do you think Excalibur was a vorpal sword?
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Probably. Wasn’t it created by the lady of the lake, which is basically a fey?
Yes! It was.
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Then probably. A lot of this was inspired by the original poem vorpal swords came from, Jabberwocky.
Oh wow! I didn’t know that. They actually have a Jabberwock in Wild Beyond the Witchlight that is most easily killed by a vorpal sword named Snicker-Snack.
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Yeah, it’s super cool there’s an official statblock for the jabberwock, which is one of my favorite monsters. Snicker-snack was the sound the vorpal sword made when it decapitated A Jabberwock in The poem.
Wow. Wild Beyond the Witchlight really is cool. Though it only describes one small section of the Feywild. Other areas are more adult or are derived from non-Western traditions.
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This is great. I love Lewis Carol’s works.