twice a year, on the first and last full moons, the connection from the material to the Feywild is strongest. Fairies celebrate with legendary parties that few mortals have had the chance to experience. Once the moons reach their highest points in the sky, the dream catching begins. The dream catching is a mystical event where the swirling, pure emotions of the feywild spill forth into the material, filling the sky with glowing pink and purple clouds that take the shapes of the observers hopes and dreams. These aurora/cloud things often drift down close enough for people to touch them. Those who touch them say they are soft and smell delicious, like whatever their favorite food is. Entire nations celebrate the dreamcatching, and it is something that brings joy to everyone’s hearts. The dreamcatching is called the dreamcatching because if a creature manages to “catch” a dream, via various methods including dreamcatchers, the dream turns into an object, more solid than their original forms, but still obviously not normal. They turn into objects based on the person who caught them. Someone who loves horses might get a toy horse when they catch a dream. They only last for a few days, but they bring luck to whoever has them. The fey can cross between the material and feywild whenever and wherever they please during the dreamcatching, while other times they must use fey crossings. Fey crossings are quite common, easy to find in the feywild, but some are only active at retain times. Fairy circles are some of the most common fey crossings, but they only work during full moons.
twice a year, on the first and last full moons, the connection from the material to the Feywild is strongest. Fairies celebrate with legendary parties that few mortals have had the chance to experience. Once the moons reach their highest points in the sky, the dream catching begins. The dream catching is a mystical event where the swirling, pure emotions of the feywild spill forth into the material, filling the sky with glowing pink and purple clouds that take the shapes of the observers hopes and dreams. These aurora/cloud things often drift down close enough for people to touch them. Those who touch them say they are soft and smell delicious, like whatever their favorite food is. Entire nations celebrate the dreamcatching, and it is something that brings joy to everyone’s hearts. The dreamcatching is called the dreamcatching because if a creature manages to “catch” a dream, via various methods including dreamcatchers, the dream turns into an object, more solid than their original forms, but still obviously not normal. They turn into objects based on the person who caught them. Someone who loves horses might get a toy horse when they catch a dream. They only last for a few days, but they bring luck to whoever has them. The fey can cross between the material and feywild whenever and wherever they please during the dreamcatching, while other times they must use fey crossings. Fey crossings are quite common, easy to find in the feywild, but some are only active at retain times. Fairy circles are some of the most common fey crossings, but they only work during full moons.
twice a year, on the first and last full moons, the connection from the material to the Feywild is strongest. Fairies celebrate with legendary parties that few mortals have had the chance to experience. Once the moons reach their highest points in the sky, the dream catching begins. The dream catching is a mystical event where the swirling, pure emotions of the feywild spill forth into the material, filling the sky with glowing pink and purple clouds that take the shapes of the observers hopes and dreams. These aurora/cloud things often drift down close enough for people to touch them. Those who touch them say they are soft and smell delicious, like whatever their favorite food is. Entire nations celebrate the dreamcatching, and it is something that brings joy to everyone’s hearts. The dreamcatching is called the dreamcatching because if a creature manages to “catch” a dream, via various methods including dreamcatchers, the dream turns into an object, more solid than their original forms, but still obviously not normal. They turn into objects based on the person who caught them. Someone who loves horses might get a toy horse when they catch a dream. They only last for a few days, but they bring luck to whoever has them. The fey can cross between the material and feywild whenever and wherever they please during the dreamcatching, while other times they must use fey crossings. Fey crossings are quite common, easy to find in the feywild, but some are only active at retain times. Fairy circles are some of the most common fey crossings, but they only work during full moons.
I'd watch out with giving racial features to people, because that might hit people chosing halfling the wrong way. Maybe you could give them the Lucky feat with only one charge or something
Rhamnesis and Nynox are two strange deities among the Silver Pantheon of Amazonia. The two share a lot together and Nynox sometimes acts like a mother for Rhamnesis. Nynox was the deity of an ancient race of blue horned beings that inhabited the Grasslands south of the Amazon lands. When Queen Allara’s forces spread over the mountains, this race was wiped away. Their deity however lingered, and was taken into the pantheon of the Amazons as a mysterious hidden goddess to be feared. Rhamnesis on her turn was a goblinoid goddess who had once been loyal to the Goblin Queen, when Maglubiyet usurped the pantheon, Rhamnesis was in Materia. She heard of the usurper’s culling of the Pantheon. Desperate for survival she invaded the home of the Silver Queen, and stole the force of Karma. Queen Allara caught the Goblin Goddess and forced her to submit. Allara let Rhamnesis keep the divine power of Karma, as long as she remained a subservient goddess.
The Latsian Inquisition is the last great bastion of Imperial power. Cruciatu Quaestiones is the head of this organization. She believes inquisitors need to be flexible, easily reassigned and put under new command or given a new team whenever needed. So faction forming is disallowed, since Cruciatu wants her inquisitors to be able to be reshuffled at a moment’s notice. Once there were three inquisitors that had been working together for years, but Cruciatu wanted to reshuffle them. They argued that they were a team and should stick together. So she had the three of them seized. She killed two of them, stripped the flesh from their skulls and made pauldrons decorated with those skulls. The third inquisitor was given the pauldrons to wear and told that now they could stay together as a team.
In the early days of the Westsands, the Yuan-ti were a different species of human-like mammalians. Their gods were the seven lords of Paradise. These were Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lilith, the Lord and the Cherub. Many of the stories of these gods were lost, but we know that the Lord gave birth to Adam. Adam wished to marry Lilith, but the Lord did not approve, instead giving birth to Eve and marrying Adam to Eve. Adam and Eve had two children, which were Cain and Abel. Abel was most loved by the Lord, causing Cain to grow jealous and kill Abel. The Lord exiled Cain for this crime. Lilith, who was still furious at the Lord and Adam for rejecting her, was approached by another god named Sseth. Sseth was a snake god who sought to grow his domains. Him and Lilith made a plan. They tricked Eve into eating a poisonous apple. Adam, in his heartbroken state also ate this apple. Both gods died as the Lord watched on in horror. The other snake gods ambushed and killed the exiled Cain before Lilith and Sseth led them in a final assault on the Lord’s stronghold. They killed the Cherub, who guarded the gates, at a big cost before Lilith and Sseth killed the Lord. Only five of the snake gods survived this war: Sseth, Merrshaulk, Varae, Zehir and Sss'thasine'ss. These five joined Lilith, whose tail had become a living snake, and became the new Yuan-ti Pantheon. This convinced the Yuan-ti to abandon their old selves and interbreed with the followers of the Snake Gods, turning the race into various serpentine creatures. In some tellings Dendar the Night Serpent is also named as a god of the Yuan-ti, but she seems closer to Shar.
In the early days of the Westsands, the Yuan-ti were a different species of human-like mammalians. Their gods were the seven lords of Paradise. These were Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lilith, the Lord and the Cherub. Many of the stories of these gods were lost, but we know that the Lord gave birth to Adam. Adam wished to marry Lilith, but the Lord did not approve, instead giving birth to Eve and marrying Adam to Eve. Adam and Eve had two children, which were Cain and Abel. Abel was most loved by the Lord, causing Cain to grow jealous and kill Abel. The Lord exiled Cain for this crime. Lilith, who was still furious at the Lord and Adam for rejecting her, was approached by another god named Sseth. Sseth was a snake god who sought to grow his domains. Him and Lilith made a plan. They tricked Eve into eating a poisonous apple. Adam, in his heartbroken state also ate this apple. Both gods died as the Lord watched on in horror. The other snake gods ambushed and killed the exiled Cain before Lilith and Sseth led them in a final assault on the Lord’s stronghold. They killed the Cherub, who guarded the gates, at a big cost before Lilith and Sseth killed the Lord. Only five of the snake gods survived this war: Sseth, Merrshaulk, Varae, Zehir and Sss'thasine'ss. These five joined Lilith, whose tail had become a living snake, and became the new Yuan-ti Pantheon. This convinced the Yuan-ti to abandon their old selves and interbreed with the followers of the Snake Gods, turning the race into various serpentine creatures. In some tellings Dendar the Night Serpent is also named as a god of the Yuan-ti, but she seems closer to Shar.
I love it! You know in canon Dendar is a Great Old One, but of course you can change whatever you want when you do your own lore.
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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).
In the early days of the Westsands, the Yuan-ti were a different species of human-like mammalians. Their gods were the seven lords of Paradise. These were Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lilith, the Lord and the Cherub. Many of the stories of these gods were lost, but we know that the Lord gave birth to Adam. Adam wished to marry Lilith, but the Lord did not approve, instead giving birth to Eve and marrying Adam to Eve. Adam and Eve had two children, which were Cain and Abel. Abel was most loved by the Lord, causing Cain to grow jealous and kill Abel. The Lord exiled Cain for this crime. Lilith, who was still furious at the Lord and Adam for rejecting her, was approached by another god named Sseth. Sseth was a snake god who sought to grow his domains. Him and Lilith made a plan. They tricked Eve into eating a poisonous apple. Adam, in his heartbroken state also ate this apple. Both gods died as the Lord watched on in horror. The other snake gods ambushed and killed the exiled Cain before Lilith and Sseth led them in a final assault on the Lord’s stronghold. They killed the Cherub, who guarded the gates, at a big cost before Lilith and Sseth killed the Lord. Only five of the snake gods survived this war: Sseth, Merrshaulk, Varae, Zehir and Sss'thasine'ss. These five joined Lilith, whose tail had become a living snake, and became the new Yuan-ti Pantheon. This convinced the Yuan-ti to abandon their old selves and interbreed with the followers of the Snake Gods, turning the race into various serpentine creatures. In some tellings Dendar the Night Serpent is also named as a god of the Yuan-ti, but she seems closer to Shar.
I love it! You know in canon Dendar is a Great Old One, but of course you can change whatever you want when you do your own lore.
Yeah, in my world Dendar has joined Shar's Court. While remaining the nightmare of the Dreamscape
While we’re on the subject of homebrew lore here’s my lore for an upcoming homebrew I’m running,
There is a prophecy that speaks of the eternal battle of Lux vs Nox the goddesses of light and darkness but on the year 300,000,000 this prophecy will end and one is said to emerge victorious but without leaving a trail of blood. But this prophecy isn’t without hope, there is said to be a mortal who has travelled very far and is said to have divine blood and will end this prophecy and prevent the slaughter of a god and their people. And for millions of years the protectors of the light, the Light Brigade has valiantly held fast against the invasions of darkness waiting for the one the prophecy speaks of. But the year 300,000,000 is still drawing ever closer and is nearly upon the binary planet system of Lux and Nox, with no sight of this hero they desperately need.
Once upon a time, there was a man named Tantalus, who stole food off of the gods' plates. When he was eventually called out for his minor, almost irrelevant crime, he threw a fit. He murdered his son and cut him up, then served the child to the gods. The gods quickly tasted the human blood in their mouths, and sent Tantalus to the Nightmare for his heinous crime.
Once in the Nightmare, he became a sort of hero. The food of the gods empowered him, filled him with the strength to fight great beings that many perceived as evil, and made him immune to poison and disease. However, when decided to settle down and have children, he found that his sons and daughters were strange and monstrous creatures, warped by the Ambrosia he had imbibed. He, as before, butchered his children and fed them to those he considered his foes, in this case, the leaders of a movement that wished to help and protect monsters.
When the Court of Monstrosity tasted the flesh of the corrupted infants, their bodies became stronger, and they were filled with great and terrible power. They ate until there was nothing left. Those corrupted politicians, and their descendants after them, became what we now know as Tantalatian Vampires.
Strange creatures, these Vampires lack the evil and lustful nature of their more mainstream cousins. They require far more blood than one of the regular monsters, though, and as such often try to get large groups of creatures to give up their blood willingly. This, combined with the Tantalatian Vampire's strange, corrupted power over nature, minor divine powers, and superior intellect, means that many people will willingly live under a Tantalatian Vampire ruler, even if that means having to live with monsters next door and give a tax of blood every month.
Villagers under these vampires tend to be much stronger and healthier than regular villagers found elsewhere, since here their leader has a vested interest in keeping them happy, healthy, and alive. Crops grow healthier, animals grow fatter, and trade grows richer, all due to the vampire's attempts to keep a large, happy population to feed off of.
It is a strange form of symbiosis, but a nice one nonetheless.
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Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
Once upon a time, there was a man named Tantalus, who stole food off of the gods' plates. When he was eventually called out for his minor, almost irrelevant crime, he threw a fit. He murdered his son and cut him up, then served the child to the gods. The gods quickly tasted the human blood in their mouths, and sent Tantalus to the Nightmare for his heinous crime.
Once in the Nightmare, he became a sort of hero. The food of the gods empowered him, filled him with the strength to fight great beings that many perceived as evil, and made him immune to poison and disease. However, when decided to settle down and have children, he found that his sons and daughters were strange and monstrous creatures, warped by the Ambrosia he had imbibed. He, as before, butchered his children and fed them to those he considered his foes, in this case, the leaders of a movement that wished to help and protect monsters.
When the Court of Monstrosity tasted the flesh of the corrupted infants, their bodies became stronger, and they were filled with great and terrible power. They ate until there was nothing left. Those corrupted politicians, and their descendants after them, became what we now know as Tantalatian Vampires.
Strange creatures, these Vampires lack the evil and lustful nature of their more mainstream cousins. They require far more blood than one of the regular monsters, though, and as such often try to get large groups of creatures to give up their blood willingly. This, combined with the Tantalatian Vampire's strange, corrupted power over nature, minor divine powers, and superior intellect, means that many people will willingly live under a Tantalatian Vampire ruler, even if that means having to live with monsters next door and give a tax of blood every month.
Villagers under these vampires tend to be much stronger and healthier than regular villagers found elsewhere, since here their leader has a vested interest in keeping them happy, healthy, and alive. Crops grow healthier, animals grow fatter, and trade grows richer, all due to the vampire's attempts to keep a large, happy population to feed off of.
It is a strange form of symbiosis, but a nice one nonetheless.
I love it! A cool new interpretation of vampire lore.
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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).
The dreamcatching
twice a year, on the first and last full moons, the connection from the material to the Feywild is strongest. Fairies celebrate with legendary parties that few mortals have had the chance to experience. Once the moons reach their highest points in the sky, the dream catching begins. The dream catching is a mystical event where the swirling, pure emotions of the feywild spill forth into the material, filling the sky with glowing pink and purple clouds that take the shapes of the observers hopes and dreams. These aurora/cloud things often drift down close enough for people to touch them. Those who touch them say they are soft and smell delicious, like whatever their favorite food is. Entire nations celebrate the dreamcatching, and it is something that brings joy to everyone’s hearts. The dreamcatching is called the dreamcatching because if a creature manages to “catch” a dream, via various methods including dreamcatchers, the dream turns into an object, more solid than their original forms, but still obviously not normal. They turn into objects based on the person who caught them. Someone who loves horses might get a toy horse when they catch a dream. They only last for a few days, but they bring luck to whoever has them. The fey can cross between the material and feywild whenever and wherever they please during the dreamcatching, while other times they must use fey crossings. Fey crossings are quite common, easy to find in the feywild, but some are only active at retain times. Fairy circles are some of the most common fey crossings, but they only work during full moons.
*fairy sounds*
Arch! How are you, wanna RP?
Your friendly trans bard!
She/They pronouns
The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
I found this dead tavern
Your friendly trans bard!
She/They pronouns
The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
That's awesome!
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Thanks! Anything you like about it in particular?
The concept of catching dreams, plus the potential of feywild related shenanigans sounds very fun.
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Yeah, it does. If you have a caught dream, you basically gain the lucky feature from halfling once a day. They disappear after 1d4 days.
I'd watch out with giving racial features to people, because that might hit people chosing halfling the wrong way. Maybe you could give them the Lucky feat with only one charge or something
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Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for the advice.
404 gods in my setting and now I need to make tokens for all of them just in case they become relevant hahahahahah
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Am snek.
Rhamnesis and Nynox
Rhamnesis and Nynox are two strange deities among the Silver Pantheon of Amazonia. The two share a lot together and Nynox sometimes acts like a mother for Rhamnesis. Nynox was the deity of an ancient race of blue horned beings that inhabited the Grasslands south of the Amazon lands. When Queen Allara’s forces spread over the mountains, this race was wiped away. Their deity however lingered, and was taken into the pantheon of the Amazons as a mysterious hidden goddess to be feared. Rhamnesis on her turn was a goblinoid goddess who had once been loyal to the Goblin Queen, when Maglubiyet usurped the pantheon, Rhamnesis was in Materia. She heard of the usurper’s culling of the Pantheon. Desperate for survival she invaded the home of the Silver Queen, and stole the force of Karma. Queen Allara caught the Goblin Goddess and forced her to submit. Allara let Rhamnesis keep the divine power of Karma, as long as she remained a subservient goddess.
I am also here.
Am snek.
The Latsian Inquisition
The Latsian Inquisition is the last great bastion of Imperial power. Cruciatu Quaestiones is the head of this organization. She believes inquisitors need to be flexible, easily reassigned and put under new command or given a new team whenever needed. So faction forming is disallowed, since Cruciatu wants her inquisitors to be able to be reshuffled at a moment’s notice. Once there were three inquisitors that had been working together for years, but Cruciatu wanted to reshuffle them. They argued that they were a team and should stick together. So she had the three of them seized. She killed two of them, stripped the flesh from their skulls and made pauldrons decorated with those skulls. The third inquisitor was given the pauldrons to wear and told that now they could stay together as a team.
I am also here.
Am snek.
Lilith and the Snake Gods
In the early days of the Westsands, the Yuan-ti were a different species of human-like mammalians. Their gods were the seven lords of Paradise. These were Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Lilith, the Lord and the Cherub. Many of the stories of these gods were lost, but we know that the Lord gave birth to Adam. Adam wished to marry Lilith, but the Lord did not approve, instead giving birth to Eve and marrying Adam to Eve. Adam and Eve had two children, which were Cain and Abel. Abel was most loved by the Lord, causing Cain to grow jealous and kill Abel. The Lord exiled Cain for this crime. Lilith, who was still furious at the Lord and Adam for rejecting her, was approached by another god named Sseth. Sseth was a snake god who sought to grow his domains. Him and Lilith made a plan. They tricked Eve into eating a poisonous apple. Adam, in his heartbroken state also ate this apple. Both gods died as the Lord watched on in horror. The other snake gods ambushed and killed the exiled Cain before Lilith and Sseth led them in a final assault on the Lord’s stronghold. They killed the Cherub, who guarded the gates, at a big cost before Lilith and Sseth killed the Lord. Only five of the snake gods survived this war: Sseth, Merrshaulk, Varae, Zehir and Sss'thasine'ss. These five joined Lilith, whose tail had become a living snake, and became the new Yuan-ti Pantheon. This convinced the Yuan-ti to abandon their old selves and interbreed with the followers of the Snake Gods, turning the race into various serpentine creatures. In some tellings Dendar the Night Serpent is also named as a god of the Yuan-ti, but she seems closer to Shar.
I am also here.
Am snek.
I love it! You know in canon Dendar is a Great Old One, but of course you can change whatever you want when you do your own lore.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Yeah, in my world Dendar has joined Shar's Court. While remaining the nightmare of the Dreamscape
I am also here.
Am snek.
While we’re on the subject of homebrew lore here’s my lore for an upcoming homebrew I’m running,
There is a prophecy that speaks of the eternal battle of Lux vs Nox the goddesses of light and darkness but on the year 300,000,000 this prophecy will end and one is said to emerge victorious but without leaving a trail of blood. But this prophecy isn’t without hope, there is said to be a mortal who has travelled very far and is said to have divine blood and will end this prophecy and prevent the slaughter of a god and their people. And for millions of years the protectors of the light, the Light Brigade has valiantly held fast against the invasions of darkness waiting for the one the prophecy speaks of. But the year 300,000,000 is still drawing ever closer and is nearly upon the binary planet system of Lux and Nox, with no sight of this hero they desperately need.
Tantalatian Vampires (draft 1)
Once upon a time, there was a man named Tantalus, who stole food off of the gods' plates. When he was eventually called out for his minor, almost irrelevant crime, he threw a fit. He murdered his son and cut him up, then served the child to the gods. The gods quickly tasted the human blood in their mouths, and sent Tantalus to the Nightmare for his heinous crime.
Once in the Nightmare, he became a sort of hero. The food of the gods empowered him, filled him with the strength to fight great beings that many perceived as evil, and made him immune to poison and disease. However, when decided to settle down and have children, he found that his sons and daughters were strange and monstrous creatures, warped by the Ambrosia he had imbibed. He, as before, butchered his children and fed them to those he considered his foes, in this case, the leaders of a movement that wished to help and protect monsters.
When the Court of Monstrosity tasted the flesh of the corrupted infants, their bodies became stronger, and they were filled with great and terrible power. They ate until there was nothing left. Those corrupted politicians, and their descendants after them, became what we now know as Tantalatian Vampires.
Strange creatures, these Vampires lack the evil and lustful nature of their more mainstream cousins. They require far more blood than one of the regular monsters, though, and as such often try to get large groups of creatures to give up their blood willingly. This, combined with the Tantalatian Vampire's strange, corrupted power over nature, minor divine powers, and superior intellect, means that many people will willingly live under a Tantalatian Vampire ruler, even if that means having to live with monsters next door and give a tax of blood every month.
Villagers under these vampires tend to be much stronger and healthier than regular villagers found elsewhere, since here their leader has a vested interest in keeping them happy, healthy, and alive. Crops grow healthier, animals grow fatter, and trade grows richer, all due to the vampire's attempts to keep a large, happy population to feed off of.
It is a strange form of symbiosis, but a nice one nonetheless.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
I love it! A cool new interpretation of vampire lore.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Thank you! Did you see what I did with werewolves?
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.