Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Ok. So the Far Realm is supposed to be this place of fathomless madness, right? But what sort of creatures actually live there? Can I find illithids wandering around, or even stranger creatures? Grell? Aboleths? If I could avoid insanity and went on a non-Euclidean stroll through the Far Realm, who would I run into? What terrain would I expect to see? Since WotC irritatingly (but wisely) decides to withhold as much info on the Far Realm as possible, I'm open to all manner of speculation.
Dream job: being one of those creatures who don't interact with the economy at all yet are somehow obscenely rich.
Well, there's two answers. First, I think the Far Realm is just so alien that our minds would not even be able to process anything we saw or experienced there, because there simply is no common frame of reference for our senses to grasp. It's like asking what the 9th Dimension is like, or what's it like inside a black hole. (Spoiler Alert: It's dark). It's like a half-remembered dream, viewed through a kaleidoscope, while still hungover. And if you were to somehow recompile that dream into a visible image, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode inside your chest. It's more than just chaos, it's chaos folded back in upon itself. A tesseract of entropy.
Secondly, flumphs. That's right. The Far Realm is secretly run by a Flumph Mafia. Prove me wrong!
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
My players ima campaign once decided to use the blood of 13 different abberations to create a “Potion of Far Realm Wandering”
I, of course, allowed this. Most of the creatures there were weird hybrids of Mind Flayer + Beholder (not a mindwitness) and Flumph + Grell and stuff like that.
Think of the terrain as being both hot and cold, dry and wet, acidic and basic, all at once. It messes with your internal chemistry on contact.
The air is safe and poisonous, the water is liquid and solid and gaseous all at once. Gravity? Pulls you and pushes you in every direction, leading to your body warping in nonpainful ways.
so yeah, that’s the Far Realm in my eyes.
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With my Sturgeon Band, we’ll conquer the Sturgeon Land!
With my Sturgeon Bars, and m’ boy Bruno Mars,
The Sturgeon Dudes will send you Sturgeon [REDACTED]!
You could have a look at the Kaorti (link to wiki here: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Kaorti). They've not been mentioned in 5e lore as far as I am aware but they have some lore form previous editions that is kind of interesting.
you can find Jeff the Evil Roomba there i think
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also for my world, the Far Realm eqrivalint(AKA everything beyond the gient corpse(of a true gient) that makes up the world) is more or less just everything arould the world i dont think i well develup it must beyonde that lol
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The Far Realm is supposedly the realm of aberrations, lightless beings from beyond the stars. It is unfathomable. I imagine that it is a drifting void of chunks of whatever floating around and colossal entities the size of galaxies drift, plotting universal domination or whatever. But again, it is unfathomable, so I can't actually fathom what it would be like.
Well, I can't. But I also can't prove you right.
He doesn't have much besides the skin on his bones. Me: I'll take the skin on his bones, then.
"You see a gigantic, monstrous praying mantis burst from out of the ground. It sprays a stream of acid from it's mouth at one soldier, dissolving him instantly, then it turns and chomps another soldier in half with it's- "
"When are we gonna take a snack break?"
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Dream job: being one of those creatures who don't interact with the economy at all yet are somehow obscenely rich.
Cthulhu, of course. And we’ll soon have stats for it. But I’d say pretty much any aberration could be there.
The Star Spawn have actual D&D stats (MP: MotM, some older book?), and are from there. I don't like the illustrations. So I redid them with a lack symmetry and lots of tentacles and eyes when I used them. The synergy between types makes them strange and terrifying enemies. https://www.themonstersknow.com/star-spawn-tactics-part-1/
Pathfinder has a lot more details on things that are from the Far Realm in their SRD. I went down a rabbit hole once reading that...
It is a place that light can't escape, so it is possible that the inside of a black hole might on the contrary be very very bright.
Likewise, and also like the mind of an illithid, the Far Realm might be full of the sanity it has drained from others. When you are inside it, everything makes perfect sense. You do not feel like you are growing additional eyes but like you are finally opening them and reaching enlightenment.
My favorite such combo of aberrations is the gibbering orb, which has 3e and 4e lore: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gibbering_orb
I like to imagine an alternate beholder-kin life cycle where the digested victims of a beholder-kin are puked in the form of a gibbering mouther, which grows into a gibbering abomination, then into an immature gibbering orb, then into one of several possible beholder-kin, including a true beholder or a true gibbering orb.
Yup, I also like the kaorti.
Of note is that the 5e star spawn are based on the 4e foulspawn, which were themselves clearly inspired by the 3.5 ushemoi, so there are several editions worth of illustrations to look at and maybe find one you like: https://imgur.com/gallery/ushemoi-to-star-spawn-9SKk6Um
Expanded 5e Spelljammer Cosmology