Domain of Tarnished Dreams Darklord: Harkon Lukas Adventure Genres: Dark fantasy and gothic horror Hallmarks: Hidden identities, dangerous performances, exploitative ambitions, werewolves Mist Talismans: Handbill advertising remarkable performances, rustic woodcut of hunting wolves, wolf’s tooth necklace Aligned Tarokka Card: Swashbuckler Opposed Tarokka Card: Beast Life in Kartakass feels staged…

Ketgrinn are catlike Fey spirits who delight in puzzles, riddles, and bargains. They have large, bright eyes and too-wide grins that gleam starkly even in shadows. Ketgrinn are tricksters and spies, often sent by those they serve to steal the voices of a rival’s minions to sow chaos and confusion. Secret. Ketgrinn can’t resist a puzzle or riddle, and a difficult one can send a ketgrinn’s mind…

Sinister fleshwarpers reshape captive urdefhans into these juggernauts of war. Their clear skin is hardened into a thick, mirror-like carapace, creating an intimidating exoskeleton. Mulventoks don’t live long; within weeks—or, at most, months—their hyper-developed muscles split open their toughened skin, and they erupt in a shower of gore. A mulventok’s creator shapes their mind just as much as…

Certain magic items are beyond compare and have played remarkable roles throughout the course of history. Some are made by powerful deities while others occur naturally, or supernaturally, on their own. Whatever the Artifact, these relics of power are virtually indestructible, and are often sought after by heroes and villains to better bend the world to their wills. These items must be given…

Coming out ahead, whether in games of chance or in life-or-death contention, fills you with resolve and vigor. You gain the following benefits. Bet Big. If you don't already have it, you gain Heroic Inspiration whenever you succeed on an ability check made against another creature, when you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, or when a creature fails a saving throw you forced it to make. If, in…

This spell is a favorite of apprentices and students. For the duration, you appear to be fully focused and paying rapt attention. Behind the illusion, you can be napping, thinking about other things, or otherwise letting your mind wander. A creature that takes a Search action to evaluate your state of mind can determine that your interest is feigned with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check…

Whimsical, Quest-Giving Tease A trickster with a penchant for games, Flizzlebin tempts novice adventurers into dungeons to test their skills. The so-called “Vanishing Gnome’s” favorite game involves hiding within dangerous dungeons and rewarding those who find him with priceless treasures.

You place a curse on a creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 Necrotic damage to the target whenever you hit it with an attack roll. Also, choose one ability when you cast the spell. The target has Disadvantage on ability checks made with the chosen ability. If the target drops to 0 Hit Points before this spell ends, you can take a Bonus Action on a…

You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example, you can fabricate a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, or clothes from flax or wool. Choose raw materials that you can see within range. You can fabricate a Large or smaller object (contained within a 10-foot Cube or eight connected 5-foot Cubes) given a sufficient quantity of material. If…

You call upon multiple tendrils of ephemeral ectoplasm to pass through one creature you can see within range and carry away all harmful psychic afflictions. You end each spell or effect giving the target the Charmed or Frightened condition. In addition, if the target is possessed, the possession ends. Each expelled effect manifests momentarily as a colored aura or other sensory cue that imparts…

Ettins are physically powerful Giants with two heads. While many ettins have features similar to hill giants, others have more bestial or unusual traits, such as tusks, short horns, or a single eye on each head. Ettins frequently ally with other Giants or groups that value their strength, such as hill giants, bandits, or ogres. Some ettins possess mystical ties to the lands they inhabit, and…

Potion, rare This bright orange fluid is stored in a syringe and charged with arcane magic. You can use a Utilize action to administer the shot directly to the heart of yourself or another willing creature. You are protected against Contamination for six hours after receiving a dose of Aqua Expurgo. During this time, whenever you fail a saving throw against an effect which would cause you to…

Otyughs live to eat—the more disgusting the meal, the better. They consider all non-otyughs that come within reach dishes in life’s endless buffet. In dumps, sewers, polluted ruins, and similar murky depths, otyughs devour garbage, carcasses, and anything else their tentacles can cram in their expansive maws. Some creatures ply otyughs with trash to recruit them as watchful—if…

Born between civilization and the wilds, beastkin are as varied as the animal kingdom itself. Sometimes called wildkin, beastkin universally share the bipedal form of humans, elves, or dwarves, but they have pronounced traits of a specific beast, such as hawk wings, a scorpion’s tail, rabbit ears, owl eyes, a crab-like carapace, razor-sharp shark teeth, or bony ox horns. Some beastkin show only…

When you cast this spell, all footprints and fingerprints within a 30-foot Emanation originating from you become highlighted and glow faintly for the duration. When you cast the spell, choose any point in time up to 10 days ago. Only footprints and fingerprints left between that time and the present will be highlighted. Each creature that leaves footprints and fingerprints is assigned a unique…

Sluglike abominations, grothluts are fleshwarps that were once humans. While their head and torso are vaguely human, their arms are rubbery and move awkwardly at their sides. Wretched creatures, they moan piteously when other creatures are near, pleading with their last remnants of human consciousness. Many fleshwarpers consider the grothlut to be a failure of a creation, as the transformation…