Kindred Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Kindred Class) Your body is more efficient at holding and processing vitae. You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Increase Blood Pool. Your Blood Point maximum increases by your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). Notes: +1 Constitution, Increase Blood Pool

Weave Beguiling Fey Magic The College of Glamour traces its origins to the beguiling magic of the Feywild. Bards who study this magic weave threads of beauty and terror into their songs and stories, and the mightiest among them can cloak themselves in otherworldly majesty. Their performances stir up wistful longing for forgotten innocence, evoke unconscious memories of long-held fears, and tug at…

Be a Master of Classes Bards from the College of Adventurers learn from heroes of old and stories of legend. Bards are jacks of all trades, and, for the College of Adventurers, this statement rings even truer. They combine all the skills of their companions into one, allowing them to be versatile and supportive. While not having a direct goal, many adventurer-studying Bards live to tell tales of…

When the leader of a villainous order rises as a death knight, their wicked devotees might join them in their cursed existence as death knight aspirants. These followers bear a measure of their leader’s power and serve as they did in life, obediently following the death knight’s decrees and heralding its terrible will. Death Knights Champions of evil, death knights are armor-clad, skeletal…

Boggarts in Lorwyn are born into communal warrens where laws and hierarchies are considered suggestions. The oldest and most powerful boggarts, known as “aunties,” serve as respected leaders who keep the peace. Lorwyn boggarts value sharing knowledge and past experiences with their communities. Many are willing to brave great dangers in pursuit of new experiences, and adventurers are common.…

Lorwyn kithkin live in pastoral villages called clachans and welcome outsiders into their communities. These kithkin collect their cultural heritage in a tome called the Book of Kith and Kin. They also often entertain many superstitions, particularly related to Lorwyn’s incarnations of nature.

The horns of Lorwyn elves are stubby like a goat’s or curved like a ram’s, but always ridged. Their pointed ears are long and slender. In Lorwyn, elves value beauty above all, though what any given elf deems beautiful can seem arbitrary. Some Lorwyn elves assume authority over the land’s other peoples, using their fallen empire to support their claims. These elves blame the fall of their empire…

Content Warning Sacrifice and evil cults.

The arisen are spoken of in fearful whispers across Etharis, all too often proclaimed unnatural entities that can be neither trusted nor redeemed. For although they are humanoids, each arisen is a unique construct created by magic, mysterious science, or both. Arisen are never born in their current form. They are not undead, nor have they been raised from death by divine magic. Rather, each…

Characters earn an advancement toward their next level. If they decline the advancement, they do not earn any treasure but remain eligible to earn marks of prestige or other non-treasure rewards.

You alter the appearance of a set of nonmagical clothing that isn’t being worn by someone else. You determine the color, styling, decoration, and form the clothing takes, though you can’t generate clothes worth more than 15 GP. For example, you could transform a tattered Robe into Fine Clothes, or vice versa. At the end of the spell’s duration, the altered clothing returns to its original form.…

General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Sacred Magic. You learn the Light spell and can cast it without Material components. If you already know that cantrip, you learn a different Cleric cantrip of your choice. The spell’s spellcasting ability is the ability…

The most powerful sarrukhs are arisen: horrific creatures that have subverted death. While arisen sarrukhs have lost their ability to cast spells, their unliving flesh is unnaturally strong. Sarrukhs Powerful and magical, sarrukhs once commanded a wicked empire that spanned Faerûn, but it fell tens of thousands of years ago. In the millennia that followed, the many species sarrukhs created drove…

Origin Feat (Prerequisite: Dhakaani Ghaal’dar, Dhakaani Golin’dar, or Dhakaani Guul’dar) You gain the following benefits. Swift and Silent. You gain proficiency in the Stealth skill. Master of Shadows. You gain Expertise with the Stealth skill. Fade Away. When you take the Hide action, the DC for a successful check is reduced to 10. All other restrictions still apply. Notes: Swift and Silent,…

Relicborn are a skeleton-like species native to Kalero, generally emerging from the numerous tombs and crypts that line the canyon walls of the province. They thrive in a culture of celebration and remembrance, which infuses the very essence of every member of the species. Dancing between the energy of a vivacious party and the serenity of peaceful reflection, this folk holds a deep appreciation…

General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Kalashtar) You possess a particularly strong bond with your quori spirit. You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Quori Lineage. Choose a lineage from the Quori Lineages table. Your choice affects the Skill and Spell sections detailed below.

Quori Lineage

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Sing the Deeds of Ancient Heroes Bards of the College of Valor are daring storytellers whose tales preserve the memory of the great heroes of the past. These Bards sing the deeds of the mighty in vaulted halls or to crowds gathered around great bonfires. They travel to witness great events firsthand and to ensure that the memory of these events doesn’t pass away. With their songs, they inspire…

Ceustodaemons form from the souls of vile mortals, particularly those who took efforts to hasten their own deaths, their willingness shaping them into daemonic servants. Their otherworldly senses make them useful for protecting vaults and similar locations on the Material Plane. Ceustodaemons are created to serve, but always seek ways to subvert their bindings, so they can rend their mortal…

Plagueborn are a rat-like species native to Bubonia, typically coalescing in the pestilent haze that hangs over the province. They are deeply connected to the virulent and deadly plague that afflicts and shapes their society, which persists through cunning, ruthlessness, and the sheer will to live. They are the most adaptable species of Druskenvald, quickly discovering the means to survive even…

*Spell of the Divination school

A Lorwyn boggart plays near an eclipsed realm This chapter provides rules for backgrounds and species of player characters from the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. These elements suggest the characters’ early experiences and family origins before taking up an adventuring life and learning the capabilities of a class described in the Player’s Handbook. Heroes from the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor might…

The changelings of Lorwyn are charismatic shapeshifters able to crudely mimic the forms of creatures and plants. Unlike most shapeshifters, however, their innate powers don’t allow them to truly disguise themselves; rather, their transformations are purely surface level. No matter their form, Lorwyn changelings keep their key traits: blue-green skin, tufts of tentacle-like fur, and bulbous yellow…

Ez d’Avenir first encountered monsters among her manipulative family, the Radanaviches, who posed as Vistani to prey on travelers. Among their foul deeds, the Radanavich family kidnapped Erasmus van Richten, the son of Rudolph van Richten (detailed in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within) and sold him to his death at the hands of the vampire Baron Metus. In the brief time Ez knew Erasmus, the youth…