A soaring castle of polished, yellow marble, the High Hall is the seat of city government. The Council of Four has its offices here. Gold-edged tapestries drape the meeting rooms of the Council of Four and the Parliament of Peers. Ample nooks containing statues and fine furniture provide private places for whispered conspiracies or backstabbing intrigues. Most nonpoliticians who visit the High…

Manyhorn Guild Brokers are the senior officials who draft, organise, and oversee trade negotiations between their guild and other parties. These include negotiations between other Manyhorn guilds, as well as other cities, kingdoms, or political groups. Manyhorn Guild Brokers are generally exceptionally cool-headed, especially in a crisis. They pride themselves on their ability to use logical…

Each card’s effect is described below.

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Weapon (rapier), very rare (requires attunement) This item appears to be a sword hilt that has a small hole on either end of it. The hilt is made of clear quartz and contains an hourglass with sand inside it. Despite the holes on the hilt, the sand never seems to flow out of the hourglass. You can take a Bonus Action and use a command word to cause it to magically form a thin blade of sand. The…

Armor (ring mail), very rare You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.

The Unrolling Scroll is an elegant temple of Oghma built around a wide reflecting pool. The vaulted roof above the pool bears exceptional acoustic properties, carrying even the softest voices across the venue. The site is a popular place for weddings or speeches, even among those who don’t worship Oghma. Patriars will postpone a family wedding for multiple tendays to secure a reservation at the…

Quara Orshendiel is a drow shootist who found herself propelled into the leadership of the drow outpost of Yldaris by the death of her father, the previous leader. Quara is likely to be an ally of the characters, as she knows useful allies when she sees them. She’s interested in avenging her father and sister in the short term, but she’s aware that whatever goal her father was pursuing with the…

Origin Feat (Prerequisite: Dhakaani Ghaal’dar, Dhakaani Golin’dar, or Dhakaani Guul’dar) You gain the following benefits. Dreamwalker. You remain fully lucid when you dream and when you wake, you clearly remember everything that transpired. Mentor in the Uul. There is a spirit in the Uul Dhakaan that serves as your mentor. Work with your DM to develop the identity of this spirit; they could be…

Armor (ring mail), legendary You have a +3 bonus to AC while wearing this armor. This armor is leather armor with heavy rings sewn into it. The rings help reinforce the armor against blows from swords and axes. Ring mail is inferior to chain mail, and it's usually worn only by those who can't afford better armor.

North. Back along the corridor to the broken looms (Area 2).

The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. When a caravan needs escorts, a noble needs bodyguards, or a city needs soldiers, the Zhentarim provides the best-trained fighting forces money can buy. If the cargo is shady or the cause is questionable, the Zhentarim doesn’t mind one bit—if there’s money to be made, Zhents will…

Weapon (morningstar), uncommon You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Proficiency with a Morningstar allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it. This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it. Sap. If you hit a creature with this weapon, that…

Upper Central is defined by wealth and prestige and heavily patrolled by both the Sharn Watch and private security agents, so crime there leans more toward elaborate heists than back-alley muggings. Lucrative targets such as the Kundarak Bank of Sharn (with its supposedly impenetrable storage facility called the Vaults) and Aurora Gallery (a magic item auction house) remain far beyond the reach…

Entering this hall from the Main Deck leads the characters onto a balcony overlooking the main ballroom, which they can descend into from a set of stairs. The guests are living but cursed human Commoners, while the dealers and bartenders are all Undead Ferrymen * . In the corner of the room is a small stage where five Skeleton musicians form a jazz band, playing upbeat music on a trumpet,…

Stiff Ale | 1 GP Honey Mead | 1 GP …

Octagonal chamber. Pillars and altar of carved ice. Twin rows of icy pillars banded with steel lead up to an altar carved from ice. Monstrous symbols of titanic wolves and world-circling serpents decorate the shrine. The chamber appears in pristine condition, as if brand new. Angrboda’s symbol features prominently on the walls, pillars, and altar of this chamber; the berserkers and cultists in…

Jessie the Red (Medium Pirate) is very excited about the party happening tonight after the Plunder Auction celebrating her wife’s latest achievement. She is madly in love with her wife, a human named Dead Eye Jolene. She immediately recognizes that the party is not with the Brinejacks but keeps it to herself. She’s far more interested in finding out who they are and telling them about the…

Wondrous Item, very rare (requires attunement) This set of six-sided dice is indistinguishable from nonmagical dice. While attuned to the dice, you gain the following benefits. Luck. The dice have 6 charges and regain 1d6 charges daily at dawn. When you fail a D20 Test, you can expend 1 charge to reroll the test if you don’t have the Incapacitated condition. You must use the new roll. Loaded.…

Ahead. Go through the glowing portal to Jotunheim footprint (Area 2). Down. Climb back down Yggdrasil’s trunk to the ground.

Upper Dura, though quite different from the seedy and poverty-stricken wards below it, retains some of the rough edges of those neighborhoods. Adventurers bound for Xen’drik expeditions congregate in Upper Dura, and many businesses cater to their particular needs. A large cohort of the Sharn Watch patrols the Daggerwatch district, and the Citadel of Light (a temple to Dol Arrah) remains a beacon…

With uncanny patience and fiendish cunning, ultroloths manipulate mortals and their fellow yugoloths alike, seeking to hoard power and spread suffering. These sinister masterminds often work with other yugoloths, but they might compel nearly any creature into their service. If coercion doesn’t work, ultroloths use their eerie eyes and innate magic to hypnotize or charm targets. Ultroloths strive…

Surrounded by the Old Wall (the original wall built in Balduran’s day before the city spread to the river and around Dusthawk Hill), the grand Upper City houses the city’s elite and the seats of power. The Upper City is carefully monitored by the well-paid Watch. Upper City neighborhoods include Watch-controlled Citadel Streets, elegant Manorborn, ostentatious Temples, and the open-air market…

The guild house offers the following services: Customize Equipment. A character can hire an artisan to customize their equipment, such as emblazoning a Shield with a symbol of their choice or embellishing the binding of a Spellbook. The standard rate is 5 GP per piece of equipment. Research. The library contains books on history, magic, and the creatures of the Borderlands. For 1 GP, a character…

When magical energy becomes dangerously unstable, it sometimes animates into an eldritch eddy: an uncontrolled whirlwind of Evocation magic that crackles with fire and lightning. Eldritch eddies typically arise where magic use is heavy and irresponsible, such as near a fanatical mage’s sanctum, a workshop that churns out magic items, or a library where undertrained scribes work with Spell Scrolls…

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…