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’ serpent gods into their religions. These victories sent a constant influx of food, ore, and slaves back to the home cities.
The wealth of the empire allowed the ruling elite plenty of time to
serpent gods taught the humans how to take on aspects of the snake, but the cost of the change was high, requiring many sacrifices for each person to be transformed. Entire households of slaves in
Goblin
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out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though
;t understand the goblins’ social system are sometimes surprised by how different castes interact with them. A single human warrior might frighten away a dozen gatherers, only to be shocked when
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might give away the deception, but the imitation is good enough to fool desperate creatures into stumbling into the monster’s clutches. Malevolent Entities. A balhannoth thrives on fear and despair
, taking pleasure in the horror its victims experience. It terrorizes its prey by using its reality-warping powers to mask its presence until it can snatch the target. Then it teleports away to feed on
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
view the results of their efforts. But drow society is predicated on a foundation of terror and slavery, and the most desirable slaves live on the world’s surface: humans, dwarves, and best of all
slaves into long trains of chattel, kill everyone who resisted, burn everything to the ground, and set their sights on the next town in line. Most of the dark elves’ raids, however, are small, stealthy
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Escape One day, well after I had lost count of how many days I’d been a captive, I was in a small outlying cavern with a few other slaves harvesting a mushroom patch. I was given leave to answer
nature’s call away from the mushrooms, and I lingered long enough in a side tunnel to force my watcher to come and find me. I took the first lash he offered me with his whip, then grabbed the weapon and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
located a mile away. Defending the drow outpost are a female drow elite warrior (the commander), a male drow mage, and sixteen drow. The outpost is a four-story tower carved out of a 60-foot-tall, 15
forming an alliance. Characters can keep their distance and avoid the altercation. However, any drow who survive the battle head to the nearest drow outpost 1d4 miles away. After hearing the survivors
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Menzoberranzan I eventually got away from the place, but not before I had learned more about Menzoberranzan than any sane person would care to know. Although the life of a slave can be brutally short
in the City of Spiders, the drow aren’t so extravagant that they do away with every captive they take. At the same time, they are masters of punishment — it is fear of pain, not fear of death, that
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Kraken Priests Previously Thayan slaves, these two tough-as-nails women fled Thay after discovering they were both intended for execution and summary transformation into undead warriors in the dreaded
strike at it, taking advantage of its greatly weakened state. Just before passing away, though, it transformed Fhenimore and Whymsee into kraken priests so they could protect its only offspring. Thankful
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
victories sent a constant influx of food, ore, and slaves back to the home cities. The wealth of the empire allowed the ruling elite plenty of time to focus on intellectual pursuits. These nobles
on aspects of the snake, but the cost of the change was high, requiring many sacrifices for each person to be transformed. Entire households of slaves in one city-state were killed and eaten to create
Orc
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three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers—often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see.
Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth where warriors
dwarfhold, the orcs will butcher any dwarf that stands against them, but it’s really all about the property—they would be just as happy if all the dwarves ran away.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
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This room has been allocated to two champions currently quartered in area 60. The lids were dropped by slaves during construction and have not been cleared away or replaced. 8. Makeshift Storeroom This
piles of stone-working tools, chunks of chiseled stone, and debris.
The slaves are using this room to store tools and the unwanted stone from their work. 9. Armory This room has a plain stone floor
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Yuan-ti Cities Most yuan-ti cities were built during the height of their empire centuries ago. Since they no longer have the vast number of expendable slaves necessary for large work projects, the
outpost of an evil empire bent on cannibalism and world domination, but it usually has a sacrificial slab tucked away in a corner for special events. Particularly in their cities, yuan-ti rely on poison
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
followers of Yurtrus and Shargaas are relegated to the deep, dark recesses of the site, away from the rest of the tribe. At the center of the camp is the tribe’s war hearth. Once a war hearth is lit
their elders by guarding the stronghold’s vulnerable spot. Off to one side of the chamber, away from where the warriors are quartered, is the fighting pit, a sunken and fenced-off area where orcs settle
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
monsters and kidnap travelers and isolated miners to work as slaves in their mines, but they’re careful to eliminate witnesses. So far no one suspects that “those reclusive monks” are behind the troubles. In
characters are selling, the Sacred Stone monks don’t want any of it. A group of strangers that knocks on the door is turned away. Insistent visitors are told, “The abbess doesn’t allow visitors to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
-ti put little value on humanoid lives, even those of their own slaves and cultists. They would poison children to carry out a threat against their parents, or turn one person into a broodguard in
well enough to know that they can get away with this casual disregard for life almost anytime. Furthermore, in the yuan-ti caste system, a greater yuan-ti’s life is worth far more than a lesser one’s
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Encounter 1–2 1 drow 3–4 1d4 myconid adults 5–6 1d6 shield dwarf scouts The drow scout is searching for escaped slaves. If he spots the party, he’ll attempt to avoid notice and take away information
if the characters are resting 3 Carrion crawler 4–5 Escaped slaves 6–7 Fungi 8–9 Giant fire beetles 10–11 Giant “rocktopus” 12 Mad creature 13 Ochre jelly 14–15 Raiders 16 Scouts 17 Society of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the homes of families, cloud giants aren’t isolated. Every family or individual knows where its nearest neighbors are, even if the location is hundreds of miles away, and those neighbors know where
the humanoids that live beneath them. Such tribute is only proper from their perspective, for two reasons. First, their presence in an area benefits everyone by driving away many evils, especially
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Chapter 1: Saltmarsh Saltmarsh is a nondescript fishing village tucked away on the southern coast of the Kingdom of Keoland. For several generations, Keoland was a formidable military power. Its
confederacy known as the Hold of the Sea Princes. With the rise of that nation came increased raids on Saltmarsh and its neighbors. The Sea Princes’ raiding ships pillaged the coast for more slaves
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
The Drow of Eberron During the ancient war between giants of Xen’drik and their elf slaves, the magebreeders of the giants bound the essence of shadows into the loyal elves. These were the first drow
away to prevent the gods from influencing it. As such, while the drow of Eberron have no knowledge of Lolth, if she found her way through the Ring of Siberys and into Eberron, she might be able to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
9. Quarters of the Kraken Priests Fhenimore and Whymsee are two kraken priests working really hard to raise a young kraken. Previously Thayan slaves, these two tough-as-nails women fled Thay after
failed to slay the kraken, it was so badly wounded in the fight that the rest of the sea life around it began to strike at it, taking advantage of its greatly weakened state. Just before passing away
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Serpent Hills, where we were taken prisoner by yuan-ti patrolling the borders of their domain. The half-elf was hauled away in slaver’s chains, but for some reason I was taken to the court of Jarant
they viewed it as a potential ally or foe. The economy of Najara, such as it is, depends on slaves to exist. Slavery is arguably the only actual trade conducted in Najara, with the ruins of Thlohtzin
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
who committed crimes of treason, adultery, or murder. As punishment, they were cursed with eternal undeath, embalmed, mummified, and sealed away. Other times, mummies acting as tomb guardians are
created from slaves put to death specifically to serve a greater purpose.
Creature of Ritual. A mummy obeys the conditions and parameters laid down by the rituals that created it, driven only to punish
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though occasionally abused) pets. Virtually any kind of
is a yellow-and-red striped whip made of leather. This mark of his authority is used by its wielder against goblins of a lower caste as well as on slaves and enemies. The knowledge of how to make
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
check succeeds, and refuses them entrance if it fails. If the check fails by 5 or more, the guard gives the order to arrest the characters, announcing that they are now slaves of the duergar (see
“Getting Captured” below). The first time the characters are allowed inside the city or turned away from a gate, a secret door on the wall opens, revealing Gorglak, a duergar Stone Guard (see appendix C
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
adventurers — or attack them if the opportunity looks ripe to capture them and sell them as slaves in Gracklstugh. If the duergar surprise all the characters, they turn invisible, making it appear that
pole a keelboat toward Sloobludop (or away from the town if it has been attacked; see the end of this chapter). If the characters have not been to Sloobludop, the kuo-toa might try to capture them
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
power. Devils understand the failings that plague intelligent mortals, and they use that knowledge to lead mortals into temptation and darkness, turning creatures into slaves to their own corruption
forfeits its soul, which is spirited away to the Nine Hells. To own a creature’s soul is to have absolute control over that creature, and most devils accept no other currency in exchange for the fiendish
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
physically, after spending a week away from an external source of moist heat. A prolonged lack of heat can shut down a firenewt community, as the creatures within go into hibernation and their eggs stop
are sacrificed to Imix and then eaten. Those that are deemed capable of mining and performing other chores around the lair are kept as slaves for a while before meeting the same fate. When firenewts
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
this hall. These minerals were preserved by the ancient dwarves for their natural beauty, but currently four troglodytes — slaves of the drow — are mining the veins with pickaxes. (If the troglodytes
Auvryndar (see area 6) carries the keys to the cells. The lock on each cell door can be picked with thieves’ tools and a successful DC 10 Dexterity check. The rusty bars can be torn away from a door
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Detritus. Trash and debris litter the floor.
Bas-Reliefs. The walls are adorned with bas-reliefs that once depicted dwarves carrying supplies. The dwarves’ faces have been chipped away and replaced with
stage against the north wall of this 20-foot-high chamber using wood stolen from elsewhere in Undermountain. Once the stage is complete, the goblins plan to auction slaves and other valuable
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
away the location of its lair. One might appear before a band of dwarves traveling through the area and demand a toll for safe passage through its territory, expecting payment in the form of gems — and
dwarves, but they do consider them ideal slaves. Even when captured and put to work against their will, dwarves are innately driven to bring their full effort to a task at hand. Even simple toil
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
washes through its synapses like acid, clearing away its former personality and leaving it a partially empty shell. This step takes 24 hours. Over the next 48 hours, the illithids rebuild the victim’s
opportunity to pillage and slay. Also, the grimlocks’ inability to see gives their brains an exotic flavor that mind flayers love. Kuo-toa Illithids once used kuo-toa as slaves extensively, since they
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, cackling undead share a few of the lich’s attributes — but where liches are immortal masters of the arcane, boneclaws are slaves to darkness, hatred, and pain.
The most important part of the
master assigned.
The boneclaw can serve only evil. If its master finds redemption or sincerely turns away from the path of evil, the boneclaw is permanently destroyed.
Cackling Slayers. Boneclaws
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Death Tyrant On rare occasions, a beholder’s sleeping mind imagines a reality in which it exists beyond death. When such dreams take hold, a beholder can transform, its flesh sloughing away to leave
pinpoint of red light gleaming in its hollow eye socket. With its eyestalks rotted away, ten spectral eyes hover above the creature and glare in all directions. “A cluster of tiny lights descended from a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
battlefield. The followers of all three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers — often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see. Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth
manufactured items that the orcs need for daily life. When the tribe is away on raids, they are expected to dig deeper into the caverns of the den to create more living space for the ever-increasing
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
stands against them, but it’s really all about the property — they would be just as happy if all the dwarves ran away. Strength Respects Strength Orcs appreciate physical prowess and formidable combat
sentinels or shock troops. Orcs are sometimes attracted to the service of frost giants or fire giants, who then “reward” their loyalty by turning them into slaves. If a tribe is defeated and driven from