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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
corpses or a more insidious means of ridding the wilderness of growing humanoid populations. Little information survives regarding this sect, but the assassin bugs' unsettling humanoid-like limbs and
continue their horrid life cycle.
An Unnatural Plague. Whole settlements along the frontier have been wiped out by plagues of assassin bugs. Without a quickly organized defense, even a single bug can
races
the drive to find what was lost propels them. Newly born shades are difficult to distinguish from ghosts, but most settlements in the Shadow Realm are familiar enough with the phenomenon to recognize
waters. This growing community is dedicated to helping shades of the Shadow Realm and to gathering resources to help its members discover who they once were.
Stygian shades are a subrace of shades. You
Triton
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
and worse, so you know you can count on them in a fight.
— Brego Stoneheart, sea captain
Tritons guard the ocean depths, building small settlements beside deep trenches, portals to the
the world above.
Aquatic Crusaders
Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Two Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility
, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle.
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An ancient deep dragon has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule
Adult Deep Dragon
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Underdark settlements are about to go to war, having been carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility.
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pride in breeding hell hound;hell hounds but can’t control them.
Deep Dragon Lairs
Deep dragons make their lairs in the recesses of the Underdark, often near the settlements of people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Greyhawk’s Premise The year is 576 CY (Common Year). Evil is ascendant across the lands of Eastern Oerik. If something isn’t done to curtail the growing threat, Eastern Oerik will fall to tyrants
Free City of Greyhawk and other settlements trek across the vast wilderness of Eastern Oerik, slaying monsters and exploring dungeons to find magic items the adventurers can use to defend their homeland and take the fight to their enemies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Aquatic Crusaders Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water, driving them
stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so remote even merfolk and sea elves rarely encounter them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
comfort: a promise of protection and guidance. But a growing proportion of Sangarians find his rule suffocating. The angel’s word is law, his doctrine rigid, and his enforcement absolute. Akharin Sangar is
over adobe settlements like massive vultures. Akharin Sangar has all but closed its gates to the rest of the world. Outsiders often surmise the city-state is full of zealots as severe as the city’s angel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
place to protect and defend the settlements of the nearby coast. If the characters depart Firewatch Island before nightfall and the drowned ones’ second attack, the undead become a greater threat. Now
victims to their growing horde — and unless they are somehow checked, Syrgaul’s forces become the scourge of both land and sea in the entire region. Even if the characters turn back the drowned ones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Meletis’s Surroundings Meletis sits on the coast of the Siren Sea, surrounded by rivers, sparse woodlands, and vast, stepped grasslands. Fields of barley provide sustenance to Meletians and their
be Meletian, but the polis’s lands also includes numerous other settlements and wildernesses. The people who live in these holdings are no less Meletians than the inhabitants of the city, and they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Deep Dragon Lairs Deep dragons make their lairs in the recesses of the Underdark, often near the settlements of people with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual
map 5.12, but instead of being formed from stone, it might consist of chambers hollowed out within a fungus network growing near an underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Trielta Hills In the rolling terrain of the Trielta Hills, scattered with small settlements of gnomes and halflings, life seems pastoral and idyllic. Halfling farmers tend to their plots, and gnome
-seekers come pouring in by the dozens. Trieltan folk tend to see these occasional influxes of gold-hungry seekers the way other settlements look upon periodic plagues of locusts: aggravating, inevitable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Island, the undead will turn their attention to the settlements of the coast — becoming an unstoppable army of undead. As darkness falls, the drowned ones that attacked the hermitage the previous night
bottom of the lake, where Netherese magic carried by the raiders wrought a terrible transformation on the drowned crew.
Mystara. Concerned by growing evidence of a Thyatian attack, Duke Stefan of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
bodies were human travelers from the town of Itzimico who were headed to Twin Gods Observatory to seek answers about the growing volcanic disturbances from the Watchers of the Ashes. Like Ameyali’s
kin, Xocopol dislikes the tendency of Humanoids to build settlements near the volcanic mountains. The awakening tlexolotls, however, have made the small folk of these lands the lesser of two evils
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
corpses or a more insidious means of ridding the wilderness of growing humanoid populations. Little information survives regarding this sect, but the assassin bugs’ unsettling humanoid-like limbs and
continue their horrid life cycle. An Unnatural Plague. Whole settlements along the frontier have been wiped out by plagues of assassin bugs. Without a quickly organized defense, even a single bug can infest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
outmaneuver you. It seldom happens. Keep growing your business, and the Acq Inc license will expand to help you find more customers and increase your brand presence. Within your licensed region, you have the
of contacts, and safeguard the king and queen’s spoiled kids so the monarchs think of you positively. You can ship goods to two cities or other settlements outside your region. GROUP DYNAMIC
An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
stated aim is to resurrect the kingdom of Eaerlann, and she has made bold steps in that direction by allying the settlements of Nordahaeril, Reitheillaethor, and Teuveamanthaar (which most know as Tall
the centaurs who make the High Forest their home, claiming the plateaus near the head of the Unicorn Run. For decades, the centaurs have been growing in number, enough so that they may soon divide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a weretiger have become close friends as they try to keep a region safe from a growing horde of malicious gnolls.
6 A young brass dragon allowed a group of cyclopes to shelter in the dragon’s
amusement.
7 Two adult brass dragons are rearing a clutch of wyrmlings together, and they allow the infant dragons to wreak innocent havoc on nearby settlements.
8 A solitary adult brass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Connected Creatures
1 A flight of pseudodragons has raised an orphaned bronze dragon wyrmling, who is quickly growing too large for the group’s usual activities.
2 A knight rescued a bronze
beloved pet and views the creature’s predations on local settlements as simply part of the natural order.
4 An adult bronze dragon swore an oath to a comrade who later became a vampire. The dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
off by the hobgoblins one year, leading to more sheep grazing, which brings the trolls out (the local trolls enjoy mutton, it seems), which brings intrepid adventurers to deal with the growing menace
Secomber, on the border between the North and the settlements of the Western Heartlands. Built over the ruins of Hastarl, capital of the ancient kingdom of Athalantar, Secomber is a quiet place where
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon family demands tribute from desert communities in exchange for protection.
2 Enraged at the loss of a wyrmling, a blue dragon is causing lightning storms to destroy coastal settlements and
blue dragon’s family was killed, and the dragon is building a whole realm as a base for exterminating those responsible.
2 A young blue dragon claims the rule of a fast-growing city to impress
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
that can be expanded to accommodate a growing family. Still, they appreciate the tactical advantages of height and usually create their lairs near a spire or cliff from which they can keep watch over
her physical form and becoming a god.
Iymrith often appears as a storm giant using her special Change Shape trait. In this guise, she infiltrates storm giant settlements and insinuates herself into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
settlements clustered around the twin bays on the southern shore. Caves in the mountain’s peak serve as a lair for Arveiaturace, the white wyrm known to sailors as Iceclaws because of her habit of
diving on hapless vessels and tearing them apart with her talons. Longships crowd the docks of Aurilssbarg, the island’s largest community. Typical of the settlements on Ice Peak, the streets of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
) takes notice of their heroism. He tells them afterward that he has received reports of giants of various kinds attacking settlements throughout the Dessarin Valley. Anauroch This once-verdant land
single wagon to cross, spans the river between these two settlements. Known as the Ironford Bridge, it has stood for centuries but is showing its age. Bargewright Inn reeks of manure and filthy mud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, Everlund, and numerous smaller settlements along the way. Raven Rock On the icy slopes of the Spine of the World stands the spirit mound of the Black Raven and Gray Wolf tribes. Raven Rock gets its
can remember. Luskanite raiders have plundered and razed the island’s settlements more than once, but the natives keep rebuilding their villages and their ships while singing songs of bloody
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
develops unusual ailments in old age and appears headed for decrepitude, other elves might wonder if these are the repercussions for not paying Labelas his due. Most settlements have only one or two
time and the eventual end of their physical forms. Even Labelas’s appearance, with his obvious signs of aging, isn’t enough to dissuade some elves from growing attached to their youthful features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
representative from another city, and a spell scroll of raise dead. Evermoor Way The Evermoor Way has long been a vital trade route, connecting the settlements of the Dessarin Valley with those of the Silver
great numbers. Settlements that stand on the edge of the Evermoors face constant threats from these and other monsters. Floating a mile above the Evermoors is Lyn Armaal, Countess Sansuri’s cloud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
aside for growing wheat. During the harvest season, the wheat fields are full of workers wielding scythes and carrying bushels of sheared wheat over their shoulders. G14. Herb Gardens The road along
goes into making Goldengulp. The rest of the harvest is shipped out to supply other settlements. G19. Hops Field Hop plants, whose flowers are used in the making of beer, are grown here. The workers who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
the area to investigate. In Damara, the usurper King Yarin Frostmantle sits on the throne of the Dragonbane dynasty, while his people complain about his tyranny and the growing threat from demons
coins: the moon and the eclipsed moon. The moon is a crescent-shaped, shining blue coin of electrum, valued at 2 unicorns in Silverymoon and nearby settlements, and 1 unicorn everywhere else. The