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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
: In recent years, the Zhentarim have become more visible in the world at large, as the group works to improve its reputation among the common people. The faction draws employees and associates
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
little interest in what people say about it.
Ongoing Mutations
Because the verdan have not dwelled long in the world, they are still discovering new things about themselves. Chief among these
bred by empathy that helps them eventually sort out those who are sincere from those who are not.
Verdan Names
The oldest verdan names spring from goblinoid traditions, but more recent names reflect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
organization, known as the Devourer of Dreams, communes with the nightmare spirit of Dal Quor itself. The Dark’s chief agent in Eberron is a kalaraq quori (see chapter 6) named Tirashana, who has planted mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the face of increased Daask attacks against the clan, and some of Ilyra’s influence has eroded as a result. Halak Boromar is the family’s chief enforcer. A recent immigrant from the Talenta Plains
gnome, is the lone non-halfling in the Boromars’ inner circle. He serves as Saidan’s chief advisor and the organization’s intelligence expert. The family looks to Castar to come up with a plan to defeat Daask, but so far none of his ideas have worked.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Look Out Above Chief among the creatures drawn to the scent of death on the island is a monstrous peryton (see appendix C) known as Rasp. This creature has long hunted across the region, searching
peryton makes frequent passes over the island nowadays, hoping to spot survivors of the recent attack that it can devour. If the characters arrive by day, Rasp welcomes them with its claws and beak. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Barghest
Devourer
Draegloth
Maw demon
Shoosuva
Tanarukk
Vargouille
Giants Cloud giant smiling one
Fire giant dreadnought
Frost giant everlasting one
Mouth of Grolantor
Stone giant
Trapper
Yuan-ti anathema
Yuan-ti mind whisperer
Yuan-ti nightmare speaker
Yuan-ti pit master
Oozes Slithering tracker
Plants Thorny
Vegepygmy
Vegepygmy chief
Wood woad
Undead Alhoon
Bodak
Gnoll witherling
Mind flayer lich (Illithilich) (variant)
Spawn of Kyuss
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hobgoblin Iron Shadow
Meenlock
Orc Claw of Luthic
Orc Hand of Yurtrus
Quetzalcoatlus
Shadow mastiff
Vegepygmy chief
Yuan-ti broodguard
Challenge 3 (700 XP) Archer
Cave fisher
Choldrith
)
Warlord
Yuan-ti anathema
Challenge 13 (10,000 XP) Devourer
Neothelid
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP) Elder brain
Fire giant dreadnought
Challenge 16 (15,000 XP) Storm giant quintessent
Challenge 22 (41,000 XP) Mind flayer lich (Illithilich)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Mantol-Derith Population: Approximately 140 (drow, duergar, humans, and svirfneblin)
Government: Informal council comprised of four chief negotiators (one per enclave), recently dissolved
Defense
. Even the chief negotiators of each enclave return to their centers of power periodically, leaving representatives to conduct business. Everyone in Mantol-Derith is there to trade, negotiate, and, of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
jewelry artist — gives that character a sapphire bracelet or pendant worth 2,500 gp as a show of her gratitude. Ahpok, the old grimlock, has an intellect devourer in her skull. She is used by the mind
flayers to lure other grimlocks to the colony to have their brains devoured. Ahpok has been unable to leave the colony in recent weeks because of the githyanki, so the illithids have stationed her here
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
portion of the town. While not an official ruler, the reserved and kind Chief Excavator Ern Barhen (Small, Lawful Good Mage) leads efforts to uncover the fort’s buried chambers. Beloved by scholars as
investigate recent changes in the behavior of nearby incarnations. The sages believe that something, or someone, is deliberately disrupting these creatures. (For more about incarnations of nature, see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Part 1: Preflight Meal The adventure begins with the characters gathering in the academy’s refectory to eat breakfast with other cadets and discuss recent events at the academy. Spelljammer Academy
founder and chief financial officer. He manages the institution’s operations alongside a small group of powerful high-ranking officers, known collectively as “the Bridge.” While most of its candidates are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
him as honest, optimistic, and extraordinarily lucky. Until recently, he was a member of Force Grey and reported directly to the Blackstaff. In recent months, Meloon has spent much of his time at the
champion of Tymora into a puppet. After finishing off his unsuspecting companions, Meloon returned to Waterdeep as a Xanathar Guild spy. The intellect devourer that inhabits Meloon’s skull was bred by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
communication and cooperation between members of different cultures or species. Such Khoravar often become mediators, diplomats, translators, or bards. Others are fascinated by their distant connection to
shipping industry, and the recent development of the airship has increased its power and potential. House Lyrandar presents itself as a pillar for the Khoravar, and even if you don’t have a dragonmark you could work for the house, whether as a sailor or a house agent.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Yarana Born nearly one thousand years ago in Atagua, Yarana (neutral good, human scout) was the most talented of the elite Cababa warriors of ancient times. Days before becoming her people’s chief
and Nene and restored them to be protectors of the spirit’s mountain. Over ages, Yarana has protected Chimagua and learned the ways of the Feywild. But everything changed in recent days when beings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and innkeepers, rangers, and the clergy of gods that are
Alliance, plus other leaders and groups who uphold the Alliance’s ideals. The Zhentarim. In recent years, the Zhentarim have become more visible in the world at large, as the group works to improve its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
tomb’s architect, Moghadam, who oversees the site with an iron hand. The second location is the Temple of Moloch in the same era. The temple is run by Moghadam’s chief rival, Thessalar — the inventor of
of these elements of D&D canon with artifacts and NPCs more relevant to more recent official storylines, or for better resonance with your own home campaign.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
disputes of the gods, but like any other god, he has both rivals and allies. Chief among the former is the sun god Heliod, whom Kruphix sees as an arrogant, dangerous threat to the balance of power
world when he bound all the other gods within the fabric of Nyx. Erebos and Kruphix blame one another for Klothys’s recent emergence from the Underworld, a situation neither seems able to control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Ordning Giant society (such as it is) is defined in large part by the ordning, a caste system imposed upon the giants by their gods, chief among them Annam the All-Father. The ordning determines
. The recent efforts by dragons to bring Tiamat into the world (as told in the adventure Tyranny of Dragons) and the attempts by small folk to thwart them so upset the giant gods that Annam the All-Father
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hope, glory, and trade. But now, for the first time in memory, my fellow Adbarran seem truly frightened at the prospect of opening the citadel to any outsiders. Perhaps they are reacting to the recent
, and there are fewer traders coming out of the city nowadays. The recent orc wars have cost the kingdom dearly, both in warriors and in leadership. In a short time, our long-ruling king, Harbromm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
building where the Speakers of Helm’s Hold meet. The Speakers are the duly elected representatives of the hold, numbering eight in all, plus the Chief Speaker. The current Chief Speaker is Amarandine
. Helm’s Hold is vulnerable on many fronts, in large part because of its proximity to Neverwinter Wood — which, if anything, has become more dangerous in recent times. Rumors of maddened treants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
2. Feasting Hall Chief Guh is found here, along with five male hill giants, four ogres, and six goblins. Oil lamps in iron sconces are mounted to thick wooden pillars that support rafters 30 feet
area 12). Chief Guh lies at the west end of the hall, slumped atop a four-wheeled, flatbed wagon that bends and creaks under her great bulk. The wagon’s axles are cracked and bowed, its wheels canted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
defensive tactics to make steady but slow advances. Bel remains one of her chief lieutenants, and he doesn’t discourage her reckless tactics in the hope that she will overextend her forces and suffer
other features, but recent activity in the Blood War has reduced it to a blasted wasteland. The few structures still standing are citadels constructed by the devils to repel attackers, to be rebuilt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
—also known as “the Old Wolf”—is Spelljammer Academy’s founder and chief financial officer. He manages the institution’s operations alongside a small group of powerful high-ranking officers, known
list also features a note regarding security, which the characters see posted throughout the academy: Handout 2.2 WARNING!
Due to recent thefts, security checkpoints are in operation throughout
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
. Chief among those causes is the defeat of the servants of the archdevil Bel. An eccentric dilettante, Lynx has had her thick horns intricately carved and inlaid with sigils and figures in silver
she talks with the characters, Lynx relates that several of the missing components are mentioned in various legends surrounding the Tomb of Horrors, but recent expeditions sent to the tomb have all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
in a direction they want to go anyway. For several decades, that position has been held by the mighty cyclops Borborygmos, chief of the Burning Tree clan. His nihilistic anger inspires the rest of the
smaller clans in recent years, but the leader of the Scabs, a corpulent giant known as Narbulg Nine Fingers, has not gone so far as to challenge the Burning Tree clan. Slizt Clan. The Slizt clan is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Forgotten Realms include the following: Baazka is the pit fiend behind the most recent incursion of infernal forces from Dragonspear Castle. Its plans for the Sword Coast were thwarted along with those of
following: Dendar the Night Serpent, Eater of the World, is said to be the spawn of the first nightmare, devourer of foul visions, and harbinger of the end of the world. Her warlocks frequently dream
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
believe that their appearance derives from the primal fear inspired by fiendish creatures, while bards assert that panic, being such a repulsive emotion, is embodied by an equally ugly creature
creatures in the court of a cruel noble or foul necromancer. Should a minor bandit chief or low-ranking acolyte of evil gain the service of these creatures, take care. When the devilkin take notice of such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Sea of Moving Ice, which has grown more tempestuous and difficult to navigate in recent months. Helka Jaggerath (half-elf commoner), a whale oil merchant in Bryn Shander, hires the characters to serve
goblin messenger from Karkolohk was recently captured in Bryn Shander and found to be carrying a declaration of peace from Chief Yarb-Gnock, addressed to Speaker Duvessa Shane. Yarb-Gnock would like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Although some of the dancing is wanton and performed for show, large-scale ring dances in the street for all ages are also popular. All the dancing ends at dusk, after which bards and minstrels perform at
you? Flamerule 7: Lliira’s Night Originally a celebration held only in Waterdeep, this holiday has since spread up and down the Sword Coast. It has received a recent boost in popularity from the custom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
in natural stone amphitheaters or bowl-shaped forest clearings. In keeping with Corellon’s chief commandment for everyone to be free, all who attend are allowed to show their obeisance however they
of the god’s love and of the primal elves’ original fluid state of being. Many of Corellon’s chief priests bear this blessing.
The rarest of these blessed elves can change their sex whenever they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pass by 6 A bugbear with an intellect devourer in its skull that tries to lure characters to area 21f 7 Preeta Kreepa (see area 21m) 8–10 Three hobgoblins and a hobgoblin captain keeping the peace and
happens, the Legion of Azrok’s military has been winnowed down by recent altercations with the drow. The current defenders of Azrok’s Hold include eight bugbears, thirty-two goblins, twenty hobgoblins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
on the steps of the alcove are two dwarves: Xanathar’s majordomo, Ahmaergo (see appendix B), who presides over fight tournaments, and Xanathar’s chief enforcer, Noska Ur’gray (see appendix B), who
Freth. The mind flayer is getting ready to implant an intellect devourer in Zaibon’s skull, then use him to undermine the drow plot and foment war between the drow houses. (Were Zaibon less useful, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
remnant of a bygone realm. Although the region attracts many prospectors, no kingdom or civilization in recent history has been able to tame it. Hill giants, ettins, ogres, orcs, and trolls dwell here in
Drow of House Xorlarrin infiltrate Gauntlgrym through secret passageways of which not even the dwarves are aware. Bearing an iron flask given to them by the great fire giant chief Duke Zalto, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
appropriate ministry. Inside, stewards warn visitors against touching the hall’s many polished surfaces, lest they anger Chief Bordon Mok, a no-nonsense, lawful good bariaur wanderer (see Morte’s Planar
project, especially recent ones, fetch a high price with opposing factions. Unsurprisingly, the underground compound is heavily defended. Within the campus lies a thrumming portal to Ysgard, a plane where
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
, scribed in bright green dye, decorate this large and irregularly shaped crumbling chamber. A large pit in the center shows evidence of a recent fire. A metallic cage in the middle of the southern wall
, including safe passage for the characters to their chief. The creatures have no power to guarantee their promises, however. In addition, if the goblins are released, any understanding the characters