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Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires hard study
of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
thin cloak of mist forms around her. Blades of ice grow out of her body at odd angles, breaking off before they get too long. When she moves, her body crackles.
In this form, Auril creates weapons of
solstice, with divine power far beyond what is reflected in the stat blocks presented here.
After finishing a long rest, Auril regains any of her forms that were destroyed, provided at least one
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
breaking at least five Ruling Scepters of Shanatar simultaneously on it. This fact has never been recorded or sung of among the dwarves or any bards or storytellers, and it can’t be discovered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Learning from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Learning from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
Court of Whispers The denizens of the Court of Whispers barter for current knowledge. Heralds, criers, bards, and griots buy and sell information from the fifteen founding civilizations active in the
Citadel, as well as other lands. Skilled scouts and spies can also be hired for short-term reconnaissance or long-term infiltration. The Court is a mixed outdoor-indoor space with quiet alcoves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Court of Whispers The denizens of the Court of Whispers barter for current knowledge. Heralds, criers, bards, and griots buy and sell information from the fifteen founding civilizations active in the
Citadel, as well as other lands. Skilled scouts and spies can also be hired for short-term reconnaissance or long-term infiltration. The Court is a mixed outdoor-indoor space with quiet alcoves and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
give them a broad range of knowledge to support their schemes. Bards, rogues, and wizards are often drawn to this role. Safecracker. The “breaking” part of “breaking and entering” is the Safecracker’s
characters in your party: Bruiser. Sometimes subtlety means breaking just one of a snitch’s kneecaps. The Bruiser uses force and the threat of force to make sure that the crime syndicate gets what it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Away from the settled areas ruled by the seelie fey that compose the Summer Court, the land is a tangle of sharp-toothed brambles and syrupy fens — perfect territory for the unseelie fey to hunt
on the Material Plane might be echoed as a clear and winding brook of great beauty. A marsh could be reflected as a vast black bog of sinister character. And moving to the Feywild from old ruins on
Kenku
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the area patrolled by the guard did she explain that the noises indicated that the wingless folk had claimed that area, and that to trespass would be to court death.
— Gimble, Notes from a
clang of a mace against armor or the sound made by a breaking bone. Non-kenku refer to the kenku by describing this noise. Examples of this type of name include Smasher, Clanger, Slicer, and Basher
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Reaches, where an upstart warlord led a barbarian army from the Demon Wastes on a mission of plunder.
For all your news needs, be they ageless riddles or breaking modern developments, keep reading the
to be brought out of Xen’drik,” she might say. She never explains her proclamations, and never provides information on mundane affairs. Faerie Court. Somewhere deep in the western forest of the Eldeen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Aundair in the arcane arts, but the flexibility of its forces reflected the nation’s ideals. Although the Sovereign Host was the dominant faith of Cyre, the Silver Flame had a significant following
. Queen Dannel ir’Wynarn was in Metrol on the Day of Mourning and is presumed dead. Her son, Prince Oargev ir’Wynarn, holds court in New Cyre, a massive refugee camp set up in Breland. Some refugees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
a Domain of Delight).
Inspiration. You gain inspiration each day at dawn for 2d4 days.
Invitation. You receive an invitation to the Summer Court or the Gloaming Court (though this invitation does
(requiring you to choose a new one for yourself) Breaking a Contract The Feywild can punish a creature for breaking a fey contract, but the creature must be on the plane to be affected. The penalty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
filled with Janyans enraptured by the low-toned, hypnotic music of a group of bards. Xoese-Addae leads the characters to a private audience suite overlooking the quad, occupied by a single Janyan wearing
fine, billowing robes—this is Zisatta. Zisatta Zisatta The aloof Zisatta is a member of the High Court and commands Janya’s security forces, called the Billowing Patrol for their sable robes that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Material Echoes The Material Plane is a richly magical place, and its magical nature is reflected in the two planes that share its central place in the multiverse. The Feywild and the Shadowfell are
sets or rises; it remains stationary, dusky and low in the sky. Away from the settled areas ruled by the Seelie Court, the land is a tangle of sharp-toothed brambles and syrupy fens—perfect territory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
completely reasonable and plausible explanation. Singing songs and strumming lutes might be fine for most bards. Who doesn’t like a rousing shanty now and then? But standing in a crowded tavern playing for
copper pieces tossed by commoners isn’t for everyone — and it certainly isn’t for bards in the Acq Inc world. The power and magic tied up in the voice of a franchise bard is meant for greater things
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
check to which the character’s prior training and experience (reflected in the character’s background) reasonably applies. The DM is the ultimate judge of whether the character’s background applies. For
as my family’s ambassador to the court, and this sort of thing is second nature to me now.” This simple system relies heavily on players developing their characters’ histories. Don’t let it result in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
the archfey? Does the archfey have any allegiance to the Summer Court or the Gloaming Court? What traits does the archfey have? Specifically, what do they look like, what is their personality, and
? Does the archfey visit other domains? Are they involved in the politics of the Fey courts? Fey Court Allegiances The Summer Queen and the Queen of Air of Darkness are so powerful that other archfey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
increases to Honor—or impose reductions—based on a character’s actions. At the end of an adventure, if you think a character’s actions in the adventure reflected well or poorly on his or her
is level-headed even in the face of bizarre circumstances, while a character with low Sanity is unsteady, breaking easily when confronted by eldritch horrors that are beyond normal reason. Sanity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Shavarath since the dawn of time, asserting that their struggles are reflected in the balance of good and evil across all reality. Syrania: The Azure Sky. Crystal spires float in a perfect blue sky. Farms
travelers from across reality. Thelanis: The Faerie Court. Similar to the Feywild of the core cosmology, Thelanis is the plane of stories and the home of the fey. It is one of the easiest planes to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Arcturia’s Court Characters who listen at the doors to this room hear harp music beyond. The room has a vaulted ceiling 20 feet high and contains the following: Arcturia. Arcturia — a gaunt
butterfly swarm is an instrument of the bards (Anstruth harp). The yellow sapphires carried by the animal-headed guards fit into the pillars in area 8. Each gemstone is worth 1,000 gp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
members. Fights are breaking out in the ward daily. Stop a fight before it happens. We need to send a message to these thugs that further altercations won’t be tolerated.” The characters must visit the
report that spined devils are terrorizing citizens in Twelvedog Court, in the Field Ward. Come, let us slay them together and find their evil summoner!” The characters must help Savra defeat five spined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
demiplane’s magic brought the entire ship back instead. Wynemar holds court here, attended by her first mate, a death knight named Lord Gallien, along with other lieutenants and lesser Undead. Withered
Vineyard Withered Vineyard is a place of plague and illness. Rows of crops stand blight-gorged and decayed. The few fruits that spawn from the shriveled plants are gray and wrinkled, breaking open to reveal
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->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, they plead with the characters to represent them in court. 5 When the coast is clear, a shady-looking Doomguard rot blade (see Morte’s Planar Parade) opens their long overcoat in front of the characters
, supposedly impartial magistrate appointed by the Guvners. Punishments are tailored to fit the crime, and advocates are strongly encouraged. Lawyers and orators, these civil servants include bards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Breaking the Enchantment. Juliana and Orlando are under the enchantment of the Fountain All Heal and regard the palace as their new home. Until they’re freed from the domain’s allure—such as by a Wish
together and eventually here. Like the other garden residents, Argus and Hamish believe Juliana and Orlando are the reincarnated creators of the garden—and they see their own love reflected in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
these new statues, breaking the Swordmaiden and the Hawk Man, and sinking the God Catcher into the street up to its waist. Then all the statues mysteriously stopped their rampage just as quickly as they
from Caravan Court to the Trollwall in the Southern Ward is haunted by the hooded ghost of the mage Ruid, whose touch causes deathly chills to those he meets on foggy nights. All attempts to banish or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
next winter solstice, with divine power far beyond what is reflected in the stat blocks presented here. After finishing a long rest, Auril regains any of her forms that were destroyed, provided at
. Blades of ice grow out of her body at odd angles, breaking off before they get too long. When she moves, her body crackles. In this form, Auril creates weapons of ice with which to combat foes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
and the new arrivals, but Mirran orders the guards to stand down so that she and Nym can learn “what brings these puny creatures to court.” If the characters make demands, Mirran is enraged by their
dragon has infiltrated and compromised the storm giants’ court, grant advantage on the check. Hellenhild. The frost giant jarl respects battle prowess. If the character making the check wounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
loincloth.
A chaotic neutral ogre named Yug occupies this cell. For the past three days, Yug has been confined here for breaking a duergar’s arm in anger over the theft of Gruk-Gruk, a crude rag doll
here when he isn’t conducting business in area B25 or entertaining visitors in area B26. Treasure. The lyre is an instrument of the bards (Cli lyre) decorated with carvings of phoenixes. Jarazoun
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
into their profits. Treasure. Each roper has consumed four amethysts, each worth 30 gp. The xorn in area G14 is desperate to recover these amethysts. G11: Talhundereth Passage Breaking into this room
, but Qunbraxel was more interested in establishing a court of grimlocks and turning Gibbet Crossing into a lair. Once the Sawplee goblins succeeded at finding the obelisk shards in Phandalin, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
could see the objects of their heart’s desire reflected in it. Any creature that stares into the mirror for 1 minute sees its own reflection fade away, to be replaced by an image of the thing it wants
table. A stalker attacks whoever is responsible for breaking its jar, ignoring all other targets. The stalker returns to the Elemental Plane of Air when it or its target dies.
These “jars of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
an avalanche as it attacks. Overlords and Minions. Blue dragons covet valuable and talented creatures whose service reinforces their sense of superiority. Bards, sages, artists, wizards, and assassins
dragon’s favored treasures are the sentient creatures it bends to its will, including significant figures such as popular heroes, well-known sages, and renowned bards. Among material treasures, a green