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Vecna the Archlich;Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming
your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control.
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, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart.
Spellcasting. The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability
unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.
A creature that takes treasure from the lair is cursed until the treasure is returned. The cursed target has disadvantage on
Monsters
Tyranny of Dragons
points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of Diderius’s heart.
Spellcasting. Diderius is a 10th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell
lair is cursed until the treasure is returned. The cursed target has disadvantage on all saving throws. The curse lasts until removed by a remove curse spell or other magic.
If the mummy lord is
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
, regaining all her hit points and becoming active again.
Spellcasting. Valin Sarnaster is a 10th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 17, +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9
already has a chance to fail or become unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.
A creature that takes treasure from the lair is cursed until the treasure is returned. The
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart.
Spellcasting. The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability
returned. The cursed target has disadvantage on all saving throws. The curse lasts until removed by a remove curse spell or other magic.
If the mummy lord is destroyed, these regional effects end immediately.Necrotic, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksFire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Realms of the Returned Death and life are two sides of the same coin. Opposite, but eternally connected. One cannot exist without the other.
—Slighos the Body-binder
Before becoming a god, Phenax
, individuals. These Returned find the world of the living far different from how they experienced it in life—not that they remember their lives. Although they’ve escaped from the Underworld, the Returned still
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. The tadpole grows as it devours the humanoid’s brain, attaching to the victim’s brain stem and becoming its new brain. Over the course of a week, the humanoid body changes form, and a new mind
vulnerable to attack from their enemies. They use the brains of such creatures as food, of course, but they also need sentient humanoids to propagate. Food for Thought When a mind flayer devours a brain, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
volcanoes. Within, they amass and fiercely protect hoards of treasure, and many have perfect recall of the hoards' contents and the locations of all they’ve collected. Should anything go missing, red dragons
fly into rages. They don’t rest until their treasures are returned and the thieves have burned. Red dragons believe themselves to be the greatest of all dragons and, by extension, the greatest of all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
’ lost identities continue to exist, though, becoming eidolons, which scatter throughout the mortal realm, having no connection to their Returned bodies. (See chapter 6 for more information about eidolons
and the Returned.) Escaping Characters. Traveling the Path of Phenax can present an exciting but challenging option for most parties, as it results in affected characters becoming a monster of some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
shore. In his waning years, Khazan visited the Amber Temple (chapter 13) and discovered the secret to becoming a lich. He returned to his tower and was able to complete the transformation. Some years
his protégé, Ezmerelda d’Avenir, who has taken to living in the tower while she searches for her mentor. She isn’t present when the characters arrive, however. Van Richten has returned, the old fool
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
is written an inventory of the crates’ contents: foodstuffs such as dried meat, blocks of cheese, and loaves of bread, as well as casks of ale and flasks of oil. The two heavy crates are loaded onto a
two-wheeled cart pulled by an ox. “The ox’s name is Vincent,” says Barthen. “I’ll expect to see him and the cart returned, thanks.”
The ox (use the cow stat block) is a reliable beast. Each full
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Miska Kas returned the Rod of Seven Parts to the citadel and thrust it into the sealed mystical portal that keeps Miska in his prison demiplane, creating an opening. However, the opening isn’t wide
forces in person, and enforcing discipline is challenging; spyder-fiends, like many demons, find order and organization difficult to tolerate. Additionally, Kas is becoming increasingly frustrated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Many Things among the wagon’s contents. She travels the roads trying to sell her father’s goods, ignorant of the dangers the deck attracts. Jared, a knight of the Solar Bastion (see chapter 10), enlists
Champion of Desolation might be someone she knew from her youth, and if she’s right, she’s certain that person can be returned to the path of good. Asteria asks the adventurers to infiltrate the Gardens
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
returned the fragment to the Drought Elder, which is using it as a way to draw power from the nightmares of Atagua’s people. Only by recovering the missing piece of the Sleeping Stone might Chimagua be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Lost Spire Locations (P1-P8) The following locations are keyed to map 2.10. P1. Upside-Down Entrance The slippery tunnel opens into an upside-down room, the contents of which are coated in frost
area P9, but the passage is so choked with rubble and ice that it can’t be used. P3. Upside-Down Library Tall bookshelves affixed to the outer wall have spilled their contents onto the ceiling-turned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
returned. Valin Sarnaster is known to all who serve Savras, and her works have long been an inspiration. She has lived alone for decades now, so that the influence of the outside world will have no effect
on her divinatory abilities. If The Canopic Being is discussed, Shir doesn’t recognize the name of the book. If its contents are described, she is horrified, but she says that the dark rituals the book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
hostile cubes spill their contents on the ground: 12 gp and a +1 shortsword of drow manufacture (see the “Drowcraft Items” sidebar in appendix B). Development After the gelatinous cube encounter
, svirfneblin inform the characters that incursions by oozes are becoming more frequent. In every case, it seems as though the oozes are trying to make their way toward the abandoned northwest section of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
39. Dracolich’s Phylactery The Far Realm has warped the fabric of this chamber and its current occupant. The contents of this 20-foot-high room are as follows: Undulations. The walls and pillars
inside it. Without significantly changing its mass, the statue shifts form every few seconds, becoming various members of the Shadowdusk family and, every so often, depicting Halaster Blackcloak or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
doesn’t remember the message’s contents, it retains the ability to interpret the cipher—though, possibly in piecemeal or half-accurate terms. Deciphering the mask is an elaborate process, and keeping
Underworld once more. By discovering this secret, any Returned could become a god.
6 Phenax is dying, his immortality flawed. Over the ages, he has manipulated destiny and his own bloodline to bring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
settlement they visited. This might occur minutes, days, or even years after the characters’ defeat. They’re then free to reattempt challenges, though the threats have likely recovered. Returned but
insights about a character’s past. At your discretion, a character might change their incarnations, effectively becoming a new character. Work to tie such changes into meaningful character developments
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
before the atropal devours it. You can determine the status of a trapped soul at dawn on any given day by secretly rolling a d20. On a roll of 2 or higher, the soul remains trapped in the Soulmonger, at
least until the next dawn. A roll of 1 indicates that the soul was devoured by the atropal. A creature whose soul is devoured in this horrific manner can’t be returned to life by any means, including
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
antlers hang from the far wall. Five derro cluster around an open chest in the center of the room, examining its contents. Two slack-jawed zombies stand nearby, watching for intruders.
Three derro
hunters from Therno Lake—into zombies. A character who examines the room’s contents and succeeds on a DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) check recognizes the vials of blood and pouches of bone as components
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
discovered the secret to becoming a lich. After his transformation, the lich Exethanter took over the temple and turned the skulls of it previous defenders into flameskulls under his command. Exethanter
with them. When Strahd later murdered his brother Sergei, that pact was sealed with blood. Strahd transformed into a vampire, and the Dark Powers turned his land into a prison. Strahd has returned to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Bastion headquarters. The only requirement for becoming a knight is swearing an oath to the knights’ leader, promising to uphold the organization’s goals. Occasionally, knights of the Solar Bastion
discourages this practice, preferring to see such folk returned to stable circumstances. Squires who prove their worth can count on being accepted as knights. In addition to the knights who actively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming a lich. A treacherous lieutenant named Kas brought Vecna’s rule to an end in a terrible battle. Of Vecna, all that remained were one hand and one eye
spell from the eye, there is a 5 percent chance that Vecna tears your soul from your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
swollen shut and requires a successful DC 10 Strength check to open. The chamber on the other side of the door resembles area 30, but it is empty. The orcs broke in and carried off most of its contents
formation—and then, suddenly, a fang-filled maw gapes open in the stalagmite and devours the fish in one bite.
The roper attacks when any character gets at least 20 feet into the cave, gaining surprise if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
franchise,” and the tabaxi makes that case for her franchise every day. She believes that the contents of a hoard — as delivered to and from Head Office by way of the hoardsperson’s living loot satchel
, becoming a rare magic item. You can open the secret chest through your living loot satchel to deposit or withdraw items — even items that wouldn’t normally fit in your satchel, but which fit within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the “curse.”
4 Ettercaps captured a moonstone dragon wyrmling, who has so far avoided becoming dinner by teaching the ettercaps to create wild, impossible sculptures with their webs.
5 A
gynosphinx partner.
3 An ancient moonstone dragon is summoned to mediate a centuries-old conflict between fey courts.
4 An ancient moonstone dragon’s sibling, imprisoned for centuries in the Shadowfell, has finally returned home as a shadow dragon.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
each of these areas, two cogwork archivists (see chapter 7) busily shelve returned or misfiled books. Characters who browse these shelves unaided stumble on what they need with a successful DC 15 Wisdom
(Perception) check. At the center of this area stands a statue depicting a mighty, benevolent dragon. The magical statue reads aloud the contents of most books placed in front of it if a character makes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, spinning faster and becoming shorter until they shrink into the gnomon and the sundial shows no shadow at all. The correct path in this case is the sundial itself. A character who jumps or climbs onto the
wrong turn. However, they have no way to tell whether they have returned to the same specific sundial, as noted above. SPLITTING THE PARTY
Some parties are going to try splitting up in the hope of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, spinning faster and becoming shorter until they shrink into the gnomon and the sundial shows no shadow at all. The correct path in this case is the sundial itself. A character who jumps or climbs onto
wrong turn. However, they have no way to tell whether they have returned to the same specific sundial, as noted above. Splitting the Party
Some parties are going to try splitting up in the hope of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Eventually, a mind flayer thus separated from the hive turns to the path of lichdom. Just as the elder brain offers immortality to its faithful illithids, so does becoming a lich ensure life everlasting
eternal fate is governed by the gods. Instead, when a mind flayer’s brain is returned to the elder brain to be consumed, the creature’s intelligence lives on. Only if an illithid’s brain isn’t retrieved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. 8 I am working on a grand philosophical theory and love sharing my ideas. d6 Ideal 1 Greater Good. My gifts are meant to be shared with all, not used
returned to the world, I enjoy its delights a little too much. 2 I harbor bloodthirsty thoughts that my isolation and meditation failed to quell. 3 I am dogmatic in my thoughts and philosophy. 4 I let my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bargaining session of your lives.” The goblin walks haughtily toward the stairs. “I am Splugoth the Returned. Surely you know who I am?”
Splugoth can’t conceal being pleased if the characters know that he
perspective. The goblin approaches the characters and takes a seat at a table where he can see them. Use the following possible dialogue to guide the conversation:
SPLUGOTH THE RETURNED
“I was a young
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
room’s true contents are revealed: The ballroom lies in ruins, rimed with ice, its furniture jumbled and shattered. Above the floor where nobles danced, three glass cylinders with iron fittings slowly
becoming a brain in a jar (see appendix C). The three wizards have been driven mad by their undead existence. Dispelling the illusion drives them into a furious rage. Visitors who ruin the ball in any