been being darkness curse rites

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised. Other practitioners of

stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough. Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17

Shadow Mastiff

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

sunlight, these hounds are usually met as a pack. Some faiths devoted to deities of gloom and night, such as that of Shar in the Forgotten Realms, perform unholy rites to summon shadow mastiffs to work

from Nonmagical Attacks while in Dim Light or DarknessShadow Blend. While in dim light or darkness, the shadow mastiff becomes invisible, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. The

Meazel

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

; baleful magic. The curse acts as a beacon; sorrowsworn, Undead, and other terrors sense where they are located and descend on the stranded victims to tear them apart.Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

darkness. The destination must be a place the meazel has seen before, but it need not be within line of sight. If the destination space is occupied, the teleportation leads to the nearest unoccupied

Nafik

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

"} for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the Remove Curse spell or

tomb according to tradition. There, they performed holy rites and accepted food and offerings from the outside. As time went on, Nafik grew envious of Amun Sa. “Why should the pharaoh get to

Spawn of Kyuss

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. Worms. If the spawn of Kyuss is targeted by an effect that cures disease or removes a curse, all the worms infesting it wither away, and it loses its Burrowing Worm action. Unusual Nature. The spawn of

rises 10 minutes later as a spawn of Kyuss. If a worm-infested target is targeted by an effect that cures disease or removes a curse, all the worms infesting it wither away.Kyuss was a high priest of

Darkling Elder Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Shortsword (Advantage)","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. Darkness (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The darkling elder casts darkness

. The Killing Light. The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light, and doing so wizens the creature, much like the effect of rapid aging. For this reason, darklings cover every

Meazel Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus action.Garrote. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction

feet of it, provided that the starting space and the destination are in dim light or darkness. The destination must be a place the meazel has seen before, but it need not be within line of sight. If the

Nightmare Haunt

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

unconscious creature remains asleep until it is no longer in the area with tendrils, takes any damage, or is targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic.Nightmare haunts are terrors from the

curse. Even with the Phyrexians defeated, the curse remains and spreads unchecked through Eldraine due to interference from the planeswalker Ashiok and Eriette, one of the witches who helped create the

Drow Inquisitor Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

lights, detect magic 1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, levitate (self only), suggestion Magic Resistance. The drow has advantage on saving throws against

wounds, inflict wounds 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, silence, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, dispel magic, magic circle 4th level (3 slots): banishment, divination

Kostchtchie

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

, darkness 1/day each: dispel evil and good, gate, harm, telekinesis, teleport, wind walkMultiattack. Kostchtchie makes two melee attacks, only one of which can be a bite attack. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack

. Kostchtchie moves up to his speed. Curse (Costs 2 Actions). Kostchtchie curses one creature he can see within 60 feet of him. The cursed creature gains vulnerability to all damage dealt by

Gynosphinx Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, identify, shield 2nd level (3 slots): darkness, locate object

, suggestion 3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, remove curse, tongues 4th level (3 slots): banishment, greater invisibility 5th level (1 slot): legend loreMultiattack. The sphinx makes two claw attacks

Undying Councilor

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

bright light overlaps with an area of darkness created by a spell of 3rd level or lower, the spell that created that darkness is dispelled. Magic Resistance. The councilor has advantage on saving

touches another creature. The target magically regains 18 (3d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"3d8+5","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Healing Touch"} hit points and is freed from one curse afflicting it (councilor

Hydroloth Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

, requiring no material components: At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, invisibility (self only), water walk 3/day each: control water, crown of madness, fear, phantasmal killer, suggestion

higher than 5, they become 5. Each time the target finishes a long rest, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. A greater restoration or remove curse spell cast on the

Drow Inquisitor (Summoner Variant) Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

lights, detect magic 1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, levitate (self only), suggestion Magic Resistance. The drow has advantage on saving throws against

wounds, inflict wounds 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, silence, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, dispel magic, magic circle 4th level (3 slots): banishment, divination

Scissors of Shadow Snipping

Magic Items The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

vertical surfaces), provided it remains within your sight at all times. The shadow is harmless and unable to be harmed, and it is invisible in darkness. It can’t speak, and it doesn’t require

consciousness and all its Strength after finishing a short or long rest. A creature whose shadow has detached from it is cursed. If a shadowless creature is subjected to any spell that ends a curse, or if

Belashyrra's Beholder Crown

Magic Items Eberron: Rising from the Last War

your head for the entire attunement period, during which the crown’s hidden tendrils burrow into your scalp to bond with your skull. While wearing the crown, you can see normally in darkness, both

’re attuned to it, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to it. If you’re targeted by a spell that ends a curse, your attunement to the crown ends, and it detaches from you. The

Heralds of Dust Exorcist

Monsters Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary

", "rollType":"spell", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks): At-will: detect evil and good, mage armor (self only), mage hand 2/day each: protection from evil and good, remove curse

;shadow demons, wraith;wraiths, and other incorporeal entities hiding in palls of darkness. With a brief reboant chant, an exorcist can expunge a harmful entity from a possessed creature—or make that creature vulnerable to a painful spiritual inhabitation.Necrotic

Quickling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once lazy, egotistical folk, the creatures that would become the quicklings were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many

. To hasten their pace and teach them to mind her will, the queen shrank their stature and sped up their internal clocks. The queen’s curse gave the quicklings their amazing speed but also

Hydroloth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16): At will: darkness, detect magic, dispel magic, invisibility (self only) 3/day each: control water, crown of madness, fear, suggestion Steal Memory (1/Day

, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. A greater restoration or remove curse spell cast on the target ends this effect early. Teleport. The hydroloth magically

Enhanced Sphinx

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, identify, shield 2nd level (3 slots): darkness, locate object

, suggestion 3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, remove curse, tongues 4th level (3 slots): banishment, greater invisibility 5th level (1 slot): legend lore It has a +1 bonus to Intelligence checks and

Keresta Delvingstone

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

, command, inflict wounds, ray of sickness 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, dispel magic, spirit guardians

under its command. After Vanrak destroyed the vampire and conquered its lair, he took Keresta under his wing. Consumed by darkness and loss, Keresta was drawn to Shar like a moth to a flame and rose

Cleric Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

his axe in wide swaths to cut through the ranks of orcs arrayed against him, shouting praise to the gods with every foe’s fall. Calling down a curse upon the forces of undeath, a human lifts

to those chosen to fulfill a high calling. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric

Drow Matron Mother Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

DC 20). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: dancing lights, detect magic 1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie

, resistance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy 1st level (4 slots): bane, command, cure wounds, guiding bolt 2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): bestow curse, clairvoyance

The Gardener

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

. During daylight hours, it emits bright light, but at night, it never reaches full darkness, becoming dim light instead. Memory Loss. Unless otherwise stated, a creature that leaves the domain must make a

or the Palace of Spires. On a successful save, the creature’s memories remain intact, but they’re hazy and dreamlike. A Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell restores the creature

City of the Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Undead servants, when restless spirits curse intruders, or when Gath—the Lich-Priest of the Keeper—conducts evil rites that introduce plague into Sharn.

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

save DC 20): At will: Detect Magic, Heat Metal (7th-level version) 2/day each: Darkness, Dispel Magic, Hold PersonAurnozci can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one

worshipers to enact its will beyond the Abyss. The exact nature of the curse that binds Aurnozci to Xulregg is its cult’s most closely guarded secret, fully known only to the faith’s enigmatic

Mummies

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Mummies Deathless Ancients with Ageless Ambitions Habitat: Desert, Swamp; Treasure: Relics Mysterious rites and mighty faith can tie spirits to their corpses, binding them to their remains for all

hearts. Those who escape a mummy’s grasp might find themselves subject to a terrible curse. Victims of a mummy’s curse gradually wither, their bodies rotting away until they’re reduced to dust. This

Ending This Chapter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

the words of the captain’s journal and destroy the talisman while aboard the ship. This also breaks the curse—the characters still feel something like a sigh in the air, fog rises up to engulf the wreck

while the characters are rowing away, and the ship is gone when the fog lifts the next day. If the characters undo the talisman’s curse, the next time they sleep, the cleric character has another

Yuan-ti

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

supernatural rites. Roll on or choose a result from the Yuan-ti Transformations table to inspire how yuan-ti obtain their serpentine aspects. Yuan-ti Transformations 1d6 A Yuan-ti Gained Its Snake

Features From... 1 Bargaining parts of its soul to a pantheon of serpentine demigods. 2 A curse laid on its people in the distant past. 3 The dream-venom of Merrshaulk, a slumbering snake god. 4

Meazel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

them with magical powers that allow them to move through shadows with ease. They can step from one pool of darkness into another one, using this talent to ambush prey. Sometimes they snatch victims

. Any creatures meazels draw through the shadows are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic. The curse acts as a beacon; sorrowsworn (which appear in this book), Undead, and other terrors sense where they

The Ruin of Bakar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

if their bodies were prepared with specific funerary rites and then entombed with their wealth, they could ascend to their chosen afterlife. Amun Sa, the last pharaoh of Bakar, took this tradition

into destitution. A Curse on the Land Downtrodden and impoverished, the citizens of Bakar revolted against Amun Sa to take back their kingdom. During a riot at the capital, Amun Sa appeared before his

8. Coffin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4

8. Coffin The door opens into an area of utter blackness. The room beyond the door is the lair of a vampire named Ctenmiir. He is compelled by a curse to remain here in a trance except when roused

to defend his treasure, which lies in a niche in the floor under his coffin. The vampire automatically awakes at the approach of intruders. The room is affected by a darkness spell, which the vampire

Current Events

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

. Every now and then reckless or unlucky adventurers manage to stir up some ancient curse in the ruins scattered around the area. Constables of valley settlements are usually up to the task of restoring

, eager to build a place where they could openly practice their vile rites. Others were brutal thugs, power-hungry dabblers in forbidden magic, or fanatics lured by the call of evil. At first the

Warlock Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Expeditious Retreat Hellish Rebuke Illusory Script Protection from Evil and Good Unseen Servant 2nd Level Darkness Enthrall Hold Person Invisibility Mirror Image Misty Step Ray of

Enfeeblement Shatter Spider Climb Suggestion 3rd Level Counterspell Dispel Magic Fear Fly Gaseous Form Hypnotic Pattern Magic Circle Major Image Remove Curse Tongues

Warlock Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

2nd Level Cloud of Daggers Crown of Madness Darkness Enthrall Hold Person Invisibility Mirror Image Misty Step Ray of Enfeeblement Shatter Spider Climb Suggestion 3rd

Level Counterspell Dispel Magic Fear Fly Gaseous Form Hunger of Hadar Hypnotic Pattern Magic Circle Major Image Remove Curse Tongues Vampiric Touch 4th Level

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