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than a blurry streak of color. Only when it stops running do its small, slender form and cold, cruel eyes become apparent.
Quicklings owe their existence—and their plight—to the Queen of
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
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adventurers to investigate.
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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
it to the surface world. Lost and confused, the wyrmling has been captured by a group of cruel adventurers.
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A deep dragon wyrmling whimsically rules over a worshipful group of kobolds, sending
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
does the tyrant benefit, but so do those under the tyrant’s rule. When a ruler succumbs to decadence, corruption, or decrepitude, a stronger and more suitable ruler will rise. Bane is vilified in
down corrupt rulers, or saving armies on the brink of defeat. But in just as many other places, the worship of Bane has created or supported cruel dictatorships, aided mercantile monopolies, or brought about the practice of slavery where before it didn’t exist.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
than a blurry wavering in the air. A quickling is a small, slender fey, similar to a miniature elf with sharp, feral features. Its cold, cruel eyes gleam like jewels. Live Fast, Die Young. Quicklings
owe their existence — and their plight — to the Queen of Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once a race of lazy and egotistical fey, the creatures that would become the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Quickling Racing faster than the eye can track, a quickling appears as little more than a blurry streak of color. Only when it stops running do its small, slender form and cold, cruel eyes become
apparent. Quicklings owe their existence—and their plight—to the Queen of Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once lazy, egotistical folk, the creatures that would become the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Purphoros’s Champions Purphoros’s relationship to his champions is more that of a patron than a ruler. He chooses champions whose passions advance his interests in the world, and he grants them his
has fallen into the hands of minotaurs.
4 Resist the corrupt authority of a powerful priest of Heliod or a cruel village elder.
5 Triumph in a contest of strength or crafting to bring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
throne. While in exile from her seat of power, Zariel was at the mercy of Tiamat—a fate that rankles her still. Despite her power as ruler of the first layer of the Nine Hells, Zariel cannot kill the
who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers that separate the Nine Hells from other planes. Using Devils Devils aren’t numerous in The Rise of Tiamat until the final
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
beneath a roiling cloud of flies. Despite her power as ruler of the first layer of the Nine Hells, the archdevil Zariel cannot kill the dragon goddess, and she sees the summoning of Tiamat as a way
, and though Asmodeus can bend these laws, he seldom does. Most devils in the Material Plane were summoned there by mortal mages who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
throne. While in exile from her seat of power, Zariel was at the mercy of Tiamat—a fate that rankles her still. Despite her power as ruler of the first layer of the Nine Hells, Zariel cannot kill the
who expended tremendous amounts of magical power to breach the barriers that separate the Nine Hells from other planes. Using Devils Devils aren’t numerous in The Rise of Tiamat until the final
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
nurtured our crops. But I was a foolish and cruel ruler. I should have protected my subjects; instead, I taxed them into poverty to create a wondrous tomb for my own self-preservation. When they rebelled, I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once a species of lazy and egotistical Fey, quicklings’ predecessors were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many. To hasten their pace
fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur as they move. Their cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, their speech a shrill squeal. Only when quicklings deliberately slow down, which they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
characters are willing to cut deals with Avernus’s most evil denizens. The characters might broker a deal with the deposed archdevil Bel, who longs to supplant Zariel and regain his title as ruler of
Cruel, using him to broker a deal with Tiamat. By returning her stolen treasure, characters can convince Tiamat to break Elturel’s chains. As tempting as such pursuits can be, the characters must be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
nine trickster gods. The new deities were divisive and often cruel. Too weak to grant miracles to every follower, they concocted elaborate trials to winnow the clergy. On holy days, the mettle of
, he became their ruler. Today, beneath the cracked and broken streets of Omu, Ras Nsi holds sway and plots to bring Dendar the Night Serpent into the world, sealing its doom.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, taking a victim every night and leaving the rest too frightened to flee.
Adult Green Dragon Connections d8 Connected Creatures
1 A ruler controlled by an adult green dragon plunders
elves flagellate themselves to earn the favor of a god suddenly turned cruel, not knowing they’ve been misled by an adult green dragon.
8 An adult green dragon turns treants against the druids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
carefully manipulated by a deep dragon. A desperate ruler offers a reward to anyone who can uncover the true cause of the hostility.
8 A deep dragon wants someone to manufacture a scenario that
has made it to the surface world. Lost and confused, the wyrmling has been captured by a group of cruel adventurers.
3 A deep dragon wyrmling whimsically rules over a worshipful group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Torch Gate Destination: Bleak Eternity of Gehenna Primary Citizens: Humanoids and yugoloths Ruler: The Family Torch is a den of thieves built on the slopes of three volcanic spires that rise from a
people of Torch are crooked, greedy, and cruel. Townsfolk eye each other with suspicion as they pass through the sloped alleys, clutching their purses in one hand and brandishing cautionary blades in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
predicts that the war will end with Luthic the only deity standing, as the cave mother ascends to rule her warrior children.
Gruumsh, “He Who Watches” Gruumsh, the undisputed ruler of the orc
their superior strength and endurance through cruel contests against their tribe mates, acts of unprovoked belligerence, and great success in battle. It is through these tests of strength that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
them behaves like ants, obeying a queen – and her queen is Lolth. And Lolth is all temper and cruel whim.
— Elminster
Communal Spiders. Chitines and choldriths resemble spiders, but they behave
that determines which colony members perform which tasks, including whether she or any other choldrith is permitted to lay eggs. If this supreme ruler receives a vision from Lolth, she might change her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
3–4 Local ruler 5–6 Military officer 7–8 Temple official 9–10 Sage 11–12 Respected elder 13 Deity or celestial 14 Mysterious fey 15 Old friend 16 Former teacher 17 Parent or other family member 18
, the adventure’s villain wants the map. 5 A mysterious magic item or a cruel villain teleports the characters to the adventure location. 6 A stranger approaches the characters in a tavern and urges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
next to the iron cage turns constantly. West of the wheel is a duergar encased in a cruel-looking exoskeletal construct, his face a mask of pain.
The construct is a duergar hammerer (see appendix C
alcove. These barriers fall and lock into place if the characters physically forced open the portcullis that seals the vault’s entrance. Placing the fingers and palm of Xardorok’s gauntlet in the hand






