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Keys from the Golden Vault
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1/day each: arms of Hadar, charm person, mage armorMarkos Delphi grew up with an insatiable curiosity. Eventually, he had his fill of worldly knowledge and began delving into the arcane, eager to
other planes, and something finally answered him: an entity that called itself Krokulmar. This entity made a pact with Markos, granting insight into the multiverse in exchange for influence on the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
20 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d8 + 8);{"diceNotation":"4d8+8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tail", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Aptly called “the ruler of dinosaurs
’s children first began to populate the worlds of the Material Plane, the All-Father created behemoth dinosaurs to live alongside them as companions. The primeval magic used to create the dinosaurs
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
desired above all. She told him of a vault of forbidden lore called the Amber Temple, where the secret of gaining immortality was hidden. While Strahd was off exploring the temple, Rahadin handled
all of his master's affairs and began searching for a woman who could tear Strahd away from Patrina Velikovna. In this task, he failed. His goal was fulfilled, however, when Sergei, Strahd's brother
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
in search of new actors, he began regaling locals with tales of distant lands.
Monster Hunter. The half-elf ringmaster is, in fact, a legendary human vampire hunter named Rudolph van Richten. Van
Richten’s tale is a sad one. A scholar and doctor from a land called Darkon, he married his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid, and together they had a son, Erasmus. When he was fourteen, Erasmus was
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
unusual crown, often called an eldercross or a witch’s turn. This living, garland-like part of a hexblood’s body extends from their temples and wraps behind the head, serving as a visible
lost hag.
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You were cursed as a child. A deal with the spirits of the forest transformed you into a hexblood, now free of the curse.
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You began life as a fey creature, but an accident
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
called the Chill. Unlike most of their kind, the Chill refrains from raiding the people of the North and maintains relatively good relations so that they can hire themselves out as warriors. Few city
Bloodaxes. Founded in Sundabar nearly two centuries ago, the Bloodaxes were originally a group of dwarves outcast from their clans for crimes against the teachings of Moradin Soulforger. They began
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
implement, dried crown of white camellias, straw doll All is well in Tepest. Fields shine with the golden hues of a bountiful harvest, and horned village children happily recite sing-song rhymes. But those
betrayed her coven in pursuit of a daughter to love. Taking the guise of a deity called Mother, Lorinda has adopted the entire village of Viktal, protecting its people from nature’s whims so they can feed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
A Subterranean Threat During the Shadowed Age, as the Netherese’s overuse of magic began to affect the Weave, an outside threat against Netheril emerged. Deep underground, where the Anauroch desert
stretches today, lived magic-obsessed creatures called phaerimm. The Netherese’s weakening of the Weave also weakened the phaerimm, even limiting their lifespans, and the phaerimm hated the empire as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Netheril Returned In 1372 DR, the flying city of Thultanthar, also called the City of Shade, emerged from the Shadowfell, where it had lain hidden for centuries. The city’s rulers, calling themselves
Shadovar, began rebuilding the long-lost Netherese empire, even returning life and growth to the desert. They dubbed this reborn empire the Empire of Shade. Thultanthar crashed to the ground in 1487
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Tammeraut’s Secret The sinking of Tammeraut did not spell the end for Syrgaul and his band of pirates. As his ship plunged into the sea, he called out to his fiendish patron. Orcus heeded his call
seabed to Firewatch Island. They overran the garrison and carried the remains back to their wrecked ship. There, with Orcus’s instruction, they began the laborious process of opening the Pit of Hatred, a rift to the Abyss that can transform corpses into drowned ones.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
well and began spawning evil plant monsters called blights (see "Blights" in the Creatures chapter). The blights obey Grannoc, who uses them to defend his woodland manse and kill trespassers within the forest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
: Dragonlance. The ruined temple lies in the mountains between Solace and Haven. The Primordial Nexus is a remnant shard of the god Chaos, who was trapped by Reorx long before recorded history began
orc Gatekeeper called Rhasshaven seeks the characters’ help. The Dreaming Dark replaces the Elder Elemental Eye. Forgotten Realms. The Sword Coast’s Dessarin Valley is plagued by evil related to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
death of a mountain village called Vermeillon by slow, unknown means. Following a terrible accident in the platinum mine, survivors and other villagers began disappearing. Eventually Vermeillon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities Baldur’s Gate began as a harbor town where traders would meet with “ghost lighters” — folk along the Sword Coast who used lights to lure fogbound ships to shore. When
nobles, traders, pirates, and assassins. An army of mercenary soldiers called the Flaming Fist keeps order in the city, and these soldiers answer to Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard. The members of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
ghost began to haunt Godefroy as well.
In desperation, Lord Godefroy sought out a different kind of help in the world of the living. He began haunting an alchemist named Rastinon, urging him to
pursue research into mortal souls. Rastinon crafted a terrible artifact he called the Apparatus, which could separate the soul from a living body, translocate souls from one body to another, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
ancestral spirit called a gwishin and began haunting the monument. When no family claimed the spirit as their descendant, the city’s spirit arbiters—magistrates responsible for rogue gwishin—tried to
people cherished her, but the attitude of others was not so kind. In time, merchants seeking to line their pockets began to embezzle government funds. City planners accelerated expansion into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Cataclysm, Loren Soth was a Solamnic Knight of the Order of the Rose. He ruled the province of Knightlund from Dargaard Keep. However, his fall from grace began when he rescued a company of Silvanesti elves
disrespecting his dead wife’s memory, the Knights of Solamnia cast Soth from their orders. Soon after, the gods called Soth to redeem himself by preventing the Cataclysm, but Soth failed in his quest, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
called into service by the deity they know as the Scaled Mother and followed her portents as they traveled north. They began excavating the old temple, with the grippli’s consent, in the expectation of
Aftermath When the abomination and its malison minions fall, the captured yuan-ti are overcome with joy. They tell the characters that they hail from a land to the south called Chult. They were
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
her from fully returning to the world. She called on the evil dragons who served her, long withdrawn from the world, and began once more to plot the conquest of Krynn. Chromatic dragons, acting on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Tale of Revenge The Scrivener’s Tale tells the story of a selfish and amoral archfey called the Princess of the Shadow Glass, who is locked in a blood feud with the Queen of Air and Darkness, the
indicate that the Princess of the Shadow Glass began as a fey of indeterminate type, most likely an eladrin, and ultimately became an archfey possessing powerful magical abilities relating to shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
ruin, a crumbled memory overtaken by nature. In recent months, the observatory ruins have become the home of an arrogant blue dragon wyrmling called Sparkrender, a descendant of Runara’s ancient rival
, Sparkrender began planning a ritual that will awaken the spirits of all the island’s dead dragons and bind them to his will—at the cost of Aidron’s life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
settlement remained. It was named in her honor, with Citlán roughly translating to “the place near Citlali.” People began calling the skeletal figure La Catrina for her elegant clothing. San Citlán’s
and ended in a bloody series of conflicts called the Wars of Separation. In the aftermath, the folk of San Citlán held their first elections, finally looking forward to a time of peace. The wars have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
grim champion began seeking out its fellow victims and forged those it found into a force it called the Grim Harrow. Eventually, the Grim Harrow found a faerie demiplane called the Gardens of Delight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
The Village Spreading out along the edge of the hedge maze is a village, also called Xonthal’s Tower. The settlement began as a place where Xonthal’s many apprentices established homes of their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
they should have been forgotten for all time. Thousands of years before the Cataclysm, a group of dwarf settlers established an enclave in the mountains north of Thorbardin, which they called Tyar
their cultist followers and began to work to further the mysterious designs of the Elder Elemental Eye. The campaign starts off with an investigation into a missing delegation. In the Dragonlance setting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Get Moving, People! Read or paraphrase the following to begin the adventure: The day began early at four bells as you were awakened by Boatswain Tarto in a most discourteous fashion. Dodging thrown
garbage cans, you geared up, ate a hasty breakfast, and were immediately commanded to the deck of a hammerhead ship called the Flighty Foundling. As soon as you board the ship, it rises into the air
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Secret of Darkon’s Doom When Azalin Rex disappeared during the Hour of Ascension, Darkon lost its Darklord and the phenomenon called the Shroud began consuming the domain. When preparing your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
brutish father and brothers resented the girls, whose sufferings grew worse after their mother died. Desiring a better life, the sisters began preying upon travelers who passed by their secluded home
they cleared, unfamiliar mountains in a land called Tepest surrounded the sisters’ simple valley home, and their true nature as vicious hags manifested. From the strange fey of Tepest, the three hags
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
that ancestor. When he punched the giant with that ring, he literally and symbolically broke Xeluan’s heart, weakening the magic that protects the giant’s corpse. The formerly indestructible giant began
to deteriorate, allowing Aminta to collect broken-off pieces of Xeluan’s body. This material, called “oztocanite,” can be worked into precious gemstones or used to empower spells (see area X4). The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Chapter 6: Blingdenstone Blingdenstone, once called the City of Speaking Stones, is a deep gnome settlement founded more than two millennia ago. The deep gnomes, insular and secretive by nature, care
combination of misdirection and magic. It wasn’t until they provided shelter to a drow exile named Drizzt Do’Urden that the deep gnomes began to take a more active interest in the world outside their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
The Village Spreading out along the edge of the hedge maze is a village, also called Xonthal’s Tower. The settlement began as a place where Xonthal’s many apprentices established homes of their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
) for his lieutenant. This intelligent artifact of pure evil was meant to serve Kas unquestioningly, but the sword soon developed other ideas. Over time, Kas and Vecna began disagreeing about
battle, Kas transformed into a vampire. He became the ruler and prisoner of a Domain of Dread (a mist-bordered realm in the Shadowfell) called Tovag. Eventually, the Dark Powers whispered to Kas that Vecna
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Adventure Background Markos Delphi grew up with an insatiable curiosity. Eventually, he had his fill of worldly knowledge and began delving into the arcane, eager to understand the secrets of the
answered him: an entity that called itself Krokulmar. This entity made a pact with Markos, granting insight into the multiverse in exchange for influence on the Material Plane. Markos assumed Krokulmar’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
what was causing the eruptions, but he knew they were strongest near the volcano called Jademount. Tonalli sent the warriors to the Gate of Illumination, a shrine to the gods on Jademount, to see if they
awaking at once—which in turn increases the activity of their volcanoes. Based on his observations, Tonalli believes there’s already an awakened tlexolotl near where the volcanic disturbances began
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
deity. Recently, a schism formed within the pack as the result of a challenge to Kiril’s leadership. The rift began when another werewolf, Emil Toranescu, questioned the treatment of children
, ensuring what Kiril called “the strength and purity of the pack.” Emil advocated keeping all the children alive and turning them into werewolves, thus increasing the pack’s size. Emil believed that a