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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
black crystal called chardalyn, fragments of the shattered Crystal Shard.
Zlan has leveraged its connection with the shattered Artifact to psychically infest chardalyn, using the crystalline material to
rival and an equal. The Zlan Liches table gives a brief description of each component.
Zlan Liches
Name
History
Argent Black
Emerged from the Negative Plane, fed on hate and
Monsters
Locathah Rising
breathing, water walk1/day each: Evard's black tentacles, lightning boltThunderous Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Thunderous Touch"} to hit
":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A strong current disperses the cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of Whymsee's next turn.
Shell
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
takes his orders from Manshoon's current Manshoon's Simulacrum;simulacrum, which comes and goes from House Gralhund by way of a teleportation circle (connected to the circle in Kolat Towers).
Urstul is a
large, heavyset man in his forties. He storms about House Gralhund like he owns the place. He has a collection of black flying snake;flying snakes that he uses as couriers to deliver messages to underlings throughout the city.Poison
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
medusas of Ravnica, often called gorgons, are a monstrous race of creatures that appear superficially similar to human women. In place of hair, a gorgon has a writhing mass of black, serpentine
dreams of one day reclaiming control of the Golgari Swarm, or at least causing pain to its current guildmaster, Jarad Vod Savo (whose own sister displaced the medusas from their position).
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
own flaws. It’s appropriate for Auril to act as though she’s invincible while underestimating her mortal enemies, even in her current weakened state.
Auril’s Three Forms
In her
Magic Items
Tyranny of Dragons
damage to a creature, it can’t take reactions until its next turn.
Water Breathing (Black Dragon Mask;Black or Green Dragon Mask Only). You can breathe underwater.
Winter’s Fury (White
Dragon Mask Only). While your current hit points are equal to or less than half your hit point maximum, you deal an extra 1d8 cold damage with your melee attacks.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
ascension involves fusing the power of a single dragon’s echoes across different worlds of the Material Plane. The black greatwyrm Chronepsis, for example, is said to have stalked multiple worlds and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
fusing the power of a single dragon’s echoes across different worlds of the Material Plane. The black greatwyrm Chronepsis, for example, is said to have stalked multiple worlds and devoured
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
involves fusing the power of a single dragon’s echoes across different worlds of the Material Plane. The black greatwyrm Chronepsis, for example, is said to have stalked multiple worlds and devoured
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
fusing the power of a single dragon’s echoes across different worlds of the Material Plane. The black greatwyrm Chronepsis, for example, is said to have stalked multiple worlds and devoured
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Chromatic Awakening (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the greatwyrm would be reduced to 0 hit points, its current hit point total instead resets to 425 hit points, it recharges its Breath
fusing the power of a single dragon’s echoes across different worlds of the Material Plane. The black greatwyrm Chronepsis, for example, is said to have stalked multiple worlds and devoured
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants.
Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties to the past. They assess situations based on their current and future
into the future. This approach allows them to maintain their current level of influence in the world, but it limits their growth. Lizardfolk have no interest in developing writing, making long-term
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
The Two Agents The two agents reside in or close to the characters’ current city or home base. If you are playing through Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, you can arrange for both agents to
reside in Baldur’s Gate, where they seek the characters out after they arrive. Lynx and Sir Ursas both send couriers to deliver invitations to their respective manors.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
what he needed: information on the ring’s current wearer, Artus Cimber, and a drop of Cimber’s blood (which the Black Network had in its possession). Nilraun is now waiting for the frost giants to
searching for the ring and knew about its recent history. He suggested the formation of an alliance between Jarl Storvald and the Black Network, sweetening the deal by offering the frost giant jarl exactly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Exploring the Keep The player characters can visit any location in the keep, meeting and interacting with the citizens who reside there. Each keep location employs one or more NPCs, typically
’ current whereabouts. If this is your first time as Dungeon Master, ask your players to keep the party together; it’s easier if the player characters visit each location as a group. Stacey Allan & William Doyle Map: Keep on the Borderlands View Unlabeled Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Najkir Monastery Joshua Raphael The Island Najkir The island Najkir is a rugged, egg-shaped island 6 miles wide and 10 miles long. Persistent fog shrouds much of the island, which has a black pebble
entering the cave and climbing to the monastery’s entrance. A pier allows small boats to dock near the entrance. The monastery has long been a retreat for folk seeking enlightenment. The monks who reside here are peaceful.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
honored dead. People. The inhabitants of San Citlán typically have skin of light to medium brown, black hair, and dark eyes. Humans and dwarves are the most common folk in the city. A small number of
intelligent Undead known as olvidados (detailed below) also reside here and are fully accepted as citizens. Languages. The language of San Citlán is Citlanés, which is related to Tletlahtolli (the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
adventurers and left here. Anyone who inspects the corpse discovers that the basilisk died from wounds consistent with weapon attacks and destructive spells. Two centipedes reside in the corpse. If the
, remains intact and appears to be made of glistening black stone. (The sheen is due to a black pudding that coats the statue.)
The black pudding has 120 hit points and is held in stasis by Halaster’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
blessing granted to the king of Gauntlgrym by Moradin and the other dwarven gods. The majority of the city’s current inhabitants live and work within the vault, happy to share tales of the city’s
reclamation and praise Bruenor’s leadership at any opportunity. This is where the characters reside as Bruenor’s guests, and where the representatives of the five factions are likely to be found. Here
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
the middle of the room.
If the party enters from the west, add: Across the room is another door, this one blocked by a barricade made from the remains of a wooden table.
Five bugbears reside in
this chamber. They are loyal minions of Nezznar. This room marks the front line in the Black Spider’s assault on Wave Echo Cave, and the bugbears are here to prevent ghouls, zombies, or other undead from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
are twenty feet away from the tree trunk and pushing a wheelbarrow filled with bodies toward it.
Two black puddings reside within the hollow, petrified tree. Bak Mei uses these oozes to dispose of
your nose. Just off the path is a hollow, petrified tree trunk filled with a viscous black ooze. Black tendrils extrude from the ooze, reaching toward two figures clad in white robes. These figures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Black Dragon Treasures Black dragons appreciate objects of cultural, magical, or scientific significance that originated from lost cultures. Knowing a relic they possess is coveted by others because
it presents a link to a lost past is what gives that relic its value. Black dragons also love conventional treasures such as gems (particularly opals), precious metals that don’t corrode easily, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
8. Shoor’s Quarters The lowermost and smallest chamber of the priestess’s tower belongs to the commander’s lieutenant, the leader of the elite warriors of the outpost. Shoor Vandree, Ilvara’s current
black velvet mask stitched with silver thread in a spiderweb pattern (worth 25 gp), a set of bone dice engraved with Elvish characters (worth 10 gp), a small black velvet bag containing a spider
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
a snake, but the Gralhunds tolerate him because he feeds them useful information culled from his spies throughout the city. Urstul takes his orders from Manshoon’s current simulacrum, which comes and
place. He has a collection of black flying snakes that he uses as couriers to deliver messages to underlings throughout the city. Game Statistics Urstul Floxin is an Illuskan human assassin, with these changes: Urstul is lawful evil. He speaks Common and Orc and knows thieves’ cant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
destabilize Yartar so they can replace the current waterbaron with their own stooge. Then the new waterbaron can swiftly fix the troubles and thereby win local support. The Black Network is an incidental
Zhentarim believes intrigue in Yartar is to blame: someone wants to harm the Black Network’s profits. Zhentarim agents first suspected the Harpers, but trusted spies recently reported back that an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
access is limited accordingly. Purebloods live and work on this tier, which features cages for slaves, special quarters for the current slave master, and a centrally located torture chamber. A pair of
staircases offer access to the next level up. Abomination Level The yuan-ti at the top of the social hierarchy reside in the most insulted level of the pyramid, within quick striking distance of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
concerned, the local leaders of the Black Network (with Urstul Floxin chief among them) reside with them in the family villa. Orond is a short, stocky man who dresses well and is easy on the eyes. When
Zhents coin and allows them to use the family’s noble villa as a refuge. In exchange, the house reaps all the benefits that the Black Network offers, including intelligence that its spies have gathered. So
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
strangeness remains unknown. The Turmish and Thayans are too busy with their conflicts to notice, and so it is up to you brave heroes to travel into the darkening and discover what evil has come to reside so
specific area, surrounding the coral mountain that encases the many sunken ships that recently met an untimely demise.
Current. The current here is strong and constantly shifting. This effectively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
; instead of faces they bore only the Orzhov’s black sunburst symbol. Small, ugly, gray-skinned servant creatures attended to their black capes.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
Wealth is
wealth, prestige, and longevity. The Ghost Council, also called the Obzedat, that leads the Orzhov founded the guild and signed the Guildpact, but it isn’t clear which members of the original Obzedat might have faded from existence since then and which current members have joined since.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
around you. In the purple sky hang three moons—a red moon, a white moon, and a black moon discernible only because of the stars it blots out. Behind you stands a tall fruit tree in early bloom, its bright
magic of the rod piece that was previously embedded in its trunk. The rod piece was recently removed, resulting in the tree’s current state of decay. The tree still bears traces of the rod’s magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
items when the characters leave the tomb is discussed below. Relics of the Past Acererak placed four treasures in the tomb as lures: the Black Opal Crown, the Eye of Zaltec, the Navel of the Moon
, and the Skull Chalice of Ch’gakare. These items can be kept, sold to interested buyers, or returned to their rightful owners. Black Opal Crown (Area 49). The yuan-ti of Omu are after this treasure. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Old Tower: Winter The characters have learned that the Stone of Golorr is with Amath Sercent, a priest of Bane who is allied with Manshoon. She and her acolytes reside in Yellowspire, a Castle Ward
) dress in common clothing when outside the tower. Inside the structure, they wear fur-lined robes to stay warm. They refer to the tower as the House of Tyranny, and black prints of their right hands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
oppressive tyrants toward those they force to labor for them. Planar Raiders. Most efreet reside on the Elemental Plane of Fire, either in great domed fortresses of black glass and basalt surrounded by
coal-black skin, and they bedeck themselves in brass and gold torcs, chains, and rings, all glittering with jewels. When an efreeti flies, its lower body transforms into a column of smoke and embers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
wyrmspeaker. There are only five wyrmspeakers, one per color of chromatic dragon. The current wyrmspeakers are Severin (red), Galvan (blue), Neronvain (green), Rezmir (black), and Varram (white).
Most of the
years before gaining any rank within the organization, and many trainees don’t survive the tests. An initiate who passes the tests must choose an affinity to a particular color of dragon: black, blue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
wyrmspeaker. There are only five wyrmspeakers, one per color of chromatic dragon. The current wyrmspeakers are Severin (red), Galvan (blue), Neronvain (green), Rezmir (black), and Varram (white).
Most of the
years before gaining any rank within the organization, and many trainees don’t survive the tests. An initiate who passes the tests must choose an affinity to a particular color of dragon: black, blue






