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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
who seek to rule through martial strength and intimidation, cruel tyrants who use threats and gifts as needed to ensure loyalty. They enslave those too weak to resist them and shower the strong with
gifts and promises of power to turn them into loyal vassals.
Cruel Tyrants. Whenever Bane’s followers gain power, they institute draconian measures to ensure that their rule is unquestioned. They
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
immediately use its reaction to make one melee attack.Bane’s devoted followers are warriors who seek to rule through martial strength and intimidation, cruel tyrants who use threats and gifts as
followers gain power, they institute draconian measures to ensure that their rule is unquestioned. They stamp out all opposition while richly rewarding those who swear fealty.
Warrior Cult. Cultists of
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Storm King's Thunder
folk. Even so, her collection of crystal balls allows her to stay abreast of events happening in the world.The forest-loving green dragons sometimes compete for territory with black dragons in marshy
entrance hidden from prying eyes. Some seek out cave mouths concealed behind waterfalls, or partly submerged caverns that can be accessed through lakes or streams. Others conceal the entrances to
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Divine Contention
is possessing the body of ClaugiyliamatarThe forest-loving green dragons sometimes compete for territory with black dragons in marshy woods and with white dragons in subarctic taiga. However, a forest
concealed behind waterfalls, or partly submerged caverns that can be accessed through lakes or streams. Others conceal the entrances to their lairs with vegetation.
Lair Actions
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds. They sometimes give guidance to those in need or request help from adventurers to encourage them to greatness.
As a rule, moonstone dragons are
look to other maps in this chapter as inspiration for the scattered parts of a moonstone dragon’s lair. For example, a well maintained and above-water version of the black dragon lair’s
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artists and poets, encourage great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds. They sometimes give guidance to those in need or request help from adventurers to encourage them to greatness.
As a rule
, a well maintained and above-water version of the black dragon lair’s tower (map 5.2) makes a great Feywild audience chamber, while a vibrant, living version of the green dragon lair’s
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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
otherwise. The metaphorical power of words to illuminate or conceal is joined with the literal ability of magic to do the same in your academic pursuits.
Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation
, Persuasion
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a book of poetry, a school uniform, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Feature: Silverquill Initiate
You
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rule Faerûn. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies
dragonkind.
Personality
Sammaster presents a charming and handsome facade, but he can’t conceal his morbid fascination with undead dragonkind for long. His only true allies are the inner
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as leader of these disparate zealots, whom he named the Cult of the Dragon. He perverted their fascination with his necromantic lore, revealing that dracoliches were destined to rule Faerûn
.
Personality
Sammaster presents a charming and handsome facade, but he can’t conceal his morbid fascination with undead dragonkind for long. His only true allies are the inner circle of the Cult of
Adult Green Dragon
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its spine, reaching full height just behind the skull.The forest-loving green dragons sometimes compete for territory with black dragons in marshy woods and with white dragons in subarctic taiga
mouths concealed behind waterfalls, or partly submerged caverns that can be accessed through lakes or streams. Others conceal the entrances to their lairs with vegetation.
Lair Actions
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Sage
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master in your fields of study.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead
can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in
Ancient Green Dragon
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continues down its spine, reaching full height just behind the skull.The forest-loving green dragons sometimes compete for territory with black dragons in marshy woods and with white dragons in subarctic
out cave mouths concealed behind waterfalls, or partly submerged caverns that can be accessed through lakes or streams. Others conceal the entrances to their lairs with vegetation.
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Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
half as much damage on a successful one.With her ability to appear as a living elf, Valindra can easily conceal her lichdom and her association to Thay. She presents herself as a scholarly wizard who
a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps.
Everything about a lich’s lair
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonborn with chromatic ancestry claim the raw elemental power of chromatic dragons. The vibrant colors of black, blue, green, red, and white dragons gleam in those dragonborn’s scaled skin
, increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Manshoon A clone of the wizard Manshoon, one of the founders of the Zhentarim, is hiding in Waterdeep. He wants to rule the city, by claiming the cache of dragons and by using that wealth to bribe
the Masked Lords into making him the new Open Lord. He also wants to regain control of the Black Network. Manshoon lurks in Kolat Towers, a pair of wizards’ towers in the Trades Ward. This residence is
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague posing a question you have not yet been able to
library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an almost inaccessible place, or that it simply cannot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
to tear down all they see and rule over what remains. Black dragons are terrifying creatures with curved horns and withered visages suggestive of fiendish skulls. They typically inhabit stagnant
Black Dragons Dragons of Decay and Despair Habitat: Swamp; Treasure: Relics Black dragons delight in suffering and ruin. While other chromatic dragons scheme for power and wealth, these dragons seek
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Black Swords The characters don’t get this quest in the customary way, which is to say that the residents of Caer-Dineval aren’t counting on adventurers to help them. The quest falls into the party’s
her missing son, Huarwar. Crannoc Siever, the town speaker, resides in the castle and is also a prisoner. Devil-worshiping cultists calling themselves the Knights of the Black Sword have taken over and
Ancient Deep Dragon
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cousins of chromatic dragons. The warped magical energy of their subterranean realm gives them the ability to exhale magical spores that instill fear and scar the mind.
Deep dragons’ black-and
, they use local settlements—and any competent visitors—as pawns in their struggle.
4
An ancient deep dragon has put the folk of a city to work building the dragon a metropolis to rule
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and black ice. All form a miserable home for the traitors and backstabbers that are trapped on this prison plane. Optional Rule: Prison Plane No one can leave Carceri easily. Magical efforts to leave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
know the full extent of the Zhentarim’s operations and goals. Unknown to all but a few, the heart of the Zhentarim is a cabal of evil and sometimes monstrous leaders who seek to extend the Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Shadow Dragon Use the Shadow Dragon Personality Traits and Shadow Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive shadow dragon characters. If you use the variant rule in the
conceal my contempt for others.
8 I truly regret the things I have done and will do whatever I can to atone.
Shadow Dragon Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Merciless. Life doesn’t offer second
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
know the full extent of the Zhentarim’s operations and goals. Unknown to all but a few, the heart of the Zhentarim is a cabal of evil and sometimes monstrous leaders who seek to extend the Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. The middle-aged innkeeper, Cora Mulphoon (neutral good human commoner), treats her guests like royalty while trying to conceal the fact that she is barely making ends meet. Cora’s Loss. Cora is
. Over the next few days, Huarwar displayed a meanness toward his mother that was uncharacteristic. The change in his demeanor started after Cora found what looked like a shard of black ice in her son’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
The Zhentarim The Zhentarim—also known as the Black Network—is a loose affiliation of merchants, mercenaries, and malefactors. Common folk know the Zhentarim as the people to talk to when you need
know the full extent of the Zhentarim’s operations and goals. Unknown to all but a few, the heart of the Zhentarim is a cabal of evil and sometimes monstrous leaders who seek to extend the Black
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Bane The Black Hand, the Lord of Darkness Bane has a simple ethos: the strong have not just the right but the duty to rule over the weak. A tyrant who is able to seize power must do so, for not only
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
shattered castle, causing new halls and rambling stairs to form between fractured floors. These surreal ruins can’t conceal the magical radiance hanging at the castle’s core—a vestige of the magical force
devastation, Castle Avernus isn’t empty. Azalin’s treasures and former servants survived, including Ebbasheyth, the Darklord’s black shadow dragon advisor; a vast library that records the memories of all who die in Darkon; and the tomb haunted by Irik Zal’honen, Azalin’s son.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
. It takes a successful DC 15 Strength check to break down a door that is barricaded shut. Floors. Cracked and uneven flagstones conceal a dirt floor underneath. Light. A small amount of natural light
characters a chance to succeed.
It’s okay if the characters circumvent combat and talk their way past castle defenders. Both the Cragmaw tribe and the Redbrands work for the Black Spider, so the goblinoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Black Dragon Adventures The Black Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures involving black dragons. Black Dragon Adventure Hooks d8 Adventure Hook
1 A
black dragon recently took control of a band of pirates and their backwater hideout. Emboldened, the pirates have started raiding nearby shipping lanes.
2 A conflict-averse black dragon is secretly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the region’s nomads under Dragon Army rule. The half-ogre Lucien of Takar commands the Black Dragon Army, whose focused force supports the other armies and occupies the lands they conquer, including
Nordmaar and Goodlund. Finally, the small White Dragon Army is led by Highlord Feal-Thas, a Silvanesti elf and black-robed member of the Mages of High Sorcery.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
historian Kharafek has excavated a canyon riddled with sealed tombs. She’s paying laborers well but is also using them to bear the brunt of the curses the crypts conceal.
3 The hermits settled in
The revolutionary Aliz is secretly a jackal-headed werewolf allied with the mummy lord Senmet. She seeks to find Ankhtepot’s ka to bring the pharaoh’s rule to an end.
7 Sute’s Chosen seek help
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
-Shadowmoor. Lorwyn Treefolk In Lorwyn, some treefolk use their wisdom as a tool to support shorter-lived creatures. Others wield their intellect like a scepter and seek to rule over Lorwyn’s younger
black poplar tree that loves to contemplate philosophy. 3 A rowan tree that seeks to destroy all technology. 4 A yew tree of a variety so rare that they’re rumored to be extinct.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
amid thick webs that fill the top 10 feet beneath the 30-foot-high ceiling.
Hidden Arch. The southern half of the cave is filled with thick, sticky webs. (These webs conceal an arch embedded in a
stone figurine that weighs 1 pound. The figurines represent a black dragon, a unicorn, an umber hulk, an owlbear, a minotaur, and a manticore. Carved into the wall inside the arch is a stylized image of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
using the tunnels for their own ends. The Gray Ghosts have an alchemical laboratory and a fungal garden supplying them with poisons, and the leaders of the guild conceal a secret in the form of a
mysterious black obelisk in the farthest cave (see area 16). The other group is a budding cult of derro demon worshipers led by a renegade member of the Council of Savants. Sensing that the demon lords are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
that they were unable to resist when the orcs scaled the castle walls. Thus, the Dinev family’s brief rule in Icewind Dale came to a bloody end. The Caer remained in the orcs’ possession for several
mistake of opening his doors to the Knights of the Black Sword. This group consists of people from all walks of life who owe their lives to the archdevil Levistus (see “Black Swords” below for detailed descriptions of the castle and the cult of Levistus).