before body down compound river

Miros Xelbrin

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

Miros is a retired carnival attraction, dubbed “the Yeti” because of his barrel-shaped body and the thick, white hair covering his arms, chest, back, and head. When Goldenfields suffers

, so does his business, so he takes strides to protect the compound. Ideal: “As does the Emerald Enclave, I believe that civilization and the wilderness need to learn to coexist.” Bond

Narzugon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creature with a soul, the soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure (see the Monster Manual) in Avernus in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Hellfire Lance"} hours. If the

creature isn’t revived before then, only a wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune

Narzugon Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

":"damage","rollAction":"Hellfire Lance","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. If this damage kills a creature, the creature's soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure in Avernus in 1d4

original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune to this effect. Infernal Command. Each ally of the narzugon within 60 feet of it can't be charmed or frightened until the end of the

Naiad

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

, naiads gather to revel in nature’s might. Individual naiads often grow fixated with a single type or body of water, potentially preferring a deep sea trench, coastline, or river system above

hidden system of currents and arteries, a ship might reach any destination in record time, be it across the sea or along a river a hundred miles inland. Naiads do nothing to dissuade sailors from this

Hellfire Engine Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the chosen option kills a creature, the creature's soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure in Avernus in

1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll"} hours. If the creature isn't revived before then, only a wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature's original body can

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels. Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge of

underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the narrow, twisting passages between the lair’s fungal walls with magical and mundane traps. A typical lair has the following

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the dead, emulating their dread master. Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower body of a goat and a humanlike upper body with a belly swollen with

River Styx, Naratyr is an eerily quiet and cold city, its streets empty for hours at a time. The central castle of bone has interior walls of flesh and carpets made of woven hair. The city contains

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels. Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge

network growing near an underground river. Whatever the setup, a deep dragon festoons the narrow, twisting passages between the lair’s fungal walls with magical and mundane traps. A typical

Hellfire Engine

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

kills a creature, the creature’s soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure in Avernus in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll"} hours. If the creature isn’t revived before then, only a

wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune to this effect.Hellfire engines are

Arrival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

Arrival The following description assumes that the characters approach the lodge from the west side of the river: A thin fog surrounds a fortified compound standing in a clearing on the east side of

a narrow river. A ten-foot-high log palisade surrounds the compound, whose main building is a two-story stone-and-wood affair with a high-pitched roof, gables, window shutters, and a stone chimney

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

, emulating their dread master. Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower torso of a goat, and a humanoid upper body with a corpulent belly swollen with rot

. Surrounded by a moat fed by the River Styx, Naratyr is an eerily quiet and cold city, its streets often empty for hours at a time. The central castle of bone has interior walls of flesh and carpets made of

2. Stables

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

2. Stables In some ways, the stables are the most comfortable area of the compound. When the stables are crowded, the horses’ and mules’ body heat keeps the building warm. Four stable boys take care

2. Stables

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

2. Stables In some ways, the stables are the most comfortable area of the compound. When the stables are crowded, the horses’ and mules’ body heat keeps the building warm. Four stable boys take care

The Afterlife Casino

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

real River Styx is a route to the afterlife, Quentin Togglepocket named his establishment the Afterlife Casino. After passing through the casino, the river pours over a waterfall into a larger body of

The Afterlife Casino The Afterlife Casino lies three miles north of the nearest town. It’s an architectural marvel built into a natural cavern carved by a river nicknamed the River Styx. Since the

Sending Off a Friend

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Vingaard River. There, Ispin’s body rests in a small boat, his body wrapped in a shroud. A musician plays a soft song as the knight Becklin Uth Viharin steps forward in her ornate Solamnic armor. She smiles

Festival, we celebrate you, Ispin. Good travels, friend. Until we meet again.” With that, the boat bearing Ispin’s body drifts down the river and eventually out of sight. After a moment of silence

Athreos

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

robes and a collection of golden masks. What little can be seen of his body is unsettling, its gray flesh stretched thin over a barely human skeleton. The River Guide is never without his ancient staff

Athreos God of Passage All mortals are destined to face Athreos, the River Guide, when their lives come to an end. The god of passage ferries the dead across the Tartyx River, conveying each mortal

River's Edge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

River’s Edge At last, it seems as though you have reached the northern edge of the forest. The trees are fewer and farther between, and a short distance ahead you can see the edge of a body of water

. As you come closer, you see it’s a wide river running perpendicular to your path. Off to the east, the river runs between two swaths of dense forest. To the west is a well-worn trail that leads

Athreos's Influence

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

borders, boundaries, and that which is “neither.” Those who undertake journeys, especially dangerous ones, often drop a coin into a fountain or a body of water in apotropaic acknowledgment of the River

Athreos’s Influence Most mortals focus on the River Guide’s role in their own deaths. Countless mortal superstitions prescribe ways to garner Athreos’s favor, but all Athreos demands of those he

Journey into Death

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

’ souls reach the banks of the Tartyx River, they have with them the fare necessary to board Athreos’s skiff and pass on to the Underworld. Those who don’t have a coin with them when they die and aren’t

for coins to pay for their passage. Some wander away from the shore, though, becoming ghosts or other undead. Only if their body is granted funeral rites or if the living give them payment for Athreos

Life in Shankhabhumi

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

favor clothing composed of lengths of cotton or silk cloth called bastras, which are wrapped around the body in various styles. These include the loose, voluminous drapes of a sedentary noble, the

tight, ropelike wrap of a Shankha Trials contestant, and the practical, gathered garments of a laborer or river navigator. Wavy or curly hair is common in the region; people rub it to a shine with

Infiltrating the Fortress

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

deck. Soul Intake Pipe Souls from the River Styx are drawn up into the flying fortress through a grilled vent at the bottom end of the fortress. This vent leads to a 5-foot-diameter, iron pipe that

ascends through the body of the flying fortress to a 10-foot-diameter, spherical iron cistern directly below the command deck. The pipe is 400 feet long from top to bottom and has access hatches leading to

Battle of Elturel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Battle of Elturel Legions of devils camped on the shores of the River Styx below Elturel are the biggest threats for characters attempting to flee the city. Characters who fly, glide, or balloon over

the siege can avoid the main body of the devils’ army, but come under attack by forces to the rear. Adjust the boxed text below accordingly as you read it to the players to set the scene: Armored

Damming the Styx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

River Styx cut off from the chasm, Shummrath slowly starts to regenerate its mind and reform its body. After 48 hours, Shummrath reforms as a pit fiend and flies off to wage war on his rival, Bel. If

Damming the Styx If the characters are traveling with the ice imp (see “Mirror of Mephistar”), it leads them to the narrowest point of the Styx’s tributary river and sets about hammering its five

Underworld Crossing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

body of a lost hero lies entombed. 6 Get information from a soul waiting to be ferried to the Underworld. 7 Pay for a stranded soul to cross the Tartyx River. 8 Steal a specific

Underworld Crossing The Tartyx River is dotted with ruined temples of Athreos on either side of its banks that serve as crossing points between the mortal world and the Underworld. Souls of the dead

V5. Vault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

adorn the ceiling. The west wall bears a carving of a beautiful scene of a river and rolling hills inside a stone frame etched with symbols. The carving of the river scene is a portal to Elysium that

the room slowly comes to life. The carved river begins to flow, and the flowering plants by the river take on color and start to wave in a gentle breeze. The stone frame looks like a portal to this

A Grim Discovery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

A Grim Discovery As the characters make their way from the River of Gold to the Court of Flowers, they pass a shadowed alley. Glancing down it, the character who has the highest passive Wisdom

are 20 gp fallen from an open pouch the dwarf wears. His body shows no wounds, but a character who makes a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Medicine) check finds signs of poison. If the check succeeds by 5 or

F. River Ivlis Crossroads

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

F. River Ivlis Crossroads Check for a random encounter whenever the characters reach area F, unless they are accompanied by Vistani. An old wooden gallows creaks in a chill wind that blows down from

the gallows, a low wall, crumbling in places, partially encloses a small plot of graves shrouded in fog. The northwest fork leads down to the river and area G. The road southwest leads to area H. The

G. Tser Pool Encampment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

. But when the devil Strahd fell upon him, the wizard’s magic couldn’t save him. I saw him thrown a thousand feet to his death. I climbed down to the river to search for the wizard’s body, to see if

of mist and branches suddenly gives way to black clouds boiling far above. There is a clearing here, next to a river that widens to form a small lake several hundred feet across. Five colorful round

Kingdom Scale

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

are born in mountains or inland areas that see a lot of rainfall, winding down to the nearest major body of water that doesn’t require the river to cross over higher elevation. Tributaries join rivers

Camp Vengeance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Camp Vengeance Through the foliage, you see a crude timber fortification — a walled compound with watchtowers and tents inside it, encircled by a ditch bristling with sharpened stakes. A large

gatehouse faces the river, on the shore of which are four rowboats tied to a wooden post. Scattered around the fort are piles of charred human corpses and flayed animal carcasses swarming with flies

Goldenfields Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

top of the parapet down to the compound. A set of locked, ironbound wooden doors at ground level provide access to storerooms and cellars located underneath each watch post. Picking a door lock requires

designed to amplify sound, allowing the ringing of each gong to be heard as far as two miles away. Any other watch posts within that range ring their gongs as well, putting more of the compound on

37. Showers and Sauna

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

underground river. Secret Door. A secret door in the back of the east alcove opens into area 37c. 37b. Sauna Heating Tank. Heat billows from vents built into the sides of an 8-foot-tall, 5-foot-diameter

protrudes from the wall just inside the door. Benches. Black marble benches hug the wall. When cold water from an underground river is fed into the tank through the pipe, the fire elemental turns

Lair Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

ritual; he wants the body, so he can lay it to rest respectfully. He’ll permit them to copy the ritual before he takes the remains. D6: Foggy Cave The subterranean river here plunges in two twenty-foot

trophies. It crept into the lair via the underground river, but the dragon caught and vanquished it in the foggy cave (area D6). Challidax relished posing the corpse in the lair entry to scare intruders

Worshiping Thassa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. Those who found Rasiao discovered a pearl, too large to pass her lips, lodged in her mouth. Fearing further reprisal, Rasiao’s daughters committed their mother’s body to the Deyda River and Thassa’s

years, Rasiao lived far from ocean or river, making her home in the driest reaches of Theros. She lived a long life, but on one trip to Akros to resupply and brag, she drowned in a bowl of ox stew

Narzugon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5) piercing damage plus 16 (3d10) fire damage. If this damage kills a creature, the creature’s soul rises from the River

Styx as a lemure in Avernus in 1d4 hours. If the creature isn’t revived before then, only a wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body can restore it

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