before brutes diffusing call revelation

The God-Brain

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

The God-Brain The scope of what mind flayers call history exists on a cosmic scale. Through ages of empire and conflict, the illithid elder brains indulged experiments without comparison or reference

brain’s reality-bending research had an unexpected result, revealing to it a malignant truth for which existence was unprepared. Guided by this burgeoning revelation, the elder brain turned and preyed

Minions and Pets

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

she might be under her command, working off the debt of a bargain for itself or someone else. Favors beget favors, and under duress a hag might speak a magic word to call upon a blood debt from a

creatures are either naturally wicked or warped by the hag to better serve her. In either case, a hag is confident that her servants will obey her orders without question. The Brutes table gives examples of

Inside the Clans

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

to the smaller races. Its members are all enormous, lumbering brutes, primarily cyclopes, ogres, and giants. The clan’s leadership changes frequently — sometimes daily, since battles for supremacy are

. Occasionally, they heed the call of the guildmaster to join in riots or festivals, but more often they conduct their own ceremonies and celebrations in private. Goals of the Gruul So far as any philosophy

Yartar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

, farmhands, guides, or other unskilled laborers. For the most part, those who attend this fair are brutes, bandits, freeholders whose lands can no longer sustain them, or Uthgardt who wish to be among

creatively call the Three Rivers), Yartar is a fishing town, and its tables have fish as fare at every meal. Fresh crabs, eels, and other river life are available both to eat and to purchase, and serve as a

M11. Stage Workshop

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

show during which Endelyn revealed a “likely future” in which Skylla is fatally betrayed by the other members of the League of Malevolence. This revelation prompted Skylla to defect from the group

any member of Valor’s Call. She is looking forward to making her onstage debut as her alter ego, Charmay, in a one-woman play she wrote herself titled Lamentations of a Warlock. Skylla is currently

Stone Giants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

successful members of stone giant society and the poorest examples of the ideals stone giants aspire to. They are the brutes and boors cast out by a society of artists and philosophers. For a people that

forced out from underground risks becoming lost in the realm of dreams, living ever after as a twisted version of its former self that the giants call a dreamwalker (see chapter 3 for more information on

Annam and the Ordning

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Annam and the Ordning Most giants revere a pantheon of gods comprising Annam and his divine children—a pantheon they call “the Ordning” because it is the archetype of the ordning that structures

Underdark, seeking revelation from Skoraeus in the depths of the earth. Stronmaus Annam’s eldest child is jovial Stronmaus, whose greatest failing in myth is his inability to see the foolishness, jealousy

Ruinous Citadel Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

characters search the room or call out for Naxa, she reveals herself. Naxa is Vaeve’s twin sister. She doesn’t want to fight and is looking for a safe exit from the citadel. As Vaeve feared, Naxa snuck into

of the characters’ reaction to this revelation, learning it counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules. At your discretion, if the characters help Naxa return to her sister and

Adventure Models

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

giants.” The adventurers fight their way up the ordning until their final confrontation with the fire giant king—and the revelation that the giants are merely pawns in the schemes of some sinister drow

,” both in chapter 2). The Against the Giants table offers suggestions for adventure hooks you can use to build an adventure following this theme. On the world I call home, three linked mountain ranges

The Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

; the ability to hear the call is a rare gift. Depending on Corellon’s need, the god might call a few dozen or several thousand elves to gather, each elf returning to Corellon’s body temporarily for

they turn away from their god’s summons. Those who answer the call of Corellon are telepathically guided to their destination, often for hundreds of miles across unknown terrain, or even across planes

Dragon Organizations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

World’s destruction.” To some dragons, this closing couplet of “Elegy for the First World” is not merely an exhortation to dominate the Material Plane, but a call to recreate the original world of the

dragonsight, but especially members of the Inheritors of the First World, can have the following trait, representing the ability to call on the knowledge of their echoes across the Material Plane

Lambent Zenith Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

intent, the bosuns welcome them to the Lambent Zenith and call for Ilren, who stepped in as the camp’s interim leader when the ship’s first mate fell ill. The githyanki explain that they haven’t heard

traverse. Regardless of the characters’ reaction to this revelation, learning it counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules in this book’s introduction. Ward Rune. The ward rune is

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