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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a
great battle—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those
Cadaver Collector
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
back to Acheron, but if a summoner comes to a bad end, a cadaver collector might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Sweeping the Dead
. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor.
Conjured Berserkers. Corpses
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
forever. In time, the necrotic magic of the Grim Harrow animated the corpses of the blink dogs as the first harrow hounds.
The Grim Harrow employs harrow hounds as trackers and companions. Harrow
return to the Gardens of Decay with the hunt incomplete. Powerful Undead, such as vampire;vampires and death knight;death knights, might be accompanied by packs of harrow hounds.PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
by a kraken (see the Monster Manual) named Slarkrethel. The experience transforms the children into fanatics dedicated to the kraken. They return from the sea as humans, but when they reach old age
, they transform into sea spawn and rejoin their master in the depths. Some children return having suffered partial transformations and must conceal themselves from strangers until their full
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Upper Northedge Upper Northedge is a quiet, largely residential ward with little overt crime. Some of Sharn’s wealthiest citizens call it home; many of them have dedicated their lives to increasing
their personal power at any cost. Inquisitives might unearth the skeletons in the closets of such individuals—the corpses of those trampled on the road to riches. Or inquisitives might take lucrative
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, wheeling corpses to embalming chambers or to the crematorium. The Heralds of Dust treat the dead with reverence and dignity, granting them last rites in accordance with the beliefs of the deceased
book’s introduction. If all the characters die at once, they reappear back in the morgue. Morte heckles them on their return.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
57. Oubliette Any creature that tries to magically transport itself out of the tomb arrives here instead. You arrive in a room half-filled with rotting corpses. Protruding from one wall is a large
corpses that fill the room to a depth of 6 feet and make the area difficult terrain. As needed, Acererak’s magic draws new corpses here from graveyards across the world, all in various states of decay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
Rewards When the characters return to Queen Yolande’s palace, word quickly spreads of their success. The queen’s attendants prepare a lavish banquet in the characters’ honor. Courtiers and palace
Queen Yolande and Celene is far from over. At the banquet, the queen offers the characters employment as royal bodyguards dedicated to stamping out cult threats. If the characters accept, more adventures lie ahead!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. A cadaver collector responds to a summons from a mortal only if it is called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. The collector encases itself in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors, and it impales the corpses of those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Sweeping the Dead. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are
impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor. Conjured Berserkers. Corpses that accumulate on the construct’s shell aren’t just grisly battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
what once were neatly tended fungus gardens.
Corpses. Lying amid the razed mushrooms are the charred corpses of 1d4 giant fire beetles, 1d6 myconid sprouts, and 1d8 myconid adults. The glands have been
torn out of the fire beetles’ bodies.
A character who inspects the corpses and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check can determine that the beetles and myconids were killed by slashing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
better able to pursue the demon’s goal in the world. Sects dedicated to the worship of the various demon lords are spread across the mortal worlds of the multiverse as well as the Abyss. In return for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
dedicated to fighting evil, but their reckless emotions sometimes break free with devastating consequences. Rage is as common and as honored as joy in Arborea. There the mountains and forests are
becomes afflicted with a yearning to return to Arborea. As long as the effect persists, the creature has disadvantage on ability checks. At the end of each long rest, the creature can repeat the saving
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
populated areas, practice cannibalism, believing it is foolish to waste good meat.
In any case, kobolds that eat humanoids don’t simply start consuming corpses or prisoners right after a battle
protection from invaders and in return providing services such as excavating new living spaces and disposing of trash. If it’s unlucky, the tribe is enslaved by the other humanoids, and the kobolds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
return to normal on Firewatch Island and the communities of the nearby coast. The surviving hermits abandon the island, but a new group settles there before long. Or, Feldrin Kane, the Uskarn bailiff
and transformed into undead, until Syrgaul has an army of drowned corpses at his command. What terrible atrocities the undead captain might visit upon the nearby settlements are up to you. Even with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Well of Dragons, all armed and dedicated to the glory of the Dragon Queen. Chromatic Dragons. The exact number of chromatic dragons present at the Well of Dragons is up to you, and could range from a
few dozen to a hundred or more. Devils. Devils fighting for the cult have been summoned by the Red Wizards, and serve fiendish masters dedicated to seeing Tiamat leave Avernus. Giants. The few giants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
domain. There is little in the way of an organized clergy of Umberlee. Her priests roam coastal cities, warning of doom and demanding free passage on ships in return for ensuring the goddess’s pleasure
of shrines in the coastal cities, and sailors often leave flowers or small candies at them in hopes that she will spare them on their next voyage. Both Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate have true temples dedicated to Umberlee, staffed largely by the widows of sailors lost at sea.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
characters find three armored corpses with longswords lying on the floor in front of the altar. The revenants, if still active, are blinded by their hate and attack the characters on sight, seeking to
the room’s iconography and orientation (the fact that it draws light from the east) can determine, with a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Religion) check, that the chapel is dedicated to a god of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
currently standing watch on the walls. A search of the bailey yields the corpses of two dead human guards, both of whom were struck and killed by falling rocks. Characters can enter the keep through the front
years ago, members of House Nandar — Lord Drezlin Nandar and Lady Velrosa Nandar — decided it was time to return. They built a new motte-and-bailey settlement south of the Ardeep Forest and began making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
return to tame it. The creed of Silvanus dictates that nature’s glory must be preserved not merely because nature is beautiful, but because wild nature is the true state of the world. Its expanses refresh
city. The oak leaf is Silvanus’s symbol, and a grove of oak trees within a village or on its outskirts is often dedicated as a shrine to him. In rural places where oak trees don’t grow, an oak leaf etched into the bark of another kind of tree signifies a sacred site.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
characters to an incorporeal tea party. 2 1d8 + 3 ghouls feast on a veritable smorgasbord of corpses in a chilly morgue. The ghouls attack any who disturb their meal. 3 Twenty skeletons parade down a
† shamble through the Mortuary, infecting its corpses. A lawful neutral wight shouts for the party’s aid in curbing the infestation. 10 Two lost sorrowsworn,† manifestations of those who never reached the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
statue. Behind the statue, two maggot-ridden corpses hang from iron shackles bolted to the wall.
The ceiling here is 20 feet high. The statue is a crude depiction of Mother Night. Kneeling before
, hoping that the goddess might hold enough sway over Strahd to persuade him to free her beloved. Zuleika Toranescu Kiril has ordered Zuleika to guard the prisoners. If the characters rescue Emil and return
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
statues of bears grip a five-foot-diameter bronze disk embossed with a dozen glaring eyes. Six desiccated corpses slump on thrones in niches along the walls. Each corpse wears a black mask made of papier
-mâché and feathers. An arched crystal window to the east offers a view of the tunnel beyond.
See area 6 for a description of the crystal window. The corpses slumped on the thrones are six dormant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Wight Life-Leeching Corpse Warrior Habitat: Desert, Planar (Shadowfell), Swamp, Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Armaments Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains
Lutfullina
Wights might return from the dead for a multitude of sinister reasons. Roll on or choose a result from the Wight Motives table to inspire why a wight plagues the living.
Wight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
overlooking the trench. The hobgoblins aim to draw out Zox Clammersham, defeat him, seize the ring he uses to control the scaladar, and return the ring to Doomcrown, the hobgoblin warlord on level 14
dotted with the remains of broken machines.
Corpses. Two ogres clad in iron armor lie dead among the metal detritus, their flesh pierced by dozens of metal crossbow bolts.
The ogres served the hobgoblins until they were shot dead by Zox’s arbalests a few days ago.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
characters still refuse, Captain Sartell makes good on her threat and boards the vessel herself in search of salvage. When she doesn’t return, Flapjack urges the party to go and find her, refusing to leave
search the cargo hold. Corpses. The cargo hold contains eleven human corpses. The arachnid form is a dead neogi (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie). A character who examines the corpses and makes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
corpses create a sense of unease and dread, warning visitors that Deadstone Cleft is a place of death. As cold wind passes through the canyon, it produces a moan that seems to issue from the gaping mouths
feet of stone. Carved stone bridges also span the canyon. Deadstone Cleft is sacred to the stone giants of the Graypeak Mountains, for it contains an ancient temple dedicated to their god, Skoraeus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Abandoned Camp When characters return to the camp area, they find it mostly abandoned. (If they stayed, they witnessed the rapid packing up and abandonment of the camp.) The stinking huts of the
horse to pack the field-dressed game back to the camp. Hunters don’t necessarily return to the camp every evening. They stay out until they have a load of meat to bring back. Hunting on the Greenfields is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
common nuisance, as pox-ridden corpses regularly return to confront their oppressors. CoupleOfKooks “The knife of betrayal is best twisted twice–once in the back and again in the grave. Trust no one
commonly cough up flies or wipe ichor from their dribbling noses. Undead Townsfolk. Dead townsfolk periodically return as skeletons, zombies, and revenants. Noteworthy Sites Plague-Mort is a bleak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
light crossbow. If the adventurers leave this area, there’s a 50 percent chance that 1d4 of the other tomb dwarves prowling the dungeon are present when they return. Any character who searches the
test traps. Iron Kiln The dwarves use the iron contraption on the dais to craft tomb guardians from the corpses of slain adventurers. As the characters arrive, the tomb dwarves are in the process of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, Godsgate was the temple district. It had shrines and statues dedicated to the Sovereigns, a proud church of the Silver Flame, even a monument to the Undying Court. But as Sharn grew and prospered
corpses led to infection and disease. The City Council had no interest in sinking gold into Lower Dura to restore the area, and the district was abandoned. Today, the district known as Fallen is strewn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
statue depicts some forgotten god dedicated to chaos and entropy, and as described below, holds up the ceiling overhead. Objectives/Goals Aware of the creature’s existence, the mind flayers were able
to make a pact with it and are bound to return with many sacrifices once they have completed their business in the Far Realm. Interested in being worshipped once more, the insane eidolon protects this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
steel, and of passions that blaze brightly until they burn out. Its good-natured inhabitants are dedicated to fighting evil, but their reckless emotions sometimes break free with devastating consequences
Arborea and then leave sometimes experience a desperate desire to return—a yearning so intense that it can interfere with day-to-day life. What secrets lie buried in the sands of Mithardir? An expedition
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Elemental Plane of Air Noor Rahman Aarakocra scouts return home to a city on the Plane of Air The Plane of Air is home to constant winds of varying strength. Here and there, chunks of earth drift in
dedicated to law and good, and they maintain a vigilant watch against the depredations of Elemental Evil. They are served by aarakocra. Labyrinth Winds Much of the Plane of Air is a complex web of air streams