being brink diffusing contact rites

Star Spawn Seer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm. An entity that

even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to these realms: entities that are ever hungering, searching, warring, and sometimes

Shadow Marches

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

orcs and other foul creatures, practicing strange rites by the light of the moons. While flawed, this vision isn’t entirely inaccurate. The Shadow Marches are a desolate land of swamps and moors. The

war in the distant land of Sarlona. Over time the two cultures merged, forming the Marches as they exist today. The Marches had little contact with the Kingdom of Galifar or the east until a few

The Shadow Marches

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

with orcs and other foul creatures, practicing strange rites by the light of the moons. While flawed, this vision isn’t entirely inaccurate. The Shadow Marches are a desolate land of swamps and moors

in the distant land of Sarlona. Over time the two cultures merged, forming the Marches as they exist today. The Marches had little contact with Galifar or the east until a few hundred years ago, when

Dark Bargains

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

Dark Bargains Characters who don’t have a Dark Gift might gain one in the course of their adventures. At the DM’s discretion, sinister forces might contact a character and offer them a Dark Gift in

on the brink of death. A mysterious voice offers to save the character’s life, but only if they accept its Dark Gift. An experiment or magical accident goes wrong. The DM allows a character to accept

Religious Order

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

symbol or druidic focus, even if it isn’t needed for spellcasting. Each of you also has a book containing prayers, rites, and scriptures of your faith. Proficiencies. Each member of your party gains

proficiency in the Religion skill, if the character doesn’t already have it. Religious Order Contact Your established order enjoys a robust following. It might be a cloister of priestly scholars who use

Plague-Mort

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

the unhallowed brink of the Abyss. Rotting shacks, crumbling stone edifices, and derelict streets lie in the shadow of a silvery keep atop a gray hill. An imposing fortress of demonic construction

the following effects in and around the gate-town: Demon Ichor. Demon ichor pollutes nearby water sources. Local wildlife that come into direct contact with the unholy gunk acquire demonic attributes

Gods of the Orcs

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

signifies acceptance into his inner circle. Those who are visited by Gruumsh are transformed psychologically and often physically by the experience. Some are driven to the brink of madness, reduced to

with distaste and unease. They interact with the tribe mostly on occasions of death, claiming the bones of fallen warriors to add to the ossuary shrines of Yurtrus, and sometimes during shamanic rites

Predator Pools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

floor in the south. On the eastern wall is a contact stone. Creatures. Ihanvas, the spirit naga overseer of this zone, is eating a prisoner. The naga attacks any intruders. Ten commoners also linger in

enormous globes of blue liquid are suspended in the air to the east. West of the pool, just south of a set of double doors, is a contact stone. Creatures. Eight ghouls here float like corpses in the

Other Religious Systems

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

. Sometimes a mystery cult is a type of worship within a pantheon. It acknowledges the myths and rituals of the pantheon, but presents its own myths and rites as primary. For instance, a secretive order of

substance. Vestiges are deities who have lost nearly all their worshipers and are considered dead, from a mortal perspective. Esoteric rituals can sometimes contact these beings and draw on their latent

Star Spawn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

. Beyond the best-known planes of existence lie realms alien to mortal life. Some are so hostile that even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to

energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm. An entity that appears as a star spawn seer in the

Lower Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

creature 300 gp Contact other plane, legend lore, planar binding, Rary’s telepathic bond 750 gp Shattered Temple A nameless street leads through a razed district to the Shattered Temple, headquarters

released when the Athar carry out rites to destroy magic items created by priests of those they consider false gods. The divine energy concentrates within the tree and its fruit, which are the source of

Areas of the Air Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

Wheels” below). After completing one revolution, they stop and await further instructions. The commoners are cultists on the brink of becoming initiates. The priests lash these cultists to break their

with etchings of funerary rites in honor of Moradin (150 gp), and an immovable rod. A9. Tombs Gigantic stone doors covered in twin reliefs of dwarven gods in profile loom fifteen feet high. The dwarven

Dragon Organizations

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

techniques—from alchemical brews to elaborate rites—to help spark the first flickering awareness of a dragon’s echoes on other worlds. They freely perform these techniques on any dragons who yearn for

heart of Sardior and a key to the Ruby Dragon’s return. 4 A dragon offers to pay the characters handsomely if they travel to another world. There, they must make contact with the dragon’s echo

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

any creature within 10 feet of its surface, or an Engulf attack against any creature in contact with its surface. Alternatively, it can replace any of its pseudopod attacks with attempts to shove a

creature within 5 feet of its surface into contact with its surface. See “Shoving a Creature” under “Melee Attacks” in chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook. To guard the entrance to Kwalish’s lab, a

Cottage Locations

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

dissolves any organic material that comes in contact with it. If a creature lowers itself into the water, attacks the ooze from above, and then exits the well, the gelatinous cylinder squirms up the

buckets collect the stinking alcohol. The barrels are filled with this homemade brew, and each one weighs 250 pounds. The still’s structural integrity is on the brink of failure. Any creature that

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