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Lorwyn: First Light
/DeafnessThe incarnations of vibrance each resemble a titanic canine with a body of colorful foliage and horns like the branches of a blossoming cherry tree. When vibrance incarnations are in Lorwyn
of nature are beyond the ken of most mortal beings—untamable, primal, and awe inspiring.
In the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, these beings take the forms of chimeric behemoths that combine the
The Great Old One
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known
Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
. Immediately after taking damage, the lich, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, magically teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.From beyond the stars, a Great Old
, the Night Serpent
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Ghaunadaur
5
Zargon, the Returner
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That Which Lurks
Necrotic, Poison
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
save, it takes half as much damage.Zargon the Returner is an elder evil—an undying abomination from eons past with an insatiable appetite. A tentacled, slime-covered horror with a cyclopic red
another plane—or another reality entirely.
When Asmodeus ascended the infernal hierarchy, he and his legions wiped out most of the plane’s earlier inhabitants, but Zargon proved beyond even
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
round. Creatures and objects within or beyond the fog are heavily obscured. A creature that enters the freezing cloud for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation
, currents and tides are exceptionally strong and treacherous. Any ability checks made to safely navigate or control a vessel moving through these waters has disadvantage.
Aquatic creatures that have
Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
“I have never imagined such beauty existed,” Goldmoon said softly. The day’s march had been difficult, but the reward at the end was beyond their dreams. The companions stood on a
insults with vengeance.
Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
beyond the branches of the tree and carpet the forest floor of her realm.
Path to the Underworld. Tales are told of forlorn souls who, because of grief or madness over the loss of a loved one, have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Zargon the Returner Kevin Glint In the days of Cynidicea’s Fall, Zargon fed on the panicking masses, devouring any who denied it worship Zargon the Returner is an elder evil—an undying abomination
of the plane’s earlier inhabitants, but Zargon proved beyond even Asmodeus’ might. No matter what blistering wrath Asmodeus brought to bear on Zargon, the aberration continually re-formed from its horn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Infinite Staircase The Infinite Staircase is an extradimensional staircase that connects the planes. An entrance to the Infinite Staircase usually appears as a nondescript door. Beyond the portal lies a
currents and eddies of the river. For a price, these pilots carry passengers from plane to plane. Some pilots are Fiends, while others are the souls of dead creatures from the Material Plane. Yggdrasil, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
multiple Outer Planes together: the River Styx and the Infinite Staircase. Other planar crossings might exist in your campaign, such as a World Tree whose roots touch the Lower Planes and whose branches
unpredictable currents and eddies of the river. For a price, these pilots are willing to carry passengers from plane to plane. Some of them are fiends, while others are the souls of dead creatures from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
description: Beyond the city gates, the golden road continues amid silk-draped booths and squat buildings with conical roofs. The chatter of merchants and cheerful youths rings out along the road. Folk
, jeli wine vendors, and entertainers pack the River of Gold. Buildings bear brightly painted signs and are covered with colorful vines bearing lush flowers. Beyond the crowds, the characters can see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
branches twist together to form a humanoid-looking body with a head and limbs. Twig blights seek out campsites and watering holes, rooting there to set up ambushes for potential victims coming to drink
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WIS
8 (−1)
CHA
3 (−4)
Skills Stealth +3
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Condition Immunities blinded, deafened
Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
Gadabout Gadabouts are gentle, winged creatures that can be used as personal conveyances for short-distance travel across the airless void of Wildspace. A gadabout wraps its branches around a
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CHA
1 (−5)
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, petrified
Senses blindsight 10 ft. (blind beyond this radius
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
S1. Road Junction The road branches north and climbs a rocky escarpment, ending at a gatehouse built into a twenty-foot-high wall of stone reinforced with buttresses every fifty feet or so. The wall
encloses a settlement on the side of a snow-dusted mountain spur. Beyond the wall you see the tops of snow-covered pines and thin, white wisps of smoke. The somber toll of a bell comes from a stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
have the Restrained condition, as it becomes snagged on thorny branches. The condition ends on the creature if it takes an action to free itself from the thornbushes or if another creature within reach
of it does the same (no ability check required in either case). Paths A and B. Four paths wind through the thornbushes toward the demiplane’s outer shell and seem to extend even beyond it. A creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
). Rain and snow fall only in the part of the plane nearest to the Plane of Water. Most of the Plane of Air is a complex web of air streams, currents, and winds called the Labyrinth Winds. These range from
stiff breezes to howling gales that can rip a creature apart. Even the most skilled flying creatures must navigate these currents carefully, flying with the winds, not against them. Here and there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
characters of all levels, though unseasoned adventurers determined to face the Returner in combat are almost certainly doomed to fail. Characters killed by Zargon might be resurrected on the Infinite
chosen! Praise the Returner!” shouts the cultist on the altar with glee as they melt into an amorphous blob of chattering teeth and darting eyes.
Treasure. The twelve cultists each wear a gold mask of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, with spongy wooden flesh, thorny branches, and rubbery roots that trail behind it. It has blood for sap and is so saturated with blood that it doesn’t catch fire easily. Vicious Carnivore. A tree
blight feeds on warm-blooded prey and takes perverse delight in causing carnage. It strikes with its heavy branches and crushes prey to death with its roots. It can open its gaping, tooth-filled mouth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
protect the world from far greater threats. Spelljammer Academy trains cadets for service as Spelljammers and members of the Spelljammer Corps: both branches of a magical navy sworn to protect Toril
and to explore other worlds beyond. Few people know of the academy’s existence, and its leaders try to keep it that way.
Mirt the Merciless—also known as “the Old Wolf”—is Spelljammer Academy’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
world from far greater threats. Spelljammer Academy trains cadets for service as Spelljammers and members of the Spelljammer Corps: both branches of a magical navy sworn to protect Toril and to explore
other worlds beyond. Few people know of the academy’s existence, and its leaders try to keep it that way.
Mirt the Merciless—also known as “the Old Wolf”—is Spelljammer Academy’s founder and chief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
½ feet per square, the hollow spaces tucked inside a massive tree trunk, and the passages running inside major branches rather than underground. A typical lair has the following features: Trapped Entrance
lounges on a pillow and entertains diminutive Fey guests (or, in lieu of Fey, a family of very confused squirrels). Hoard and Larder. Beyond the audience chamber are separate hollows for the dragon’s hoard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
, deafened
Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 9
Languages understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Actions
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
can root in soil and resemble woody shrubs while rooted. When it pulls its roots free of the ground to move, a twig blight’s branches twist together to form a humanoid-looking body with a head and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
The Great Old One Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the
, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings. Expanded Spell List The Great Old One lets you choose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Emerald Enclave The Emerald Enclave is a far-ranging group that opposes threats to the natural world and helps others survive in the wilderness. Branches of the organization are scattered throughout
unnatural. They keep the elemental forces of the world in check and keep civilization and the wilderness from destroying one another. “The Emerald Enclave exists as gatekeepers to that vast space beyond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the Elf-Eater, Dendar the Night Serpent, Borem of the Lake of Boiling Mud, Kezef the Chaos Hound, Zargon the Returner, Camnod the Unseen, Holashner the Hunger Below, Piscaethces the Blood Queen
, Shothotugg the Eater of Worlds, Y’chak the Violet Flame, Bolothamogg Who Watches from Beyond the Stars, Hargut of the Gray Pestilence, Haask the Voice of Hargut, Ragnorra the Mother of Monsters, the Hulks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
topmost branches leading the way and their withered roots trailing behind them. Each one has its own gravity plane and air envelope. Creatures sometimes try to hitch a ride on an yggdrasti to take
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Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing
Damage Immunities lightning
Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, exhaustion
Senses blindsight 120 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, knotted branches. One end of a clothesline is tied to a high branch on the northwest side of the tree. Several old garments hang from the clothesline, the other end of which disappears into the fog
. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 10
Languages understands Common and Druidic but doesn’t speak
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
False Appearance. If the blight is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
immortality. Agents of both groups wander Darkon and beyond, creating shadowy conspiracies to gain magical power and control by any means possible. Order of the Guardians This network of scholars and
. The priests spread their teachings, forming shadowy cults that draw adventurers into their schemes. These villains are further detailed in chapter 5. Ulmist Inquisition The three branches of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
half-drowned ruins of a temple are visible beyond; a platinum triangle gleams on its leaning belfry.
The causeway rises over water that’s 20 feet deep. From it, characters can see the temple grounds
. Characters with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 18 or higher notice hints of figures wearing red-and-black clothing among the tree branches ahead in area P2. These are Dragon Army soldiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
cup-shaped purple flowers. Tubules within the plant’s branches connect the flowers to reserves of acidic sap in the plant’s trunk. Purple blossoms squirt this sap at prey through the flowers’ pistils
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INT
1 (−5)
WIS
10 (+0)
CHA
1 (–5)
Condition Immunities blinded, deafened
Senses blindsight 60 ft. (can’t see beyond this radius), passive Perception 10
Languages —
Challenge 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in Tepest The horror of Tepest rises from its mysterious wilderness and the seemingly idyllic community of Viktal. Here, dread lies in contrasts. Tree branches grasp like claws while every
the characters view the villagers as victims or monsters? The following section, “Viktal and the Tithe,” explores how to draw characters into the village’s eerie traditions. Beyond Viktal, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
Eldritch Lich From beyond the stars, a Great Old One whispers promises of reality-defying knowledge and world-bending power. When a wizard or a warlock hears that whisper and listens too intently
Old Ones table to determine which entity gave an eldritch lich its parasite. Great Old Ones d6 Form 1 Cthulhu 2 Tharizdun, the Chained God 3 Dendar, the Night Serpent 4 Ghaunadaur 5 Zargon, the Returner 6 That Which Lurks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
“goats of coin,” for they will cling like such animals to the most precarious of mountain ridges while seeking the opportunities that wait beyond. My own journeys with the goats of coin have impressed
often come down out of the mountains. Castle Hartwick and Stagwick Between two branches of the Clear Whirl River lies a great island on which Hartkiller built his castle. Stagwick, on the east bank of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
: both branches of a magical navy sworn to protect Toril and to explore other worlds beyond. Few people know of the academy’s existence, and its leaders try to keep it that way.
Mirt the Merciless
Nimbral. Graduates from the academy join the Spelljammer Fleet, a magical navy sworn to protect Toril and explore worlds far beyond.
The academy is carved into a two-thousand-foot-high column of rock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
travel. They seldom work to improve their lairs, but when they do, it is often to channel wind currents to create effects the dragon finds pleasing. The labyrinthine tunnels and the mirror-like icy
, a rocky cavern dimly lit by blue light filtering through the icy vault high above. The largest of the dragon’s frozen trophies are scattered about the grotto. Low Cavern. Beyond the grotto, the






