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Candlekeep Mysteries
place, and everyone has their role.”
Bond. “Candlekeep is the beacon of enlightenment in an otherwise bleak and backward world.”
Flaw. “When something irritates me, I try to ignore it, but I usually end up snapping at someone.”
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
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artistic value.
Few duergar become adventurers, fewer still on the surface world, because they are a hidebound and suspicious race. Those who leave their subterranean cities are usually exiles. Check
obliterated by Moradin’s betrayal. The duergar lead bleak, grim lives devoid of happiness or satisfaction, but they see that as their defining strength — the root of duergar pride, as it were — rather than a drawback to be corrected.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Legends of Yeonido According to the oldest tales, the Dokkaebi Mountains rose above a world shrouded in mist. All lands were bleak and terrifying in those days, cloaked in endless darkness. Those who
had hope in their hearts set their sights on the Dokkaebi Mountains and traveled to the foothills, praying that something would save them. Three great dragon siblings saw the penumbral world and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Cosmic Horror Plots Adventures in cosmic horror realms are bleak, desperate affairs where the best one can hope for is to survive relatively intact. There is no stopping the ultimate evil, but
believe the noble’s grandchild will end the world.
5 Find and stop the musician whose music has robbed entire cities of sleep.
6 Survive an evening in the sinking, ancestral home of a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
place, and everyone has their role.” Bond. “Candlekeep is the beacon of enlightenment in an otherwise bleak and backward world.” Flaw. “When something irritates me, I try to ignore it, but I usually end up snapping at someone.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
punished, the kenku were set loose on the Material Plane. Since then, the kenku have wandered the world. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime.
Kenku
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Haunted by an ancient crime that robbed them of their wings, the kenku wander the world as vagabonds and burglars who live at the edge of human society. Kenku suffer from a sinister
master took away their voices. Once the entity was satisfied that they had been sufficiently punished, the kenku were set loose on the Material Plane.
Since then, the kenku have wandered the world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
bleak landscapes and desolation. Others seek to return to the Material Plane, hungry to spread the darkness and evil of the Plane of Shadow. Dark Portals. Portals to the Shadowfell manifest in forlorn
, and yet can do nothing to prevent it. Back in the World. A shadow dragon is so suffused with the power of the Shadowfell that even a return to the Material Plane can’t undo its transformation. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Fate and Destiny Two closely related concepts loom large in the way mortals think about their place in the world: fate and destiny. The idea of fate is that the course of each mortal’s life is
fairly bleak view of existence is undermined by the heroic ideal exemplified in myths, legends, and the lived experience of Theros’s people. Heroes, by definition, are people who defy the predetermined
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Athar, the Bleak Cabal, and the Mind’s Eye—are locked in debate in a public forum, such as the Trianym outside the Hall of Speakers. The quarrelers consist of a strident Athar null, an apathetic Bleak
dead husks in the Astral Sea as evidence that they’re unworthy of worship. The Bleak Cabal agrees with the Athar but goes on to say that nothing has meaning, not even this debate—the multiverse is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
way as the Feywild. Aside from the bleak landscape, it appears similar to the Material Plane. Travelers from the Material Plane who enter the Shadowfell often observe landmarks similar to the world they
Undead haunt this bleak plane, as do other creatures that thrive in the gloom, including cloakers and darkmantles. Julian Kok The Shadowfell is a realm of death, despair, and dread Shadow Crossings Shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
The Mortal Realm Compared to most worlds of the Material Plane, the mortal realm of Theros is small. The known world is barely two hundred miles across, with unexplored wilderness beyond. And some
unknown distance beyond that is the edge of the world, where the sea flows off the disk of the world and into the starry void. The known world of Theros consists of a long stretch of coastline forming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
left behind the world of the fey to roam the Lower Planes. They have dark blue or purple-black skin with white or light-colored eyes and thin, curving horns. A night hag is as least as tall as a human
eventually perform evil acts. Then, when a victim dies, the hag can harvest its soul and bring it to Hades. Sea hags live underwater or on the shore, favoring bleak and despoiled places. They have pale skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
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
the waters of the Tartyx River.
4 Escort a Returned sentry (see chapter 6) escaping from the Underworld into the mortal world.
5 Bargain with a lampad (see chapter 6) to learn where the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Outlands is the closest the Outer Planes come to being like a world on the Material Plane. Gate-Towns of the Outlands Town Gate Destination Excelsior The Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia Tradegate
-Changing Chaos of Limbo Bedlam The Windswept Depths of Pandemonium Plague-Mort The Infinite Layers of the Abyss Curst The Tarterian Depths of Carceri Hopeless The Gray Waste of Hades Torch The Bleak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the mortal world, never worshiped but sometimes appeased. Myths recount how the gods battled and imprisoned the titans, sealing them in a prison beneath the Underworld. Now the titans are all but
. Perhaps Klothys arose from a sense of inevitability, a notion that the world was unfolding as it must, and thus the actions of mortals made little difference. Kruphix might have been born from a sense of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
forgotten. The people caught up in it strive to find meaning and purpose in a bleak and violent world. Crossing the Streams Deep in D&D’s roots are elements of science fiction and science fantasy as well
characters years ago resurfaces, giving the characters a chance to finally bring the villain to justice. Sword and Sorcery A sword-and-sorcery campaign features a grim world of evil spellcasters and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
creatures to her deadly embrace.
Harpy Song. To hear a harpy’s song is to hear music more beautiful than anything else in the world. A traveler that succumbs to the entrancing effect of that singing is
. Creatures trapped or incapacitated then become easy targets for the harpy’s wrath.
Sadistic Cowards. Harpies haunt bleak coastal cliffs and other places hazardous to non-flying creatures. Harpies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
powerful entity within themself. 10 A hierophant seeking a doorway to an alien realm to bring about a new world. Villain Torments Villains in this genre are endowed with unnatural powers stemming
. Cosmic Horror Adventures Adventures in cosmic horror realms are bleak, desperate affairs, where the best one can hope for is to survive relatively intact. There is no stopping the ultimate evil, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Faces of Evil. Ancient beings with origins in the Feywild, hags are cankers on the mortal world. Their withered faces are framed by long, frayed hair, horrid moles and warts dot their blotchy skin
an individual, a hag might find it amusing to string the fool along for a while before teaching it a permanent lesson. Dark Lairs. Hags dwell in dark and twisted woods, bleak moors, storm-lashed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Jergal The Final Scribe, the Pitiless One, the Bleak Seneschal Legend has it that Jergal is an ancient deity. The story goes that in the time of Netheril he was worshiped as the god of death, murder
possessed. The trio forged an unholy pact that they would gain such ultimate power or die in the attempt. Over the length and breadth of the world they strode, seeking powerful magic and spells and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
might and reduce them to diminutive statures. Grudges fester in bleak cells, and fights regularly break out between inmates in mess halls and common areas. Particularly dangerous criminals never leave
A clone of Manshoon (lawful evil, human archmage), an infamous masked archwizard from the world of Toril, who insists he has been framed 5 A cuprilach rilmani (see Morte’s Planar Parade) that killed a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
mortal soul dies, it is drawn to Dolurrh, a place defined by despair and apathy. Over time, memories are leached out of these trapped spirits until only husks remain. Although this seems a bleak fate
develop odd characteristics as well. 4 A cavern here is a cancerous tumor that issues forth aberrations to prey upon the world, and it is growing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Necropolis Locations (Y10-Y18) Y10. Arboretum A canopy of golden leaves crowns the trees inside a sunken basin. The trees grow in stark contrast to their bleak surroundings, their branches swaying
outside, looking for all the world like frozen statues.
Six demos magen (see appendix C) guard the entrance to this store. They attack anyone who tries to steal the silks on display (see “Treasure