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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hesitation. Howler packs course over the battlefields of the Blood War and also serve evil mortals powerful and vicious enough to command their loyalty.
Howlers rely on speed, numbers, and their mind
-numbing howling to corner prey before they tear it apart. Their howls flood the minds of their victims, making complex thought impossible. Listeners can do little more than stare in horror and stumble
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
… or than any of your selves do, really.
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It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
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With a true understanding of metaphysics, anything is
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Balance. Everything is a complex interaction of forces that must be kept in a delicate and carefully maintained balance. (Neutral)
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Knowledge. We are the whole of creation
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. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of your selves do, really.
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It is not my place
than this one.
Amethyst Dragon Ideals
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Ideal
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Balance. Everything is a complex interaction of forces that
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
your selves do, really.
7
It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
8
With a true understanding of metaphysics, anything is possible—including
. Everything is a complex interaction of forces that must be kept in a delicate and carefully maintained balance. (Neutral)
2
Knowledge. We are the whole of creation, seeking to understand itself
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
you do … or than any of your selves do, really.
7
It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
8
With a true understanding of metaphysics
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Balance. Everything is a complex interaction of forces that must be kept in a delicate and carefully maintained balance. (Neutral)
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Knowledge. We are the whole of creation
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
the path to Baldur’s Gate fully understanding the complex social morass that awaits. You enter the city an outsider, and it’s likely that—no matter how long you spend in the city&mdash
, survived weather more extreme than any city-dweller could comprehend, and enjoyed the solitude of being the only thinking creature for miles in any direction. The wilds are in your blood, whether you were a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
to feel flesh and steel sundered beneath his claws and to taste his foes’ blood. Yet Geryon’s ferocity has also limited his ability to collect souls and forge an effective hierarchy
replacement for both.Geryon’s Lair
Geryon has recently reclaimed his ancient fortress, Coldsteel, a sprawling complex that rises from the ice and snow at the center of Stygia. He roams the
Backgrounds
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draw the blood of your enemies, or even directly touch their souls.
Suggested Characteristics
Members of the Orzhov Syndicate range from the decadent nobility at the top of the oligarchy to the debt
’t think of anything to look forward to.
Ideals
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Ideal
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Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Wealth. I will do whatever it takes to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems. They create secret places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron and
minotaur with six iron horns. A fiendish light burns in his red eyes. Although he is filled with bestial blood lust, there lies within him a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
; he loves to feel flesh and steel sundered beneath his claws and to taste his foes’ blood. Yet Geryon’s ferocity has also limited his ability to collect souls and forge an effective
competent replacement for both.Geryon’s Lair
Geryon has recently reclaimed his ancient fortress, Coldsteel, a sprawling complex that rises from the ice and snow at the center of Stygia. He roams
Human
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dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.
Variety in All Things
Humans are the most
head on the ceiling—good food and good stories in front of a nice, warm fire. If halflings had a shred of ambition, they might really amount to something.”
Lasting Institutions
Where a
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guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Hedonism. Death comes for everyone, so take as much pleasure as you can from every moment of life. (Neutral)
3
Creativity. I strive to
the same performance troupe for years, and these people mean everything to me.
2
A blood witch told me I have a special destiny to fulfill, and I’m trying to figure out what it is.
3
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
cannot resist a game of dragonchess—which, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented.
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The sight of blood makes me queasy.
Sapphire Dragon Ideals
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caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying
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are gifts of the angels.
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I pace when standing and fidget incessantly when forced to sit.
Ideals
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Ideal
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Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any
relationship ended messily.
7
I owe a monetary debt to an Orzhov syndic.
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A Rakdos blood witch seems to enjoy harassing me.
9
I tried to recruit a friend who ended up joining the Selesnya
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smear the blood of my enemies over my skin.
7
I was, in fact, raised by maaka.
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HarrRRAAGGHH! [I rarely form a coherent sentence and prefer to express myself by breaking things
.]
Ideals
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Ideal
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Clan. My clan is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Anarchy. No person or law or custom can tell another what to do. (Chaotic)
3
Nature.
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, I will have you know, my ancestors probably invented.
8
The sight of blood makes me queasy.
Sapphire Dragon Ideals
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of psychic forces has begun to affect the local fauna in strange ways.
Sapphire Dragon Lairs
Sapphire dragons make their lairs in enormous caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of your selves do, really.
7 It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
8 With a true
understanding of metaphysics, anything is possible—including the creation of a more orderly and perfect cosmos than this one.
Amethyst Dragon Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Balance. Everything is a complex
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
9. The Fane An underground cathedral opens before you. At one end, a sculptured balcony perches atop five rearing stone serpents. Blood dribbling from the serpents’ jaws falls into a semicircular
can be heard throughout the temple complex. One strike announces the start of a serpent ritual: when sounded, all the yuan-ti within the temple complex arrive here within half an hour. Two or more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
destroyed in the carnage of the Blood War, but a champion of Tiamat named Windfall rebuilt the casino and rededicated it to the Dragon Queen as a celebration of her god’s greed and vanity. The Red
. As the characters approach the Red Belvedere, read or paraphrase the following: Jagged mountains give way to an unexpectedly beautiful sight: a sprawling, palatial complex glittering with silver and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Great Dance We measure ourselves by those we fight, and my company faces the greatest threat to the cosmos.
— Veritus Wrath, commander, Flawless Execution
The battle lines in the Blood War
. By hiring skilled merrenoloth pilots to navigate the river, a demon lord can transport an invasion force of enormous size. Mimicking a complex dance, the two sides shift their attacks and trade
Kobold
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owner, they are often willing to take the chance of revealing themselves because the potential reward is worth the risk.
Dragon Servitors
Kobolds believe that they were created by Tiamat from the blood
humanoids, but they know that there is greatness within them and they are proud that they were chosen to be the blood-kin of dragons.
Kobolds willingly serve chromatic dragons and worship them as if
Orc
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warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out on a
dwarfhold, the orcs will butcher any dwarf that stands against them, but it’s really all about the property—they would be just as happy if all the dwarves ran away.
Strength Respects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
exist escaped from its hold and now populate the mountains. 16–25 Kwalish did not perish on his expedition. He alone survived, taking shelter in some complex he found in the peaks. 26–30 Fey woods
keep a brain alive long after a creature’s death. 46–50 Kwalish never really existed. The inventor who went by that name was really a construct, created by Ioun to walk among mortals and study our
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
complex control panel.
Control Panel The control panel is covered with dials, switches, and buttons—including a hazy yellow button recognizable as one of the missing components of the Infernal
tools, and a set of tinker’s tools. In addition, a successful DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) check identifies two vials of thessaltoxin poison, one vial of blood of the lycanthrope antidote, one vial of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
with troublesome sprites by day and swarms of blood-sucking stirges by night. But finally, the trees begin to thin out as you enter the rocky foothills of the range.
Exactly as indicated on the
original expedition’s map, you find a cleft in the rocks that leads to the start of a twisting tunnel complex. As you prepare to enter, you bid farewell to the world of life and light as you leave it behind you . . .
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
devoted to Baphomet use mazes and complex knots as their emblems, creating secret places to indulge themselves, including labyrinths of the sort their master favors. Bloodstained crowns and weapons of iron
six iron horns. An infernal light burns in his red eyes. Although he is filled with bestial blood lust, there lies within him a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all of civilization
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
silver wires to a third creature that appears to be a two-headed owlbear. More silver wire connects their restraints to a complex control panel standing between them.
The experiment underway in this
area involves creating a two-headed owlbear by infusing an owlbear—a classic creation of Thessalar’s—with ettin’s blood. Creatures Four lizardfolk shamans work here as lab managers, overseeing the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
environmental nuisance or deterrent, razorvine that absorbs the blood of a vampiric passerby can awaken into a terror known as a razorvine blight. Razorvine blights lay ambushes on well-traveled paths by standing
Patch, spreads copies of itself across the city, creating a spy network of copies with mysterious goals. CoupleofKooks “Folks hate razorvine, but it’s really only a problem if you’ve got skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
sting of formaldehyde emanating from a nearby shelf of clouded flasks and antiseptic jars. Dried blood stains the drab, mosaicked floor and the edges of your table, and pained moans haunt the halls beyond
? Morte describes himself as a debonair planes traveler who died too young. If asked about the whereabouts of his body, Morte quips he never really had a good head on his shoulders or claims to be the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, she also knows she can use the results of his cruelty to help future lives. Valentin, Dean of the Vein Dean Valentin (neutral vampire) is ancient and drinks the blood of living creatures throughout the
bayou. Valentin is a kind of sangromancer—he receives visions from the blood he consumes, which he uses to learn things about a creature or place. He has no qualms about exploiting the bayou’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Hoardsperson Disbursement of coin is at my discretion. Be really nice to me. — Hoardsperson joke (not joking) As the name suggests, Acquisitions Incorporated is all about the acquiring, and the
the chest. Thanks to Head Office striking deals you don’t want to know about with extraplanar creatures you really don’t want to know about, there is no chance for the spell to end. That Thing You
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
saboteurs using their criminal activities as a cover for their true agenda. What is Sora Katra really trying to accomplish in Sharn? This question ties to how you decide to use the Daughters of Sora
powers in Sharn, or pursue ancient artifacts in the ruins below the city to keep them out of others’ hands. Dreamlily is relatively safe; dragon’s blood is not. Its effects are intentionally unpredictable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Painted in blood on the kitchen wall is a circle with ten equidistant lines radiating outward from its circumference: the sign of Xanathar. A thorough search accompanied by a successful DC 12 Wisdom
(Perception) check reveals small pools of blood on the kitchen floor. A successful check also verifies that the blood on the floor and wall is fresh. Fenerus’s Story Fenerus Stormcastle was the founder of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
L5. Jagged Sanctum This stone structure rises ominously above the rest of the temple complex. It resembles a giant stone flower growing in the heart of the forest. Stone steps draped with a long red
positions around the chamber.
“Do you really think that you can defeat my Immortal Lotus style? You are mere worms slithering through the mud on a rainy day. I am the bird, here to feast!”
Bak Mei
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of the characters can cast sending, Vizeran can provide the spell on a spell scroll). Vizeran (assisted by Grin if the apprentice is available), performs the complex ritual in the sanctum of his tower
, have Vizeran tell them that the ritual needs a final component, to be delivered while it is performed: the sacrifice of an innocent sentient being, whose blood will fuel and activate the ritual’s