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Khyber dragonshards are found deep in the earth, often near layers of magma. These living crystals typically grow on cavern walls, and superstition says they flourish in areas with significant
fiendish activity. Khyber dragonshards are deep blue or dark violet, laced with gleaming veins.
Khyber dragonshards have a affinity for binding magics. Elemental binding — which is behind
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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
dreams of freeing itself from its aboleth tenders and wreaking its own foul will upon the seas.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus
the kraken’s next turn.Hidden in a deep, dark underwater pit near the Styes, this creature bears the mark of the dark god Tharizdun’s madness. Becoming more independent every day, it
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current disperses the cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of the kraken's next turn.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with
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Storm King's Thunder
cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of the kraken's next turn.A Kraken’s Lair
A kraken lives in dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus, treasure, and
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Infernal Machine Rebuild
acid.A Thessalkraken’s Lair
A thessalkraken lives in the dark depths, usually a sunken rift or a cavern filled with detritus, treasure, and the remains of sacrificial victims.
Lair Actions
On
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
control of it would grant Zuggtmoy nearly unlimited power in her new home. Though Yggmorgus can’t be seen clearly from the main cavern of Neverlight Grove, the unholy lights and sounds there can be
discerned and sometimes even felt. Characters who ask the myconids about it receive mixed responses. Sovereign Phylo and those loyal to it enter a state of near bliss when they speak about Yggmorgus, as
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the lair.
Cobweb-Choked Tunnels. Adventurers who manage to access the other side of the cave’s crystal walls discover a network of dark, cobweb-choked tunnels extending deep into the earth, set
, the largest cavern serves as the dragon’s sleeping chamber. A raised section studded with sapphire crystals offers a vantage from which the dragon can keep an eye on the chamber’s access
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
crampons or climbing gear. Light. The lair cavern is normally dark. All description assumes that the characters have a light source or darkvision. Temperature. The lair cavern is colder than the tunnels
General Features Like the caverns above it, Arauthator’s lair is composed entirely of ice. Ceiling. The rough ceiling of the open cavern rises 40 feet above the varying height of the uneven floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
crampons or climbing gear. Light. The lair cavern is normally dark. All description assumes that the characters have a light source or darkvision. Temperature. The lair cavern is colder than the tunnels
General Features Like the caverns above it, Arauthator’s lair is composed entirely of ice. Ceiling. The rough ceiling of the open cavern rises 40 feet above the varying height of the uneven floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
inexplicable structures. The Spire is hostile to magic, and many creatures instinctively avoid its dark, stifling interior. Spire Interior Features The tunnels in the Spire have the following features
the caster and lasting for 5 minutes. Darkness. The interior of the Spire is dark. Area descriptions assume the characters have a light source or other means of seeing in the dark. Preternatural Silence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
13. Speaking Stones A circle of stone menhirs predating Blingdenstone stands at the center of this small cavern. The gnomes believe this henge is a cluster of truly ancient galeb duhr, venerated as
manifestations of the gods. The more religious members of the Stoneheart Enclave cast augury and commune spells within the circle, interpreting the responses to their entreaties through subtle changes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
mouth is 40 feet above the cavern floor. Scaling the rock wall to reach the tunnel requires a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check. Development Zhora Hallen and her Dark Hunters enter the purple
7. Entry Chamber This cavern rises to a height of 50 feet and contains many stalagmites and stalactites. A purple worm tunnel leads out into the Wormwrithings through this area, but the tunnel’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
1. Entry Cavern Any characters dropped into this dark cave have time to recover, while characters who avoided falling can anchor ropes to the edge of the tunnel floor above, then climb down into the cave. In any event, the characters hear more rumbling off in the distance.
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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As an example, map 5.14 depicts a topaz dragon’s lair in a seaside cavern, but it could be reimagined as a grotto in the side of a coral reef rising from a shelf on the ocean floor, with the
. The water’s edge on the map represents the lip of the shelf, which descends to a dark plain twelve hundred feet below.
Coral Reef. The rocky cliff side depicts the contours of a coral reef that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Voice in the Dark After dealing with or avoiding the troglodytes, the adventurers can continue on toward the purple worm nursery. However, within six miles of the nursery they come across an
unexpected presence in the darkness. The remnants of a rockfall have opened up a small vaulted cavern along the passageway. Apart from the occasional glowing insect scuttling along the walls, the cavern is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
10. Slop Cave The floor of this dark, 60-foot-high cavern is covered in a thick layer of viscous purple worm saliva. Consequently, the floor is difficult terrain. As they enter, adventurers notice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
characters first enter the purple worm nursery through area 1, Zhora and her Dark Hunters enter these caverns through the tunnel in area 7, then scale down to the cavern floor. They spend a few minutes
The Dark Hunters The Dark Hunters consist of Zhora Hallen (a drow elite warrior) and ten drow. Each carries adventuring equipment (bedroll, rope, a flask of oil), three days’ worth of food and water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Velkynvelve The drow outpost is located high in a cavern, built 100 feet above the rocky floor. The outpost consists of a series of small caves in the cavern walls and four “hanging towers
are visible from the cavern floor. With the small amount of dim light used in the outpost shielded from the cavern floor below, one might walk the entire length of the cleft without becoming aware of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Spindle Cavern If the characters follow the tracks into the cave, read: The fifteen-foot-wide passage opens into a large, rough chamber with a sunken floor. A misshapen, vaguely oblong lump of metal
sits in the middle of the chamber. A sliver of light streaming down on it from a hole in the cavern’s ceiling gives it a dark-blue sheen. Hovering near the meteorite are two identical creatures, each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Troglodytes hurl javelins from the shore where the Dark Stream passes through an open cavern. Water weirds and chuuls lurk in the stream and attack from the water.
The Dark Stream An underground stream connects the Temple of the Crushing Wave to the surface. The stream originates from a large spring in this part of the ancient dwarven stronghold. It flows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
find the cavern where the tower stands without getting lost. Use random encounters from chapter 13, “The Wormwrithings,” on the way to the tower. The final stretch to reach the tower is through a
cavern around it offers space to camp and no risk of encounters. However, if the characters are riding giant lizards or other mounts, those mounts are unable to navigate the narrow route to the tower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Demons’ Ledge Two ramps lead up to a 40-foot-high ledge that mostly encircles the walls of an immense, dark cavern. The ledge nearly surrounds the drow fortress. There are no gaps in the stone
his commands. The vrocks use their darkvision to scan the cavern for intruders. When a vrock sees something suspicious, it emits a loud screech that can be heard throughout areas 10 through 19
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
29. Ruined Stockade This cavern was once a shrine for Baervan Wildwanderer, the gnomish deity known as the Father of Fish and Fungus. Now it belongs to the Pudding King. The sound of dripping water
fills this dark cave, and various oozes slither across the walls and floor. Some sort of fungal wall or partition once divided the cave, but that barrier has been destroyed. Beyond it lies more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gallery of Angels This cavern lies deep inside the Labyrinth and contains another ritual component that Vizeran needs. The passage you follow climbs upward as it corkscrews through stone, finally
emerging through the floor of a large cavern. The ceiling arches sixty feet overhead, bristling with stalactites that drip water onto stalagmites rising from the uneven and broken floor. Here and there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
scrap metal.
Builders. Four scaladar (see appendix A) are hauling new pieces of metal to the arch and attaching them to it. The cavern is dark aside from the intermittent light of welding sparks coming
2. Vast Cavern This 120-foot-high cavern is abuzz with activity. 2a. Simulacrux Simulacrux. A 20-foot-deep trench surrounds a 100-foot-tall, half-completed metal archway that rises from a bed of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
10. Dark Pool Treasure is concealed in this water-filled cave. A still pool fills much of this cavern. The water is dark, revealing little of what might lie within. The shore of the pool consists of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
L6. Study The workshop narrows into another passage that splits and links up twice. It gently descends to this area described as follows: An oval cavern opens here, forty feet wide and sixty feet
long. Dark purple tapestries hang on the walls. At the center stands a pedestal fashioned of severed arms arranged to clutch one another in a cone. Cradled in the uppermost hands is a glowing crystal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
greater demon (from Araumycos’s cavern in chapter 16, or elsewhere) Gromph Baenre’s grimoire (from Sorcere in chapter 15) A few drops of blood or ichor from a demon lord (from Yeenoghu’s battle with the
goristro in chapter 14, or from fighting Juiblex in chapter 16) After Vizeran DeVir uses these components to create the talisman known as the dark heart to draw forth the exiled demon lords from across
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Characters looking to double-cross Vizeran — or those with a sense of poetic justice — might hide the dark heart somewhere in the drow archmage’s tower or the surrounding cavern. This reduces the
Let This Be Their Battlefield The players can choose where their characters confront the demon lords by deciding where to set the dark heart talisman. Vizeran’s preference is anywhere in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
floors. Moving through a narrow passage, you enter a cavern dimly lit by phosphorescent fungi — and are met by the sight of a dark metal tower perched on the edge of a cliff that drops away into
the wall facing you is a sturdy-looking door made of the same dark metal as the rest of the tower.
No ordinary structure, the tower is a Daern’s instant fortress (see chapter 7, “Treasure,” of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
wreck allows easy access to a darkened cavern that opens up beneath broken slabs of stone — the remains of the seals that once blocked the opening of the pit. As the characters enter the wreck, a
and attack as soon as the characters enter. The undead do not pursue fleeing characters beyond the 300-foot hemisphere of dark energy that surrounds the rift. The Rift A pulsating light composed of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
65. Underground Lake A dark underground lake opens up before you, its ceiling festooned with chains and gears — some of which appear to have dwarves dangling from them. A gigantic motionless stone
cog rises from the water, with two matching cogs connected to it. Rusty metal conduits stretch from the cavern walls to the cogs. The water of the lake is slimy, with pinpricks of phosphorescent light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Gracklstugh After days of walking in the deep, dark places beneath the surface, I was led, in heavy chains, to Gracklstugh, on the shores of the Darklake. I was set to work almost immediately at a
handled. The duergar make their homes mainly beyond a great wall, which I never passed through. To the north, the floor of the cavern that contains the Darklake hovers dangerously low, such that in some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
General Features The following features are common throughout the Caves of Hunger: Ceilings. Most cavern ceilings are 30 feet high and made of smooth ice. Tunnel ceilings range from 10 to 15 feet
in which it’s encountered. Psychic Hauntings d12 Haunting
1 A man wanders around in the cavern. His fingers are black with frostbite, and his mouth is agape in a silent scream. Although he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
surface clear. A gray ooze lurks in the pool’s shallows, blending perfectly with the dark, wet stone. It feeds on the waste dumped into the pool, along with the occasional creature that finds its way
into the cavern or falls into the pool. The inhabitants of Velkynvelve remain unaware that the recent arrival of the demon lord Juiblex in the Underdark has made this ooze particularly aggressive and