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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
dead comrades and arranged their bones into a spirit pole. Characters who explore the compound discover this effigy: A glaive has been thrust into remains of a burned-out pyre. Charred snake skulls
2. Walled Compound Smoke drifts lazily from a walled compound. The gate lies in splinters, and scorch marks deface the buildings. Near the center of the compound is a plaza littered with charred
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
runs 500 yards into a dense stand of trees and brush at the edge of the Mere of Dead Men. At night, when everyone in the compound is asleep except for a few rooftop guards, lizardfolk creep through
transit point for the cult’s contraband coming up from the south. When wagons arrive from the south, they are brought into the compound one or two at a time for unloading, then moved back outside for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the edge of the Mere of Dead Men. At night, when everyone in the compound is asleep except for a few rooftop guards, lizardfolk creep through the tunnel and take the marked crates to a location in the
from the south. When wagons arrive from the south, they are brought into the compound one or two at a time for unloading, then moved back outside for parking. The compound is crowded with food, lumber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Fields of the Dead The expanse known as the Fields of the Dead has been the battleground for myriad wars and skirmishes over the centuries. It is said that the hills that dot the countryside here all
hold the dead, and there is some measure of truth to that — many of the hillocks are indeed barrows, raised to house the fallen dead of one faction or nation on either side of a war. I have seen more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Larissa Snowmane Captain Larissa Snowmane pilots the paddleboat River Dancer along the rivers and coasts of Ravenloft’s domains, righting wrongs and ferrying those in need to new homes. Larissa is a
threatens her vessel and crew, Captain Snowmane reluctantly uses a magical performance known as the Dance of the Dead, a forbidden song and dance that keeps Undead creatures at bay but slays living
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, something creepy with something cute, dead with alive, threatening with welcoming. Mix details together in unexpected ways, the more unnatural or off-putting the better. Rationalize and Normalize
. Outline the justifications inhabitants use to pretend nothing is wrong. What could reasonably explain their surreal experiences? They claim rivers of blood are crimson due to natural clay deposits, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Athreos God of Passage All mortals are destined to face Athreos, the River Guide, when their lives come to an end. The god of passage ferries the dead across the Tartyx River, conveying each mortal
, Katabasis, which he transforms into the ferryboat he uses to ply the Rivers That Ring the World. Though the deity’s shrouded form gives no clue, many mortals consider Athreos to be male, but the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
have desires beyond his responsibilities to the dead, he would likely keep them secret and act with slow, nearly invisible, deliberateness. The Athreos’s Divine Schemes table suggests just a few of the
greed, but as it is payment for something beyond the gods.
3 The Rivers That Ring the World are drying up. As the tides recede, great ruins are revealed, rising from the river bottom. Athreos sends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
was trapped in the Underworld, but he learned how to forsake his identity to prevent Erebos from detecting what he was doing. He crossed back over the Rivers That Ring the World wrapped in the tattered
cloak of Athreos, the River Guide, who ushers the dead to their final rest. Hidden by illusion as he was, neither Athreos nor Erebos could find Phenax and bring him back. Able to play whatever role
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. These paths lie beyond lands controlled by the poleis and other civilized beings. Dark caves with tunnels leading down into darkness and rivers quietly lapping at fog-shrouded gravel shores give way
to the Underworld’s borders. Though Athreos ferries the dead across the Tartyx, he’s not above accepting a one-way fare from those who still breathe. Even the other fearsome Underworld guardians that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gromph is alive or dead. She knows only that she can’t hide his disappearance forever — even as she must ensure that no damage comes to her house as a result of his actions. Quenthel doesn’t care that the
strands forms a kind of fence around a sprawling compound of structures laid out on the plateau at the top of Menzoberranzan’s great cavern. Dozens of massive stalagmites and stalactites have been carved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Guide. Bridges and borders are also places where Athreos is commonly remembered, with many such sites being marked by motifs of rivers or spirits. Additionally, phenomena that are neither one thing nor
death, either by overstepping their bounds or by trying to draw the dead back into life, the River Guide has little to do with them. More than once, this isolation has put Athreos in silent conflict with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
speed. In a dead calm (no wind), waterborne ships can’t move under sail and must be rowed. Keelboats and Rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. If going downstream, add the speed of the current
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
speed. In a dead calm (no wind), waterborne ships can’t move under sail and must be rowed. Keelboats and Rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. If going downstream, add the speed of the current
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
infected creature repeats the saving throw, shaking off the disease on a successful save. Throat Leeches Minuscule parasites known as throat leeches infect the water in Chult’s forests, swamps, and rivers
boiled or magically purified. A CURE FOR DEAD CHARACTERS
If a player character dies while exploring the wilds of Chult, an NPC guide might suggest that the party take its dead member to the ghost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
water manifests as rivers and stars appear in skies divorced from universes. They are the wardens that hold the Darklords prisoner. Ever-present and inscrutable, the Dark Powers are akin to gods in
social club of eccentric dilettantes. When they claimed someone was trying to murder them, I tried not to dismiss it as imaginative paranoia. Now, though, I know something wants these spiritualists dead
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
emerald dragon.
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Two balor;balors act as jailers for an ancient emerald dragon imprisoned by a long-dead enemy.
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An ancient emerald dragon works to summon a solar to get a firsthand account
defiles, way-markers tumbling off the path, or smaller stones shifting beneath travelers’ feet to send them tumbling down slopes or into rivers.
Thriving Wildlife. Giant lizard;Giant lizards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
(or at least less ambitious) creatures. Erstwhile A significant shift in the Golgari balance of power began when the kraul death priest Mazirek discovered an ancient mausoleum compound. Deep in the
farms. Shriekers serve as sentries in Golgari tunnels, and violet fungus sprouts from the corpses of intruders. Amorphous masses of dead and decaying matter can develop into shambling mounds in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rivers. Stygia Levistus’s prison is a frigid hellscape of jagged ice and cold fire. Malbolge An ever-crumbling mountain threatens to bury visitors. Maladomini Swarms of hungry flies plague dead cities
, Avernus, is the arrival point for visitors, a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and carve out fuming impact craters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
) Lampad Lampads guard the shadowed paths of the world, depths typically trod by souls destined for the Underworld. These rarely seen nymphs assist Athreos in guiding the dead, moving among the spirits that
undead, it has disadvantage on attack rolls against the lampad until the end of the lampad’s next turn.
(KIERAN YANNER) Naiad Naiads live in and near water. They might be spotted among rivers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
top of the parapet down to the compound. A set of locked, ironbound wooden doors at ground level provide access to storerooms and cellars located underneath each watch post. Picking a door lock requires
designed to amplify sound, allowing the ringing of each gong to be heard as far as two miles away. Any other watch posts within that range ring their gongs as well, putting more of the compound on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, dead fish might wash ashore in lakes or rivers, or a nearby forest might lose the leaves from its trees. When an empyrean is jubilant, sunlight follows it everywhere, small animals frolic in its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
fell on him, Heliod saw his shadow and feared it. He banished the shadow to the land beyond the Rivers That Ring the World, and it became Erebos, god of the dead and ruler of the Underworld.
Origin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
bugbears Sixty goblins, split into two groups of thirty All of the bugbears, and half of the ogres and goblins, climb over the walls in the dead of night. They slip into the wheat fields in search of food to
realize something is amiss and reach the bell in the dead of night.) The ringing bell can be heard for miles and puts all of Goldenfields’ defenses on alert. The bell panics any ogres, bugbears, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Fire Giant Giant of the Smoldering Depths Habitat: Mountain, Underdark; Treasure: Armaments Robson Michel Fire giants inhabit the hollow vaults and molten rivers of mountainous depths. There, they
fire and the half-remembered arcana of dead spellcasters. They rise from the remains of dead magic-users who were reanimated by sinister necromancers or whose magical pursuits drive them beyond death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Undead
Greater Undead
Mountains
Rivers
Ruins
Swamp
Wasteland
Aarakocra 01–07 — — — 01–11 01–03 — — — Albino dwarves — 01 01 — 12–17 — 01–02 — — Aldani — — — — — 04–07 — 01–10 — Almiraj
— Emerald Enclave 41–42 38–42 19–20 15–16 46–47 41–43 24–26 — — Explorer, dead — 43–44 21–22 17–20 48–50 44–45 27–28 40–41 10–18 Explorers 43–46 45 23 21 51–53 46–49 29–31 42–45 19 Firenewts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
friendly but humorless groundskeeper of Phaulkonmere, a compound located one block south of Kolat Towers (see chapter 8). Phaulkonmere is owned by the Tarm and Phaulkon noble families. Melannor
Everdawn, a grizzled old champion of Kelemvor, has offered to help the City Guard catch a necromancer who’s stealing bones from the City of the Dead and animating them as skeletons. Sir Ambrose could use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Camp Vengeance Through the foliage, you see a crude timber fortification — a walled compound with watchtowers and tents inside it, encircled by a ditch bristling with sharpened stakes. A large
.
The corpses around the fort (map 2.4) are the remains of beasts and undead that attacked the camp. The camp dwellers took meat off the dead dinosaurs and other beasts to feed themselves, leaving the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
bounded by rivers or walls. But in Waterdeep, one can traverse from ward to ward by crossing a street — a fact that offers the drivers of hire-coaches some amusement when an ignorant tourist requests a
century ago, children passing through the alley still sing a song: “Hop for the hollows, hop for the dead, hop on the flagstones, hop on their heads.” As you stroll down Warrior’s Way or the Street
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
against an endless plague of zombies. General Vladeska Drakov commands a fierce military force that desperately clings to power. Kalakeri A beautiful land of rainforests, rivers, and lakes is a
hauntings. The dead here earn no rest, no finality, no peace—just a passage into a shadow world of wispy phantoms, mournful groaning, and clanking chains. Valachan The devious hunter Chakuna roams the jungles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
take 13 (3d8) thunder damage and have the deafened condition for 1 minute. The echo then dissipates and doesn’t compound. Whispers of Fate. The magic of the Feywild whispers into the cavern, offering
out. Stalagmites. The rock formations throughout this cavern are dangerously sharp. A creature pushed into a stalagmite takes 11 (2d10) piercing damage. Treasure. The skeleton of a decades-dead human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
layer of Avernus is the arrival point for visitors to the plane. Avernus is a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and
wind, choking smoke, and pyroclastic ash. Within the fire-filled caldera of Phlegethos’s largest volcano rises Abriymoch, a fortress city cast of obsidian and dark glass. With rivers of molten lava
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
dragon’s lair, and the dragon wants to reclaim the lair. 3 An ancient hero returns from the dead to prepare the world for the return of an equally ancient monster. 4 An ancient Artifact has the power to
defeat or imprison a rampaging titan. 5 A god of agriculture is angry, causing rivers to dry up and crops to wither. 6 An Artifact belonging to a god falls into mortal hands. 7 A titan imprisoned in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
teenage sons named Soshen and Tiryk. Soshen is a city guard, and Tiryk is a popular dinosaur racer. Both were named after Chultan rivers. Ekene-Afa sells nonmagical weapons and shields of every kind
Calishite pasha. She died on a mission, but her benefactor paid a handsome price to raise her from the dead. As a result of her misfortune years ago, Jessamine is now suffering from the effects of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, “Hold of the Storm Giants,” for more information on this location. Mere of Dead Men A kingdom that stood here long ago was washed away when a lich named Iniarv caused the sea to flow inland. The swamp
hunters. Treasure Superstitious members of the Thunderbeast tribe buried many magic items in their spirit mound so that they could be watched over by the dead. Looters have unearthed nearly all of these






