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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a
great battle—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those
Cadaver Collector
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
back to Acheron, but if a summoner comes to a bad end, a cadaver collector might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Sweeping the Dead
. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor.
Conjured Berserkers. Corpses
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
forever. In time, the necrotic magic of the Grim Harrow animated the corpses of the blink dogs as the first harrow hounds.
The Grim Harrow employs harrow hounds as trackers and companions. Harrow
return to the Gardens of Decay with the hunt incomplete. Powerful Undead, such as vampire;vampires and death knight;death knights, might be accompanied by packs of harrow hounds.PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, wheeling corpses to embalming chambers or to the crematorium. The Heralds of Dust treat the dead with reverence and dignity, granting them last rites in accordance with the beliefs of the deceased
book’s introduction. If all the characters die at once, they reappear back in the morgue. Morte heckles them on their return.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
57. Oubliette Any creature that tries to magically transport itself out of the tomb arrives here instead. You arrive in a room half-filled with rotting corpses. Protruding from one wall is a large
corpses that fill the room to a depth of 6 feet and make the area difficult terrain. As needed, Acererak’s magic draws new corpses here from graveyards across the world, all in various states of decay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. A cadaver collector responds to a summons from a mortal only if it is called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. The collector encases itself in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors, and it impales the corpses of those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Sweeping the Dead. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are
impale the corpses of those warriors on the lances and other weapons embedded in their salvaged armor. Conjured Berserkers. Corpses that accumulate on the construct’s shell aren’t just grisly battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
what once were neatly tended fungus gardens.
Corpses. Lying amid the razed mushrooms are the charred corpses of 1d4 giant fire beetles, 1d6 myconid sprouts, and 1d8 myconid adults. The glands have been
torn out of the fire beetles’ bodies.
A character who inspects the corpses and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check can determine that the beetles and myconids were killed by slashing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
-foot-tall pillar of ice with a horned, pale-skinned, humanoid figure trapped inside it. The pillar is wrapped in black chains, and the wall behind it is covered with brown fungus.
The figure in the
frozen at all times by the 10-foot-square patch of brown mold growing on the wall behind it (see “Brown Mold” in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Any creature that touches the pillar of ice is close enough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a great battle
—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those warriors on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
area K9. The wide staircase leads up to area K19. If the characters are here by invitation, add the following: An elf with brown skin and long black hair descends the wide staircase, quiet as a cat. He
Tower Stair (area K21). Development After all the characters leave this room, the eight gargoyles attack any character who dares to return. The gargoyles also swoop down to fight if they are attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Boros Legion AARON MILLER A brown-bearded, broad-chested man clad in massive-shouldered plate armor led a battalion of soldiers, the symbol of the Boros Legion emblazoned on white cloth draped over
Boros armor floated in protective positions over its animate flame.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
Clad in shining armor and fueled by righteous zeal, the soldiers of the Boros
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
populated areas, practice cannibalism, believing it is foolish to waste good meat.
In any case, kobolds that eat humanoids don’t simply start consuming corpses or prisoners right after a battle
protection from invaders and in return providing services such as excavating new living spaces and disposing of trash. If it’s unlucky, the tribe is enslaved by the other humanoids, and the kobolds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
return to normal on Firewatch Island and the communities of the nearby coast. The surviving hermits abandon the island, but a new group settles there before long. Or, Feldrin Kane, the Uskarn bailiff
and transformed into undead, until Syrgaul has an army of drowned corpses at his command. What terrible atrocities the undead captain might visit upon the nearby settlements are up to you. Even with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
currently standing watch on the walls. A search of the bailey yields the corpses of two dead human guards, both of whom were struck and killed by falling rocks. Characters can enter the keep through the front
years ago, members of House Nandar — Lord Drezlin Nandar and Lady Velrosa Nandar — decided it was time to return. They built a new motte-and-bailey settlement south of the Ardeep Forest and began making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
alongside the characters as a sign of gratitude. Kharbek is a mountain dwarf explorer with brown skin, brown eyes, and jet-black hair. They stand just over 4 feet tall and have an athletic build
. Personality Trait. “I am a zealous worshiper of Moradin and take it upon myself to protect those in need.” Ideal. “Honesty is the best policy.” Bond. “When someone helps me, I’m bound by my honor to return the favor.” Flaw. “I am far too trusting and have a difficult time discerning a lie.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
statues of bears grip a five-foot-diameter bronze disk embossed with a dozen glaring eyes. Six desiccated corpses slump on thrones in niches along the walls. Each corpse wears a black mask made of papier
-mâché and feathers. An arched crystal window to the east offers a view of the tunnel beyond.
See area 6 for a description of the crystal window. The corpses slumped on the thrones are six dormant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
characters still refuse, Captain Sartell makes good on her threat and boards the vessel herself in search of salvage. When she doesn’t return, Flapjack urges the party to go and find her, refusing to leave
search the cargo hold. Corpses. The cargo hold contains eleven human corpses. The arachnid form is a dead neogi (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie). A character who examines the corpses and makes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
statue. Behind the statue, two maggot-ridden corpses hang from iron shackles bolted to the wall.
The ceiling here is 20 feet high. The statue is a crude depiction of Mother Night. Kneeling before
, hoping that the goddess might hold enough sway over Strahd to persuade him to free her beloved. Zuleika Toranescu Kiril has ordered Zuleika to guard the prisoners. If the characters rescue Emil and return
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Wight Life-Leeching Corpse Warrior Habitat: Desert, Planar (Shadowfell), Swamp, Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Armaments Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains
Lutfullina
Wights might return from the dead for a multitude of sinister reasons. Roll on or choose a result from the Wight Motives table to inspire why a wight plagues the living.
Wight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
overlooking the trench. The hobgoblins aim to draw out Zox Clammersham, defeat him, seize the ring he uses to control the scaladar, and return the ring to Doomcrown, the hobgoblin warlord on level 14
dotted with the remains of broken machines.
Corpses. Two ogres clad in iron armor lie dead among the metal detritus, their flesh pierced by dozens of metal crossbow bolts.
The ogres served the hobgoblins until they were shot dead by Zox’s arbalests a few days ago.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, one of Candlekeep’s sages and the foremost expert on Xanthoria—both the book and its mysterious author: Your guide does not return. Instead, you are greeted by a robed wood elf with brown hair and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, having fled their homeland’s zombie plague. Such individuals have likely seen horrors and know tragedy. Falkovnia’s residents often have brown hair and varied skin tones with warm undertones. Their names
?
How did you escape the zombie hordes? Were you lucky enough not to encounter the undead? Did you defeat animate corpses or flee from them? Did you fall but somehow escape notice by the undead? Did
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
common nuisance, as pox-ridden corpses regularly return to confront their oppressors. CoupleOfKooks “The knife of betrayal is best twisted twice–once in the back and again in the grave. Trust no one
commonly cough up flies or wipe ichor from their dribbling noses. Undead Townsfolk. Dead townsfolk periodically return as skeletons, zombies, and revenants. Noteworthy Sites Plague-Mort is a bleak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
light crossbow. If the adventurers leave this area, there’s a 50 percent chance that 1d4 of the other tomb dwarves prowling the dungeon are present when they return. Any character who searches the
test traps. Iron Kiln The dwarves use the iron contraption on the dais to craft tomb guardians from the corpses of slain adventurers. As the characters arrive, the tomb dwarves are in the process of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
out elsewhere amid the chaos of war. Glowing Signal. The kakkuus immediately return if they see the glyph glowing on the door to area Y2. Y2: Guard Hall The exterior door has an invisible glyph
, she knows that powerful spyder-fiends can spot her. Naxa asks the characters to help her escape the citadel and return to her sister. Naxa’s Secret. When the characters talk at length with Naxa, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
do with the corpses and return the golden antlers to Therno Lake, Aspen gives the characters her pouch of pearls (see the “Treasure” section below). Treasure. A pouch around Aspen’s neck contains a
Lair. If Aspen trusts the party, she tasks them with a special quest. The derro have been dragging hunter corpses to their lair for an unknown purpose. Recently, the derro also pillaged one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
easily manipulated mayor of Oztocan. In his forties, Tavio has brown skin and sports short black hair, a scruffy beard, and simple clothes. Although he is smart, he has an aversion to conflict and is
, Tavio urges them to return the shard to its proper place in the tomb. He also asks them to beware his sister, whose allegiance to the Onyx Scar is absolute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Explorer, Dead Chult is strewn with the corpses and bones of those who have fallen victim to its terrors. When the characters discover one such victim, roll a d20 and consult the Dead Explorers table
did the dwarf in.) 7 The swollen, purple corpse of an elf, dead only a few days ago from the bite of a poisonous snake. 8 A fresh human corpse stuffed into a hollow tree. (Girallons plan to return and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
imagined. They avoid Mekkalath when possible, but when forced to interact with the dragon, they placate him with obsequious flattery and treasure plucked from their victims’ corpses. The hags lair in the
, while the howling has attracted the notice of hungry spiders. Characters willing to free the creature might befriend it or return it to the hags for a favor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of the demons. Sixteen drow stand south of the demons.
Corpses. The bodies of fifty drow and twenty troglodytes litter the battlefield amid pools of demon ichor. Their gear is unsalvageable.
The
house’s wrath. If the characters side with the house that wins, the leader of the victorious drow parleys with them to find out what they expect in return (see below). If the characters end up on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
and turns ethereal to escape the party, only to return once she rounds up the students and forms a posse. If the characters attack her here, the night hag turns ethereal and flees. Doll Collection
. Next to this table is a wooden barrel that holds humanoid body parts in various stages of decay.
Hanging Corpses. Four mostly intact human corpses are hanging from hooks mounted to the south wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
the githyanki scouts now inhabiting area B7. Returning to Illithinoch. The characters can return to Illithinoch through the gateway for seven days. After that, the gateway becomes unstable. A character
: Passage of Death Four duergar corpses are strewn about this curved passage.
Six duergar explorers—two mages and four warriors—came to the Briny Maze a few months ago. The mages were disciples of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
instead of a humanoid-shaped vegepygmy. Thornies are less intelligent than vegepygmies, but have greater size and ferocity, as well as a thorn-covered body. Corpses of those slain by russet mold grow
fungus known as russet mold is reddish-brown in color and found only in places that are dark, warm, and wet. Russet mold that spreads out across a metal object can be mistaken for natural rust, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
space on one of the last merchant carts out. They took what they could fit on their backs, and they left their other possessions behind and hid their valuables in order to return and claim them later
The front door of the stonemason’s home and workshop gapes open, with the remains of the door lying several feet away and covered in long brown grass. The roof has caved in, and remnants of rotting