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Storm King's Thunder
Built by dwarven gods and entrusted to the rulers of Shanatar, an ancient dwarven empire, the Wyrmskull Throne was a symbol of dwarven power and pride for ages untold. The throne hovers a foot off
the ground and is a massive thing made of polished obsidian with oversized feet — the impaled skulls of four ancient blue dragons. Runes glisten in the carved obsidian, winking to life with blue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
and reclaimed their rightful place as mighty rulers. The All-Father now dwells in the Outlands, his realm hidden from divination magic and invisible to the naked eye. Though the Hidden Realm’s location
is unknown, divine oracles believe the Father of Giants sits in a crystal tower atop an enormous mountain, silently watching over the multiverse and waiting for his children to rouse from their complacency. Some claim a portal to Annam’s fortress lies spireward of the Great Pass.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
monastery, and where is it located? Did attending it contribute to your experience in an unusual or distinctive way? Monasteries d6 Monastery 1 Your monastery is carved out of a mountainside, where
it looms over a treacherous pass. 2 Your monastery is high in the branches of an immense tree in the Feywild. 3 Your monastery was founded long ago by a cloud giant and is inside a cloud castle that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
trident, with a shark’s tail instead of legs. Four iron torch brackets are bolted to the damp walls, which are covered with peeling plaster and set with colorful coral branches and starfish. A narrow
. A tortle carved it out of driftwood, painted it, and gave it to the palace’s Umberlee worshipers as a gift. It was placed here so that visitors could prostrate themselves before the sea goddess. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
through a series of plazas. Map 13.3: yongjingView Player Version Hall of Divine Wisdom Each morning, the Gate of Ascendance is thrown open, and petitioners seeking the ear of the emperor crowd onto
the plaza in front of the palace known as the Hall of Divine Wisdom. Ministers interview each petitioner—and swiftly reject requests too trivial to warrant the emperor’s involvement. The plaza is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
treasure that coordinates visually with the other items in the hoard, while another might focus on artwork from a particular period or seek out jewelry made for rulers in a certain region. Blue dragons
carved seal from a civilization that worshiped the dragon’s ancestors as gods
2 An extensive collection of elaborate jewelry, including a tiara, tail rings, and claw covers, which the dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, call the Noble Jewel—once the royal palace—their headquarters. Occasionally, Atash appears on the palace’s garden terrace to issue a proclamation, much like the rulers who preceded him. Ruz Bazaar
crystalline hive peppered with demiplanes of divine judgment. Inside lurk potent evils banished by Atash, such as Faasadi the Rotten, an adult blue dracolich, and the ageless Chesmare, a beholder who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
twenty years ago, Baron Elar d’Thuranni ordered the assassination of the entire Paelion line, one of the branches of House Phiarlan. Supposedly, he acted to prevent the Paelions from carrying out a
wicked plot that would have ended the Last War and exterminated the leaders of the other dragonmarked houses, leaving the Paelions as absolute rulers of Khorvaire.
Was the Paelion plot real or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
38. “I Just Met a Girl Named Skrianna” Carvings. The walls of this hall are carved to look like tree trunks. The arched, 10-foot-high ceiling resembles a canopy of dead boughs and branches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Shadowfell Riven stood in the uppermost room of the central tower of his citadel — a fortress of shadows and dark stone carved in relief into the sheer face of a jagged peak. . . . The starless black
a skull, a heap of rubble, or perhaps the crumbling ruin of a once-great castle. A forest on the Shadowfell is dark and twisted, its branches reaching out to snare travelers’ cloaks, and its roots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Secrets of Immortality Any who would speak with the White Jade Emperor must
petition for an audience at the Hall of Divine Wisdom This adventure embroils characters in a conspiracy involving the
only when the adventure text instructs you to do so. Dragon’s Blessing When the rulers of Yongjing reach an advanced age, they use potions of longevity to increase their life span. These potions are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dungeons Some dungeons are old strongholds abandoned by the folk who built them. Others are natural caves or lairs carved out by monsters. Dungeons attract cults, groups of monsters, and reclusive
planes of existence 33–35 Built by dwarves and decorated with enormous dwarven faces that have been defaced by its current inhabitants 36–38 Built in a volcano 39–40 Built in or among the branches of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Meeting the Secretary Two guards meet the characters at the entrance to the Hall of Divine Wisdom and escort them to an elegant meeting room: The walls of this room are paneled with delicate
latticework, and beautifully carved rosewood chairs surround a matching table. One wall bears a sumptuous silk hanging that depicts a gold dragon soaring through the clouds.
Grand Secretary
Wei Feng Ying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Tree MARCELA MEDEIROS Path of the World Tree Subclass Trace the Roots and Branches of the Multiverse Barbarians who follow the Path of the World Tree connect with the cosmic tree Yggdrasil through
vanish. Level 6: Branches of the Tree Whenever a creature you can see starts its turn within 30 feet of you while your Rage is active, you can take a Reaction to summon spectral branches of the World
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
of Illumination, read the following text: A well-traveled trail climbs into the mountains, the haze of volcanic smoke hanging overhead. The path ends at the entrance to a cavern carved with images of
divine figures and gigantic lizards amid cracking mountains, clouds, and geometric flourishes. Crimson light emanates from within, and the smell of sulfur is thick in the air.
Characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
passages that mimic the anguished wails of drow who failed her divine test. 8a. Webs in the Wind The winds are loudest here, stirring the thick webs that fill this cave and evoking ghostly shapes. 8b. Mad
the sluggish River Sargauth and is filled with web curtains that undulate in the howling wind. Behind these curtains, carved into the west wall, is an old pirate rhyme: If Skullport’s where ye wish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
white coral branches and mosaics in the form of sharks made of decorative stones and shells. Pillars carved to look like thick strands of kelp support the cracked, thirty-foot-high domed ceiling. Two
pairs of wooden statues of turtle-like humanoids stand on opposite sides of the room. Between the southern pair extends a dark hallway. A dais against the east wall supports a granite throne carved to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the cosmos,
The teeming worlds, full of wonders.
“Six sons, goddess-born, you sanctioned as rulers
To govern the mortal multitudes.
Boorish and bumbling, they bungled the task!
Surely I am
they too
Share your clever capacity
To see perfection in potential.”
A crown he then made, from chaos he shaped it,
And to her he gratefully gave it.
Divine Diancastra departed his sanctum,
With stirrings of hope for her harried kin,
The All-Father’s favor foreseen.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
element and give details on how to flesh out your world with gods, factions, and so forth. The assumptions sketched out above aren’t carved in stone. They inspire exciting D&D worlds full of adventure
by monstrous rulers. The populace lives in perpetual terror of these darklords and their evil minions, but other monsters rarely trouble people’s daily lives. Magic Is Everywhere. What if every town is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
construction yet elegant in form. It is intricately carved to resemble bundled branches and twigs, with a tiny songbird perched on one end of its back. There used to be five carved songbirds perched
14. Stonecarvers’ Hall The Melairkyn dwarves hauled blocks of unworked stone here to be carved into doors, statues, and other forms. 14a. South Entrance A 4-foot-square block of stone has fallen from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Heart of the Mountain The Melairkyn dwarves carved this 20-foot-high room out of the rock at the point they believed was the heart of their subterranean realm. The features of this room are as
that it begins to crumble if any attempt is made to handle or move it.
Mirror. A tall oval mirror is mounted on the east wall. Carved into its stone frame are dozens of lidless eyes and the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Vault of Kings Large enough to enclose a small town, this high-ceilinged chamber rises above a network of bridges, stone towers, and sturdy walls carved from rock and sheathed in iron and mithral
by powerful magic, and forcefully ejects anyone but the rightful king who attempts to sit upon it. While so seated, Bruenor has advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks — a divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
, multilevel stone edifice with terraces carved out of the mountainside. Its name, Dangwaru, loosely translates to “high home” in Aquan. No one remembers the name of the cleric for whom the palace was
stone. Embedded in the plaster are decorative stones, oyster shells, starfish, and branches of coral. Doors are fashioned from thick wood and have no locks. Several areas contain magical wards that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Religious Institutions Those who serve as priests of a god aren’t necessarily clerics. Indeed, the power invested in clerics and other divine spellcasters by the gods is given out only rarely (see
“Divine Magic” below). The work of a priest is to serve one’s deity and that deity’s faithful, a task that doesn’t necessarily require the use of magic. The kind of person attracted to a deity’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
bedchamber, read: This palatial bedchamber is eerily quiet and still. Cracks have formed in the blue plaster walls, set into which are colorful coral branches and seashells. Pillars carved to resemble
bed’s wooden frame is carved to resemble surging waves. Set into the north wall are two doors. Dust covers everything.
The bedchamber contains nothing of value. The doors to the north lead to smaller
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
feeds the fire, sustaining it indefinitely. Any creature that enters the fire or starts its turn there takes 10 (3d6) fire damage. Arranged about the fire pit are six tables carved out of granite, with
giant. An absentminded giant removed it from the temple (area 6) and left it here. Like the other weapons in area 6, it can be used to activate the portal leading to the divine oracle (area 11).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
flickers of divine insight. Near the base of the mountain is a giant carving of a snake’s head, its forked tongue forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-high stone ramp. Stone fangs descend from the
, twenty feet wide, and twenty feet high. The walls are carved with frescoes depicting swarms of snakes. At the far end of the room is a cracked, bowl-shaped altar, three feet tall and six feet in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
giant, frost-covered morningstar.
This chamber allows communion with a divine proxy of Annam the All-Father. It’s called the Eye of Annam because ancient giants thought the chamber enabled them to gain
“Treasure”). His morningstar is nonmagical and made for a Huge creature. Characters close enough to touch the cloud giant’s corpse or the morningstar notice a rune-inscribed circle carved into the floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
rulers of the world. Giants, therefore, don’t pray to Annam, who refuses to hear them. Instead, they revere his divine children, as well as a host of other hero-deities and godly villains that are minor
Children of the All-Father In an age before human and elf, when all dragons were young, Annam the All-Father put the first giants upon the world. These giants were reflections of his divine offspring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
the mountains, set the forests aflame, and carved great furrows in the fields. Such was the role of the orcs, he proclaimed, to take and destroy all that the other races would deny them. To this day
orc god’s eye. Since then, the orcs have taken particular joy in slaughtering elves. Turning his injury into a baleful gift, Gruumsh grants divine might to any champion who willingly plucks out one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of ill fortune, and sometimes interpreted as divine disapproval of the romances or marriages sparked by the day’s events. Shieldmeet. The great holiday of the Calendar of Harptos, Shieldmeet occurs
once every four years immediately after Midsummer. It is a day for plain speaking and open council between rulers and their subjects, for the renewal of pacts and contracts, and for treaty making between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
using Divine Sense can detect a fiendish presence within the obelisk. Clearing the vines and moss from the south face of the obelisk exposes a message carved into it in Common. (Give the players a copy of
stone gargoyles watch you from narrow ledges carved into the cliff side. Each has the face of a bearded devil, its mouth agape in a silent scream.
The three gargoyles are perched on the ledges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Wyllow’s Tower Wyllow’s Tower is carved to look like a squat stone tree with twisted, stony boughs protruding from the walls. Thirteen giant bats hang from these crumbling limbs like ornaments
, on the south side, is a 12-foot-high arched double door made of carved stone. A rope hanging next to the door rings a bell when tugged. If the characters knock or ring before entering, Wyllow’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
children and the world. He swore never to look upon either again until the giants had returned to their glory and reclaimed their birthright as rulers of the world. As a result, giants pray not to
Annam but to his divine children, along with a host of hero-deities and godly villains that make up the giants’ pantheon.
Chief among these gods are the children of Annam, whose sons represent each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
above. Ancient, forgotten sanctuaries hold wonders beyond imagination, and divine whispers reach those with the minds and hearts to listen. The gods haven’t wholly abandoned Krynn, and as threats
best known in Solamnia. Deities of Krynn Gods of Good
Alignment
Province
Symbol
Paladine LG Good dragons, guardians, rulers Silver triangle Branchala NG Music Bard’s harp Habbakuk