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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Long ago, the cult of Lolth first subjected elf prisoners to horrible rituals that transformed them into creatures with both elven and spider traits, which their creators dubbed chitines. The intention
her worshipers’ rituals. The process usually transformed subjects into the spindly creatures her devotees expected, but occasionally, an elf changed into a choldrith: an arachnid Monstrosity able
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Storm King's Thunder
resentful of most kinds of magic. Seldom do they choose to become shamans. Instead, the role is thrust upon those who are born with a strong connection to the spirit world. To be a shaman is to stand
affiliation (see the “Uthgardt Shaman Tribal Spells” sidebar).
By communing with their ancestors’ spirits, Uthgardt shamans can also learn secret rituals. These rituals almost always
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Nihilistic cults have also been known to perform arduous rituals to summon a leviathan to a world, with the aim of using the creature to destroy coastal communities. Those cultists often consider it
gigantic serpent.
Usually found only on the Elemental Plane of Water, a leviathan sometimes swims through a portal to another world, where tritons, sea elves, and other aquatic folk attempt to contain it
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
performed dark rituals, robbing the power of ancient, slumbering giants and using it to transform their servants. This primal energy granted the archons' agents numerous limbs—the better to raise the
territory across Theros, drawing strength from aspects of the world itself—from ancient stone and roiling flames to the depths of the seas and skies. Unlike many creatures of legend, most giants owe
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve
that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Gaze of Corruption"}. The cultist targets one creature it can see
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
against Auril, who retreated to the coldest corner of Toril to escape their fury.
After a world-shaking event known as the Sundering, most of the gods withdrew from Toril, leaving mortals to govern
to be cautious and avoid contact with other creatures that can harm her.
Auril’s worshipers know better than to disturb her self-imposed isolation. Terrible blizzards have cut off Icewind Dale
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, motionless sheets of ice. Umberlee brought Talos and Malar into an alliance against Auril, who retreated to the coldest corner of Toril to escape their fury.
After a world-shaking event known as the
weak and vulnerable. In her self-inflicted weakened state, Auril is inclined to be cautious and avoid contact with other creatures that can harm her.
Auril’s worshipers know better than to
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
only one.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Gaze of Corruption"}. The cultist targets one creature it
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
only one.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Gaze of Corruption"}. The cultist targets one creature it
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Toril to escape their fury.
After a world-shaking event known as the Sundering, most of the gods withdrew from Toril, leaving mortals to govern their own fates without the gods’ meddling, but the
night while also granting spells to her devoted followers leaves Auril weak and vulnerable. In her self-inflicted weakened state, Auril is inclined to be cautious and avoid contact with other creatures
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Princes of the Apocalypse
in the black depths of vast seas or enthroned among jagged reefs. Olhydra waits for the chance to enter the Material Plane through elemental water nodes or when called by the proper rituals. Whether
mortal world to dwell near those points.
If Olhydra is destroyed or banished back to her home plane, the regional effects fade over the next 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"} days.Acid, Cold, PoisonLightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
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Princes of the Apocalypse
through large and well-established nodes of elemental earth, with a little help from the proper rituals. Within such a node, Ogrémoch wields great power.
Lair Actions
Ogrémoch can assert
creatures into the mortal world to dwell near those points.
If Ogrémoch is destroyed or banished back to his home plane, the regional effects fade over the next 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"} days.PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil Blessings
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those
who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around me.
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Sarcasm and insults are my weapons of choice.
d6
Ideal
1
Open. I have much to learn from the kindly folk I meet
along my way. (Good)
2
Reserved. As someone new to these strange lands, I am cautious and respectful in my dealings. (Lawful)
3
Adventure. I’m far from home, and everything is strange
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
glasses.
3
Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
4
A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
5
Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
an action, make a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check. On a success, you learn the relevant information based on the nature of the creature and its place in the world.
If you fail the check, this
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
, rituals, religious beliefs, languages, and art, you have learned how tribes, empires, and all forms of society in between craft their own destinies and doom. This knowledge came to you not only through
;
Suggested Characteristics
Anthropologists leave behind the societies into which they were born to discover what life is like in other parts of the world. They seek to see how other races and civilizations
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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
have a fascination with tales and objects from the surface world, particularly plants and other natural items. They gather in the depths of the Underdark near routes used by merchants and other brave
travelers. They typically make a cautious approach to stronger creatures, speaking in halting, croaking Undercommon to offer their services in return for fresh food, metal weapons, and trinkets from
Oath of the Ancients
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the race of elves and the rituals of the druids. Sometimes called fey knights, green knights, or horned knights, paladins who swear this oath cast their lot with
the side of the light in the cosmic struggle against darkness because they love the beautiful and life-giving things of the world, not necessarily because they believe in principles of honor, courage
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
people who mix characteristics of humans and snakes.
Blessed with resistance to magical and poisonous effects by the rituals that created them, each of these yuan-ti manifests their serpentine heritage
races
and the quiet of the wilderness.
Wulven embody the mysticism of the primal world, rather than its savagery. Where they wander through forest and scrubland, their wild look and solitary nature sees them
or champions of the fey courts, though the touch of cursed magic in the wulven makes some fey distrust them. But in the end, most wulven live as outlanders, cautious around folk they don’t know
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; Elminster
The serpent creatures known as yuan-ti are all that remains of an ancient, decadent human empire. Ages ago their dark gods taught them profane, cannibalistic rituals to mix their flesh
advancement and expanding their territory. They believed themselves to be the most enlightened mortals in the world, and in their hubris they sought to become ever greater.
The serpent gods of the
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
a perfect world, the creatures would be left alone to dig their tunnels and raise the next generation of kobolds, all the while seeking the magic that will free their imprisoned god (see the &ldquo
;Kurtulmak: God of Kobolds” sidebar). In the world they occupy, kobolds are often bullied and enslaved by larger creatures — or, when they live on their own, they are constantly fearful of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
reflection of Neverwinter. The Crevice of Dusk closes immediately after shunting the characters. The characters experience the following vision: Around the world and across the planes, you perceive
innumerable cults of Vecna. They snatch away people and strip their secrets in rituals like the one you stopped. Behind them, the withered form of Vecna gathers the secrets like threads, adding them to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
reflection of Neverwinter. The Crevice of Dusk closes immediately after shunting the characters. The characters experience the following vision: Around the world and across the planes, you perceive
innumerable cults of Vecna. They snatch away people and strip their secrets in rituals like the one you stopped. Behind them, the withered form of Vecna gathers the secrets like threads, adding them to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
A Magical World The Five Nations were built on a magical foundation. To them, magic is a form of science, which can be studied and taught. Nevertheless, few people possess the skill required to
expensive: they typically cast their spells as rituals. They are artisans, not adventurers, and the prosperity of the Five Nations was built on their foundation. Game statistics are given for magewrights
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
land. 6 I begin or end my day with small traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around me. Ideals d6 Ideal 1 Open. I have much to learn from the kindly folk I meet along my way. (Good
) 2 Reserved. As someone new to these strange lands, I am cautious and respectful in my dealings. (Lawful) 3 Adventure. I’m far from home, and everything is strange and wonderful! (Chaotic) 4 Cunning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
A Magical World The Five Nations were built on a magical foundation. To them, magic is a form of science, which can be studied and taught. Nevertheless, few people possess the skill required to
expensive: they typically cast their spells as rituals. They are artisans, not adventurers, and the prosperity of the Five Nations was built on their foundation. Game statistics are given for magewrights
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gracklstugh If the characters visited Gracklstugh previously, the duergar response to their return is dictated by the gray dwarves’ prior experience with the characters. The duergar are cautious — if
not downright alarmed — at the sight of an armed expeditionary force from the surface world at their gates. They likely refuse entry to the full party, allowing only a select few characters into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Gracklstugh If the characters visited Gracklstugh previously, the duergar response to their return is dictated by the gray dwarves’ prior experience with the characters. The duergar are cautious — if
not downright alarmed — at the sight of an armed expeditionary force from the surface world at their gates. They likely refuse entry to the full party, allowing only a select few characters into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
knows of the threat posed by the demon lords — and potentially forge a pact with him to deal with that threat. They must be cautious, however, as their potential ally has his own interests at heart and
at least hear what Vizeran has to say. If they find the means to communicate his offer to their allies on the surface world, those allies encourage the characters to forge an alliance with the drow archmage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
land. 6 I begin or end my day with small traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around me. Ideals d6 Ideal 1 Open. I have much to learn from the kindly folk I meet along my way. (Good
) 2 Reserved. As someone new to these strange lands, I am cautious and respectful in my dealings. (Lawful) 3 Adventure. I’m far from home, and everything is strange and wonderful! (Chaotic) 4 Cunning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
knows of the threat posed by the demon lords — and potentially forge a pact with him to deal with that threat. They must be cautious, however, as their potential ally has his own interests at heart and
at least hear what Vizeran has to say. If they find the means to communicate his offer to their allies on the surface world, those allies encourage the characters to forge an alliance with the drow archmage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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4 Escape. I believe there is something beyond the world I know, and I need to find it.
5 Legacy. I must do something great so that I’m remembered, and my time is running out.
6
beyond the mysteries of death, the world, or the Mists.
11 Sanctuary. I know the forces at work in the world and strive to create islands apart from them.
12 Truth. I care about the truth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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4 Escape. I believe there is something beyond the world I know, and I need to find it.
5 Legacy. I must do something great so that I’m remembered, and my time is running out.
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beyond the mysteries of death, the world, or the Mists.
11 Sanctuary. I know the forces at work in the world and strive to create islands apart from them.
12 Truth. I care about the truth