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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Burst. When the cinder hulk dies, it leaves behind a cloud of cinders and smoke that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on its space. The sphere is heavily obscured. Any creature that moves
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Wave of Cinders (Recharge 5–6
classes
Hasten or Stall the End of the World
Apocalypse Sorcerers have seen the shape of things to come. They may have visions of the Great Beast ushering in the end of Etharis or dreams of Gormadraug
waking and devouring the land.
These prophecies besiege Apocalypse Sorcerers, plaguing and empowering in equal measure. Some find relief in putting these revelations into writing, producing texts that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, these giants were transformed into Elementals made of smoke and cinders. Half the size of their giant ancestors, cinder hulks maintain the basic physical shape of fire giants, but ash and embers billow
around their barely cohesive physical forms. Cinder hulks live in isolated enclaves in fiery locations on the Material Plane, in the Elemental Planes of Air and Fire, and especially in the Great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
, these giants were transformed into Elementals made of smoke and cinders. Half the size of their giant ancestors, cinder hulks maintain the basic physical shape of fire giants, but ash and embers billow
around their barely cohesive physical forms. Cinder hulks live in isolated enclaves in fiery locations on the Material Plane, in the Elemental Planes of Air and Fire, and especially in the Great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
form patches of solid ground upon which giant-sized structures are built. Rune Ring. A great ring of glowing Giant runes slowly rotates around the equator of the spherical demiplane. A creature who
studies the runes and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check realizes their rotation marks out repeating 12-hour cycles, allowing visitors to keep time with the Material Plane worlds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
vast Cinder Wastes, a great expanse of black cinders and embers crossed by rivers of lava. Roving bands of salamanders battle each other, raid azer outposts, and avoid the efreet. Ancient ruins dot the
hours. The weather on the plane is marked by fierce winds and thick ash. Although the air is breathable, creatures not native to the plane must cover their mouths and eyes to avoid stinging cinders. The
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great unknown.
NISHREK AND THE ETERNAL WAR
Orcs believe that if they die with honor, their spirits go to the plane of Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield — specifically the layer of Nishrek
warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
water by magic. Important features of the Plane of Fire include the following: Cinder Wastes The Plane of Fire is dominated by a great expanse of black cinders and embers crossed by rivers of lava
is marked by fierce winds and thick ash. Although the air is breathable, creatures not native to the plane must cover their mouths and eyes to avoid stinging cinders. The efreet use magic to keep the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
6. The Face of the Great Green Devil The path of red tiles leads south from the fork. If any character comes within 2 feet of the southern wall, read: On the wall before you is a relief sculpture of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
dome, which is in no danger of collapse, even if the pillars were to be toppled. Each pillar is carved with a wraparound bas-relief. From north to south, the pillars depict the following scenes: A hill
giant lifting a rock above its head A frost giant chopping down a great pine A cloud giant flying among birds in the sky A flying storm giant hurling lightning bolts at a ship A stone giant climbing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
Conclusion When the characters successfully deliver the key (Prisoner 13’s keystone tattoo), Varrin’s joy and relief crack his usually reserved exterior, and he sends his agents to open the vault and
reveal the lost Axebreaker treasure (he won’t allow the characters to be present for the vault opening). While much of the clan’s stolen wealth has been spent, there’s still a great fortune remaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Conclusion When the characters successfully deliver the key (Prisoner 13’s keystone tattoo), Varrin’s joy and relief crack his usually reserved exterior, and he sends his agents to open the vault and
reveal the lost Axebreaker treasure (he won’t allow the characters to be present for the vault opening). While much of the clan’s stolen wealth has been spent, there’s still a great fortune remaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Lorehold Campus The Lorehold campus—shown on map 1.2—is situated northwest of the central campus in a region of stark vertical relief. Rugged mesas and steep hills rise from a wide plain, and a great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of mortality, vacillating between helping and harming innocent subjects. Characters working in Pharika’s service might travel to sites of suffering and death in order to provide relief, such as by
servants to abandon worldly scruples in favor of deciphering one of Theros’s great secrets. To accomplish this, the god might send the characters into the Underworld or Nyx to answer a burning cosmic question.
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->Princes of the Apocalypse
civilization and nature with volcanic eruptions, forest fires, heat waves, and droughts, creating a wasteland of ash and cinders ruled by fire alone. Eternal Flame cultists believe the world and all its
peoples are wicked and malformed, and they consider it a sacred duty to "purify" everything around them by reducing their surroundings to smoking cinders. The Eternal Flame appeals to those drawn to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
area 6 is emblazoned with a bronze relief of a mountain with a fist-sized depression in its center. The door is locked.
Bronze Relief Door. A successful DC 13 Intelligence (Religion) check reveals
that the relief resembles the symbol of Dumathoin but is missing a gem. Placing any gem in the depression unlocks the door. The door can also be opened with a knock spell or similar magic, or by a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Finding The Book Characters in Candlekeep might discover Lore of Lurue in its place on the shelves, or elsewhere in the library, in one of several ways, including: Assisting one of the Great Readers
because of its rich purple leather covers and the golden relief of a unicorn’s head that adorns the front cover. If the book has been properly put away, on a high shelf in the History of Faerûn section
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
an abandoned building or tower. If you run horror adventures week after week, try using a villain who turns out to be ordinary, perhaps even silly. Comic relief is a great variation on almost any D&D campaign, though players usually provide it themselves.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
that unlocks this door. T3: Gem Room This room contains open crates of gems sorted by color and type. Most are neatly faceted, though a few remain uncut.
Guards. This room is part of the guard rotation
hold rolled-up sheets of parchment.
Guards. This room is part of the guard rotation. Roll to determine if a guard is present (as described in “Interior Security”). Shelves of Potions. The four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
relic disappears, the oracle says in a booming voice, “You have done a great deed for all giants! A new path lies before you!” For each relic that the characters offer as tribute, a stony bas-relief
Well Cracked horn Kayalithica Flint Rock Mithral spear tip Sansuri Grandfather Tree Electrum nose-ring Guh Great Worm Cavern Broken shield Storvald Morgur’s Mound Gold-plated tooth Zalto One Stone Magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
relief against the starry sky of Nyx, culminating in a golden orb that can be seen from a great distance. Some speculate that this orb is the source of Nyx’s vibrant colors and lights, and that without
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
deities and various neighborhood shrines devoted to the pantheon as a whole. Inside the city, the wild lands feel like a remote threat. Perils from the sea present more obvious dangers, but a great
defeating his armies and striking the archon down. From their victory rose the polis of Meletis and the use of magic among mortals.
Agnomakhos’s fall remains a point of honor in the minds of Meletis’s people, a moment immortalized in relief upon countless civic buildings throughout the polis.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
looks the same, and the street numbers don’t help–some of them have decimals! What a nightmare.”
–Quen Tooday, planar courier
Great Modron March Every 289 years, thousands of modrons emerge from
Automata’s gate in an event known as the Great Modron March, a planar parade of epic proportions in which the modrons travel through each of the gate-towns and the Outer Planes. Although the modrons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
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Jamna Gleamsilver
If the characters tell Gleamsilver what they know about the cult’s cargo, she expresses gratitude and relief that she doesn’t need to risk breaking into their wagons. In fact
is an expert at picking up on the subtlest clues and using them to seem to know things she doesn’t actually know and to say what people want or expect to hear. She uses that talent to great advantage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
with it in return for the promise of great wealth. Dwarves who have been touched by Abbathor might succumb to this temptation — only to find themselves imprisoned in the dragon’s lair, sentenced to a
moves in to finish the job. DWARVES AND ALE
Dwarves have a reputation for being able to consume great quantities of ale. Although drinking plays a significant role in their culture, it is a mistake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
.”
Jamna Gleamsilver If the characters tell Gleamsilver what they know about the cult’s cargo, she expresses gratitude and relief that she doesn’t need to risk breaking into their wagons. In fact, she
is an expert at picking up on the subtlest clues and using them to seem to know things she doesn’t actually know and to say what people want or expect to hear. She uses that talent to great advantage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Waterdeep Rising from the shores of its deep harbor to ring the great mountain standing tall out of the Sea of Swords is Waterdeep, the City of Splendors and the Crown of the North. To all of Faerûn
, this great metropolis stands as the pinnacle of what a great city might be, in wealth, influence, and stability. Here, the citizens work, the nobles sneer, and the great masked lords plot and scheme
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
chapter 6 is an example of a frost giant whose devotion to the demon lord has brought great and terrible rewards. (Kostchtchie is described in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.) Yeenoghu. Gnolls, ghouls
. They believe the world and all its peoples are wicked and degenerate and seek to purify the world by reducing it to smoking cinders. Cult of Evil Air. Giants who follow Yan-C-Bin and his air cult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
slag indicated on the characters’ map as the site of the hall. A wide, well-trod path winds its way across the barren land up to two great slabs of black stone—the obsidian portals that give access to
cinders and sharp rocks that make walking cross-country difficult (and noisy). The area is lit by night with dim red light, both from flaming gases that shoot forth out of the bowels of the earth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
great chamber. At the north of the ruins stands a menacing statue of the Dragon Queen with her five snarling draconic heads. Above the statue, deteriorating stone reveals a shadowy chamber in the wall
carved in bas-relief on this shrine’s west wall. Scorch marks cover the floors and walls. Doors lead to the north and west.
Two skeletal knights (see appendix B) stand guard in this room. A cleric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
tomb. Bookshelves carrying various tomes and scholarly implements stand against the walls. At the center is a stone, gold-painted sarcophagus, the sides of which bear a beautiful relief carving of two
, next to which is the inscription, “My dearest Chanelle.” Relief Details. One of the figures depicted in the sarcophagus’s relief carving wears armor that matches the armor of the ghost in area N4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, orc warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out
then decorated with uniquely orcish accessories. A war wagon is a source of great pride for a war chief, comparable to a human army’s banner or flag. Many are clad in armor and festooned with garish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
14: The ritual brought our minds together. I was assailed simultaneously by hunger and rage, as if some great force from beyond had reached out and commanded me only to kill and eat. Though it lasted
the hunger of all of them.
Day 15: Used the ritual to join our minds again. This time I realized where the hunger began. I was consumed by the infinite hunger and boundless rage of great Yeenoghu
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Elturgard diminish. But it was a miracle that brought about the nation of Elturgard, and perhaps that divine provenance will preserve it. It began, as all the great stories do, in darkness. Half a
Elturgard. The knights can’t afford to be anything but vigilant, and fortunately for the folk of Elturgard, they are just that. I regard crossing the border into Elturgard as a relief, for it usually