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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
sleep is troubled by nightmares. When roused, the cradle takes on a vaguely giant-shaped form consisting of air, water, and ice whirling in fury.
If the cradle is destroyed, the scion of Stronmaus
day to day, ranging from pleasantly sunny to brutal hailstorms.
If the scion dies, these effects end immediately.
Scions of Giants’ Gods
Giants are descended from the All-Father, Annam
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
vaguely giant-shaped form consisting of air, water, and ice whirling in fury.
If the cradle is destroyed, the scion of Stronmaus inside it awakens. Among the mightiest creatures of all giantkind, the
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If the scion dies, these effects end immediately.
Scions of Giants’ Gods
Giants are descended from the All-Father, Annam, and his children. But scions of giants’ gods boast a greater
classes
Cleanse the Heretics
The Inquisition Domain reflects the order of the multiverse and the rejection of tainted magic—so far as certain celestial powers see it. Only the divine casters are pure
and fit for use.
Since arcane magic is strong enough to challenge the gods, divine beings of this domain, such as the Arch Seraph Empyreus, demand magic-using mortals are kept in check. Most zealots root out all arcanists, while some strike fragile truces when complete removal isn’t feasible.
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
individuals in a group typically number fewer than a dozen, consisting of siblings and their mates as well as a handful of offspring and an elder or two. A gang lives in and around a small enclosure
crafting simple tools and hunting and gathering food, and gangs sometimes come together peacefully to exchange members and goods between them.
Malevolent Worship of Malign Gods
Bugbears worship two
Tortle
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Species
The Tortle Package
set out on their own.
Beliefs
Tortles don’t have their own pantheon of gods, but they often worship the gods of other races. It’s not unusual for a tortle to hear stories or legends
gravitate toward Celestian, Fharlanghn, Pelor, Pholtus, and St. Cuthbert. Tortles are often drawn to the Gods of Good in Dragonlance and the Sovereign Host in Eberron. Among the nonhuman deities, Moradin and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
path of the cleric become embittered and seek favor with sinister or forbidden gods or forge pacts with other powerful entities. Religious scholars in the Realms debate whether divine rejection led such
Clerics The gods are most active through their chosen clerics, who carry out the gods’ work on the Material Plane. A typical cleric in Faerûn serves a single divine patron, but some individuals feel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
, Pholtus, and St. Cuthbert. Tortles are often drawn to the Gods of Good in Dragonlance and the Sovereign Host in Eberron. Among the nonhuman deities, Moradin and Yondalla relate to tortles most of all
Beliefs Tortles don’t have their own pantheon of gods, but they often worship the gods of other races. It’s not unusual for a tortle to hear stories or legends related to a god and choose to worship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. “The Ordning” explores the relationships among and within different giant kinds, with a focus on the ordning’s role in driving adventures. “Gods and Religion” describes a pantheon of gods consisting of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
History and Myth When storytellers relate the history of Theros, they always speak in the most general terms. An event of just ten years past happened “many years ago,” and the founding of Meletis in
the distant past happened “many, many years ago.” In Theros, history transforms into myth more quickly than it does in other worlds, becoming generalized, vague, and moralistic. And because the gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Chapter 2: Faiths of Khorvaire Religion plays an important role in Eberron. The gods don’t manifest physically, but people of faith believe that divine forces shape everyday life. Shared beliefs
beliefs. Conversely, a lack of faith can also be a meaningful part of your story. If you don’t believe in any divine power, what caused such doubt? The Rejection of Faith table offers ideas that can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Cataclysmic Fire Though the signs of the gods’ rage have receded from the world, violet flames from the Cataclysm continue to burn in Sarlamir’s tomb. This magical fire lingers as a mark of disgrace
on one who failed the gods and the world. Lord Soth has come to the catacombs seeking the Cataclysmic fire for its magical properties, which can be harnessed through rituals whispered to him by the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, every village assembles a communal offering to the gods to request blessings, chief among them protection from disaster. The gathered offerings are carried by a caravan of walkers and wagons to a
shrine at the nearest volcano, accompanied by a priest to perform the offering. Villagers with individual requests might follow the caravan to make their own offerings. These offerings—typically consisting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
paintings, particularly illuminations on manuscripts, tapestries that relate stories, and any such attempt to use art to capture the truth. Followers of Deneir believe that information not recorded and
saved for later use is information lost. They consider literacy an important gift of the gods, one that should be spread and taught. His followers are scribes and scholars devoted, like their patron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in
Loose Pantheons Most D&D worlds have a loose pantheon of gods. A multitude of deities rule the various aspects of existence, variously cooperating with and competing against one another to administer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
place. Relate to the players any information appropriate to the polis and its culture from chapter 3. Additionally, while they make preparations, the characters hear one of the tales from the Polis
Antigonos wanders the wilderness seeking a suitable heir. Anyone who can pass his test will become his successor. (True)
4 If you drink from the legendary Pool of Lyth, the gods will grant your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
mortality, whether embodied in undead monsters or expressed through the death of loved ones. A campaign revolving around an insidious evil, whether dark gods, monstrous races such as the yuan-ti, or
revealed to relate to a larger plot in the campaign. If most of your adventures are dungeon expeditions, shift gears with a tense urban mystery that eventually leads the party into a dungeon crawl in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, sacrifices to strange gods or placations to lurking monsters are everyday events. For outsiders, though, these practices reveal the subjectivity of normalcy, societal truth, and taboos. Folk horror explores
relate to some sort of ancient lore. Art, symbols, tools, celebrations, and other trappings of belief help make a community’s traditions more specific and eerie. Community members typically hide their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
bodies and use it to replenish the strength of their star. Xaryxispace is a small Wildspace system, consisting only of its central star and three natural satellites, plus a floating citadel constructed
kinds of intelligent plants. Most of Xaryndar’s elf population left long ago to be closer to their gods on the Astral Plane, but the planet still has a few settlements that cultivate and harvest the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
left to you to choose, depending on the story you want to tell. Consult the Secrets of Phenax table, which presents several options for what divine secret Varyas’s eidolon might relate. The veracity
Titans from the Underworld. Mortals killed him to save themselves. The gods let him escape the Underworld to save themselves. What will Phenax do if he learns of his true destiny?
2 A secret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
made of stone. Every jar is made for an individual, inscribed with Qualith and artwork that relate the mind flayer’s accomplishments. Often a mind flayer’s funerary brain jar is created long before
eternal fate is governed by the gods. Instead, when a mind flayer’s brain is returned to the elder brain to be consumed, the creature’s intelligence lives on. Only if an illithid’s brain isn’t retrieved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
fewer than a dozen, consisting of siblings and their mates as well as a handful of offspring and an elder or two. A gang lives in and around a small enclosure, often a natural cave or an old bear den
gathering food, and gangs sometimes come together peacefully to exchange members and goods between them. Malevolent Worship of Malign Gods Bugbears worship two deities who are brothers, Hruggek and Grankhul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Knowledge Domain The gods of knowledge — including Oghma, Boccob, Gilean, Aureon, and Thoth — value learning and understanding above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and shared in
gain tremendous power if they unlock the secrets of the multiverse. Followers of these gods study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into the secret places of the earth, and learn all they can. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the ages receiving blessings from the gods. A stone double door stands at the far end of the room, while stairs rise to the west and another hall opens to the east.
People who bring their offerings to
the gods prepare their prayers in this area, meditating on the blessing they want. A salamander and four fire snakes are in this room. The salamander stands guard before the door to area I5, while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
thousand chanting voices. Great sculptures in honor of a multitude of gods gazed across an array of shrines and altars. Priests stood ready by night and day to tend to the spiritual needs of their people
make personal visits to the main shrines and offer thanks to the gods. This procession often includes Bruenor’s visitors or those ambassadors from the surface who come to Gauntlgrym to seek counsel with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
(detailed later in this chapter), planes on which they operate, common members, common nicknames, and their roles in the City of Doors. Athar Who Claim the Gods Are Frauds Factol: Terrance Headquarters
: Shattered Temple Aligned Plane: Astral Plane Members: Disillusioned worshipers, skeptics Epithet: Defiers The Athar believe that the gods are impostors. For all their might, the so-called deities are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Rejecting the Ordning Some giants reject the ordning, in part or entirely. This rejection most commonly takes one of three forms. First are giants who hold themselves to a different standard than the
worship of Annam’s children to other powers (as described under “Gods and Religion” later in this chapter) also reject the ordning. In some cases, as in the hierarchical cults of Elemental Evil, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
clutch of sly, skittish warriors, consisting largely of reptilian humanoids called viashino (use the lizardfolk stat block in the Monster Manual to represent them), along with a few wily humans. This
their druids perform guttural chants before and during battle that are said to be in the language of the old gods.
Zhur-Taa druids are adept at summoning and training beasts as war-companions and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
(the god’s main areas of interest and responsibility), suggested domains for clerics who serve the god, and a common symbol of the god. The gods in the table are described below. Drow Deities (The
Corellon and recapture his earlier formless nature by turning on Lolth. Ghaunadaur’s double act of betrayal brought retribution from both gods, and he was cast down into the world as a skinless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, although she doesn’t know it. If captured, she can relate that a short, cloaked humanoid came to her in Neverwinter Wood two days ago, hiring her to bring her pack of jackals to Phandalin and search
grabbed the relic, but has no idea where Talanatha went. Gildha also tells the characters that she saw some of the attackers heading into a small cellar beneath the manor, consisting of storage areas and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
1. The Vault of Chicomoztoc (Chee-koh-MOZ-tok, the place of seven caves) The poisonous gas is present here, affecting fire and breathing. Relate the following information to the characters gradually
holding a torch. There are also several stone statues of the gods. The bits of gold and jade are worth 5 gp each, and there are fifteen such items. Niche D. A scene of tribal warfare involves twenty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
earned many enemies, having trespassed in the lairs of demon lords and hoodwinked gods to survey their domains. When he needs to skip town, the slippery cartographer collapses his tower into a magical
produces its currency. Run by a board of trustees consisting mainly of financially inclined dwarves, the mint is a cobalt fortress where traders can exchange virtually anything for its worth in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
occupation in a relatively flat and defensible valley called Darkhold Vale. Darkhold Vale contains a small settlement of the same name, consisting mostly of shepherds who tend their flocks in the high
, Manxam, but my queries about this figure were redirected to other topics, and I didn’t feel comfortable pressing the seneschal on the matter. Of the rest of Darkhold I can relate only a little more. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, several figures in feathered attire play a shrill, discordant tune on flutes made of bone.
The figures gathered by the fountain are the Windwyrds, a musical group consisting of Aerisi Kalinoth’s
with etchings of funerary rites in honor of Moradin (150 gp), and an immovable rod. A9. Tombs Gigantic stone doors covered in twin reliefs of dwarven gods in profile loom fifteen feet high. The dwarven
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
north. A mechanism consisting of a wheel, chains, and various pulleys is attached to the east wall.
Unless they were called to help in areas 1 and area 2, five sahuagin, two sahuagin coral smashers
Emaciated Elmo is the sole survivor of a party of adventurers that penetrated the lair weeks ago. In a weak and raspy voice, he tells his story. Relate the following details: He is a wizard and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
practicing arcane magic. It’s obvious that this rejection still stings Oshundo, who refers to Illithinoch’s long-dead leaders as “ignorant fools” who are “closed to the flexibility and power of arcane magic
magic bores him, and Oshundo cares even less about the divine entity the fanatics discovered, because gods don’t concern Oshundo. Oshundo is no friend of the fanatics. The alhoon compares them to the