constructed whispers rites

Arisen

races

The arisen are spoken of in fearful whispers across Etharis, all too often proclaimed unnatural entities that can be neither trusted nor redeemed. For although they are humanoids, each arisen is a

arisen is constructed and given the gift of life, usually by a creator. Arisen are people, to be sure. They have unique personalities, intellects, and experiences, as all humanoids. But do they possess

Laneshi

races

and one dead—which grants them vision into the spirit world and heightens their necromantic abilities. Mystics oversee funeral rites, crafting, construction, recordkeeping, and food preparation

unknown reasons. Perhaps some new and greater threat stirs in the dark depths of the sea, and the laneshi seek aid from their air-breathing cousins. Or perhaps there’s truth in the fearful whispers

Into the Tomb

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Into the Tomb After devastating the island’s native villages, Acererak constructed one of his tombs here. Though outsiders rarely visited the Isle of Serpents, whispers of an island complex laden

Harmonia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

town’s numerous venues, such as the Harmonic Hall school of music and the acoustically complex Amphitheater of Harmonia, which projects whispers in some areas and silences screams in others. Artists vie

for opportunities to present their work at the supremely popular Crystal Club, a members-only venue inside a cave that features a stage constructed from a massive natural geode. The club is known for

Temple of Howling Hatred

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

moat that surrounds it a misty waterfall whispers over the chasm’s ledge. The Cult of the Howling Hatred established its temple in the southwest quarter of ancient Tyar-Besil, where the dwarves

built a palace in a vast cavern upon the edge of a great chasm. Where the cavern’s glittering, mineral-encrusted ceiling rose high, the dwarves constructed spacious plazas in which they carved towering

Worshiping Mogis

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Mogis and regularly hold bloody rites in his honor. Warchanters, the minotaur clergy of Mogis, whip their marauders into a near-mindless frenzy before battle; the ensuing slaughter gives glory to

such, whispers among the servants of other gods claim that there might be a way to piece the fractured god back together. Doing so would require an incredible feat, though, likely involving the

Stone Cursed

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

to extract memories from it to gain insight into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise would be lost. Constructed Nature. A stone cursed doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. CRYPTIC

WHISPERS Even though creatures transformed into stone cursed are long dead, a vague whisper of their memories lives on in the obsidian skull embedded within the stone cursed’s body. At the end of a

Torch

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

. Equipment and lifestyle expenses in Torch are twice their normal cost. Lure of Avarice. Visible coinage, jewelry, and magic items in Torch entice nearby creatures with faint, unintelligible whispers

. The more valuable the item, the louder the whispers become. CoupleOfKooks “There’s nothing more valuable than identity. Riches, once stolen, can be recouped, but reputations can be ruined beyond

Bedlam

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

the wake of the gate-town’s ceaseless gales. Nowhere is safe from the winds. Even when the gusts are dampened, their whispers slip through the cracks and magically encourage townsfolk to commit dark

out her contraptions, which include dubious parachutes and precariously constructed gliders. Bumblewing’s wind-powered inventions have piqued the interest of the Nimbus Knives, a gang of air genasi

Gods of the Orcs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

with distaste and unease. They interact with the tribe mostly on occasions of death, claiming the bones of fallen warriors to add to the ossuary shrines of Yurtrus, and sometimes during shamanic rites

when contact with spirits occurs. The White Hands. Shamans who heed the telepathic whispers of Yurtrus walk the perilous line between the living and the dead, and gain uncanny powers from doing so

Druid Subclasses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

comprises mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites. These Druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest

inscrutable whispers and roars of the winds. Level 3: Circle of the Sea Spells When you reach a Druid level specified in the Circle of the Sea Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells

Howling Hatred Cultists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

their worldly goods to the cult’s coffers and the hardiness of their bodies to the cult’s emaciating rites. Cultists that survive their initiation usually gain all the things the cult promised — at the

(at will): friends, prestidigitation, vicious mockery 1st level (4 slots): disguise self, dissonant whispers, thunderwave 2nd level (3 slots): invisibility, shatter, silence 3rd level (3 slots

Observatory Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

whispers come from inside this ruined tower. Gaps in the stone are patched over with wooden planks and threadbare cloth. Three kobolds (Ekrash, Erp, and Hev) and two winged kobolds (Nuhro and Snirke

(area D2). The kobolds have constructed a rough pulley lift so the wingless kobolds can reach this area when Sparkrender summons them. Rays of light dance across the remains of this tower’s stained

Daoine Gloine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

art installation. Desperate, Kwalish constructed another planar gateway while imprisoned in the temple, then opened a portal to the 222nd layer of the Abyss — Juiblex’s Slime Pits. A flood of ooze

bolted to the wall across from some sort of large glass device hints at the horrid rites that must once have taken place here. The wall murals can be deciphered with a successful DC 12 Wisdom

Lower Palace Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

goblins that the jabberwock has devoured, are the following treasures: A pair of silver armlets (25 gp each) An ornate steel dagger that whispers “soon” whenever its wielder falls asleep (50 gp) A silver

filled with a wide variety of weaponry. The weapons are so well constructed that it is difficult to tell if this display is an armory or a museum. The glass cabinets are unlocked, and the weapons in

Locations on the Fortress Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1

of the extra distance it must traverse. 21. Dragon Throne A short throne stands near the west wall, constructed of fallen bits of masonry stacked against an old altar. On the top of the altar sit a

—tends an enchanted garden and harvests fruit from something the goblins call the Gulthias Tree, but they speak of it only in the most terrified of whispers. The enchanted fruit grows on the Gulthias

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