core returning guardians to have received

Galvanice Weird

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

willingly, with cheerful stupidity, as guardians and laborers in Izzet workshops. They combine a rigid body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is

Prophetess Dran

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

guardians Fey Ancestry. Prophetess has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put her to sleep.Maul. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit

can call on her spells and abilities in times of need, and remains in constant practice with Confessor, her maul. At her core, she believes that the gods help those who help themselves, and that

Wicker Weaver

backgrounds

Wicker. Healers and guardians alike may seek out the Old Ways for remedies and protective charms to ward off evil. Not all who come to the wicker craft do so with noble intent—some, broken by spite

1 A crescent woven from wicker and laced with silver wire 2 A glass bauble that was the first payment you received for your hedge wisdom 3 A Tiny figure made of acorn caps from the

Character Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

her via an acquaintance. She invites the characters to Akharin Sangar to help protect her people during Shabe Taabaan. Impartial Guardians. Atash or a ranking member of the Brightguard invites

factions. Midnight Sun. An ally of the characters has received permission to visit Akharin Sangar and witness a periodic event in which the moon shines like the sun. This ally asks the characters to escort them on a scholarly or religious expedition.

Location Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake

Lhammaruntosz has retreated inside the shrine, becoming reclusive due to a attack by a disguised demon which has driven her mad. She leaves on rare occasions to hunt for food, returning as soon as possible

. Members of the Scaly Eye still live within the Bronze Shrine, as Lhammaruntosz has ordered them to stay on as her guardians.

Sharn Watch Divisions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

also includes a few special divisions that could cross the paths of the adventurers. The Blackened Book is an elite core of abjurers and diviners, charged with investigating and containing magical

there’s a case that a noble doesn’t want investigated, it probably won’t be. The Guardians of the Gate came into being during the Last War to monitor the activities of foreign nationals and immigrants

Adventure Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

the players choose the premade characters that accompany this adventure. Long ago, the characters were transported to the Realm, a world filled with magic and monsters. With magic items they received

from a powerful being called Dungeon Master, the characters undertook many adventures before finally returning to their own world. Years passed, and these exploits became the gossamer memories of a

Galvanice Weird

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Galvanice Weird Galvanice weirds seem to be the epitome of weird technology. Indeed, they serve willingly, with cheerful stupidity, as guardians and laborers in Izzet workshops. They combine a rigid

body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is destroyed, the ice shatters and lightning crackles outward in a dangerous explosion. Still, most Izzet

Underworld Crossing

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

to keep the living out of the realm of the dead and the dead from returning to the land of the living. Underworld Crossing Adventures Adventures in Underworld crossings usually involve the characters

returning to their mortal home to pass into the Underworld. 11 Seek an audience with Athreos. 12 Capture an Underworld cerberus (see chapter 6). Underworld Crossing Map The Underworld

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core

Odunos

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

, Tymaret the Murder King, a servant of Erebos tasked with returning Phenax to the Underworld. Knowing that Phenax could disguise himself as anyone, Tymaret slaughters all living souls, just to be thorough

, there was one witness to his escape, an unremarkable soul called Tymaret. Sharing what he’d seen with the god of the dead, Tymaret received a cursed blessing from Erebos: he would be restored to the

Rage of Demons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

, every nerve singing with the tension in the air all around you. Finally, a swirling light begins to flare in the darkness. A barely audible humming shakes you to the core, rising and falling like a

some help in overcoming the demon lords. At an opportune moment, Jimjar shows up (even returning from death if he appeared to perish earlier in the adventure) and gives the characters a vote of

The Survivors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

received no response. Nonetheless, they still hope to be sent reinforcements, laborers, and material for rebuilding the abbey. They typically keep watch on the Skull Dunes during the day, but have grown

destruction to the mainland, and he hopes to hold the island until help arrives. Ozymandias wears a special golden medallion (see the sidebar) that allows safe passage through the undead guardians of

Fairy Rings

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

ring can bestow this charm once only. Check the Story Tracker: any character who received singing lessons from Palasha the mermaid in chapter 1 has advantage on this check. Activating the Fey Crossing

neither a Fey nor of fey ancestry, the fey crossing activates only if exactly eight creatures are inside the ring. The fey crossing works both ways, allowing travel to and from Thither. Returning to

Alley: Winter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Characters who speak to the proprietor of the meat shop, a portly middle-aged woman named Sora Cuttle (LG female Illuskan human commoner), learn that she received an unexpected delivery from Justyn Rassk

Thrakkus’s meat to make her famous meat pies. Sora is suspicious of her two neighbors in area L1. They come and go at strange hours, sometimes returning from a night’s sojourn with blood on their leather

Mysterious Visitors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

harmless at first, but Morwen has received reports that they have begun harassing townsfolk and other visitors as they come and go, demanding money and wine, and threatening to put hexes on anyone who

bonfire’s core. “We come from an ancient land whose name is long forgotten—a land of kings. Our enemies forced us from our homes, and now we wander the lost roads.” The dark shape in the fire takes the

Crypt of the Talhund Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

to leave through the doorway to the west, all four crypt guardians burst out to fight until destroyed. The crypt guardians use the revenant stat block with the following changes: They speak Dwarvish

somber hall (see “Crypt Hauntings” in the “Crypt Features” section). Returning the hall to silence by defeating or driving off the creatures in the watery room at the end of the hall (area P5) puts the

Settlers, Squatters, and Invaders

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Blingdenstone, paying adventurers to scout and keep an eye on the territory while they organized their people across the dwarven holds and surface-world cities that had received them. After a decade of

infrastructure, and is intimately familiar with security conditions across the settlement. As quartermaster, she assigns homes to the ever-increasing numbers of svirfneblin returning to Blingdenstone

Future Quests

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

particularly stout dwarf wearing a helm shaped like a boar’s head. He says the gemstone is a spherical emerald roughly three inches in diameter, with a small imperfection in its core shaped vaguely like

’ Alliance gain 3 renown (see “Renown” in chapter 1 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) for returning the Eye of the Spider to Joroth. Both the gemstone and Falkir’s Fist can be found on level 10. Retrieve

Faunel

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

with dew. Beasts are returning to Faunel, but who among them will rise to the top of the food chain? Three factions of awakened Beasts vie for control of the animal kingdom. The following leaders, all

tongues capable of speech, and saplings weaned on the reservoir eventually uproot as wooden guardians that defend the town. Creatures that submerge themselves in the pond emerge in the untamed wilds of the

Life in the Tribe

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

themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core, and no orc will leave an elf alive. Orcs

On Board The Maverick

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

can conveniently be the next one the characters pick after returning from the third portal, unless you want to have the characters run through more portal encounters. When the characters enter the

intruders on sight. If Bracus is alive, all Dran Enterprises personnel have been magically ordered to allow the characters to leave the Luskan docks unharmed. If such a message is not received, the guards on

The Doom Raiders

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

, revivify, spirit guardians, water walk 4th level (3 slots): banishment, freedom of movement, guardian of faith, stoneskin 5th level (1 slot): flame strike, mass cure wounds, hold monster Actions

type. The City Watch has received reports of a figure who haunts the rooftops of Waterdeep — a hulking shadow that glares from its perch, rains down death in the form of long black arrows, and slinks

Attack on Goldenfields

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

of the nearest longhouse, loses his balance, and falls. You have never seen such a clumsy, disheveled halfling. Not long after the initial attack on Goldenfields, the abbot received reports of

waiting outside the wall. Lob and Ogg are the exceptions; more afraid of Guh than of the Goldenfields defenders, they hate the thought of returning to their chief without a mountain of food. But neither

Delerium Geode

Equipment

spell for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage and harms all

end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a

Delerium Massive Cluster

Equipment

Enlarge/Reduce spell for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage

throw at the end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s

Upper Level B1-B9

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

stand guard in this chamber. If the characters made any obvious noise as they descended the stairs (including talking), these guardians try to hide along the walls adjacent to the stairs, behind the

-of-the-way village of Greenfast in the hope of one day returning to Waterdeep with a full-fledged cult. He fights fiercely when surrounded by his lackeys but tries to flee if things start to fall apart

Haskasori Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves

characters do so, Yaarnak is appeased and vanishes; award the characters Experience Points for having defeated the mummy. If they try to leave Haskasori without returning the staff, the mummy pursues them

guardians are Hostile toward all non-Undead. Once they were loyal guards of King Yaarnak. When Anthradusk took the scepter from the king’s tomb, the guards roused from their slumber to search for the

Palace Garden Locations

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

know better than to enter the palace without an invitation. Badger Minstrels. Each of these four badgers received one of Skabatha Nightshade’s awaken spells, which granted it an Intelligence of 10 and

Iron Lion The iron lion, Envy, is one of two guardians that Zybilna created to watch over her garden in her absence. When Zybilna became frozen in time, her guardians appeared from their respective

Dungeon Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

secret evil order whose members call themselves the Knights of the Shield, and who are the self-appointed guardians of the Shield of the Hidden Lord. Satiir doesn’t speak of the shield. Instead, she

robes and masks in these wardrobes before leaving the dungeon and returning to the city above. The wardrobes along the west wall stand empty. Characters who search the wardrobe on the south wall find

Delerium Chip

Equipment

for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage and harms all

each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a roaring

Delerium Crystal

Equipment

spell for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage and harms

end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a

Delerium Fragment

Equipment

spell for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage and harms

end of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a

Delerium Shard

Equipment

spell for 1 minute. 63–64 Wicked spirits flutter around the triggering creature. It is surrounded by the Spirit Guardians spell (spell save DC 15), which deals Necrotic damage and harms all

of each of their turns to end the effect, shaking off the terror and returning to reality. 89–90 Reminiscent of the flames which consumed Drakkenheim in the meteor’s wake, a roaring

City Celebrations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

area is closely watched by merfolk guardians, whose standing orders are to kill anyone attempting to disturb it. Rumors abound that the chests have magical protections; one story tells of thieves who

you? Flamerule 7: Lliira’s Night Originally a celebration held only in Waterdeep, this holiday has since spread up and down the Sword Coast. It has received a recent boost in popularity from the custom

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