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Keys from the Golden Vault
wielding a melee weapon.Knights are warriors who pledge service to rulers, religious orders, and noble causes. A knight’s alignment determines the extent to which a pledge is honored. Whether
undertaking a quest or patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.Fire
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Storm King's Thunder
weapon.Knights are warriors who pledge service to rulers, religious orders, and noble causes. A knight's alignment determines the extent to which a pledge is honored. Whether undertaking a quest or
patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Horizon Walkers guard the world against threats that originate from other planes or that seek to ravage the mortal realm with otherworldly magic. They seek out planar portals and keep watch over them
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Horizon Walkers guard the world against threats that originate from other planes or that seek to ravage the mortal realm with otherworldly magic. They seek out planar portals and keep watch over them
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
deep in the Underworld. Terrifying and cunning, they guard portals between the wards of the Underworld, Erebos’s greatest treasures, and noteworthy souls who might attempt to escape the realm of
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
accept it.
Amethyst dragons pay particular attention to intrusions of the Far Realm into the Material Plane. They loathe the corruption that accompanies such intrusions into the world, making them
fierce opponents of the Far Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their enemies from all angles with a flurry of entangling chains that hold fast and corrupt the flesh. When their quarry is helpless, they dispatch it and then loot the corpse for trinkets
, a god of death and memory. They were brought to that realm in ages past, so long ago that they’re now adapted to its cheerless environment, both physically and mentally.
Eons of exposure to
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric&mdash
religious service. The Gods of the Multiverse section contains a sample pantheon, from the Forgotten Realms setting. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
her finger is a well-rehearsed ploy, a gesture she has weaponized to put her targets off guard.
Hulgaz is a charmer in both the common and magical sense. She effortlessly ingratiates herself
martyrs pique Hulgaz’s interest because she loves the challenge of twisting and defiling the souls of such noble beings. She responds to unwavering do-gooders by redoubling her efforts to corrupt
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
chaos, confusion, and destruction, seeking to corrupt all that is good and undermine order in the multiverse, to see everything dragged howling into the infinite depths of the Abyss.
The demon lord is
’s lair is warped by his magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Beguiling Realm. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Charisma (Persuasion) and Charisma (Performance) checks have
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
military organization you were a part of, how far through its ranks you progressed, and what kind of experiences you had during your military career. Was it a standing army, a town guard, or a village
usually gain access to friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognized.
BALDUR’S GATE FEATURE: CITY GUARD
You may choose to currently serve in either the Flaming
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
, and their members operate anywhere the organization deems necessary. These groups employ listeners, rumormongers, smugglers, sellswords, cache-holders (people who guard caches of wealth or magic for
to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful)
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Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm. They frequently ally with emerald dragons, drawing on their kin
’s knowledge of occult phenomena to track the influence of the Far Realm. Armed with that knowledge, sapphire dragons stamp out alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, working for someone who has more than they deserve. But the Guild offered you a way to fix that. You keep doing what you’ve always done — guard work, dock labor, business accounting &mdash
to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
BALDUR’S GATE
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of that faerie realm suffused the eggs, which hatched into the first moonstone dragons. Their descendants are now found throughout the Feywild.
Moonstone dragons are graceful and elegant creatures
;especially travelers from faraway places.
Moonstone dragons can project themselves into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’ attentiveness to unusual events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane
hunts for buried coins for the dragon’s hoard.
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A galeb duhr acts as a door guard to a young emerald dragon;young emerald dragon's lair.
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A young emerald dragon invites repeated
Knight
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
knight must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.Knights are warriors who pledge service to rulers, religious orders, and noble causes. A knight's alignment determines the extent to which
a pledge is honored. Whether undertaking a quest or patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.
Baalzebul Tiefling
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
The crumbling realm of Maladomini is ruled by Baalzebul, who excels at corrupting those whose minor sins can be transformed into acts of damnation. Tieflings linked to this archdevil can corrupt others both physically and psychically.
Acolyte
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You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
.
Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your religious service. The Gods of the Multiverse section contains a sample pantheon
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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm
realities. Such is the realm that spawned the xill, horrific, insectoid creatures created long ago to serve an ancient, evil master.
Gruesome Collectors. Xills are horrid, four-armed creatures that seem to
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, Heretical Text, Holy Symbol, Traveler's Clothes, 10 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You have learned that the dominant religious beliefs of your region are lies. The corrupting forces may be in charge, but
you will not rest until you have shown their lies as corrupt and untrue. Your beliefs, and your willingness to speak that truth, have put you in danger from the authorities.
You travel the road or live
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
It Came from the Far Realm What happens to the Far Realm entity is for you to decide. As a thing of pure thought, it might corrupt creatures in its vicinity, transforming them into horrible
Aberrations or zealous Far Realm cultists. Conversely, it might find solace in the body of some creature powerful enough to serve as its new host.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
It Came from the Far Realm What happens to the Far Realm entity is for you to decide. As a thing of pure thought, it might corrupt creatures in its vicinity, transforming them into horrible
Aberrations or zealous Far Realm cultists. Conversely, it might find solace in the body of some creature powerful enough to serve as its new host.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Religious Order Your group acts in the service of one of Khorvaire’s most prominent or obscure religious institutions. Perhaps you’re a team of devotees pursuing a cause for your faith, or maybe
teachings of your religion in a land that’s hostile to it. Or you could serve a corrupt hierarchy by making its enemies quietly disappear—though even the most cynical mercenaries might become true believers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Religious Order Your group acts in the service of one of Khorvaire’s most prominent or obscure religious institutions. Perhaps you’re a team of devotees pursuing a cause for your faith, or maybe
teachings of your religion in a land that’s hostile to it. Or you could serve a corrupt hierarchy by making its enemies quietly disappear—though even the most cynical mercenaries might become true believers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
) lurking in the hold has designs on the Forest Crystal (in this chapter), seeking to corrupt it and use its magic to spread the Far Realm intrusion. While some of its minions—creatures from the
becomes an extension of the Far Realm’s intrusion. Fallen Storm A storm giant who sought to cleanse the Far Realm corruption from the keep has succumbed to the corruption and now gathers creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
twin facades of religious hierarchy and banking operation, Orzhov is an organized crime syndicate with its fingers in businesses across the city. The Orzhov’s original function was both religious and
work is necessary to the proper functioning of Ravnica. Although most other Ravnicans see the Orzhov for the corrupt organization it is, many people are still dazzled by the syndicate’s promises of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
twin facades of religious hierarchy and banking operation, Orzhov is an organized crime syndicate with its fingers in businesses across the city. The Orzhov’s original function was both religious and
work is necessary to the proper functioning of Ravnica. Although most other Ravnicans see the Orzhov for the corrupt organization it is, many people are still dazzled by the syndicate’s promises of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Religious Order Sure, serve that religious order, and soon you’ll be doing a thousand loads of your high priest’s laundry, because—conveniently—it’s divine will.
Tasha
Your group acts in the
service of a religious institution. The patronage of a religious order isn’t simply a matter of each member of your party belonging to the same faith, though. The faith’s administration—with its own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Religious Order Sure, serve that religious order, and soon you’ll be doing a thousand loads of your high priest’s laundry, because—conveniently—it’s divine will.
Tasha
Your group acts in the
service of a religious institution. The patronage of a religious order isn’t simply a matter of each member of your party belonging to the same faith, though. The faith’s administration—with its own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
) lurking in the hold has designs on the Forest Crystal (in this chapter), seeking to corrupt it and use its magic to spread the Far Realm intrusion. While some of its minions—creatures from the
becomes an extension of the Far Realm’s intrusion. Fallen Storm A storm giant who sought to cleanse the Far Realm corruption from the keep has succumbed to the corruption and now gathers creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
meet its wrath.” (True)
Jane Katsubo Yvette
Human Bank Guard
Stat Block: Guard
This corrupt guard exploits her station for selfish ends.
Bitter. Yvette thinks the world owes her
bank sports a teller’s window with a drop-down counter. A bespectacled halfling woman in a silk tabard sits behind the glass. Outside, a bored human guard stands watch.
The banker, Quink, relies on the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Grim Hollow: Player’s Guide
prophet of the Arch Seraphs. That’s not to say commoners follow you without question. No, suspicion and fear lead folk to doubt the divine miracles you perform, and corrupt religious orders seek to
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Grim Hollow: Player’s Guide
) Disguise Kit, Heretical Text, Holy Symbol, Traveler’s Clothes, 10 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You have learned that the dominant religious beliefs of your region are lies. The corrupting forces may be in charge
, but you will not rest until you have shown their lies as corrupt and untrue. Your beliefs, and your willingness to speak that truth, have put you in danger from the authorities. You travel the road or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Acolyte You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred
. Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being from among those listed in appendix B or those specified by your DM, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your religious