creation rites guardians to have requires

Avi

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

): lesser restoration, spiritual weapon 3rd level (2 slots): dispel magic, spirit guardians Reach to the Wave. At will, Avi can control the flow and shape of water in a 5-foot cube, or cause the water to

of good society, overseeing depraved rites. A priest typically has one or more acolytes to help with religious ceremonies and other sacred duties.Acid

Animated Breath (Cold Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards

red dragon’s creation strongly resembles a fire elemental, while a black dragon’s is similar to a water elemental, but viscous and foul-looking. A green dragon’s animated poison

Animated Breath (Fire Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards or send them out to gather treasure from the territory around their lairs. An

animated breath is a bipedal creature formed from the same energy as the breath weapon of the dragon that created it. A red dragon’s creation strongly resembles a fire elemental, while a black dragon

Black Gauntlet of Bane

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

, guiding bolt (see “Actions” below) 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, hold person, silence 3rd level (2 slots): sending, spirit guardians Tactical Discipline. The black gauntlet has advantage on

","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Guiding Bolt (1st-Level Spell; Requires a Spell Slot). Ranged Spell Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Guiding Bolt"} to

Animated Breath (Lightning Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for

created it. A red dragon’s creation strongly resembles a fire elemental, while a black dragon’s is similar to a water elemental, but viscous and foul-looking. A green dragon’s animated

Animated Breath (Poison Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for

created it. A red dragon’s creation strongly resembles a fire elemental, while a black dragon’s is similar to a water elemental, but viscous and foul-looking. A green dragon’s animated

Animated Breath (Acid Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their

. A red dragon’s creation strongly resembles a fire elemental, while a black dragon’s is similar to a water elemental, but viscous and foul-looking. A green dragon’s animated poison

Spawn of Kyuss

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Kyuss requires no air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The spawn of Kyuss makes two Claw attacks, and it uses Burrowing Worm. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to

Orcus who plundered corpses from necropolises to create the first spawn of Kyuss. Even centuries after Kyuss’s death, his malign disciples continue performing the horrific rites he perfected

Undying Councilor

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

level (4 slots): bless, command, create or destroy water 2nd level (3 slots): augury, calm emotions, hold person 3rd level (3 slots): daylight, dispel magic, spirit guardians 4th level (3 slots

’s choice). Flame Strike (5th-Level Spell; Requires a Spell Slot). The councilor chooses a point it can see within 60 feet of it. Each creature in a 10-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered

Alhoon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

achieving lichdom requires an arcane spellcaster to be at the apex of power—a significant challenge for mind flayers, given the scarcity of available mentors and training. Confronting this

the same name. Collaborative Undeath To become alhoons, mind flayer arcanists must cooperate in the creation of a periapt of mind trapping, a fist-sized container made of silver, emerald, and

Animated Breath

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards or send them out to gather

treasure from the territory around their lairs. An animated breath is a bipedal creature formed from the same energy as the breath weapon of the dragon that created it. A red dragon’s creation

Shield of the Uven Rune

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

. Gift of Vengeance. You can transfer the shield’s magic to a nonmagical weapon by tracing the uven rune on the weapon with one finger. The transfer takes 8 hours of work that requires the two

items to be within 5 feet of each other. At the end, the shield is destroyed, and the rune is etched or burned into the chosen weapon. This weapon becomes a rare magic item that requires attunement. It

Spell Gem (Quartz)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell, the

gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Bloodstone)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell

, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Amber)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell

, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Obsidian)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell, the gem can’t

be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Lapis Lazuli)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a

spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Topaz)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell

, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Ruby)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell

, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Jade)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell, the gem

can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Star Ruby)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a

spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem (Diamond)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a

spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.

Spell Gem

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

’s level must be no higher than the gem’s maximum. If the spell belongs to the school of abjuration and requires material components that are consumed, you must provide them, but they can be

worth half as much as normal. Once imbued with a spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn. Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret

Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

of Dread (detailed in chapter 3): Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your

perfectly preserved remains. Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments of an amoral scientist. They consider you their finest creation or have a task for you to fulfill. Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.

Hexblood

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. Heir of Hags One way hags create more of their kind is through the creation of hexbloods. Every hexblood exhibits features suggestive of the hag whose magic inspires their powers. This includes an

their own kind or that embodies the hexblood’s nature. This requires that both the hag and hexblood be in the same place and consent to the lengthy ritual—circumstances most hexbloods shun but

Devastation Orb

Magic Items Princes of the Apocalypse

example, an air node creates a devastation orb of air. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires 2,000 gp worth of special components, which are consumed. A devastation orb measures 12 inches in

diameter, weighs 10 pounds, and has a solid outer shell. The orb detonates 1d100 hours after its creation, releasing the elemental energy it contains. The orb gives no outward sign of how much time

Grothlut

monsters

remnants of human consciousness. Many fleshwarpers consider the grothlut to be a failure of a creation, as the transformation all but stamps out the human consciousness. Others disagree, arguing that

warping the creature’s mind makes it all the more useful, since its stupidity makes it pliable and easy to herd. Some fleshwarpers use grothluts as guardians to slowly patrol the edges of their

Soulstone Grimoire

Equipment

Scrawled in devil’s ichor, this tome describes the rites necessary to achieve immortality in undeath. The book includes instructions for crafting a soulstone and imbuing it with power

, transforming the ritual caster into a Lich (MCDM);lich. In a final, terrible act, the completion of the ritual requires tearing out one’s own heart and the heart of a loved one. To decipher the

Beholder Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

becomes a pile of fine gray dust. If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If the target is a Huge or larger

object or creation of magical force, this ray disintegrates a 10-foot cube of it. Death Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation

Death Tyrant Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust. If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If

the target is a Huge or larger object or creation of magical force, this ray disintegrates a 10-foot cube of it. Death Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or

The Grinning Sinner

monsters

Paralyzed target takes damage, the condition ends early. Spellcasting (Requires Curse Bottle). The sinner casts one of the following spells using his Curse Bottle (and no other Material components

) and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17): At Will: Bane, Bestow Curse, Major Image, Remove Curse 1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Creation, DarknessLegendary Action Uses: 3

Wicker Weaver

backgrounds

You know the ancient rites kept alive by secretive druids and hedge practitioners in the shadowed groves of the primordial forests. Remedies and hexes woven into wicker charms can stave off

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

Yuan-ti

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new

during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores

Orc Legacy

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Orcs trace their creation to the one-eyed god Gruumsh, an unstoppable warrior and powerful leader. The divine qualities of Gruumsh resonate within orcs, granting them a reflection of his toughness

order from the encroachments of Fiends and other extraplanar threats. Gruumsh’s blessings have made orcs tireless guardians and mighty allies wherever they are found, even when they turn their

Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation

from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires hard study

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