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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
packs and nest in sprawling subterranean warrens. They are attracted to sources of heat, such as dwarven forges and pools of molten lava, and carve out lairs as close to such locations as possible
the dark and can detect vibrations in the earth around them. They take the scent of their own dead as a warning and avoid areas where many other kruthiks have died. Slaying a sufficient number of
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of arms magically orbit the bodies of the titanic, nearly forgotten artisans known as hundred-handed ones. These giants often dwell in remote mountains and seaside cliffs, where they carve their
performed dark rituals, robbing the power of ancient, slumbering giants and using it to transform their servants. This primal energy granted the archons' agents numerous limbs—the better to raise the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Kruthiks are chitin-covered reptiles that hunt in packs and nest in sprawling subterranean warrens. They are attracted to sources of heat, such as dwarven forges and pools of molten lava, and carve out
having an acute sense of smell, kruthiks can see in the dark and can detect vibrations in the earth around them. They take the scent of their own dead as a warning and avoid areas where many other
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
forges and pools of molten lava, and carve out lairs as close to such locations as possible. As they burrow through the earth, they leave behind tunnels—evidence that is often the first clue to
floor with their sharp legs.
In addition to having an acute sense of smell, kruthiks can see in the dark and can detect vibrations in the earth around them. They take the scent of their own dead as a
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
the living portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the
Whisperer. A purple star whose guidance and minions seem to help for a time but whose influence inevitably leads to disaster.
Hadar, the Dark Hunger. A cinder-red dying star that siphons life from its
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
brigganock, or any object being worn or carried by another creature, and the activity must take place within a 10-foot cube. For example, the brigganock could use this action to rapidly carve a
brigganock see in the dark. Brigganocks have minor spellcasting abilities that help them survive. They also have the ability to manipulate time, allowing them to accomplish hour-long tasks in a matter of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Zorzula’s Rest are immune to the fumes. Walls and Floors The walls and floors of the outpost are made of gray igneous stone. The mining tunnels carve through packed earth and rocky sediment. Ceilings
grooves allow lava to flow through and illuminate the outpost’s interior with dim blue light. The mining tunnels are dark unless otherwise noted. Tunnels Galore!
Map 5.5 and the corresponding location
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, and carve out lairs as close to such locations as possible. As they burrow through the earth, they leave behind tunnels — evidence that is often the first clue to the nearby presence of a kruthik hive
. In addition to having an acute sense of smell, kruthiks can see in the dark and can detect vibrations in the earth around them. They take the scent of their own dead as a warning and avoid areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
form and related powers through their deeds or a curse. Maybe they even gained supernatural abilities via a pact with the Dark Powers or upon arriving in their domain. Consider whether or not your
Darklord’s monstrousness. The Dark Gifts in chapter 1 serve as examples of the sorts of forms and powers a Darklord might possess. In any case, consider how this transformation embodies the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
became locked in a perpetual, dark winter without reprieve. Auril the Frostmaiden, the divine embodiment of winter’s fury, has withdrawn to this cold corner of the world to live among mortals
, turning midday into twilight and trapping Icewind Dale in winter’s dark embrace, with no sunlight or warmth to melt the snow and ice. Each casting of the spell leaves the Frostmaiden weakened, with just
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
enough to carve out a realm for themselves — and, after forsaking his status in the Hells, that’s exactly what Graz’zt did.
Those who find this idea plausible hope that Graz’zt’s defection is a unique
ranks of those who seek pleasure above all else. He promises dark delights and forbidden ecstasies, in return for total submission to him. His cult gathers new members by circulating tracts, poems, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Canyon Shrine Aside from the other dangers of the twisting canyons of Phoberos, followers of Mogis openly worship and offer sacrifices to their dark god in these places. Twisting cave systems run
that is holy to Mogis. Caves long used by bandits, minotaur raiders, and predatory beasts carve their ways through the craggy walls. Many of the caves are connected, but some are isolated. Ledges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
brigganock’s soul lives outside its body, manifesting as a bulb of pale light that floats alongside it and helps the brigganock see in the dark. Brigganocks have minor spellcasting abilities that help them
being worn or carried by another creature, and the activity must take place within a 10-foot cube. For example, the brigganock could use this action to rapidly carve a pumpkin, cook and eat dinner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the inhabitants of the
guidance and minions seem to help for a time but whose influence inevitably leads to disaster.
Hadar, the Dark Hunger. A cinder-red dying star that siphons life from its minions to avert its own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, and through them come horrific fiends that scream, shriek, and howl as they are wrenched from the Abyss and cast into the Underdark.
A woman’s deep, dark laugh echoes in your mind as the drow wizard
Lord. A deep gnome spurned by others of his kind weeps as he wanders the dark tunnels, talking to the things that crawl and seep from the walls. You see him adopt two slick patches of ooze, sensing his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
The Dark Seldarine Lolth demands the lion’s share of worship from the drow, according to her wishes and by the command of her priestesses. The Spider Queen isn’t, however, the only entity venerated
by drow. They revere a host of divine entities, which they refer to as the Dark Seldarine in mockery of the surface elves’ deities. The Dark Seldarine are mighty, immortal beings, survivors from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, volcanic temples are works of art. The priests who maintain the structures carve intricate designs with metal filigree in the stone walls and craft ornamental decorations that make each temple look
to get lost in the temple’s twisting, never-finished halls, minor eruptions pose a constant threat, and former temples ruined by eruptions now connect to dark places that monsters call home. Despite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
for so long that they have evolved to their surroundings and can see in the dark. However, they can no longer stand sunlight. When laborers are in short supply in the Underdark, the drow send raiding
forward to the interrogation and torture that follows combat. Drow Magic. Just as the drow have adapted to underground life, so too has their magic. In addition to using that magic to carve their cities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
for a group of drow driven mad by Demogorgon’s rampage. These drow carve the symbol of Demogorgon — a Y with curled ends — into their palms and foreheads, and they can hear the twin voices of the Prince
without his left ear. He has never forgotten nor forgiven the noble. To this day, he uses a small cave system that doesn’t connect with the Dark Dominion to smuggle goods and hide people fleeing angry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
titanic, nearly forgotten artisans known as hundred-handed ones. These giants often dwell in remote mountains and seaside cliffs, where they carve their memories into the ancient stone, covering their
their greatness. Some believed the grandest testaments to their glory were being denied them by their servants’ unremarkable forms. So the archons performed dark rituals, robbing the power of ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
gnome who spies for the Xanathar Guild. A few years ago, he survived the detonation of a gas spore in Undermountain and inherited some stray beholder memories. Driven by a compulsion to carve out his
dark as a dungeon — and as odorous as one, too. Nearly all the streetlamps have been smashed. The only light that pierces the darkness is a faint flickering from down the lane, like a distant candle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
, periodically surfaces to skewer Undersigil’s residents from the back of his mutated shark, Ripper (a hunter shark with a walking speed of 30 feet). Others, like the aboleth Abadoom, carve out lairs in
stubborn believers who refuse to renounce their allegiances. Within Nowhere’s dark warrens, criminals peddle seedy wares to dwindling factions, some consisting of just one member. Grungy alleys become
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Minotaur The minotaurs who dwell in the badlands of Phoberos and the remote polis of Skophos are caught between two worlds. Some follow the dark god Mogis, who has tyrannized them for ages untold and
weapons easily three times that length. Theros minotaurs often carve their horns to sharpen their edges, etch symbols of power into them, or sheathe them in bronze to prevent them from shattering during
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, Avernus, is the arrival point for visitors, a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and carve out fuming impact craters
wind, choking smoke, and volcanic ash. Within the fire-filled caldera of Phlegethos’s largest volcano rises Abriymoch, a fortress city made of obsidian and dark glass. With rivers of molten lava
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and experiences of dreamers. The dark core at the heart of the plane is shaped by the nightmare force known as the Dreaming Dark. The primary inhabitants of Dal Quor are the quori, enigmatic master
ceaselessly howl over floes of thick, blue ice, and frost giants carve great fortresses from glaciated mountains. Unprotected visitors perish quickly, but those who adapt to the cold or protect themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
giant gods about magic, wards, banes, hidden treasures, and the secrets of the earth. Skoraeus gave the secret of smelting to Surtur. Skoraeus showed Thrym how to carve runes on his old weapons to
the sea, so that Stronmaus could find the chain-tunnels that allowed him to pull the tarrasque down to the bed of the ocean where at last it would drown.
Life in the Dark Stone giants see well in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Locations V - Z Valley of Khedrun The frozen vale on the southern fringe of the Spine of the World is named for a legendary dwarf hero who used his axe to carve out the homeland of the dwarves in the
looms atop a hill. Womforders lock and bar their doors and shutter their windows at night, for fear of the so-called Womford Bat, a nocturnal predator that snatches folk it can catch outside after dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Wind howls as it climbs this dark shaft.
After 80 feet, the pit tapers into a tunnel (area N1 of the Howling Caves, described later in this chapter). Chaotic gusts blow up and down the shaft, too
the floor is thick, and the air is stale.
The dwarves of Tyar-Besil began to carve mining tunnels here, but they gave up when faced with too many threats pouring up from the Underdark. Four specters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Ironslag: Yakfolk Village 1. Thousand Steps Thousands of years after Ironslag was abandoned, a clan of yakfolk used Humanoid workers to carve a staircase into the mountain cliff. At the top of these
: General Features” sidebar for rules on opening doors and lifting portcullises). From the room beyond comes the sound of rushing water from the nearby river. The passage leads to a cold, dark, and vast
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
(Baklunish)
Fine, dark hair frames an unnervingly youthful golden face, with a V-cut bob and a scar slashing from forehead to chin, distorting her otherwise handsome features. Onella’s muddy green eyes
Together. If the adventurers have discovered the line for Cargo Street and the Temple of Pholtus, Onaivu lays their blade along the route Cargo Street used to carve. “Follow the direction of the temple’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. After much thought, however, Nass came around to the idea. She could put her magic to the test and carve out a name for herself. As she was preparing to leave the Hosttower, Nass overheard her master
. Despite her firm grasp of the dark arts, she would not have been admitted into the Arcane Brotherhood without her family connections—a fact that sticks in her craw. Vellynne brought a family
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
emulate subterranean creatures to the greatest extent possible, using burrowing magic to carve out their hidden lairs. Black Earth cultists are slow to act, but when they do, they are utterly implacable
the dark power she sensed sleeping in the earth and rock around her. Hellenrae is a dour, unsmiling woman who habitually wears drab robes and a golden gargoyle mask with no eye holes. She despises
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of digging, Shalfi will carve a hole into area B17. Shalfi and Jitterjaws are evenly matched in a fight against Lowarnizel, so the winning side is likely whichever one the characters choose to help
closes on its own after 1 hour, harmlessly pushing aside anything in the way. B19: Lore Halls Dark ichor and three mind flayer corpses are spread around this area. Dozens of crystals set into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Chromatic Dragons The black, blue, green, red, and white dragons represent the evil side of dragonkind. Aggressive, gluttonous, and vain, chromatic dragons are dark sages and powerful tyrants feared
.
Kobolds infest the lairs of many black dragons like vermin. They become as cruel as their dark masters, often torturing and weakening captives with centipede bites and scorpion stings before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
tricks with good humor. Copper dragons are particularly fond of bards. A dragon might carve out part of its lair as a temporary abode for a bard willing to regale it with stories, riddles, and music. To
, letting it fly with a distinctive rippling motion as if swimming through the air. A gold dragon wyrmling has scales of dark yellow with metallic flecks. Those flecks grow larger as the dragon matures. As