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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Gift Descriptions This section presents a selection of Dark Gifts in alphabetical order.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
to it to aid you, making the creature appear in an unoccupied space within range. If you know a specific creature’s name, you can speak that name when you cast this spell to request that creature
or magic items to an allied temple, while a Fiend might demand a living sacrifice or a gift of treasure. Some creatures might exchange their service for a quest undertaken by you.
A task that can be
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Name or describe a famous person, place, or object. The spell brings to your mind a brief summary of the significant lore about that famous thing, as described by the DM.
The lore might consist of
important details, amusing revelations, or even secret lore that has never been widely known. The more information you already know about the thing, the more precise and detailed the information you
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This ceramic jug appears to be able to hold a gallon of liquid and weighs 12 pounds whether full or empty. The jug sloshes when it is shaken, even if the jug is empty.
You can take a Magic action
and name one liquid from the Alchemy Jug Liquids table to cause the jug to produce the chosen liquid. Afterward, you can uncork the jug as a Utilize action and pour that liquid out, up to 2 gallons per
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
Powers.
To rid themselves of this curse, Osybus’s former devotees turned to the same Dark Powers with whom their master had communed. They received a mission: Provide a mighty noble to serve as
unleash Strahd from the Mists, often using adventurers as pawns. They continue to bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original gift that gives them their horrific powers.Soul
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Powers.
To rid themselves of this curse, Osybus’s former devotees turned to the same Dark Powers with whom their master had communed. They received a mission: Provide a mighty noble to serve as
unleash Strahd from the Mists, often using adventurers as pawns. They continue to bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original gift that gives them their horrific powers.Soul
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You know how to slip through the Mists’ grasp, but this freedom comes at a price: If you remain in one area for too long, the Mists find you
that domain. To use this feature, you must know the name of the domain you have chosen as your destination, but you don’t need to have previously visited that land. This trait doesn’t allow
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Deathly power resides within you, bursting out at the slightest provocation. You gain the following features.
Death Touch. You learn the Chill
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
storehouses, and even its infamous prison, Dreadhold. Some also serve as agents of the mysterious Ghorad’din, a secretive group of assassins and spies little known beyond the members of the house. Kundarak wardens are adept at bypassing security measures as well as reinforcing them.
’s trigger, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.Some dragonmarked heirs (mostly dwarves) of House Kundarak serve as personal guardians for the house’s vaults and
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
obeyed by the living and the dead. When he first appeared before his people, he adopted an illusion of the form he possessed in life: that of a middle-aged human man with dark hair and a superior
freedom, and his metaphysical violations inevitably reverted to the Dark Powers’ original designs. Nevertheless, Azalin refused to stay a prisoner. His most recent plot culminated in the Hour
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You experience echoes from a past or alternate life. You gain the following features.
Channeled Prowess. You have proficiency in two skills of your
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
can serve for an agent of either house.
Even though House Phiarlan agents don’t typically work as entertainers or artists in addition to their espionage activities, they receive extensive
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Exposure to alien horrors like those of the Far Realm has warped your physical form in supernatural ways. You gain the following features
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You are haunted by a cacophony of whispering spirits only you can hear. You gain the following features.
Spirit Whispers. You learn the Message
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
The shadow you cast is animate and ever-present—sometimes it even acts according to its own will. You gain the following features.
Grasping
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Something unnatural is always watching you, taking the form of scurrying vermin and other eerie creatures. You gain the following features
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
devices, the Dark Powers provide him with any creation he desires, no matter how bizarre.
Ivana and Ivan’s Domain
Borca is altered by Ivana’s and Ivan’s presences, creating the
Ivan closes or opens the borders, neither Darklord can do so again until the next dawn.
Mystery Letters. Whenever Ivan writes a letter and addresses it to a creature in Borca whose name he knows and
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
There is another side of you that most people never see: a beast, a terrifying avenger, or a walking nightmare. You gain the following features
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
often believe their immortality will exempt them from any infernal claim to their souls. The archdevil Mephistopheles happily exploits such hubris and proves that even undead aren’t immune to the
laws of the Nine Hells.
The greatest hell-bound vampires are masters of hellfire called infernalists, who prey on mages. Vampire infernalists are usually too arrogant to work together; even a large
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
A second being resides within your body, offering knowledge and assistance while furthering its own agenda. You gain the following features
races
Void Speech are also common and are presented below.
All satarre are given cult names, indicating which dark god their lives were dedicated to at their naming day. Such names preface the name of the
cult or god with ai- and sometimes shorten the cult or god’s name to two or three syllables. Most continue to serve or at least pray to these gods as adults, with varying degrees of piety
Equipment
Although it’s not much of a secret nowadays, the magical stone known as feather rock, which is used to craft these stone swords, was once coveted and kept hidden by the Nakudama. Even though
feather rock is now commonly used by potion brewers, and the craft of making one of these swords is fairly common, the name has stayed the same.
Planar Ally
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
fiend loyal to it to aid you, making the creature appear in an unoccupied space within range. If you know a specific creature's name, you can speak that name when you cast this spell to request that
donation of gold or magic items to an allied temple, while a fiend might demand a living sacrifice or a gift of treasure. Some creatures might exchange their service for a quest undertaken by you.
As a
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
nature, and even though they have occasionally been recruited into the Boros Legion, they can never truly be tamed.
Cyclopes serve the Izzet league as workshop guardians, personal protectors, and heavy
shortcomings of their monocular vision. They are sometimes called monoclons or Nivix cyclopes, after the name of the Izzet guildhall.Poison, Psychic
Giant Fire Beetle
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creature that takes its name from a pair of glowing glands that give off light. Miners and adventurers prize these creatures, for a giant fire beetle's glands continue to shed light for 1d6;{"diceNotation
":"1d6","rollType":"roll"} days after the beetle dies. Giant fire beetles are most commonly found underground and in dark forests.
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
);{"diceNotation":"2d10+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Snaking predators lurking in the dark waters of the ocean, these kelp-colored beasts serve as guards and mounts for the locathah (including those found in Danger at Dunwater).
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
lives to destroying such cults.
Warlocks
Warlocks gain arcane might through magical pacts with mysterious entities. While some use their abilities to serve the sources of their power, others use them to undermine or even destroy these entities.Fire
Dark One’s Own Luck (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). When the warlock makes an ability check or saving throw, it can add a d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
":"piercing"} piercing damage.The first bronze sables were presented to Karametra as a gift by Purphoros to serve primarily as guardians in Karametra's temples. But as others have been created, some have
most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and messengers, and a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
out magic that will aid them, but enchanted objects can be taken or lost. True greatness relies on personal prowess. Faced with this truth, a frost giant might seek a supernatural gift from Vaprak the
troll upon a sacred quest to find the frost giant and meet the giant in secret. The troll offers up its own body to be devoured in Vaprak’s name. Only the boldest and most determined frost giants
Changeling
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
be. And so it remains. Though the children are shunned by all, the gift of the Traveler protects them still.
—Chance, changeling priest
Changelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many
changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It’s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them their horrific powers.
Boons of Undeath
When a priest of Osybus drops
his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he attracted disciples who also wished to defy life and death. He
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
devoted themselves to the same Dark Powers with whom their master had communed. They were given a mission: provide a person of nobility and might to serve as an earthly vessel for these powers to enter the
the mists, often using adventurers as their pawns. They also ironically bear their hated founder’s name, for they know it is his original deathly gift that gives them their horrific powers
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
wealth. They also possess a flair for unpredictability and a wicked sense of humor. Smiling ones overstep all bounds of decorum with their behavior, doing and saying things that even other knavish folk
consider beneath their dignity.
Smiling ones take their name from the strange two-faced masks they wear. The smiling half of the face often looks more like a smirk or a triumphant sneer than a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’ wrath, she cursed every member of his house. The seelie fey’s true name has been stricken from history, but the stories call him Dubh Catha (“Dark Crow” in Common), and other Fey
Legend Lore
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Name or describe a person, place, or object. The spell brings to your mind a brief summary of the significant lore about the thing you named. The lore might consist of current tales, forgotten
stories, or even secret lore that has never been widely known. If the thing you named isn't of legendary importance, you gain no information. The more information you already have about the thing, the more