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                                                    Tiefling
                                                    
    
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                                                    Basic Rules (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling. And to twist the knife, tieflings know that this is because a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling. And to twist the knife, tieflings know that this is because a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Criminal / Spy
                                                    
    
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                                                    Basic Rules (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thievesâ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     I canât do it.
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I blow up at the slightest insult.
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Ideal
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Honor. I donât steal from others in the trade. (Lawful)
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Freedom. Chains are meant to
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     through the woods, descending gradually until the trees part, revealing a mist-shrouded meadow. The trail splits. One branch heads west into the valley, and the other leads south into dark woods. A wooden
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Approaching the Vineyard A branch of the Old Svalich Road leads to the vineyard. If the characters approach along this path, read: After a half mile, the road becomes a muddy trail that meanders
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    The Way of the Lion Read the following boxed text to describe the charactersâ final day of travel to Candlekeep: Over the past four days, the weather on the Coast Way has gradually worsened. Dark
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     clouds release heavy rain until the road runs thick with mud, yet you trudge on, passing by friendly merchant caravans heading north.
 On the morning of the fifth day, the rain subsides but the dark
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Approaching the Mansion A winding branch of the Old Svalich Road meanders up the forested slope of a mountain spur to the old mansion, which is perched on high ground overlooking the Svalich Woods
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     capped with fairytale cones, its towers lined with sculpted battlements. A third of the structure has collapsed, as has part of the roof, but the rest appears intact. A dark, octagonal tower rises above
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     leader of the Dark Lanterns, with four subordinate knights marshal leading branch offices across Breland, in Sharn, Starilaskur, and Xandrar. A much smaller branch office keeps an eye on Brelish
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Kingâs Dark Lanterns The Kingâs Dark Lanterns is the intelligence division of the Kingâs Citadel, an organization sworn to defend Breland from its enemies and dispense justice in the name of King
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Borcan noble families include a dominant main family and lesser branch lineages. Branch noble families (sometimes with different surnames) are subservient to the main family. Each noble family
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     populace possesses dark hair and varied skin tones with cool undertones. Names often take inspiration from German, Slavic, and more fantastical conventions. When players create characters from Borca
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     type of gaming set, thievesâ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
 
Criminal Origins
Criminals are pervasive in Baldur
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
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The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I canât do it.
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I blow up at the slightest insult.
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . âI remember every insult Iâve received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone whoâs ever wronged meâ could cause significant problems when the character nurses a grudge against a god. A tragic
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     flaw can also be supernatural in nature. A hermit who harbors âdark, bloodthirsty thoughts that my isolation and meditation failed to quellâ might have a sinister connection to the vicious god Mogis
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     floors. Moving through a narrow passage, you enter a cavern dimly lit by phosphorescent fungi â and are met by the sight of a dark metal tower perched on the edge of a cliff that drops away into
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the wall facing you is a sturdy-looking door made of the same dark metal as the rest of the tower.
 No ordinary structure, the tower is a Daernâs instant fortress (see chapter 7, âTreasure,â of the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     town near the shores of a great mountain lake, its waters dark and still. A branch in the road leads west to a promontory, atop which is perched a dilapidated stone windmill, its warped wooden vanes
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     grooves allow lava to flow through and illuminate the outpostâs interior with dim blue light. The mining tunnels are dark unless otherwise noted. Tunnels Galore!
 Map 5.5 and the corresponding location
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     descriptions detail the main areas of the mining tunnels. However, several smaller, splinter tunnels branch off these areas. These tunnels were once used in the ancient duergarâs mining operations, but
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     several sculptors from Thessalarâs temple to help construct his tomb, with false promises of vast salaries. To add insult to injury, Moghadam then sent back a party of mercenary thieves and a master
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Thessalarâs experiments, but were captured. The gemsmith Seodra is now forced to labor for Thessalar, while the thieves are the subjects of dark experiments. All are desperate to escape.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     where Abbathor comes in. The dwarvesâ attachment to their creations has a dark side: many of them fall victim to feelings of selfishness and greed. The culprit is Abbathor, the black sheep of the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     experience â for all their long-winded rambling about lineage and tradition â dwarves are greedy and devious folk. I write this not to insult them in any way. I have found greed to be a useful motivator both for myself and my underlings, and I prize the trickery that some members of that race demonstrate.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Minions and Pets Although they are solitary by nature, hags sometimes feel the need for companionship. Usually one scratches this itch by acquiring servants she can insult and slap around as she
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     presence, becoming twisted versions of their former selves (in a dark fey sort of way), but still recognizable as what they once were. She might alter them with magic, making them tireless, resistant
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , and anything beyond 30 feet is in darkness. Cart wheels have carved shallow ruts in the dirt floor leading to the back of the mine, where the cave-in was never fully excavated. Smaller tunnels branch
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Version M1. Main Tunnel The mine is dark and damp, and you hear the sound of dripping water echoing from deep within. The light fades faster than it should as you move deeper, until youâre wrapped in
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thievesâ tools Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     situation. Never tell me the odds. 7 The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I canât do it. 8 I blow up at the slightest insult.   d6 Ideal   1 Honor. I donât steal from others in the trade
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Zarielâs Wrath If the characters fail to redeem Zariel and donât make a deal with her (see âMaking a Deal with Zarielâ), she attacks. Her first goal is to destroy the adventurers who dared insult her
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     thereâs something in it for him and his dark queen. 
 White Abishai
 While the head of Zariel would be a grand trophy, a trophy isnât enough to sway Arkhan. The characters must convince him that he can
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     mound caps a high hill overlooking the surrounding countryside. The area around the barrow is still and charred. Burned trees reach like dark fingerbones from the bald earthen mound. Itâs noticeably
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     terrible insult among the Uthgardt. In this form, he is a revenant. Javor doesnât attack, and he is willing to briefly listen to the characters, whom he knows to be innocent of crimes against him. He
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thievesâ tools Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     situation. Never tell me the odds. 7 The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I canât do it. 8 I blow up at the slightest insult.   d6 Ideal   1 Honor. I donât steal from others in the trade
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     necromantic arts, and seeking audiences with dark forces. The abbots of his temple confronted Bak Mei about his radical pursuits and demanded that he cease his activities. In response, he tried to stage a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     be obeyed.â Bond. âI owe my life to Bak Mei. He took me in when my parents left me for dead.â Flaw. âMy pride wonât let me back down from a challenge or forgive any insult.â
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     forget that the Guardians of the Gate have a civilian branch that handles administrative issues and special customs investigations. Tethyn Olar has led that arm of the Sharn Watch for more than a decade
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Dark. Five years ago, a kalaraq quori (see chapter 6) named Tirashana implanted a mind seed in her thoughts. Maira continues to do her job while concealing any evidence of the Dreaming Darkâs schemes
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     attuned to every bough of each tree and each branch of every stream in the forests of the Feywild. If Oberon has a weakness, it is the wild nature of his heart. His mood swings like a weather vane in
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     harming each other. Wendonai is the balor lord who first tempted the dark elves to summon demons in the ancient wars between the elf peoples. It also turned them to the worship of Lolth and continued
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     branch off into the gloom. Ahead, a stairway leads up to the second floor, and a door stands beneath the stairs, seemingly leading to the back yard.
 Dim light filters in through the dust-covered
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     broken masonry. A framed portrait hangs on the right-hand wall.
 This room is bare except for the furniture and a faded oil painting that depicts Mayor Lei Duvezin, a dark-skinned woman dressed in a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     in the decaying cavity. A typical Bedlam greeting involves spitting at anotherâs feetâpresuming the greeter is upwindâfollowed by a curt yet creative insult. An obsidian tower protrudes from the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the wake of the gate-townâs ceaseless gales. Nowhere is safe from the winds. Even when the gusts are dampened, their whispers slip through the cracks and magically encourage townsfolk to commit dark
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     of Pale Prow is composed of undead servants, both corporeal and ghostly. Necromancers are drawn to Pale Prow whenever it nears land, and it is common for them to take up residence in the dark cabins
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     to chastise the god Ehlonna for the destruction of her home. Aiding her is the corrupted dryad Filios, who dwells in a shriveled oak growing from the shipâs center. A black leafless branch stitched on
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     not dozing off and dreaming of chasing butterflies, halflings spend time on simple creative activities, such as whittling a pipe from a branch, braiding yarn into a thick rope, or composing a jaunty
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     likely to be coveted by evil wizards or to become the object of wrath for some dark force. The only enemies that a halfling village must watch for on an ongoing basis are roving bands of orcs or
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     zone. White Gate. A white gate is located in the south branch of the corridor that leads east from this area toward the Swine Run. 18. Barracks Rough cots scattered across the floor contrast with the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     has a glyph key attuned to this zone and the Hatchery. White Gate. A white gate is located in the south branch of the corridor that leads west from this area toward the Swine Run. Swine Run These
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , occupying three caves that branch off the warrenâs central area to the northwest, southwest, and southeast. The passage opens into a long, low cavern that has three narrow, twisting passages leading off into
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     origin.
 Something scrapes and hisses in the dark, and you hear the soft padding of scaly feet on rock.
 Characters who are being stealthy might catch the troglodytes unawares. If the characters are
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     dead within an area. 
   2  14  A gold coin hangs like a piece of fruit from the branch of a dead tree. 
   3  15  The sunâs light does not penetrate an area. 
   4  16  A character is stung as if
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     sun blinks. 
   6  26  No shadows are cast. 
   7  27  A specific area canât be made dark. 
   8  28  The sky turns blood-red at sunrise or sunset. 
   Omens of Iroas    d6 d100 Omen of Iroas
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     townspeople from the larger group. The side passage splits after several feet. One branch leads steeply upward while the other abruptly ends at a chasm (area J2). J2: Tunnel Chasm This passage drops
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     air in this cavern has a mineral tang. In the southeast corner, a pool of dark water lies behind a low wall of stalagmites.
 Three despondent commoners from Phandalin are trapped here: a sawyer named
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , she points toward the sky and whispers, âThe stars arenât right. The dark times are coming.â 
   9  Several cackling, half-dressed gnomes are covered in body paint and drive a wheeled contraption down
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    -Calishite kingpin, Rilsa Rael, naturally objects to this insult, and each night residents bar their doors tight as a turf war of thugs and thieves rages across their rooftops. Among Little Calimshanâs most
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     mortared stone with a high-pitched roof that has wooden statues of baying wolves rising from its peaks. A branch in the road winds up to the keepâs gatehouse and bailey. From the keep, the Zymorven
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ). It contains three gold rings (worth 25 gp each) and a thin platinum necklace with a topaz pendant (worth 750 gp). D13: Bathroom This dark room contains a barrel under a spigot in the east wall, a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    -foot-diameter, 30-foot-deep cistern with a 3-foot-high stone lip. A wooden bucket hangs from a rope-and-pulley mechanism bolted to the crossbeams above the well. Five small rooms with no doors branch
                                                
                                            
                                        






