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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
merchants might all be secret servants of the Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince mortals to
the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream can volunteer to serve as a quori vessel. But the Inspired of Sarlona are humans
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
are spread throughout Khorvaire as well. Beggars and generals, mayors and merchants might all be secret servants of the Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the
that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
throughout Khorvaire as well. Beggars and generals, mayors and merchants might all be secret servants of the Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the Dreaming Dark
and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
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
archons became greedy for more splendid monuments to their greatness. Some believed the grandest testaments to their glory were being denied them by their servants' unremarkable forms. So the archons
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream can volunteer to serve as a quori vessel. But the Inspired of Sarlona are humans bred to be such vessels. They have no
heard of the Inspired lords in Riedra — never realizing that Inspired are spread throughout Khorvaire as well. Beggars and generals, mayors and merchants might all be secret servants of the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
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
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
overlords are bound by the Silver Flame, they can't physically manifest in the world. But each overlord embodies a particular aspect of evil, which grows in strength as their servants — the fiends known
as the Lords of Dust — scheme to unleash their ancient masters. The overlords gain strength when mortals embrace the dark paths laid down for them. And as they grow stronger, they gain more influence
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Out of the Abyss
Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and curve of his body, every
the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists, are
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Storm King's Thunder
), are ogre-sized bipeds with curved horns and dour expressions. Their hulking bodies are coated with thick fur and hair, and many outsiders can’t tell the males and females apart.
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and dark knowledge that might serve to corrupt or dominate others. Knowledge that the yakfolk can’t gain or use is to be destroyed. Unsentimental by nature, yakfolk parents pack children off to
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Storm King's Thunder
apart.
Servants of the Forgotten God. Yakfolk are the creations of a malevolent deity they call the Forgotten God. The worship of this nameless deity directs their lives. The deity takes the form of
secrets of elemental magic and dark knowledge that might serve to corrupt or dominate others. Knowledge that the yakfolk can’t gain or use is to be destroyed. Unsentimental by nature, yakfolk
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believes mocks him and has caused his aged, squalid state.
Ivan surrounds himself with dangerous clockwork toys and fawning, mechanical servants. While he goes through the motions of crafting such
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
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
strength as their servants — the fiends known as the Lords of Dust — scheme to unleash their ancient masters. The overlords gain strength when mortals embrace the dark paths laid down for them. And
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
staff of power taken from him by those who imprisoned him and commands his servants to do likewise.
The Prince of Deception’s true form is like that of a great gargoyle, some 12 feet tall, with
an extended, muscular neck; a smiling face framed by long, pointed ears and lank, dark hair; and bat-like wings are furled against his powerful shoulders. He can assume other forms, however, from the
Fraz-Urb'luu
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Out of the Abyss
the Abyss. He seeks the pieces of the legendary staff of power taken from him by those who imprisoned him, and commands his servants to do likewise.
The Prince of Deception’s true form is like
that of a great gargoyle, some 12 feet tall, with an extended, muscular neck and a smiling face framed by long, pointed ears and lank, dark hair, and bat-like wings are furled against his powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Lodge Ground Floor The lower floor has heavy, mud-stained carpets and dark wooden walls. These are the common spaces for visitors and for servants. Characters can enter the lodge through the front
cultists other than Talis, who is on the upper floor (see area 16). She expects only fellow cultists as visitors. Most servants will expect that friendly visitors are here to see her. Map 7.1: Hunting Lodge Ground FloorView Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Lodge Ground Floor The lower floor has heavy, mud-stained carpets and dark wooden walls. These are the common spaces for visitors and for servants. Characters can enter the lodge through the front
cultists other than Talis, who is on the upper floor (see area 16). She expects only fellow cultists as visitors. Most servants will expect that friendly visitors are here to see her.
Map 7.1: Hunting Lodge - Ground Floor
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Conclusion Once the threat of the hags and their servants is dealt with, the characters have a chance to rectify the dark deeds done at the temple. Destroying the four portraits in area T17 frees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Ogrémoch’s Bane haunted the drow with the same relentless cruelty it did the svirfneblin, turning their elemental servants against them. Eventually, the drow armies departed the city, but when they did
her own underground realm. She commanded a force of drow servants and soldiers with unabashed cruelty, relentlessly driving them to seek out spell gems and increase her own wealth and power. Overcome
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Dark Fantasy Vampires brood on the battlements of their accursed castles. Necromancers toil in dark dungeons to create horrid servants made of dead flesh. Devils corrupt the innocent, and werewolves
full of creatures that perfectly suit a storyline of supernatural horror. The most important element of such a campaign, though, isn’t covered by the rules. A dark-fantasy setting requires an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Har’Akir Domain of the Ancient Dead
Darklord: Ankhtepot
Genre: Dark fantasy
Hallmarks: Ancient tombs, desert perils, lost gods, mummies
Mist Talismans: Canopic jar, lapis lazuli scarab
and immortal pharaoh. The deathless ruler cares nothing for his domain or mortal concerns. Rather, he relentlessly sends servants in search of his one desire: his ka, the missing piece of his fractured
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
too slow to escape its grasp. Dark Servants. Sinister necromantic magic infuses the remains of the dead, causing them to rise as zombies that do their creator’s bidding without fear or hesitation. They
any formerly living creature can be imbued with a semblance of life. Necromantic magic, usually from spells, animates a zombie. Some zombies rise spontaneously when dark magic saturates an area. Once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
daelkyr, and began creating aberration servants. 4 A mind flayer serving Dyrrn dominates a magistrate and takes control of the city watch using intellect devourers. 5 An assassin mixes mind-altering
poisons laced with the whispers of a dark entity. 6 A dragonmarked heir whose fortunes were ruined in the Last War founds a cult within their house. 7 The local thieves’ guild turns from mundane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
castle, they trapped most of the servants in this area. A five-foot-wide, eight-foot-high tunnel leads to a dark, cold room that reeks of filth.
Five of the speaker’s servants (unarmed human commoners
Caer Locations (C20-C24) C20. Shrine to Levistus Frost covers the floor of this dark, fifteen-foot-square room. To your left and right are narrow tunnels, and across from the entrance stands an eight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Har’Akir Domain of the Ancient Dead Darklord: Ankhtepot Genre: Dark fantasy Hallmarks: Ancient tombs, desert perils, lost gods, mummies Mist Talismans: Canopic jar, lapis lazuli scarab, scroll of
the City of the Dead, the Darklord watches over his domain, careless of the passage of mortal lives as he sends his servants in search of his only remaining desire: his ka, the missing piece of his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
hate in their hearts, those whose minds are broken and therefore open to insinuation and dark whispers. These are the servants of Elemental Evil, and they can cause immeasurable harm if they aren’t
, governments, the laws of nature — and reduce existence to a more elemental state, tainted with conflict and madness. Elemental Evil uses mortal servants as a means to this end. These hateful principles take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
other illithid elder brains banished their peer from existence. In actuality, the Dark Powers claimed the afflicted elder brain and granted it an alien domain. Now called the God-Brain by the mind
flayers and stranger entities that serve it, this elder brain pursues radical methods of saving itself from the thoughts destroying it. Its servants claim trespassers and beings from other domains, violating their minds with their bizarre experiments.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
A Forbidding Land Thay is an isolated and arid windswept plateau some twenty-five hundred miles east of Waterdeep, its dark skies constantly clouded by volcanic ash. This land is defined by the
spellcaster, and necromancers are common there. Undead servants are everywhere, and many of the commanders in Thay’s armies are the free-thinking undead soldiers (use the wight statistics). Travelers to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
A Forbidding Land Thay is an isolated and arid windswept plateau some twenty-five hundred miles east of Waterdeep, its dark skies constantly clouded by volcanic ash. This land is defined by the
spellcaster, and necromancers are common there. Undead servants are everywhere, and many of the commanders in Thay’s armies are the free-thinking undead soldiers (use the wight statistics). Travelers to this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Labyrinth Beneath the Sands of Sute lie generations of hidden tombs, built one atop the other and hidden by the sands of ages. Elaborated upon by the Dark Powers, these endless, entangled crypts
are known as the Labyrinth—a vast, dungeon-underworld that connects every tomb and monument in Har’Akir. The Children of Ankhtepot and their undead servants make use of hidden thoroughfares connecting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Graz’zt The appearance of the Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and
himself with the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Graz’zt The appearance of the Dark Prince is a warning that not all beautiful things are good. Standing nearly nine feet tall, Graz’zt strikes the perfect figure of untamed desire, every plane and
himself with the finest of things and the most attractive of servants, and he adorns himself in silks and leathers both striking and disturbing in their workmanship. His lair, and those of his cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
potential allies for a character who belongs to the right faction.) In addition, the Elder Elemental Eye might be an aspect of the imprisoned god Tharizdun, a dark power of destruction, entropy, and
eternal darkness. Whether the elemental prophets see themselves as worshipers of Tharizdun or only as servants of the Elder Elemental Eye is not relevant to the adventure; madness is madness, after all.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
The Dark Dominion The rock surrounding the city is honeycombed with tunnels and passageways forming the Dark Dominion, a territory claimed by the drow but not part of the city proper. Home to all
manner of Underdark denizens, this maze forms part of Menzoberranzan’s defenses as well as its underworld — a dangerous place for dark dealings and clandestine meetings. The Dark Dominion is a great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
King’s Dark Lanterns The King’s Dark Lanterns is the intelligence division of the King’s Citadel, an organization sworn to defend Breland from its enemies and dispense justice in the name of King
Boranel. As the secret servants of the crown, members of the organization are granted the authority to conduct intelligence operations on foreign soil, execute covert missions across the globe, and
Compendium
- 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