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Candlekeep Mysteries
in the excommunication of Bak Mei and his followers, who christened themselves the Order of the Immortal Lotus. The small group eventually settled in the forest near Baldur’s Gate, where they
convinced that I deserve eternal life, despite all the suffering I've inflicted on others."Poison, ThunderNimble Escape. Bak Mei takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the kenku to acquire the items for themselves.
Despite their lack of wings, kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures
copy existing items with exceptional skill, allowing them to become excellent artisans and scribes. They can copy books, make replicas of objects, and otherwise thrive in situations where they can
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
them from mind flayer;mind flayers, but the dragon is uninterested in meeting with them despite their repeated petitions.
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A nest of vampire;vampires has developed a taste for deep dragon blood
surrounding a legendary deep dragon’s lair is altered by the dragon’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Preservation of Knowledge. Books, letters, and any other physical forms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Dexterity check with thieves’ tools can open it. Despite his crude manner, Bog Luck is a somewhat educated man, as evidenced by the books of philosophy and natural history on his reading shelf.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Dexterity check with thieves’ tools can open it. Despite his crude manner, Bog Luck is a somewhat educated man, as evidenced by the books of philosophy and natural history on his reading shelf.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
favor and protection. Immortal Perspective Despite their arrogance and viciousness, dragons are long-lived and perceptive. Their age and patience allows them to divine signs amid violent weather and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
House Dimir ZEZHOU CHEN A vampire appeared out of the darkness, as quiet as a breeze. He was stripped to the waist despite the chill underground, and his eyes reflected light like a cat’s. He
vastly outweighed its overt ones. Eventually the guild disappeared into the shadows, and most Ravnicans came to doubt its existence. An immortal entity, Szadek ruled the guild for ten thousand years until he was arrested and killed in the turmoil of the Decamillennial Celebration.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Endless Torment In every domain, instruments of suffering from the Darklord’s past ensure their greatest desire remains in view but ever out of reach. Even though a Darklord is effectively immortal
or recreating someone they lost. Despite the Darklord’s perceived care and tutelage, the object of their attention never satisfies their expectations. Last Gasp. An impending threat is on the cusp of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Living the Giant Life Giants are exceptionally long-lived compared to humans, but none are immortal. A peaceful death from old age is a common occurrence among cloud giants and storm giants and isn’t
of their long life spans, despite their low position in the ordning, other giants consider stone giants to be the wisest of all giant types, just as Skoraeus Stonebones is often seen as the wisest of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
his most trusted subordinates. Bak Mei is joined by four Immortal Lotus monks (see their stat block earlier in the adventure). To increase the difficulty of this encounter, add more monks who have just
positions around the chamber.
“Do you really think that you can defeat my Immortal Lotus style? You are mere worms slithering through the mud on a rainy day. I am the bird, here to feast!”
Bak Mei
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
revolt at the temple, a traitorous action that resulted in the excommunication of Bak Mei and his followers, who christened themselves the Order of the Immortal Lotus. The small group eventually
deserve eternal life, despite all the suffering I’ve inflicted on others.” Steel Crane Lawful evil human monk (age 36) Steel Crane is tall and slender. He is exceptionally handsome, with neat silver
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
(Athletics) check. The tower’s ground floor smells of old books and has walls lined with floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Wood-framed doors set with small, diamond-shaped panes of glass keep the books secure on
remaining books. The three of them attack intruders at once and gladly throw away their lives for Stonky’s cause. Each wields their heavy broom as a weapon, using the statistics for the cultist’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
seeking love might fixate on a young beauty. A child might become an object of fascination for a vampire obsessed with youth and potential. Others surround themselves with art, books, or sinister items
powers that made him immortal. At the wedding of Sergei and Tatyana, he confronted his brother and killed him. Tatyana fled and flung herself from Ravenloft’s walls. Strahd’s guards, seeing him for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
assistance from academies and institutions, such as the following organizations: Flamewind. The sphinx Flamewind (described in the “Immortal Being” section) isn’t officially affiliated with the university
rivals. Despite the friendly ties among academic institutions, Morgrave occupies the low end of the prestige scale among academic bodies, so its faculty tends to look for opportunities to steal glory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
this furniture have been pushed into a corner. A large wooden door to the north is ajar.
Mounted on the wall next to the door, seemingly left untouched, is a shelf of books and scrolls. It has been
filled with colorful covers and attractive shades of parchment.
Bookshelf. Characters who examine the contents of the bookshelf find that there’s no rhyme or reason to the organization of the books
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
(Perception) check, a character notes that a great amount of that detritus appears to be shredded parchments and bound books — all works destroyed by Raah in various fits of pique. Either before or
whatever point is convenient as the characters inspect the ruined books or try to skirt past the ancient deep crow’s nest, Raah angrily “wakes up.” A sense of doom pervades the cavern around you as the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
stat block to represent these scholars, if necessary. Despite their meager resources, the astronomers who work at this remote observatory don’t charge adventurers for most services. Instead, the
12, and chapter 17, respectively.
Library The library on the second floor of this observatory holds books of extraterrestrial esoterica, plus astronomical references like star charts, almanacs, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
with multiple books they suspect might meet with approval. Fortunately for some, the donation need not be utterly unique. Some tome or treatise the library doesn’t have in its archives is preferable, but
the monks are open to a few other possibilities: rare editions, books with a great deal of history tied to them, even tomes with insightful (or just interesting) notes scribbled in the margins have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
attracts numerous spies despite the inhospitable environment. Merely observing Mephistopheles’s disciples at work can provide insights into the nature of their research and the discoveries they have
, limited to why they have come together. Some of the most skilled but most gullible former wizards of the Material Plane now toil eternally in Cania, alone except for their books, their tools, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Gold Dragon Lairs Despite their affection for people and their diverse cultures, gold dragons typically make their lairs in hidden places far from civilization, where only the most desperate and
across both distance and time. Sleeping Chamber. At the end of the gallery passage, the dragon’s sleeping chamber opens up, its walls lined with shelves holding books and useful magic items. Treasury
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
and permanently laying them to rest. 2 Devout Scholars. This federation prizes knowledge and texts pertaining to their god. They collect rare holy books and record the life stories of miracle-working
your group as the adventuring arm of the organization, or perhaps a legion of paladins who call on your group’s finesse where swords and shields fail. You might receive orders directly from the immortal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
retrieved books for them. Three neutral drow temporarily live here. Their names are Erdan Vosselth, Thiala Sharne, and Vellios Keethe, and they have proudly worked for the Henlifel family as guards and
avoid that room. Library. The adjacent library is filled with books. Yanthdel can read the languages the books are written in, but the other drow can’t. Strange Pets. The drow want to force their way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
of Aristocrats From the heads of scheming merchant families to immortal sorcerer-queens, each member of the aristocracy holds a measure of wealth and power—and they desire more. The rulers of a barony
. An outcast noble favored by your patron works with you to uphold their family’s interests despite their exile. 6 Outsider Inside. A mysterious entity manipulates a noble family’s fortunes. Through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
books. Each bookshelf is outfitted with a ladder on a rolling track to enable people to reach the highest books. Shelves that take up the entire southwest wall hold not books but eighty wide-necked glass
standing beside their teenage son, Osvaldo. (This portrait conceals a secret door.) If Terenzio and Elzerina are here, they’re playing on the sliding ladders. Books. None of the books are magical. Jars of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
contain a bed, a table strewn with writing implements and books, and shelves piled with bound volumes and scrolls. Contact Stone. A circle of glowing glyphs above Sarkalla’s southern table is a contact
six valuable tomes on underground exploration and natural history (worth 120 gp each). Glyph Key. Sarkalla has a glyph key attuned to this zone, the Immortal Caverns, the Spawning Pools, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
magic items and spellbooks, Obaya hires a small squad of bodyguards, books passage on a merchant ship heading to Chult, and returns to Port Nyanzaru with her trove. Pay a Harper Debt A lawful good bard
, the ancient alabaster throne was spared the destruction of Aelinthaldaar by Coronal Audark himself, who ordered it placed in an underground vault. Despite the precaution, the throne was damaged in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry.
Alignment. Neutral good.
Personality Trait. “I treat my
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
afterward, rather than continue the search on his own. When he’s not straining at some feat of athleticism, he’s reading books of poetry.
Alignment. Neutral good.
Personality Trait. “I treat my
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
closer to that shape than any other. The shape is shattered and crawling with convulsing, bipedal parasites. Despite the shape’s ruin, the darkness within one of its hollow eyes deepens and fixates. It
, promising eternities of desiccated doom within the Drought Elder’s immortal corpse. GHOST ORCHIDS
Manifestations of Chimagua’s magic, these magical plants are unique to the tepui named after them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
floating creature is an alert Spectator, which was mistakenly summoned to guard the bookcases, not the books. When the githyanki abandoned Starglass Waypoint, they removed all the books so they wouldn’t be
make them edible despite being decades old. Crate 3 contains forty-nine 5-pound silver trade bars (worth 25 GP each). One silver bar is clearly missing (it’s in the sinkhole in area S24). Crate 4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
go on its dinner break (despite being a skeleton). Slot Machines. One side of the gambling pit features banks of strange clockwork machines, each with a large red lever and a slot for tokens. These
character can collect 10 gp worth of gems, to a total of 1,000 gp for the entire pool. 7. Office Lottie’s books are here — both those she likes to read and her financial records for the gambling hall. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Soothsayer’s Room A chilly draft wafts through this bedroom despite a roaring fire in the hearth. Bundled under a thick quilt and seated in a squat rocking chair in front of the fire is a venerable dwarf
founders, the Dinev family, brought with them an extensive collection of rare books. That collection, stored here, was burned by orcs when the castle was sacked many years ago. The room has not been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
effect can be triggered only once. Each pile’s contents are listed below: Keep Pile Bagpipes (worth 30 GP) Ten Books of poetry (worth 25 GP each) Twenty Holy Symbols (amulets worth 5 GP each) representing
each) Twenty gold rings (worth 25 GP each) Trade Pile Ten Books (historical texts worth 25 GP each) Five flutes (worth 2 GP each) Bejeweled, fur-lined cloak fit for royalty (worth 2,500 GP) Ten gold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, nigh-immortal figures known to have been blessed by Mystra. (Some even say they are the goddess’s daughters.) Her spellcasting ability is impressive but is beginning to wane, and she focuses more on
their own pursuits, Melandrach is more circumspect. He has led the elves of the Misty Forest since before most of their kind abandoned their lands in the Retreat. Despite the years of discussion and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
immortal merchants make up the bank’s board of directors, who ensure the institution’s reach continues to widen. They seek power through profit, conquering worlds without armies of their own by
combine their powers to siphon magic from entire worlds to dampen dangerous artifacts or prevent malicious spellcasters from unleashing catastrophic magic. Despite their influence, the mages are few