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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, or radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the spawn’s next turn. The spawn is destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate
animates the corpse, transforming it into a spawn of Kyuss, which breeds more worms.
Spawn of Kyuss are expressions of Orcus’s intent to replace all life with undeath. Left to its own devices, a
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
see.Well over 1,500 years ago, the silver dragon Miirym broke into Candlekeep, intent on adding its riches to her hoard. She devoured scholars and destroyed a score of irreplaceable books before she was
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
of druids (possibly in service to Malar or Talos) who cultivated the first of these creatures. However, it remains unknown whether their intent was to create a benign means of breaking down monstrous
heart, consuming it and killing the host unless they are quickly destroyed. After gorging themselves on the host's body over several days, the maggots emerge as juvenile assassin bugs, ready to
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
While some might think it strange to find hermits in a bustling city, others know that sometimes the most profound solitude exists in the midst of a crowd. Baldur’s Gate holds a handful of
’s Gate. You came here seeking something else, only to learn that the quest that drove you had become impossible to fulfill—its object was destroyed or its purpose was negated by some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
poses as a simple workshop assistant while exterminating those who speak out against the rights of the warforged. 5 A mad artificer is trying to reactivate a destroyed warforged colossus. 6 A band of warforged attacks a lightning rail, intent on stealing something in one of the cargo carriages.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hold Back The Dead
around the fortress, obscuring everything more than a few dozen yards from the walls.
Shouts of confusion echo through the fortress, as no one can see the horde’s movements. Soon, the horde’s intent is
climb the walls when all the skeleton soldiers are atop the wall or have been defeated. These foes all fight until destroyed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
as slavers. Ned Shakeshaft is a Scarlet Brotherhood agent. He makes an attempt to foil the characters, but his true intent is to surrender and implicate Gellan Primewater as a key villain. The
to investigate. The Styes This adventure can be placed in an isolated harbor city located on an island in the Azure Sea. Once a bustling port town, it fell into ruin due to the depredations of the Sea Princes. When the characters visit the port to stock up on supplies, they become involved in the intrigue.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Hermit While some might think it strange to find hermits in a bustling city, others know that sometimes the most profound solitude exists in the midst of a crowd. Baldur’s Gate holds a handful of
from Baldur’s Gate. You came here seeking something else, only to learn that the quest that drove you had become impossible to fulfill — its object was destroyed or its purpose was negated by some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Once inside the brain, the worm kills its host and animates the corpse, transforming it into a spawn of Kyuss, which breeds more worms. Spawn of Kyuss are expressions of Orcus’s intent to replace all
life with undeath. Left to its own devices, a solitary spawn of Kyuss travels aimlessly. If it stumbles across a living creature, the spawn attacks with the sole intent of creating more spawn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dreams of Perfection Anyone who sleeps in I’Cath enters Tsien Chiang’s dream of a bustling, beautiful city filled with smiling people. But the forced smiles hide desperation from the watchful eyes of
behind no body, and if killed, dies for real. The Nightingale Bell is protected by the Dark Powers and can’t be destroyed. Dreaming the Dream. A character cannot remove levels of exhaustion by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Ships and roads lead southbound travelers to a number of bustling ports along the Sword Coast, including the following strongholds of civilization: Luskan, the City of Sails, is home to pirates as
destroyed by the eruption of Mount Hotenow. Waterdeep, the City of Splendors, is a seaside metropolis where people from all walks of life gather behind high walls.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, but she blasted the golem with eldritch magic that damaged its memory and hurled it to a far corner of Faerûn. Thinking his golem destroyed, Hamukai put a shield around the vault containing the scroll
seal him in the vault and protect the Nether Scroll. Since opening the vault required either the sapphire shard in his right palm or the golem’s sapphire heart (which he assumed was destroyed along
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Hermit While some might think it strange to find hermits in a bustling city, others know that sometimes the most profound solitude exists in the midst of a crowd. Baldur’s Gate holds a handful of
kin.
6 You aren’t originally from Baldur’s Gate. You came here seeking something else, only to learn that the quest that drove you had become impossible to fulfill — its object was destroyed or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
damage. The heart can’t be moved. If reduced to 0 hit points, the heart’s light goes out as the organ implodes and is destroyed, leaving no trace behind. Attacks made against the heart have disadvantage
sunken shipwrecks (areas T10 through T14), with only their masts visible. Characters intent on searching the ships for treasure will need darkvision or magical light sources to see, as the wrecks are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
breeds more worms. The dead humanoid’s soul remains trapped inside the corpse, preventing the individual from being raised or resurrected until the undead body is destroyed. The horror of being a soul
imprisoned in an undead body drives a spawn of Kyuss insane. Corruption Without End. Spawn of Kyuss are expressions of Orcus’s intent to replace all life with undeath. Left to its own devices, a solitary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
powerful demon usually has an intent that goes beyond merely causing carnage, and a plan to achieve it. DEMONIC AMULETS: BLESSING AND CURSE
Some demon lords have a way of cheating death, but this great
benefit doesn’t come without its own perils. A demon that stores part of its essence in a demonic amulet can avoid being destroyed even if it is killed in the Abyss. On the other hand, anyone else who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
a pillar composed of thick, red, ooze-like stuff. The creature is actually inside the pillar, and when it is roused, it emerges with evil intent. Undead Nature. The Ooze Master doesn’t require air
weapon is destroyed. Nonmagical ammunition that hits the Ooze Master is destroyed after dealing damage.
The Ooze Master can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical wood or metal in 1 round.
Instinctive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
World Tree that connects all the Outer Planes (see “Traveling the Outer Planes” earlier in this chapter). When the First World was destroyed, seeds from this great tree scattered into the void of the
constructed feature: a lonely tower or castle, a bustling tavern, or even a city. Normally, visitors to these places return to the same world they came from when they depart, but it’s also possible to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
check by 5 or more also know that Wisteria Vale was the name of a village on the River Chionthar, just east of Baldur’s Gate, that was destroyed over a decade ago. You can adjust Wisteria Vale’s
the pitiless lord and prevent him from hurting anyone ever again. Act II Vargan tracks down Lord Rathmore in a bustling city. Unsure how to proceed, the young bard starts asking around the city for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
and properly engaged, the clockwork creatures share the following information: The creatures state that they will harm only those who have come to the vault with the intent of misusing the orrery
(which they assume includes anyone trying to steal the component). However, they are not automatically friendly to those claiming other intent. The creatures were created to guard this vault and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Catching Coal Coal sprints 60 feet away from the characters into High Wall’s streets, intent on escape. The warforged has no particular destination in mind. She simply wants to get away from the
named Garra. The letter has since been destroyed. The criminals have no other useful information to share with the characters. They don’t know Garra is a half-ogre, and they don’t know how to contact her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Baalzebul Through sufficient penance and grace, even the lowliest can redeem themselves. Am I not a living testament to that fact?
— Baalzebul
Maladomini was once a bustling realm of vibrant
knowingly altered documents that passed into his care with the intent of confounding the apparatus of the bureaucracy. Before his scheme could come to fruition, he was caught and subjected to the most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
threatened, the ceremorphs react with deadly intent; otherwise, they shun combat. Roleplaying the Gnome Squidlings The gnome squidlings have a blind hunger for brains that often overrides their common sense
broadcasts on an endless loop until Vorryn or Dredavex decides to shut it off, or until the transmitter is disabled or destroyed (see area N7). The signal has a range of 50 miles. Those lucky few who can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
considers it her personal space and grumbles if anyone seems intent on disturbing it. B3: Lost Dolindars Two stone coffins in this room have been broken open, littering the floor with rubble and dust. A
until destroyed. Treasure. The rubble includes the nameplates that once adorned the coffins. One reads, “Nolan Dolindar, Beloved Brother” and the other reads, “Evisha Dolindar, Beloved Sister.” Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
golem’s intent through its gestures and body language. The golem rubs its head when it’s confused, becomes animated when it’s excited, and slumps its shoulders when it loses hope. The golem also employs
and the Nether Scroll to Elysium. Over the course of the journey, the golem might face mortal peril. If it drops to 0 hit points, the golem stabilizes and topples over but isn’t destroyed. It doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
over a silver dragon wyrmling in the name of its master—a lich hoping to corrupt the dragon when the dragon is older.
5 A silver dragon wyrmling besieges a pack of pseudodragons, intent on
In making a new lair, an adult silver dragon destroyed the home of some galeb duhr, and the dragon now seeks help to restore the site for them.
5 A number of adult silver dragons all pretend to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
concerned is the disappearance of a delegation traveling overland from the city of Mirabar to Waterdeep. The delegation stopped in the tiny village of Beliard, where the members mentioned their intent
the four winds. Their stronghold is destroyed and their leaders are dead; Elemental Evil is defeated in this world for now.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
its host and re-forms in the middle of this room. If it is destroyed, it re-forms after 24 hours. To truly destroy the ghost, characters must lay Eigeron’s spirit to rest by killing Blagothkus
adventure. Statistics for the evil cloud giant and detailed plans of his flying castle are provided in the Tyranny of Dragons adventure. If the characters are intent on confronting Blagothkus, you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
of druids (possibly in service to Malar or Talos) who cultivated the first of these creatures. However, it remains unknown whether their intent was to create a benign means of breaking down monstrous
heart, consuming it and killing the host unless they are quickly destroyed. After gorging themselves on the host’s body over several days, the maggots emerge as juvenile assassin bugs, ready to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
heart was previously destroyed, Nafik’s lifeless body slumps to the floor, his face twisted into a permanent scowl.
Gauntlet. Each landing in this chamber has an effect that triggers when a creature
the southernmost alcoves. Each shadow is a wispy duplicate of a character intent on killing its original. If the characters entered from the south, or if they don’t try to ascend the stairs, Nafik can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Marilissa. If the characters arrive in this area and haven’t killed Sunset-Is-Nigh, Marilissa is Indifferent toward them and asks them why they’re here. If the characters express any ill intent
hoard a century ago, selling pieces to pay for the costs of restoring the destroyed forest and distributing the remainder among the folk living in the forest. However, a trail of coins leads west into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Death-at-Sunset’s old lair (see “Death-at-Sunset’s Lair”), and he suspects the wyrmling is to blame for the forest’s corruption. If the characters haven’t already expressed their intent to kill the
least one character enters the mud, then they ambush the characters. If two mephits are destroyed, the third tries to escape. R6: Centipede Nest A sickly redwood stands here, its trunk surrounded by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
slip on a patch of ice or get bonked on the head by a low-hanging icicle. Vellynne’s snowy owl familiar, if it’s present, senses the mephit’s cruel intent. Söpo and the owl have an instant dislike for
when its creator dies, but Zelennor has somehow formed a bond with Nass’s spectral undead form. If Nass’s ghost is destroyed, even temporarily, the weasel ceases to exist. Treasure. Characters who dig
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
of any previous interaction with the characters. Zyrian can be permanently destroyed by reducing his ghost to 0 hit points after the haven’s guardian creatures have been dispatched and the door
destroyed. Opening the Door. Generations of the haven’s scholars bound themselves to defend the site beyond death. Three stone golems and a number of undead scholars (now mummies) protect the site, held in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
until destroyed. This workshop was used to create metal cages of various sizes, all adorned with wicked spikes pointing inward and outward, or both. Cunning hinges and reinforced pins make these cages
its aid. Qunbraxel’s grimlocks know to avoid the grick when they come this way on errands. Although the days when this intersection was a bustling market are gone, it resonates with faint psychic