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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
tattoo across her back, filling a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on her. Each other creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 13 (3d8
her role as an agent, so she devised a plan to take power for herself. Over five years she took careful stock of Clan Axebreaker’s wealth and, in one fell swoop, used her network of lieutenants to
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Following the deaths of two council members amid a cloud of corruption and scandal, he persuaded the Parliament of Peers to back his election to grand duke.
Upon ascending to the highest position in the
interests before their own.
Ravengard rose to grand duke on a platform largely backed by idealistic commoners and enemies of the other established dukes. While he won election handily, Ravengard has
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’s will while also advancing the interests of the family. Matron mothers embody the scheming and treachery associated with the Queen of Spiders. Each stands at the center of a vast conspiratorial web
favor, and the goddess sometimes capriciously takes back what she has given. This represents a matron mother at the height of her power.
A matron mother is almost never encountered alone. She is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon
can endure their abrasive demeanor, caustic observations, and morbid interests can form a lasting bond with a powerful ally.
Entropic Hoards
Topaz dragons prize information on destruction and
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of
demeanor, caustic observations, and morbid interests can form a lasting bond with a powerful ally.
Entropic Hoards
Topaz dragons prize information on destruction and creation, whether abstract or
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the tome.
If a solar tears
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with
. But anyone who can endure their abrasive demeanor, caustic observations, and morbid interests can form a lasting bond with a powerful ally.
Entropic Hoards
Topaz dragons prize information on
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back
irritated when disturbed. But anyone who can endure their abrasive demeanor, caustic observations, and morbid interests can form a lasting bond with a powerful ally.
Entropic Hoards
Topaz dragons prize
Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
connections might require the donation of money or magic items to the guild’s coffers.
You must pay dues of 5 gp per month to the guild. If you miss payments, you must make up back dues to remain
family) with interests across the region. Perhaps you transported goods from one place to another, by ship, wagon, or caravan, or bought them from traveling traders and sold them in your own little shop
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
at the burned-out building, a sudden cacophony erupted around us. Birds squawked, cats hissed, and dogs growled. Lidda hustled us back to the city’s safer avenues. Only when we were back within
a talent for learning and memorizing details. Thus, ambitious kenku can excel as superb spies and scouts. A kenku who learns of clever schemes and plans devised by other creatures can put them to use
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
money or magic items to the guild’s coffers.
You must pay dues of 5 gp per month to the guild. If you miss payments, you must make up back dues to remain in the guild’s good graces.
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but earn a living by buying and selling the works of others (or the raw materials artisans need to practice their craft). Your guild might be a large merchant consortium (or family) with interests
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author adds pages to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
interests in intrigue and magic intensified when she discovered a hidden library beneath the Cerulean Citadel—a repository of insidious magic hearkening back to the rule of certain tyrannical Vasavadan
again. Many of Arijani’s allies don’t trust Reeva. Behind her back, they mockingly call her charismatic Arijani’s opposite, or “Inajira.” Arijani and Reeva Vasavadan conspire in a courtyard of the Cerulean Citadel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. These adventurers discovered that the alleged haunting of the house was a ruse devised by a gang of smugglers importing contraband. The adventurers overcame the smugglers in the house, then boarded
intentions of the lizardfolk and realizing that the sahuagin were the true threat to Saltmarsh, the adventurers escorted two lizardfolk officers back to meet with the town council and ask the aid of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Erebos’s Champions Erebos spends most of his time and attention on the Underworld, leaving his champions to safeguard his interests in the realm of the living. He might call upon his followers to
involve themselves in. Erebos’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Capture a hero who came back to Theros as a Returned and send them back to the Underworld.
2 Find out why those who die in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
takes to protect your nation. If you’re not from Breland, that means serving the interests of your nation in Sharn—whatever those may be.
2 You’re an old soldier: you served with distinction and
if you pick up a sword, it will all come back to you soon enough.
3 You’re an officer of the Cyran army. You once held a fairly high rank, but your nation is destroyed and your soldiers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Loyalists of Kalakeri The Kalakeri military and traditionalists throughout the domain back Maharani Ramya’s claim to the Sapphire Throne. Ramya tries to eliminate her siblings and the rebels
Convincing the faction to heed advice seemingly counter to its interests –5
25 Convincing Ramya to leave Jadurai –5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. A gynosphinx with oracular powers came back to Morgrave University with a Xen’drik expedition two years ago, and took up residence there. In addition to her first-hand knowledge of Xen’drik, she is
have ancient interests in the mortal world—as well as extensive rivalries among themselves. Undying Court. The honored, undead ancestors of Aerenal rule the elven nation and shape their people’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
dragged them back to their caves in the mountains to be eaten. Spellix, whom the goblins overlooked, followed them and devised a cunning plan to free his companions. Using materials scavenged from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
question, selling them at a high markup. Travelers seeking a specific book also hire mercenaries or adventurers to venture into dungeons or ruins and bring back the prize. If information can’t be
united in their dislike for the nation of Amn. Outside of Port Nyanzaru, Baldur’s Gate maintains its own holdings in Chult. Fort Beluarian serves as a beachhead for the interests of the city, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
question, selling them at a high markup. Travelers seeking a specific book also hire mercenaries or adventurers to venture into dungeons or ruins and bring back the prize. If information can’t be
, and both cities are united in their dislike for the nation of Amn. Outside of Port Nyanzaru, Baldur’s Gate maintains its own holdings in Chult. Fort Beluarian serves as a beachhead for the interests
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
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Tasha
Your group is bound to the designs of an ancient being of tremendous power and influence. You might serve as the creature’s eyes and ears in the world, carrying information back to it. Or
wealth for its hoard, its ambitions expanding in its advancing years. 2 Lich. An undead spellcaster of immense power employs your group. Its interests are strangely diverse and seemingly benign
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Lolth’s offer of mortality in return for destiny, but then they turned against her in a pathetic effort to win back Corellon’s favor. Drow view the elves of the surface world as cowardly children who
their own interests. All this effort to please Lolth is a wise precaution. Though she resides in the Abyss, the Spider Queen isn’t a distant god. She sometimes tests her most faithful by drawing their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
investigator sending stories of your adventures back to the Korranberg Chronicle. Family is important to the Zil, and you could be pursuing your family’s interests. You could even be working for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Nylea’s Champions Nylea is one of the more active of the gods in the mortal realm, but she can’t be everywhere at once. Her heroes are her eyes, ears, and arrows on Theros, defending her interests
Nylea’s own servants— such as hydras—to beat back the more powerful threats. At the beginning of the campaign, the heroes might help defend Setessa from an attack that also threatens all of the Nessian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Zilargo and what ties you still have to it. You could be a sage gathering information for the Library of Korranberg, or an investigator sending stories of your adventures back to the Korranberg Chronicle
. Family is very important to the Zil, and you could be pursuing the interests of your family… or seeking to interfere with the plans of a rival family. You could even be working for the mysterious Trust
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
came across or devised. Other practitioners of evil have added their own input to the book’s catalog of vile knowledge. Their additions are clear, for the writers of later works stitched whatever they
unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead. Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
happened, ye might find them there. If ye are willing to go back, that is.
“I don’t propose to send ye into the dark unprepared, and I hope ye make an impression on those gathered here so they’ll
best interests of his people and home at heart. He is drawn to help characters who follow a strong moral and ethical code, and often seeks their help in return. Use his good humor and folksy demeanor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal
damage. Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the book eventually, usually when a new author
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
influence to secure for himself a seat on the Council of Four. Following the deaths of two council members amid a cloud of corruption and scandal, he persuaded the Parliament of Peers to back his election
dukes or anyone in the Parliament of Peers to put the city’s interests before their own. Ravengard rose to grand duke on a platform largely backed by idealistic commoners and enemies of the other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
influence to secure for himself a seat on the Council of Four. Following the deaths of two council members amid a cloud of corruption and scandal, he persuaded the Parliament of Peers to back his election
dukes or anyone in the Parliament of Peers to put the city’s interests before their own. Ravengard rose to grand duke on a platform largely backed by idealistic commoners and enemies of the other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
rampages relatively short. They have a recipe for a concoction that can usher the dragon quickly back to its centuries-long slumber once the wildfires have raged long enough. When the bright-orange
dragoneye flower blooms in the ashes where the fires have run their course, it is time to put the dragon back to sleep. That time is at hand. Running Arborean Springs
You can spend as much or as little
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, banding together only in the interests of their trade. For many such crews, there’s often no need for a formal meeting place — they meet whenever and wherever necessary, in shop stockrooms or around
street shrieks when a specific party member steps on it. The crack runs for blocks, tracing back to Mandorcai’s Mansion.
11 Two drunk sailors invite the characters to join them in singing a well
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
, banding together only in the interests of their trade. For many such crews, there’s often no need for a formal meeting place — they meet whenever and wherever necessary, in shop stockrooms or around
back to Mandorcai’s Mansion. 11 Two drunk sailors invite the characters to join them in singing a well-known shanty called Really Big Oysters, but quickly forget the words and stumble away. 12 A