dreams impart are bleak

Allip

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

torments what remains of its mind. In the presence of other creatures, an allip seeks to relieve this burden by sharing its secret. The creature can impart only a shard of the knowledge that doomed it

what spawned this monstrosity. Strange phrases echo through their minds, and weird visions occupy their dreams. The sense that some colossal truth sits just outside their recall plagues them for days

Using the Infinite Staircase

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Using the Infinite Staircase If you’re using Nafas as a patron, he summons the characters to the Censer of Dreams (detailed in chapter 1), where he recounts the following wish: “Condemned for his

end an ancient curse upon the land. Seek him out and heed his call.” Nafas then teleports the characters to a door along the staircase that opens into a bleak desert. After the adventure, the characters can return to the staircase through the same portal.

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime. Dreams of Flight Above all else, kenku wish to regain their ability to fly

Allip

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

seeks to relieve this burden by sharing its secret. The creature can impart only a shard of the knowledge that doomed it, but that piece is enough to wrack the recipient with temporary madness. The

survivors of an allip’s attack are sometimes left with a compulsion to learn more about what spawned this monstrosity. Strange phrases echo through their minds, and weird visions occupy their dreams. The

Allip

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

this burden by sharing its secret. The creature can impart only a shard of the knowledge that doomed it, but that piece is enough to wrack the recipient with temporary mental anguish and violent

their dreams. The sense that some colossal truth sits just outside their recall plagues them for days, months, and sometimes years after their fateful encounter. Insidious Lore An allip might attempt to

Types of Hags

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

, and most are stout or have a medium build rather than being thin or emaciated. Night hags enjoy corrupting the dreams of good people, compromising the ideals of their victims to get them to

eventually perform evil acts. Then, when a victim dies, the hag can harvest its soul and bring it to Hades. Sea hags live underwater or on the shore, favoring bleak and despoiled places. They have pale skin

The Planes of Eberron

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

of Dreams. With a few exceptions (such as elves, kalashtar, and warforged), mortal creatures touch Dal Quor when they dream. The outer fringes of the plane are morphic and shaped by the memories and

and only touched in dreams. Dolurrh: The Realm of the Dead. When a mortal soul dies, it is drawn to Dolurrh. It is a place defined by despair and apathy; over time, memories are leached out of the

Journal of Rudolph van Richten

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

my foes. In truth, this “virtuous” calling began as an obsessive effort to destroy a vampire that murdered my child, and it has become for me a tedious and bleak career. Even as my life of hunting

madness and, seemingly, must now endure for all eternity. Of course I shall die, but whether I shall ever rest in my grave haunts my idle thoughts, and torments me in my dreams. I expect that those

Giant Patrons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

with their eager students. The archetypal giant tutor is a stone giant who is convinced the surface world—the world of dreams—has important wisdom to impart, just as the gods sometimes speak through

dreams. The tutor might teach stone carving, runic magic, or the histories of the giants to eager students, while sending them on missions to gather wisdom from the dreaming world. The Tutor

Tour of the Planes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

of Dreams Mortal creatures come into contact with Dal Quor when they dream (except for elves, kalashtar, and warforged, which don’t dream). The outer fringes of the plane are shaped by the memories

manipulators that can inhabit the dreams of others. Tens of thousands of years ago, the quori fought a bitter war with the giants of Xen’drik. The giants ended the war by severing the connection between

The Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

light from the full moon falls on them while they are sleeping, and this silver light of Sehanine can influence their dreams and impart messages to them. Offerings to Sehanine are mostly made from silver

Three lines symbolizing waves Sehanine Moonbow CG Dreams, death, travel Grave,* Knowledge, Light Full moon under a moonbow Shevarash CN Vengeance, loss, hatred War Broken arrow over a

Ziggurat Locations, Tier 5

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

quietly in this fungal room. To escape their bleak existence, the Cynidiceans have partnered with a myconid sovereign. In exchange for the Cynidiceans tending its garden, the myconid facilitates group

melds—vivid, shared dreams that provide entertainment and social interaction. As the partygoers meld, they are blissfully unaware of the characters. When the characters enter, the sovereign invites

Necropolis Locations (Y10-Y18)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Necropolis Locations (Y10-Y18) Y10. Arboretum A canopy of golden leaves crowns the trees inside a sunken basin. The trees grow in stark contrast to their bleak surroundings, their branches swaying

character must randomly determine what action to take. Haunted’s Script. A shadowy fiend plagues the cursed character’s dreams (or trances in the case of an elf), denying that character the benefits

Necropolis Locations (Y1-Y9)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

offense gets more successes than the team on defense, one player on offense can try either to hurl the ball between the metal tines of an electrified mast, hoping to impart an electrical charge to the ball

from each character’s mind. The hags flee their lair in ethereal form if attacked, vowing to return and seek vengeance in the adventurers’ dreams. Inscription. An inscription in Draconic is written on

Neverdeath Catacomb Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Umberto to impart basic history about Vecna and Kas as described in the introduction. Learning about Umberto’s secret research topic counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules

cult pay once she escapes. Indrina dreams of returning to her estate, cleaning up, and dousing herself in perfumes. She doesn’t know anything about Vecna or what the cult has in store for her; she

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