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Creature Sense. The elder brain is aware of creatures within 1 mile of itself that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each one
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Magic Resistance. The elder brain has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Telepathic Hub. The elder brain can use its telepathy to initiate and maintain telepathic
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the Hammock of Worlds on a solid surface, whereupon it creates a two-way portal to the Ghost Orchid Tepui in the Feywild or to the Drought Elder in the Far Realm (the user’s choice). You
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originate from the alien domain of Bluetspur (see “Other Domains of Dread”). In seeking a cure for their degenerating elder brain, the illithids of that realm tried radical experiments. The
, vampire mind flayers return to Bluetspur and are reabsorbed by the elder brain, releasing stolen psionic essences amid a hormone brine.
Vampire mind flayers are bestial creatures that lack control over
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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
;s choice). Their spells might also be different. Some known Elder Evils include the following:
Acamar. A dead star that consumes other stars or sidereal bodies it encounters.
Caiphon, the Dream
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’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm.
An entity that
often encountered as the leader of a cult dedicated to one or more Elder Evils. Usually, the seer is the only cult member that grasps the full extent of the horror the cult is venerating. The seer
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Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known
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starless depths and been subsequently rewarded with extraordinary powers.
Instead of heeding an elder brain, a mind flayer clairvoyant listens to the whispers and whims of the voices of the Far Realm. In
":"recharge", "rollAction":"Unleash Void"}. The mind flayer opens a rift into the Far Realm, centered on a point the mind flayer can see within 60 feet of itself, and a tentacle lashes across creatures near the
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the attacker, it then makes one Slam attack against that attacker.An encephalon cluster pays no heed to an elder brain or its mind flayer progenitors. This grotesque creature shambles through dark
become a gorging menace that can overrun an entire mind flayer colony.
Encephalons
When an illithid colony lays its eggs dangerously close to a Far Realm rift, an egg sac has a chance to mutate into
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Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
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causing the creatures to devour themselves.
Cunning stalkers, breath drinkers are usually solitary. Occasionally they serve powerful Far Realm entities or Elder Evils, consuming life and souls for their
multiverse from the Far Realm. They drift through reality like living voids, remaining unseen while searching for souls to consume. When they strike, breath drinkers consume a victim’s personality
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off from any elder brain Qunbraxel considers worthy, the mind flayer hopes to join the Ilvaash fanatics and receive power and insight from the Far Realm.
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prison. The elder evil whispered through dreams and nightmares to the people of Cynidicea, the realm’s capital, until one day, a crew of Cynidiceans accidentally dug through to the Returner&rsquo
save, it takes half as much damage.Zargon the Returner is an elder evil—an undying abomination from eons past with an insatiable appetite. A tentacled, slime-covered horror with a cyclopic red
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goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great
physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak. Their hearts are infused with the cold regard of their frigid realm, leaving each goliath with
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The Drought Elder The Drought Elder rots within a region of the Far Realm filled with shadows and dead stars. Characters who pass through the Hammock of Worlds emerge within the gigantic, lifeless
, yet still malicious being. The Drought Elder cannot move, but it is aware of creatures within itself and uses its powerful telepathy to read their thoughts. However, as an immortal being that embodies
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terrifying creatures connected to an inscrutable Far Realm entity known as the Drought Elder. Horrified by their mistake, the Green Doctors scrambled to push back the eldritch creatures with a hastily
woven magical ward. Today, though Atagua is independent again, its magical ward has finally collapsed. The influence of the Drought Elder seeps in to Atagua once more. For years, this corruption has
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, a focus of Chimagua’s power, has sent the spirit visions of a Far Realm terror known as the Drought Elder that’s trying to exert control over Atagua. Recently, creatures from the Far Realm slipped
, Yarana and her faithful companion Nene were murdered by an envious rival. Their remains floated down the river Holroro and slipped into the realm of the Ghost Orchid Tepui. There, Chimagua found Yarana
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Opening a Path Reaching the Drought Elder in the Far Realm is no easy task. While spells like plane shift can convey characters to the Far Realm, reaching the unfathomable entity requires a more
precise method of travel. But Yarana has a plan: “A relic of Atagua’s past holds the key to reaching the Drought Elder,” Yarana says. “The Hammock of Worlds once allowed people to visit Chimagua, using
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Elder Evils The Elder Evils are a variety of entities whose existence dates to the beginnings of the multiverse—or possibly predates it. Some Elder Evils are creatures of the Far Realm (see chapter 6
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characters are ready, they can pass through the portal, arriving inside the Drought Elder (area D1). The dessicated husk of the Drought Elder endlessly drifts through a lifeless void in the Far Realm
in time to the music. As they do, the hammock sags and an otherworldly glow emanates from within it.
At the height of the ritual, Melecio uses the hammock to open a portal to the Far Realm. When the
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buttressing their gate using smaller rifts to the Far Realm. Jaded Elder. Oshundo lived in Illithinoch at the height of the mind flayer empire many centuries ago, but Oshundo was driven out for
poison. X15: Elder Brain Pool Brian Valenzuela The Far Realm has tainted the elder brain that fuels Illithinoch’s mind flayers Strange, flowing sigils are inscribed around the edge of an enormous stone
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Elder Thing Inscrutable Entity from Another Realm Habitat: Mountain, Underdark; Treasure: Arcana Mathias Kollros The aliens known as elder things have colonized countless worlds over unfathomable
shoggoths (both detailed later in this chapter). Those elder things that remain guard the remnants of their power and seek to subjugate those they consider lesser beings. Elder Thing Large Aberration
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The Sinister Truth The Sawplee goblins indirectly served three mind flayers that draw power from a malevolent Far Realm godlet named Ilvaash. Using their godlet as a warped sort of elder brain, these
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calling out to Elder Evils often speak of a Far Realm from which these entities hail. In truth, there is no one place or space from which they come. There is the multiverse of things that are, and there is the multiverse of things that shouldn’t be.
dreaming. These Elder Evils are far older than most of the mortal races and always horrific to humanoid minds. However much they might desire to enter and dominate the Material Plane, the Elder Evils
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) lurking in the hold has designs on the Forest Crystal (in this chapter), seeking to corrupt it and use its magic to spread the Far Realm intrusion. While some of its minions—creatures from the
becomes an extension of the Far Realm’s intrusion. Fallen Storm A storm giant who sought to cleanse the Far Realm corruption from the keep has succumbed to the corruption and now gathers creatures
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the order known as the Green Doctors. The portal it creates can connect only to the Ghost Orchid Tepui in the Feywild or to the Drought Elder in the Far Realm (the user’s choice)—the two planes
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Hadar Hadar (HAY-dar or ha-DARR), the Dark Hunger, is an ancient stellar entity originating from the Far Realm (see chapter 6). It appears as a cinder-red dying star, barely visible in the night sky
, and it siphons life from its minions to avert its own demise. Two widely used Warlock spells invoke Hadar’s power (see the Arms of Hadar and Hunger of Hadar spells in the Player’s Handbook), and a few Warlocks claim this Elder Evil as their Great Old One patron.
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the creature shakes it off, as described in the infected elder brain’s stat block, or until the linked creature leaves Illithinoch (including by passing through the Far Realm rifts). Smooth Shapes
clashing of cymbals. This pulse deals no damage, but all creatures other than mind flayers find it unpleasant. No one else within Illithinoch can hear this mental pulse except for the infected elder brain
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rituals with the weakened elder brain. The three mind flayers eventually heard a strange psychic call from a Far Realm godlet called Ilvaash, the Dissonant Psyche. Singing a siren song made up of profane
and alien whispers, Ilvaash invited the three mind flayers to join the godlet’s psyche—much like mind flayers normally join a hive mind—and leave behind any reliance on Illithinoch’s diseased elder
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Far Realm Explorers This adventure includes a few access points that allow the characters to investigate more of the bizarre Far Realm. The wonders and terrors of the Far Realm are, for the most part
, inimical to mortal life and sanity. If the characters decide to explore the Far Realm further, they would be well advised to seek out one of the Far Realm’s few safe harbors. Examples of these
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hieroglyphics The sands of time bury the desert realm of Har’Akir. Here, the wonders of fallen empires and pyramids of forgotten pharaohs crumble beneath a merciless sun. Untold generations of tombs and
exist only to serve a deathless god-king. This realm of fierce deserts and mysterious monuments is ruled by the mummy Ankhtepot, speaker for the gods and immortal pharaoh. From his golden pyramid in
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, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, warlocks piece together arcane secrets to bolster their own power.
Sworn and Beholden
A warlock is defined by a pact with an otherworldly being. Sometimes the
pact, and how did you make contact with your patron? Were you seduced into summoning a devil, or did you seek out the ritual that would allow you to make contact with an alien elder god? Did you search
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Drannor. Fantasy roleplaying games boast many iconic epic plots. Perhaps your campaign antagonist wants to ascend to godhood; forge or obtain an Artifact; unleash a long-imprisoned Elder Evil; cause or
sustain a realm-wide curse; or invade with an army of undead, fiends, or other monsters. The player characters must destroy the Artifact, break the curse, or otherwise prevent the villain from enacting
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of these, but in fact are beings set apart from what mortals consider reality. Some Elder Evils are alleged to be creatures of the Far Realm, while others are thought to be trapped in a particular
Elder Evil Blessings Through generations of study and grim practice, the disciples of certain Elder Evils have mastered the ability to bestow supernatural gifts on minions they select for the
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Cthulhu’s Tale Spawned beyond the borders of the multiverse in realities where time and life have little worth, Cthulhu is a servant of elder evils and a harbinger of their inevitable ruin. For
untold eons, Cthulhu’s will influenced receptive minds across the multiverse, reaching out in dreams and using them to open gateways to the Far Realm. Through such portals, Cthulhu visited the Material
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any case, a few renegade mind flayers do pursue arcane magic. Using some of the items or spells they discover, they can shield their minds as they aspire to break free of the elder brain’s control
. Eventually, a mind flayer thus separated from the hive turns to the path of lichdom. Just as the elder brain offers immortality to its faithful illithids, so does becoming a lich ensure life everlasting