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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
skirmishers boast great skill in battle, honed over centuries of endless conflict on the battlefields of Ysgard. They also wield elemental magic of earth and stone. True to their giant heritage, they
can transform even a pinch of mud or gravel into a boulder suitable for hurling, and the thrown stone grows in flight to knock its target flat on impact.
Fensirs
Long ago, a band of frost giants
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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Sapphire Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Adventure Hook
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Posing as an avatar of an evil earth elemental-god, a
;gelatinous cubes and ochre jelly;ochre jellies.
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A band of minotaur;minotaurs in service to Baphomet has captured a sapphire dragon wyrmling to learn from the wyrmling’s strategies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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3 A giant-led cult devoted to a demon lord or Elemental Evil wreaks destruction across the countryside.
4 A band of nature-revering giants seeks adventurers’ help dealing with a
Band Irina Nordsol A small band of hill giants hunts
across a ruin-studded landscape
The giants most commonly encountered in the world are bands of two to four who are united by a common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
The Adventure Begins The adventure begins as the characters, a stalwart band of locathah, seek answers to the disturbance of wind and wave so close to their homes. What they discover is a new risen
node of elemental evil, pulsing with a power harvested by Gar Shatterkeel, an interloping surface-dweller who has become a prophet of Umberlee, the Queen of the Depths herself. It’s up to these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
might also encounter nuisances from the Elemental Planes of Earth and Fire, and a band of githzerai on a special mission.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Cult Reprisals The cults of Elemental Evil don’t wait passively for a band of heroes to systematically eliminate each cult’s surface outpost. Even if the characters destroy one of the Haunted Keep
outposts completely and eliminate all possible witnesses, the elemental prophets gain glimpses of the threat facing them through dreams, visions, and portents. The Elder Elemental Eye warns the prophets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Haunted Keeps In the southwestern Sumber Hills stand four ruined keeps built centuries ago by a band of adventurers, the Knights of the Silver Horn. According to most locals, these crumbling stone
castles are haunted by ghosts and prowling monsters. Sensible valley dwellers avoid them. In recent years, four elemental cults have taken over the keeps. The cultists are careful to keep the curious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
for a season or a few months at a time by bandits, and a few overgrown ruins of the ancient elven kingdom of Rilithar. Recently, a roving band of Elk tribe barbarians (see “The Uthgardt Tribes” below
adventurers have common enemies: the elemental cults. Although characters will be hard-pressed to win the barbarians’ trust, they can pry useful information out of them. The Elk hunters know the Sumber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. Otherwise, the aarakocra might be helpful. Aarakocra War Band. A war band consists of 1d6 + 3 aarakocra and an air elemental. They interact like the scouts, above. Air Cult Scouts. A group of scouts
Encounter 2–3 Aarakocra scouts* 4–5 Air cult skyriders* 6–9 River pirates* 10–14 Keelboat* 15–16 1d4 merrow 17–18 2d4 ghouls 19–20 1 water elemental Later Travels Day Night Encounter 2 — Aarakocra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Fiery Fangs The fire cult is less concerned with maintaining appearances than the other elemental cults. When Vanifer or her lieutenants receive word that a band of adventurers is trying to ferret
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Adventure Background The threat of Elemental Evil surfaces in different worlds of the multiverse whenever the force known as the Elder Elemental Eye tests its strength. In its current incarnation
, Elemental Evil arises in the Sumber Hills. The scattered towns and isolated homesteads of this frontier now face a dire threat. If the forces of Elemental Evil can’t be defeated before they grow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of my adventures in Diancastra’s company revolved around combating the influence of these interloper gods among the giants. From the maddening corruption of Elemental Evil to the utter degradation of
stone giant recluse asks adventurers to help stop a hill giant who has gathered a band of other giants and is plundering nearby giant steadings in Grolantor’s name. 4 A fire giant priest of Hiatea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
in peaceable harmony sounds like some kind of paradise. I’d very much like to visit such a place.
—Bigby
Elemental Encounters Use the four Elemental Encounters tables to populate areas suffused
with the elemental and magical nature of giants or places where the Elemental Planes break into the Material Plane. The creatures on these tables might be connected to the cults of Elemental Evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
protect the wyrmling.
3 A band of kobolds was driven out of its warren by a red dragon wyrmling; they now raid to survive—and to gather offerings to propitiate “the winged god.”
4 A tiefling
child has secretly hidden and raised a red dragon wyrmling from an egg. The wyrmling is bonded to the child, but dangerous to anyone else.
5 A bound fire elemental serves as the guardian of an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
produced by a fire elemental that is bound inside the clay enclosure. Its coal-black eyes are visible inside the flames to anyone who peers inside the oven. While it is trapped in this manner, the
elemental can’t be targeted or harmed directly. Any creature that enters the hot oven or starts its turn inside it takes 10 (2d6 + 3) fire damage. A character can try to shove a Medium or smaller
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
worship of Annam’s children to other powers (as described under “Gods and Religion” later in this chapter) also reject the ordning. In some cases, as in the hierarchical cults of Elemental Evil, the
a scheme to subvert the ordning and increase the giant’s status. 4 A charismatic leader gathers giants of different kinds into a mighty war band, intending to conquer and settle lands inhabited by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
1 Posing as an avatar of an evil earth elemental-god, a sapphire dragon serves as general to a fanatical cult—and claims the spoils of the cult’s victories.
2 A sapphire dragon is bound by
dragon wyrmling installs new guardians that have no interest in material riches: gelatinous cubes and ochre jellies.
2 A band of minotaurs in service to Baphomet has captured a sapphire dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creatures
1 A gold dragon wyrmling bonded with a xorn over their shared love of gems and seeks to help the creature back to the Elemental Plane of Earth.
2 A gold dragon wyrmling yearns to
the tribe.
4 A band of centaurs makes pilgrimages to a gold dragon wyrmling’s lair, bringing gifts of gems and knowledge.
5 A gold dragon wyrmling is fascinated by modrons’ clockwork
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
defeated temples; one such leader is Haayon the Punisher. Haayon is a cloud giant who hopes to become the next leader of the air cult. Late to answer the call of Elemental Evil, he recently arrived in
are cultists who fled the defeats at the Haunted Keeps and the elemental temples, but then got rounded up by Haayon. Those who Haayon finds worthy are welcomed into his camp. The unworthy are marked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
musically accompany the drama on stage. A number of members of the Strixhaven Show Band Association are handing out kazoos from the orchestra pit (area R2), including student conductor Rubina Larkingdale
glittery raindrops 5 Wooden cutouts of random elemental spells 6 Three enormous, baggy bodysuits made out of felt with hoods that look like teeth 7 Several out-of-tune instruments, including a hurdy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
choose adventure-specific hooks from the list below and align with a faction (see “Factions” below). Doing so ties the characters more to the fight against Elemental Evil. The following descriptions detail
balance of nature, the character must destroy the four elemental nodes. The character earns inspiration for each portal the party closes.
Defeat the Skyriders Vicious raiders mounted on hippogriffs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
ship crosses Jeklea Bay, it’s attacked by a group of Hostile sahuagin, including two Sahuagin Priests, six Sahuagin Warriors, and a Water Elemental. (Assume the ship’s crew stays out of the way of these
are territorial and aggressive but Indifferent, and they won’t pursue a fleeing party. 19 A band of humans, including a Warrior Veteran and eight Warrior Infantry, watch the party. They are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
temple. The knights are contemptuous of other elemental cultists, whom they view as depraved lunatics. Under lord commander Thurl Merosska, the Feathergale Knights see themselves as elite men and
“Elemental Magic Items” section. They are often wearing it when encountered. Feathergale Knight
Medium humanoid (human), lawful evil
Armor Class 16 (scale)
Hit Points 33 (6d8 + 6)
Speed 30 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
ship, and then another band of pirates left him to die at sea, where he lost his arm to a shark. Gar sees the elemental power of water as the only thing of value in his life and has gathered others
Crushing Wave cultists can be described as such. Others are more calculating and deliberate in their evil, and see the power of Elemental Evil as a tool by which they can sweep away the existing order of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Fensirs Arash Radkia Two fensirs bring an offering of food to a hungry devourer that has outgrown her hut Long ago, a band of frost giants led trolls in a campaign to win Annam’s favor by conquering
conflict on the battlefields of Ysgard. They also wield elemental magic of earth and stone. True to their giant heritage, they can transform even a pinch of mud or gravel into a boulder suitable for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Drowned Nations, a flooded expanse of rank, lukewarm reservoirs and the swampy tunnels that connect them. An enormous drain linked to the Elemental Plane of Water rests in the turbid depths. It’s
beneath the streets of Sigil The following are just a few of the non-ascendant factions headquartered in Nowhere: The Coterie of Cakes (Cakers) is a destitute band of rosy-cheeked bullies who assert the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
other and against nearby Humanoids. Eliminating the giant will return the volatile situation to an uneasy status quo. 6 A frost giant leads a mixed band of weaker giants in a campaign of bloodlust to
fallen. Giant-Sized Schemes Giants are mythical creatures, descended from a god and imbued with the raw energy of the Elemental Planes. But they’re also people whose relationships, ambitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
-gnawed carcasses heaped beside the brazier attest to an indifferent effort to cook them over the coals. There are two doors: one north and one south.
This is the den of a band of lizardfolk who
with devices that rely on elemental power. The device on the table is a disassembled weird tank (see chapter 7). A character with proficiency in Arcana who makes a careful study of the workshop and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
cultists stop playing. Frustrated with the mediocre initiates, Windharrow asks if the characters are skilled musicians and if they would like to audition for the band. If a bard character or a character
proves his or her ability to Windharrow, he recruits the characters into the band and offers them the initiates’ robes and flutes. Windharrow doesn’t tell the characters what happens to minstrels who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
wants to return to the mine and slay the dragon, but he needs a band of stout-hearted adventurers to help him. If the characters hire him as a guide, Hew says he can lead them wherever they want, but
where chwingas (see appendix D) dwell, and he has experience dealing with the elemental spirits. If the characters hire Qawasha, he recommends that they also purchase a charter of exploration before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
possible, but those willing to risk the Hive can partake in its seedy establishments and hidden gems. Crime is commonplace in the Hive. Grifters, cutpurses, and miscreants band together in the
before sending them through planar portals to distant burial grounds, faraway family crypts, or elemental planes for storage or cremation. The funerary process often uncovers a creature’s cause of death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
wearing a Sacred Stone robe and mask, or anyone escorted by individuals dressed in such a manner. The symbol on the north door is the symbol of elemental earth. M9. Shrine of Stone The stairway in the
small collection that Marlos Urnrayle assembled during his life as a human aristocrat. The tomes include academic texts on the elemental planes, holy texts that refer to earth deities or elemental powers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
about the “Trouble in Red Larch” storyline (for 1st-level characters) or the “Rumors of Evil” storyline (for characters ready to investigate the cult of Elemental Evil). Just ignore the leads and clues
character that it might be worthwhile to talk to Minthra Mhandyvver (area 14) — treasure could be hidden in the tomb, and it shouldn’t be left to a band of goblins. 9. Tantur Smithy Both ends of this soot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
rebellion following his disappearance. They overthrew the genie lords of Calimport and Memnon, casting the remaining genies out of the cities and back to their elemental homes or into the depths of the
xenophobic elves that claim this area don’t hesitate to discourage uninvited guests by any means necessary. A simple group of pilgrims might be scared off with some arrows, while a band of hunters or