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Faerzress An unusual magical energy the drow call faerzress pervades much of the Underdark. The origin of this mysterious arcane power is unknown. Legend claims it is an ancient elven magic dating
back to the time when the dark elves were first exiled from the world above. The drow and other Underdark creatures use the properties of areas suffused with faerzress to protect their settlements
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Faerzress-Suffused Fungi The Whorlstone Tunnels are home to two unique kinds of faerzress-suffused mushrooms: bigwigs and pygmyworts. Any character who studies these mushrooms can identify their
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relatively regular dimensions. They are known for their unusual rock formations and abundant patches of fungi, and for being suffused with faerzress (see chapter 2). There are currently two factions
somehow using faerzress to spread chaos and madness, the demon worshipers have begun conducting rituals to infect Gracklstugh. Intent on weakening the city and breaking the power of King Horgar
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. Foraging is more difficult in the Wormwrithings, requiring successful DC 20 Wisdom (Survival) checks. Faerzress permeates only the fringes of the Wormwrithings. While the party explores this region of
the Underdark, spellcasters won’t have to deal with the effects described under “Faerzress” in chapter 2. The tunnels created by the purple worms are tubular and roughly 10 feet in diameter. A typical stretch of tunnel is 1d6 miles long before it intersects with another tunnel or a naturally formed cavern.
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faerzress casts an eerie soft light across this cavern, swirling into spiral patterns and casting dancing shadows from the jagged pillars lining the walls. The air smells and tastes slightly metallic
, and the sound around you is strangely muted. The dripping of water makes no echo, as if you stood in open air.
This place offers many hiding places for characters to lay in ambush. Faerzress
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5. Raucous Mesa This chamber was sculpted by faerzress with the side effect of trapping sound. The glow of faerzress shifts across this chamber as if pushed by an unseen wind. It flows toward and
snatches of conversations. The faerzress in this place echoes the sounds produced in Gracklstugh above, creating a storm of noise. A character can use an action to focus on specific sounds but must make
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. On a roll of 1–3, the area is dimly lit by the phosphorescent moss and lichen common in the Underdark, or by faerzress (see “Faerzress”). On a roll of 4–6, the area is dark except for whatever light sources the characters might have.
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13. Dumping Pit Victims of Narrak’s experiments are dumped here. Exposure to the faerzress has begun to animate the corpses. This cavern is one enormous pit that reeks of death and decomposed flesh
. The glow of faerzress is everywhere, seeming to flow like fog around dark shapes shambling across the pit floor. A single derro watches from atop a 15-foot-high ledge. A crack in the southeast wall of
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Madness At the best of times, the Underdark is a bizarre, alien, and inhospitable world, but the influence of the demon lords has transformed it into a domain of madness and chaos. Faerzress acts as
particularly alien or disturbing (such as a demon lord). The characters stay in a faerzress-suffused area for a long time (eight or more consecutive hours). A character takes psychic damage, particularly in
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. The ritual causes the dark heart to radiate a summons throughout the Underdark using the faerzress — an irresistible call drawing the demons toward it. When the ritual reaches its conclusion at the
end of nine hours, portals of faerzress form. All the demons and demon lords in the Underdark are drawn through those portals, appearing together in the area around the dark heart talisman. Enraged by
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everything started. An imperious drow archwizard in spider-silk robes casts a mighty conjuration spell. As the ritual draws toward its conclusion, a web of faerzress energy expands outward. The wizard seems
Neverlight Grove. A cavern of peculiar beauty opens up before you, with lights of every color shining from the pure essence of life, diffused and amplified by the glow of faerzress. The glow pulses, and you
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, the ritual can be performed in any location in the Underdark imbued with faerzress. Vizeran has kept this information from the adventurers only because he sees the ritual as his chance to destroy
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of faerzress-infused stone. The change in the faerzress brought on by the arrival of the demon lords has left the xorn confused and easily angered. It tries to bargain for metal or gems to eat, and
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Nilhogg’s noses 1d6 sheets of ripplebark 1d6 timmasks 1d6 torchstalks 1d6 tongues of madness 1d6 trillimacs 2d6 bigwigs (see “Faerzress-Suffused Fungi”) 2d6 pygmyworts (see “Faerzress-Suffused Fungi
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2d6 trillimacs 2d6 bigwigs (see “Faerzress-Suffused Fungi”) 2d6 pygmyworts (see “Faerzress-Suffused Fungi”) A character proficient and equipped with a poisoner’s kit can also collect 1d6 doses of
by demon-tainted faerzress. Any spell or effect that cures indefinite madness also restores a duergar’s sanity (see “Madness” in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide). The duergar stationed here are
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Stoneheart Quarry The Stoneheart Enclave has its headquarters in this cavern suffused with faerzress and elemental energy. This quarry doesn’t provide stone for construction, since Blingdenstone
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through narrow tunnels to reach this area (see the “Whorlstone Tunnels: General Features” sidebar). The glow of faerzress in these tunnels reveals sticky white strands clinging to the walls. The
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Gromph brought the demon lords down upon us, with his demon queen pulling his strings all the while. He has given Lolth free reign in the Abyss. My own research leads me to believe Gromph used faerzress to
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2. Northern Terraces The terraces lining the northern walls are suffused with faerzress, and the myconids reserve these areas for cultivating certain fungi. Water trickling from the walls of this
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faerzress and bioluminescent fungi compete with shafts of white light that fall upon naturally formed shelves along the walls as well as a rocky mesa at the center of the cavern. Crudely formed ramps
stroking its surface. The obelisk flashes once, the glow of faerzress around the cavern flaring in response. The derro squeals with glee as she snatches an object up from the ground, then writes
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is needed or for the characters to save for later. A successful DC 15 spellcasting ability check is required for a lower-level character to use such a scroll. A strange faerzress effect can bring a
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of giantkind.
Power Node. Gravenhollow was carved from a titanic geode whose crystals are imbued with magic that concentrates faerzress. The magic that suffuses the library profoundly affects time
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it takes a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Survival) check to avoid becoming lost, rather than a DC 10 check. Spellcasters must contend with the effects of the faerzress for as long as they are in the Labyrinth, also as discussed in chapter 2.
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to the Demogorgon stat block in appendix D: Demogorgon has 290 hit points remaining and can’t regain hit points due to the disruptive nature of Vizeran’s faerzress-empowered ritual. He has only one
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Chaotic Magic. The tomb was crafted during an age of high magic, and it has become suffused with faerzress. The ancient and chaotic energy now permeating the structure causes any spell cast within the
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can use to return to his home if his need is great. (He uses it only as a last resort, however, given the risks involved in teleporting in the Underdark; see “Faerzress” in chapter 2.) Vizeran doesn’t
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was crafting a unique ritual — one that somehow drew on the energy of faerzress to channel incalculable arcane power. When Gromph performed this ritual, the walls between the planes shuddered. Then
following Gromph’s ritual. The presence of the demon lords is warping the fabric of the Underdark. The faerzress that permeates so much of the subterranean realm has become a conduit through which the
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width, with a gentle downward slope. Ever since the foul irruption of the demon lords into the Underdark, the fissure is easier to find, as it sometimes leaks wisps of eerie fog created by faerzress
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vast heartbeat in the depths. The glow of faerzress gathers and brightens, creating swirling pools like holes torn in the air. A roar sounds from far away as shadows move in the depths of those pools
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yochlol. The yochlol knows that Gromph’s inability to harness the faerzress is the reason why the ritual failed, but it doesn’t know Gromph’s present whereabouts. If the characters ask “Y’lara” what
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lumps are occupied by what appear to be gricks, nothics, and giant spiders. This is the Great Garden of Rot, nourished both by the creatures subsumed within it and the faerzress pervading this cavern
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demon summoning and the inherent unpredictability of faerzress.” These echoes don’t have much else to offer, although they can explain how the library works (see the “Gravenhollow: General Features
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throughout the Underdark, channeling faerzress. By tapping into this growing presence, the myconid sovereign can rapport over great distances to ask the characters for their help. Zuggtmoy, the demon
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until the faerzress and the corrupting influence of Demogorgon transformed them into two-headed giants. Their transformation can’t be undone. They are starving and attack the party on sight. Flumphs A
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the bottom of the lake as well, whose depths are suffused with faerzress that makes them impenetrable to scrying and divination spells. Donigarten was spared from Demogorgon’s rampage. Although it is