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accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years.
The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of
lacks meaning.
To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur when it moves. Its cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, its speech a shrill
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
-hearted killer, or a visionary in search of meaning.
Living Steel and Stone
Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as
deeper meaning.
The typical warforged has a sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity.
The more a warforged develops its
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Long ago, groups of elves ventured from the Feywild to the Astral Plane to be closer to their gods. Life in the Silver Void has imbued their souls with a spark of divine light. That light manifests
contemplation or strike out to explore the reaches of the multiverse, astral elves tend to see things through the lens of time as having little or no meaning to them. Astral elves who don’t dwell on the
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
messenger, calm emotions, warding bond
3rd
plant growth, speak with plants
4th
aura of life, conjure minor elementals
5th
awaken, commune with nature
Members of the Selesnya Conclave refer to their magic as “doruvati,” a Sylvan word meaning “gift.” When you use these gifts of Mat’Selesnya, graceful swirls of green and
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
a scale color more akin to that of a chromatic or a metallic dragon. A kobold’s cry can express a range of emotion: anger, resolve, elation, fear, and more. Regardless of the emotion expressed
of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse
Orc
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represents both life and the grave. It is her worshipers that raise young orcs to be warriors, and then, at the end of their lives, take them to Yurtrus and Shargaas to be carried into death and the
Luthic. He predicts that the war will end with Luthic the only deity standing, as the cave mother ascends to rule her warrior children.
Life in the Tribe
Orcs survive through savagery and force of
Lizardfolk
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skilled allies.
Alien Minds
The lizardfolk’s reptilian nature comes through not only in their appearance, but also in how they think and act. Lizardfolk experience a more limited emotional life than
so on.
Pleasurable people and things make life easier for lizardfolk. Pleasurable things should be preserved and protected, sometimes at the cost of the lizardfolk’s own safety. The most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Positive Plane Like a dome above the other planes, the Positive Plane is the source of radiant energy and the raw life force that suffuses all living beings. Like the heart of a star, it is a
surface and is akin to the Elemental Plane of Air with its wide-open nature. However, every bit of this plane glows brightly with innate power. This power is dangerous to mortal forms, which can’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Astral Elf Long ago, groups of elves ventured from the Feywild to the Astral Plane to be closer to their gods. Life in the Silver Void has imbued their souls with a spark of divine light. That light
contemplation or strike out to explore the reaches of the multiverse, astral elves tend to see things through the lens of time as having little or no meaning to them. Astral elves who don’t dwell on the Astral Plane can live to be more than 750 years old.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
their small stature to their easy demeanor, makes them unlikely candidates for taking up a life of adventure away from home. Yet every generation produces a handful of exceptional individuals who defy
stop for many of these plucky souls is a faraway city where they hope to find some like-minded companions. Fancy Feet A halfling’s potential for adventuring usually manifests early in life. When a child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Past Life Darklords aren’t mindless killing machines; they are full but monstrous individuals. In a few sentences, describe who the Darklord was before they chose to become irredeemable. For
Dungeon Master’s Guide or the “This Is Your Life” section of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything for additional inspirations for your Darklord’s motivations. DARKLORDS FROM THE TAROKKA
If you have a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
you and tries to emulate you in every way 6 A hardened adventurer who thinks a moral compass is akin to a pair of manacles 7 An injured retired adventurer who can’t quite let go of the adventuring
life and experiences it vicariously by spending time in the guildhall 8 A grouchy employee who keeps the guildhall clean and cares for its guests while quietly complaining about how adventurers should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
The Returned Walking the Path of Phenax doesn’t restore a soul to its life. Those who return from the Underworld are hollow shells inhabited by grim and purposeless spirits. These Returned are
. Their second life is theirs to do with as they please, but it’s typically a confused, cursed life, plagued by frustration, bitterness, loneliness, and melancholy. Such leads many Returned along dark paths
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The God-Brain’s Powers and Dominion The God-Brain is more akin to a physical location or massive object than a creature. Its droves of servants are more direct threats than the inscrutable Darklord
that itself functions as a Mist talisman. Life Support. The illithids of Bluetspur toil to save their elder brain through all manner of outlandish scientific and medical means. Among the most bizarre of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Members of these communities generally dislike the term “half-elf,” instead calling themselves Khoravar, an Elvish term meaning “children of Khorvaire.” The elves of Aerenal have never allowed a half
members of different races. Is your half-elf identity a source of pride, a simple fact of life, or something that has been difficult for you?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
feeling engendered by their nearness to Corellon’s magnificence. When an elf’s soul reincarnates, the elf might return to life on any world or on Arvandor. As a result, many elves alive today have
latent memories of a previous life spent on Arvandor. Because of the deep feelings associated with those memories, they are often among the first previous-life recollections to resurface at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
merits and similarities of life and death. It describes the author’s numerous experiments both natural and unnatural. One of the more thorough studies details the life cycle of a worm-like parasite that
, Xanthoria found a way to link her soul to the life force of another creature and thereby unnaturally prolong her own life, by transforming the other creature into a phylactery. Characters who peruse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Deep Gnomes Deep gnomes, or svirfneblin, are the pragmatic and often grumpy cousins of the gnome family, who live deep underground. The Underdark is full of danger, meaning that deep gnomes spend
much of their time simply staying alive. They endure this life because the Underdark also holds incredible treasures: minerals and gemstones, gold, silver, and platinum. The svirfneblin mine these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
throats the next. Pharika encourages her followers to seek balance in administering their “cures,” spreading afflictions to counteract excessive prosperity at least as often as they provide life
elation and every death rattle. On occasion, Pharika’s followers might seem to be beneficent when they ease others’ suffering or cure a pandemic. Yet they do so indiscriminately, meaning that these cures
Aarakocra
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sky, they often do so near pools where they can catch fish and bathe themselves.
Many aarakocra punctuate their speech with chirps, sounds they use to convey emphasis and to shade meaning, much as a
exceptional circumstance for an aarakocra to leave his or her tribe and undertake the adventurer’s life. Neither treasure nor glory is enough to lure them from their tribes; a dire threat to their people
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
spelljamming helms (akin to those used to propel real spelljamming ships). As the simulation ends, all characters regain any lost hit points, spell slots, or limited-use powers. Characters who died during the
hadozee has light-tan skin and ebon-black fur graying at the temples. She’s perpetually shrouded in a thick haze of cigar smoke, the smell of which often signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Kenku
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degradation or shifts in meaning. Human messengers might switch words or phrases and garble a message inadvertently, but the kenku produce perfect copies of whatever they hear.
Kenku Adventurers
Kenku
adventurers are usually the survivors of a flock that has sustained heavy losses, or a rare kenku who has grown weary of a life of crime. These kenku are more ambitious and daring than their fellows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Rewarded You were living a difficult life before your destiny suddenly changed through a miraculous turn of good fortune. Perhaps a benevolent deity gave you precisely what you most desired. You
left the daily miseries of your old life behind in favor of a life of adventure and excitement. Your old debts have been paid, responsibilities you thought inescapable are behind you, or you suddenly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the affairs of the universe. People gather in public shrines to worship gods of life and wisdom, or meet in hidden places to venerate gods of deception or destruction. Each deity in a pantheon has a
gods the locals revere. To quickly build a pantheon for your world, create a single god for each of the eight domains available to clerics: Death, Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Trickery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Dark Powers Unfathomable, hidden forces manipulate life, death, and reality within Ravenloft. These mysterious, deathless beings are the architects of the Domains of Dread, and have secreted
water manifests as rivers and stars appear in skies divorced from universes. They are the wardens that hold the Darklords prisoner. Ever-present and inscrutable, the Dark Powers are akin to gods in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
storms and war CE Tempest, War Unblinking eye Ilneval, god of strategy and hordes LE War Upright blood-spattered sword Luthic, mother-goddess of fertility and healing LE Life, Nature Orcish rune meaning
sun LN Life, Light Golden sun Asmodeus, god of indulgence LE Knowledge, Trickery Three inverted triangles arranged in a long triangle Auril, goddess of winter NE Nature, Tempest Six-pointed snowflake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Life in the City of Blades The duergar are called gray dwarves not only because of the color of their skin, but also because of their drab and joyless lifestyle. While they make no time for merriment
their lives: the calassabrak, meaning “the flawed who aren’t to be trusted” in Dwarvish. They are shunned by other duergar, many eventually taking their lives rather than face an existence apart from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
is everything; live in the moment. 3 When things crumble, I find meaning in the dust. 4 Life thrives through order, and I seek to maintain that order. 5 When others make plans, the multiverse laughs
following philosophies: Athar. Deities are frauds and merely channel the might of a true, higher power. Bleak Cabal. There is no greater truth to the multiverse. Each being must discover their own meaning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mortals. His blasts of lightning set house and forest ablaze, thus rendering the soil clear for new life and new creations. His is a vision he alone is equipped to see. He is content to watch his divine
lore, introspection, and complex patterns. The two sometimes talk for days at a time debating the flaws in ancient sophistries and discussing the meaning of the stars. Thassa, imperturbable and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
shadows. Watch your back in the light. Win a prize beyond your wildest dreams or disappear into forgotten history. Every day your life is on the line. Every day you could become a legend. Welcome to
Balduran. The symbol originated as a pirate emblem, though, and its components hold a double meaning today.
Originally, the alternating bands of water beneath the ship indicated the turbulent dangers of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Akros’s Surroundings Arable land is scattered across small plateaus and valleys in Akros, meaning that the serf communities that farm the land are small and just as scattered. Volcanic rifts
rebuilt in the fighting. There were heroes who knew only a life of conflict, performing feats of incredible prowess for the honor of Olantin, or who awed the gods with their sleepless commitment to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
curse gave quicklings their amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life — no quickling lives longer than fifteen years. They race themselves to death, and scheme as fast as they run
, lightning crawls in a meandering path from cloud to cloud. The slow and boring world seems to be populated by torpid creatures whose deep, mooing speech lacks meaning. To other creatures, a quickling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Life in the Styes In better days, the fact that the Styes was sheltered from offshore winds was one of its more desirable qualities. Now, the Alchemists’ Quarter spews a permanent miasma of acrid
clergy are eventually overwhelmed by the region’s emotionally fatiguing problems. Disease, famine, cruelty, and brutality weigh so heavily on the Styes that well-meaning clerics are driven to despair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
cosmetics to create a visible form. She dresses in a fashion typical of her desired appearance or of a fictitious family member. WHO IS AZALIN REX?
In life, Azalin was an arrogant wizard-tyrant who
,” meaning “wizard-king” in his native language.
In Barovia, Azalin formed a truce with Strahd von Zarovich. From the count and the land’s ancient ruins, he learned much of the nature of the Domains of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
curse gave the quicklings their amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years. The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a
populated by torpid creatures whose deep, sonorous speech lacks meaning. To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur when it moves. Its cruel laughter is a