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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, inspiring, and merciless in equal parts. A skilled leader in battle, the warlord can use spikes of psionic energy to compel the warriors they command to fight harder.
Duergar
Duergar are dwarves of
infused with powerful psionic abilities but also a profound gloom. In some, this strain of sorrow inspires works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage.
Like many who
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
becoming an eldritch lich.
Like other liches, eldritch liches are spellcasters who have cheated death, but an eldritch lich does so by allowing a Great Old One to implant a Far Realm parasite in the lich
, the Night Serpent
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Ghaunadaur
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Zargon, the Returner
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That Which Lurks
Necrotic, Poison
Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
their humanity to become like the serpent gods in form, as well as in thought and emotion.
Serpent Kings of Fallen Empires. The yuan-ti view their physical transformation as a transcendent moment for
their race, allowing them to shed their frail humanity like dead skin. Those that did not transform eventually became slaves or food for the blessed of the serpent gods. The yuan-ti empires withered
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new
’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Caerys held her double blade in the falcon guard, level with her shoulders and spreading out like wings. “I came in search of legends. Ten thousand years ago Daealyth of Taeri stood this
’re a wizard, your ancestor was likely a legendary archmage. If you’re a ranger, was your ancestor a famous blademaster, or a stealthy hunter? Was your ancestor chivalrous or merciless? Bold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Conquered neighbors were allowed to keep their leaders and culture so long as they paid tribute, swore allegiance to the victors, and incorporated their conquerors’ serpent gods into their religions. These
turned to philosophy and prayer, offering gifts of magic and animal sacrifices to their serpent gods, paying homage to the perfection of the ophidian form. The serpent gods taught the humans how to take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
humanity to become like the serpent gods in form, as well as in thought and emotion. “The yuan-ti cast off their humanity long ago, and with it, their sanity.”
— From MASTERS OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY by
Codo Vidak
Serpent Kings of Fallen Empires. The yuan-ti view their physical transformation as a transcendent moment for their race, allowing them to shed their frail humanity like dead skin. Those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Yetis Chilling Stalkers of the Frozen Wilds Habitat: Arctic; Treasure: Any
Across alpine extremes and frozen frontiers, yetis hunt those that trespass in their territories. Reclusive and merciless
, they resemble giant apes with pale fur and ram-like horns. Yetis easily blend in with snow and icy cliffs, revealing themselves with blood-chilling howls just before striking with their icy claws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
complete a quest for them. Six months ago, a creature with a boulder-like shell (a geonid) entered the shrine and stole an icon of Merrshaulk. The icon is a serpent figurine carved from obsidian. Ssura and
-ti that are devoted to Dendar the Night Serpent. If the characters complete the quest, Ssura and Y’zleth reveal the following information as their reward: A locked gate beneath the Peaks of Flame
Hobgoblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
little to conceal an underlying brutality that hobgoblins practice on each other and perfect upon other races. Punishment for infractions of hobgoblin law are swift and merciless. Beauty is something
would prefer the position were filled by someone more like himself, but Bargrivyek was all he was left with after Maglubiyet’s conquest. Although both deities are ultimately beholden to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
exceedingly rare yuan-ti known as anathemas look much like abominations, but larger, with clawed hands, and six snake heads sprouting from where the head should be. Each anathema is the product of a
unique ritual that alters its original abomination form, increasing its size, power, and intelligence. Other yuan-ti treat anathemas like demigods, and they naturally assume a leadership position over
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, minerals with strange properties, nexuses of magic, and the like—which she hid among Nylea’s wilds and the shadows of Erebos’s Underworld, leaving clues where mortals might find them. It isn’t
drinking cup within which she can produce virtually any medicine or toxin. When her aims require subtlety, Pharika often takes the form of a serpent or a medusa, or sometimes an aged human. Little escapes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
city. Treasure The type 3 malison’s longbow is painted and carved like a serpent with tiny amber gemstones for eyes. The weapon is worth 250 gp as an art object.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Tri-flower Frond If this encounter occurs while the characters are traveling, they wander into a patch of 1d4 tri-flower fronds (see appendix D) which seem like ordinary plants until they strike. If
containing 1d10 silvered arrows 61–62 A gold nugget the size of a dwarf’s fist (50 gp) 63–64 A stoppered vial of serpent venom (see chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) 65–66 An engraved ivory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
. Teleporters Ras Nsi created five magical teleporters (in areas 8 through area 12) that no one else is permitted to use. Each looks like a raised, faintly glowing stone disk with a serpentine glyph carved
but the character has no destination disk in mind, he or she appears atop a randomly determined one. Map 4.1: Fane of the Night Serpent View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
"Spirits of the Nine Trickster Gods"). When Moa’s spirit manifests, read: Green smoke billows from the staff, coiling around you like a serpent. A sibilant voice whispers in your ear: “Let me help you
14. Moa’s Tomb Skulls crusted with dried mud glower from niches cut into the walls of this tomb. A stone sarcophagus stands at the center of the chamber, its lid adorned with a coiled serpent carved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
night for joy.
Strange bedfellows, these ones.
See, ’twas I all along!
I have a wicked thought, if you will hear it.
Here’s some gristle to chew upon.
Well, here is a serpent!
I feel like a
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Tomorrow should dawn merrier.
The words catch in my throat. I cannot speak them!
My hope is shriveled like a grape. Let us make wine of it!
That is a goatish look you have upon your face
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the job” greeting important guests and promising them the finest entertainment. She treats her actors and staff like half-forgotten children, and she turns away characters who come to the theater
performances for the sake of preserving Algondar’s legacy. It prefers to remain invisible and unseen otherwise. Iokaste refers to it derisively as “the flying serpent.” If the characters threaten it or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
serpent gods of the primordial world heeded the prayers of these people and hissed dark demands into their ears. The people tainted their souls by performing human sacrifices in the name of the gods
, becoming like the gods in body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders. One Race
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
of Evil Water. In addition to their spellcasting abilities, fathomers have the ability to transform their bodies into water, taking serpent-like shapes. In their water serpent forms, fathomers gain
mount’s senses. The knights prefer to fight from or in the water, since they don’t like to leave their mounts behind, but they can be fierce opponents on foot at need. Unlike most other knights, Dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
like to keep their dark schemes and vile indulgences behind closed doors. Amid the twisted streets and quiet mansions of West Wall stand scores of stone monuments dedicated to important figures and
upward, crafting streets of magically calcified strands of spider silk from the cavern floor to the vaulted roof above. Hollow, cocoon-like dwellings are constructed both above and below the layers of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
motivates the slaves of drow. If you’re lucky, you’ll only feel normal shackles and the occasional whip or light spell-blast. A bit less luck or more malice, and the serpent-headed whips of the
(“Great Pillar Cavern”), because of Narbondel, the giant rock pillar at the vault’s center that joins floor and ceiling. The cavern is roughly shaped like an arrowhead, with the pool of Donigarten at its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
18. Iron Mine The duergar mine these tunnels for iron ore, which is taken to areas 16a and 16b to be smelted. The operation runs smoothly because of the merciless oversight of Stalagma Steelshadow
Valtagar knows that his wife is a dragon in disguise. In her true form, Stalagma looks like a slender, 30-foot-long dragon with shiny steel-gray scales covering her body, steely talons, and blade-like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
on itself on a success. Cult of Haask the Voice of Hargut Haask’s Presence (1/Day). The cultist transforms into a Tiny, leech-like being and teleports onto the shoulder of a humanoid that it can see
effect while it’s in the slug-like form, but it is subject to areas of effect as normal. Cult of Tyranthraxus the Flamed One Radiant Flames (1/Day). Multihued flame surrounds the cultist for 1 minute
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
serpent. One hieroglyph at a time, the dial reveals the correct sequence of floor tiles to stand on: vulture, serpent, door, reed, scarab, scepter, foot, and urn. Stepping on a floor tile that matches the
matches the order in which the hieroglyphs appear on the clay dial in area 35A: vulture, serpent, door, reed, scarab, scepter, foot, urn. Each time a character steps on a correct floor tile, a new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
and boutiques, and tiny stone-walled gardens tucked among the streets like hidden jewels. Flowers bloom along the tree-lined streets, ushering away any stray miasma that escapes from the less fortunate
see the good life enjoyed before their eyes but are excluded from all but the smallest tastes. The Watch is merciless about turning beggars and malcontents away from the gates, where an erratically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
and perfection even as they abhor waste and carelessness. They are merciless masters to the derro and slaves who toil and suffer under them. Strict Hierarchy By appearance and bearing, all duergar know
allowed to hold honest jobs, and their rights are hardly ever recognized by the duergar. Even slaves are held in higher regard. Derro scuttle about like vermin and are mostly confined to hovels built
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
attuned to every bough of each tree and each branch of every stream in the forests of the Feywild. If Oberon has a weakness, it is the wild nature of his heart. His mood swings like a weather vane in
collects warlocks like one might collect butterflies. His favorite collection, the Troil Thirteen, includes warlocks of blood descent from the thirteen who first made a pact with Asmodeus. Malkizid is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Inferno, Mual-Tar the Thunder Serpent, and Draunn the Stonemaw. In practice, cults devoted to these primordials have similar aims and methods to cults of Elemental Evil. Other Gods and Cults Like other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
panther from an outcropping above. He holds a metal staff with a loop in its end. It looks like a shepherd’s crook.
The three niches on both the northern and southern walls are five feet wide and
handling a constrictor snake. Around him stand three costumed tribal warriors. One, dressed as a winged serpent, holds a spear; another is dressed as a bear with razor claws; the third represents a coyote
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. A convincingly crab-like apparatus of Kwalish being transported in its hold remains at the sea bottom, but a marilith bound to guard it remains and attempts to slay anyone other than Mordenkainen who
admiral in the Keoland Navy. The young half-dragon is merciless, and her greed is as strong as that of any red dragon. She alone can sound the dragon’s horn, a monstrous instrument mounted to the prow of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
of snow into this open room, set into the back of which is an alcove that holds a 25-foot-tall statue of Thrym carved from glacial ice. The image looks like a powerfully built male frost giant with
she knows that they keep Cryovain chained aboard their biggest ship (she doesn’t know its name or whereabouts). Like most white dragons, Isendraug is not to be trusted. She has no intention of sparing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
are no great castles to covet here, nor ruins to pillage. All told, the place seems dull and unremarkable. That, of course, is just the way its residents like it. They enjoy their solitude, which is
purchase their storage crates and other necessary goods from local artisans, who also make locks, latches, waxy sealants for waterproofing crates and boxes, and the like. The crates are all built to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
like the wind and the night!” Trapped Doors. The doors are locked (DC 15 Dexterity check to pick with thieves’ tools) and trapped. Opening the lock disables the trap. Forcing the doors open can be
-skinned man and a mighty, knotted serpent. Engraved alongside this illustration are glyphs identical to those found on the door. Under these sigils are etched a series of four face-glyphs in a line
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
and worn, her dark green skin covered in bark and fungus. Insects crawl across her and hide in the thick braid of white hair that curls around her shoulders like a serpent. Anyone who stares into her