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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well
guarded.
Bathing the wand in positive energy (such as that which permeates the Positive Plane) causes it to crack and explode, but unless the above conditions are met, the wand instantly re-forms on Orcus’s layer of the Abyss.
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
locks, pluck keys from belts and pouches, clamber up walls, and sneak past guards — playing the perfect daughter by day while cutting loose at night. To hide her identity from those she met, she wore a
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Chult, where he also met his wife, Alisanda. The ring halts its wearer’s natural aging and has allowed Artus to survive well beyond his natural lifespan. The ring also defies magical attempts to
Lugg.
Artus has spent most of his life trying to keep the Ring of Winter out of evil hands, but his return to Chult is focused on reuniting with his beloved Alisanda, who disappeared along with the
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
inheritor of the Umbrage estate and legacy, and he did everything in his power to make life miserable for everyone around him, especially his parents. He seemed bereft of ambition and spent much of
his time playing in his room. He collected costumes and liked nothing more than to parade around Umbrage Mansion in strange garments and outlandish makeup.
Urmius first met Naeryx Krumple at a family
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stranger to hardship. Hoping to make a better life for herself, she became an adventurer and sought fame and fortune in Undermountain. Keresta met her end in the lair of a vampire and became a vampire spawn
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’s life.
4
A young moonstone dragon has acquired a powerful magic item belonging to one of the fey courts and is leading the assassin sent to retrieve the item on a chase through the
expires.
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A young moonstone dragon and a night hag repeatedly encounter each other in the dream realm, but they have never met in the flesh.
Tiefling
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
him or her, the tiefling learns to extend the same trust to them. And once a tiefling gives someone loyalty, the tiefling is a firm friend or ally for life.
Tiefling Names
Tiefling names fall into
, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary
MET WITH MISTRUST
Ignorant people tend to be suspicious of
Wand of Orcus
Legacy
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the Positive Energy Plane by the ancient hero whose skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has
imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well guarded.
Bathing the wand in positive energy causes it to crack and explode, but unless the above conditions are met, the wand instantly reforms on Orcus’s layer of the Abyss.
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
member of your family, by right of birth, or it could have been left to you by a friend, a mentor, a teacher, or someone else important in your life. The revelation of your inheritance changed your life
ability and increases in potency with the passage of time. Or, the true nature of your inheritance might not be apparent at first and is revealed only when certain conditions are met.
When you begin
Tabaxi
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves.
However, not all tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. The Cat Lord, the divine
.
Fleeting Fancies
Wandering tabaxi are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. A tabaxi’s desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
an agent— a soul willing to forsake life, discover his secret, and return with the knowledge that even the god couldn’t escape with. Varyas met his end and dutifully sought Phenax’s mystery in the
past life, his escape from death, or the strange symbols etched on his mask. All he recognized of the writing scrawled on his mask was the name “Khea.” With that, a mystery beyond life and death slipped from a lost past into the living realm of Theros.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
learns to extend the same trust to them. And once a tiefling gives someone loyalty, the tiefling is a firm friend or ally for life. MET WITH MISTRUST
Ignorant people tend to be suspicious of
tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. The reality is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect their personality. They are gifted with magic from the infernal realms but chart their own course in life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Undeath I’ve never met a creature I didn’t love. But I have met a few I didn’t want alive.
-Fizban
Despite their incredible life spans, some dragons pursue undeath to extend their existences
comes into being when a metallic dragon gives up mortal life so a fragment of life essence can linger as an eternal guardian of a precious treasure or knowledge. Draconic shards are lingering psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Life Events No matter how long you’ve been alive, you have experienced at least one signature event that has markedly influenced your character. Life events include wondrous happenings and tragedies
, conflicts and successes, and encounters with the unusual. They can help to explain why your character became an adventurer, and some might still affect your life even after they are long over. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Meeting Becklin Becklin is hard to miss, as she’s dressed in the full-plate armor and horned helmet of the Knights of Solamnia. Though she’s never met the characters before, she recognizes one or
the service is meant to be a celebration of Ispin’s life, and people will be encouraged to share over-the-top stories about him—like the inflated tales he was known for sharing. Becklin Uth Viharin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Lightfoot Halflings For lightfoot halflings, neither the journey nor the destination matters more; the important thing is to keep moving. The life of a lightfoot is one long exploration with each new
animals, foraging, sailing, and cartwright work — having tried their hand at all such things before or learned from other lightfoots met during their journeys. Lightfoot halflings are highly social
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
calls herself Mistress Ilvara of House Mizzrym. Over the past several days, you’ve met her several times, robed in silken garments and flanked by two male drow, one of whom has a mass of scars along one
side of his face and neck. Mistress Ilvara likes to impress her will with scourge in hand and remind you that your life now belongs to her. “Accept your fate, learn to obey, and you may survive.” Her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
arrived on the island, a bronze dragon wyrmling named Aidron left the safety of Dragon’s Rest and Runara’s tutelage and came to the ancient observatory. The two wyrmlings met and immediately clashed
, Sparkrender began planning a ritual that will awaken the spirits of all the island’s dead dragons and bind them to his will—at the cost of Aidron’s life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
do manage to transcend this hatred. They have met or heard of dark elves, like Drizzt Do’Urden, who find their own paths in life and view each elf as an individual, not as the representative of one side or the other in a cosmic struggle.
Passion vs. Restraint The elven personality is a mixture of two opposing forces, which vie for dominance throughout an elf’s life. How an elf handles the tension between passion and restraint colors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary MET WITH MISTRUST
Ignorant people
doesn’t affect their personality. They are gifted with magic from the infernal realms but chart their own course in life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
botched attempt to steal from the dragon’s hoard. Though Fill was the only survivor, the mission wasn’t a total failure. The dwarf escaped the lair with his life, a small fortune, and one priceless reward
emerged Briochebane and raised her as his ward. When the bakery first opened, Fill’s desserts were met with mixed reception, but with the help of Briochebane, who became his new baking assistant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, though some peoples remain missing. The city serves as a nexus of diplomacy and trade, a repository of histories and secrets, and a thriving sanctuary for those seeking safety or a better life. The
the Citadel’s precarious position. Heroes and paupers meet on equal footing in the Radiant Citadel. By common agreement, power and resources are equitably shared. Dignity is afforded to all, and great need is met with great aid.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Harkon LukasHarkon Lukas Harkon Lukas’s life companions are ambition and blood. Born amid a community of lycanthropes, he dreamed of commanding not just a pack, but a whole army, a nation, even an
empire of born predators. Early in life, he sought to unite his reckless werebeast family and turn them into tools of his ambition. When they failed him, though, Harkon lashed out, ultimately driving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
better life. The Radiant Citadel is a miracle of architecture, a floating city carved out of a single, massive fossil that snakes around a colossal gemstone shard known as the Auroral Diamond. The
grim reminder of the Citadel’s precarious position. Heroes and paupers meet on equal footing in the Radiant Citadel. By common agreement, power and resources are equitably shared. Dignity is afforded to all, and great need is met with great aid.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Chapter 10: The Ruins of Berez Long before Ireena Kolyana, there was a peasant from Berez named Marina. The vampire Strahd first met Marina in this small village on the shore of the Luna River
hut a semblance of life. I had nothing left to give but my own life’s blood, but it was hers to take. She would at last be my bride.
— Strahd von Zarovich
in I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
more than create life—she could defeat death! She wished to breathe sentience into dead flesh and produce sturdier shells than the bodies of fragile, temporary mortals. She added corpse theft to her
repertoire, employing thieves to procure specimens for her tests. This was how she met Elise, a beautiful but reckless body snatcher who was charmed by the doctor’s aloofness and whose spontaneity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
immortality of undeath. If the dark gift is accepted, its effect doesn’t occur until the following conditions are met, in the order given below. The creature becomes aware of the conditions only
death at the hands of one or more creatures that hate it. When the conditions are met, the beneficiary instantly becomes a vampire under the Dungeon Master’s control (use the stat block in the Monster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
immediately visible but rises up out of the floor when a living creature enters the room. Mormesk was a powerful mage until he met his end in the spell battle at the climax of the orc attack. Centuries
amassed in life is in the scorched chest (see the “Treasure” section). No longer corporeal, he cannot touch or possess the wealth he enjoyed in life. This building served as a guesthouse for visiting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
colorful metaphors. Lisette believes in preserving nature and life, and she instills in her students a respect for all living things. While Dean Valentin’s exploitation of living creatures disgusts her
students, and she almost always has a pot of tea brewing. Tivash, Gloom Summoner It’s tough to study the secrets of life and death without getting your hands dirty—which is the first thing Tivash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Life in Tletepec The volcanoes of Tletepec are a fact of life. Most locals live their lives focused on the promise of what’s to come, not impending doom. Family and Home Family is a cornerstone of
you haven’t met.” Tletepecs build villages near the land’s many volcanoes, but travel between villages can be challenging, as the dirt paths that connect them often shift or are blocked. Therefore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a rage, Jander slew all those he blamed for keeping him and Anna apart. In the aftermath of the slaughter, the Mists gathered around Jander, transporting him to Barovia. There, Jander met Strahd von
adventurer resulted in the birth of Savra Sunstar, a dhampir (see chapter 1) who Jander considers his daughter. Savra loathes him, though, and has devoted her life to hunting him and all vampires. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, the check can be repeated after another 10 minutes of searching. The following boxed text assumes that the characters have met Ireena Kolyana. If they have not, don’t read the sentence that mentions
life-sized stone monument carved in the likeness of a kneeling peasant girl clutching a rose. Although her features are gray and weatherworn, she bears a striking resemblance to Ireena Kolyana
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Keresta Delvingstone Keresta Delvingstone grew up in the streets of Waterdeep and is no stranger to hardship. Hoping to make a better life for herself, she became an adventurer and sought fame and
fortune in Undermountain. Keresta met her end in the lair of a vampire and became a vampire spawn under its command. After Vanrak destroyed the vampire and conquered its lair, he took Keresta under his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
your life as they lived theirs, letting their instincts guide you. Treasure our past and the stories of our people. You are the vessel through which new legends will arise. Voice of
BRELAND
The
KaLashtar prophecy you can’t ignore!
Many of the people of Khorvaire have never met a kalashtar. Some say these people are in contact with celestial spirits; here at the Voice of Breland, we say they’re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Witherbloom Student You filled your childhood with rudimentary alchemical experiments, all in the hope of becoming a student of Witherbloom College. The life sciences are the focus of your reading
School of Necromancy) and clerics (including those with the Divine Domains of Life or Nature) also find their home in Witherbloom. A number of rangers and barbarians study at Witherbloom as well, and