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Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

the time he was working to create the Crystal Shard, Zlan was a devotee of a god of darkness, confusion, and pain. Zlan likes to subtly twist minds to confusion and paranoia and doesn’t take

observe enemies and warp minds. History Seven powerful liches from other worlds came together to create the Crystal Shard millennia ago. Although the liches were jealous and suspicious of each

Gloamwing

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

tracking those who have stolen guild secrets, then wiping those secrets from their victims' minds to ensure that they are never shared. Limited Sentience. A Nightveil specter is created when the mind magic

of House Dimir erases a person's identity, leaving a mind so broken it can no longer live. Thus, Nightveil specters have no memory of their previous lives, and they are just clever enough to follow

Nightveil Specter

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

secrets, then wiping those secrets from their victims’ minds to ensure that they are never shared. Limited Sentience. A Nightveil specter is created when the mind magic of House Dimir erases a

person’s identity, leaving a mind so broken it can no longer live. Thus, Nightveil specters have no memory of their previous lives, and they are just clever enough to follow their orders with

Sea Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

recounted in dockside taverns tell of people lost to the sea—but not merely drowned and gone. Some unfortunates taken by the ocean live on as sea spawn, haunting the waves like tortured reflections

deeper truth: things lurking beneath the waves strive to claim the hearts and minds of land dwellers. Kraken;Krakens, morkoth;morkoths, sea hag;sea hags, marid;marids, storm giant;storm giants, dragon

Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Some reborn exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless

veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured

Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds

still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer

Gray Dwarf (Duergar) Legacy

Species Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

The gray dwarves, or duergar, live deep in the Underdark. After delving deeper than any other dwarves, they were enslaved by mind flayers for eons. Although they eventually won their freedom, these

thus made them into the superior race. Duergar have no appreciation for beauty, that ability having been erased from their minds by the mind flayers long ago and any thought of recapturing it

Elf

races Player’s Handbook

, including worlds in the Material Plane. Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need

to rest. In that state, they remain aware of their surroundings while immersing themselves in memories and meditations. An environment subtly transforms elves after they inhabit it for a millennium or

Githzerai

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

their mental powers within the endless chaos of Limbo have imbued githzerai with the ability to shape psionic energy to protect themselves and probe minds. Creating Your Character At 1st level, you

adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race’s description

Firbolg Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life. In their role as caretakers, firbolgs live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common

. Their cultural reverence for nature, combined with their strong and insightful minds, makes learning such magic an instinctive part of their development. Almost every firbolg learns a few spells

Music and Magic

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer versatility. Many bards prefer to stick to the

almost anything well. Bards become masters of the talents they set their minds to perfecting, from musical performance to esoteric knowledge.

Music and Magic

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer versatility. Many bards prefer to stick to the

almost anything well. Bards become masters of the talents they set their minds to perfecting, from musical performance to esoteric knowledge.

Reborn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Reborn Death isn’t always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Some reborn exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless

veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured bodies. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.

Gith Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Gith Traits Your character shares the following traits with other gith. Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1. Age. Gith reach adulthood in their late teens and live for

spells. When you cast them with this trait, they don’t require components. Githzerai In their fortresses within Limbo, the githzerai hone their minds to a razor’s edge. Ability Score Increase. Your

Structured Society

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

pupils or patches of scales on the skin. In yuan-ti cities, purebloods are treated fairly but live in an environment where their wants and needs are eclipsed by those of the malisons and abominations

. Because purebloods can easily pass as human, their most important function is as agents of the yuan-ti in the outside world. They can live incognito among humans as diplomats, infiltrators, and spies

Purphoros

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Purphoros God of the Forge Purphoros is the god of the forge, the restless earth, and fire. He rules the raw creative force that infuses sapient minds. Purphoros is also the god of artisans

creatures are associated with him. When angered, he might appear as an enormous mass of lava, a blazing fire, or a volcanic eruption. Mortals who see Purphoros in one of those forms seldom live to tell about it.

Limbo

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

slaadi live here and swim amid this chaos, creating nothing, whereas githzerai monks build entire monasteries with their minds. Optional Rule: Power of the Mind As an action, a creature on Limbo can make

desired direction of travel. Limbo conforms to the will of the creatures inhabiting it. Very disciplined and powerful minds can create whole islands of their own invention within the plane, sometimes

Blood Will Tell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

raid and scavenge. As a result, the word “orc” has no pleasant connotation in the minds of other Faerûnians. At the same time, the word “half” is a mark of derision among orcs. Some half-orcs raised

come off as coarse, blunt, or rude in dealings with other people. With the directness of an orc, they speak their minds with no apparent concern for how their opinions are received. No matter where

Noteworthy Sites

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Congregation, the minds behind San Citlán’s progress prepare future generations of spellcasting adepts. The base of the hill teems with monuments, temples, and extravagant estates. These wealthy

landscape outside San Citlán offers little in the way of comfort. Over half the city’s workers live in these borderlands, while many more folk labor at mines and farms in the area. These communities

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

live births aren’t uncommon. A mating between yuan-ti of different types almost always produces eggs that hatch into yuan-ti of the weaker parent, so most choose partners of the same type in the

the Lake of Steam out along the trade routes to cross the world, yuan-ti poisons and potent liquors are covertly sold. Beware! Some of the latter slowly and subtly bring imbibers under the sway of

Central Campus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

library, marking its location as a center of mystic learning. Arches welcome inquisitive minds into the library. Inside, almost every surface from the floor to the high ceiling is jammed with stacks of

to wander through on dates. Some of the university’s clubs also use the park to host social gatherings and games, including live-action roleplaying games and casual sports. Firejolt Café At the edge

Elf

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

, including worlds in the Material Plane. Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need to rest. In

that state, they remain aware of their surroundings while immersing themselves in memories and meditations. An environment subtly transforms elves after they inhabit it for a millennium or more, and

Elf

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

worlds in the Material Plane. Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need to rest. In that state

, they remain aware of their surroundings while immersing themselves in memories and meditations. An environment subtly transforms elves after they inhabit it for a millennium or more, and it grants

Doppelganger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

-reading abilities aid them in creating near-perfect disguises and plucking secrets from unguarded minds. Occasionally, doppelgangers use their shape-shifting ability in more overt ways, transforming into

to inspire a doppelganger’s plot. Doppelganger Deceptions 1d6 The Doppelganger Schemes To... 1 Cause chaos within the temple of a deity that cursed it to live without a true form

The Sugar Man

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

seen. From the stately old hacienda he calls the Sugar Alcázar, the Sugar Man hosts dazzling galas and subtly manipulates local farm owners and bosses from across Atagua to his service. Assessing the

dear to him was once lost, and he wishes to see that person live again. He doesn’t share the details, but the Sugar Man plans to use the power of the seed pod to resurrect his son, Endis, who died a

Dungeon History

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

enslaving the minds of others. Once he had wrung the drow of their usefulness, Halaster Blackcloak tunneled on, ever downward, indulging his inexplicable compulsion for delving deeper and deeper into the

mountain. Using his underground complex as a base of operations, Halaster traveled to other planes and distant lands, collecting strange and dangerous creatures to live as prisoners, servants, or

Nyx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. From here, the pantheon of Theros watches the mortal world and guides the living. Though the gods live in a veritable paradise, they can’t sever themselves from the mortal world. To do so would be to

there within an ancient, knotted wood. Mystic Sea This body of mist and water hides endless secrets within its depths—both literal secrets that manifest from mortal minds and unimagined concepts not yet

Inhabitants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Inhabitants Karazikar considers itself the master of all it surveys. The beholder doesn’t live alone, though, keeping its lair well stocked with disposable servants. Karazikar the Eye Tyrant Like

Oblivium and raised here, knowing no other life. Many of the beholder’s slaves worship it, particularly those born here, their minds warped by the aberration’s charm rays and their lifelong captivity

Elder Elves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

life. An elf who begins to experience these other-life memories might live on as normal for decades, but as the intrusions become more frequent, they take their toll on the individual’s outlook

strange and confusing to elves. Unlike the actual memories of one’s primal soul, present life, or past lives, dreams are uncontrolled products of the subconscious, and perhaps the subconscious minds of

Doppelganger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

intend to impersonate, studying them and probing their minds for secrets. A doppelganger can read a creature’s surface thoughts, allowing it to glean that creature’s name, desires, and fears, along with a

merchant or noble, the others take on a number of identities as circumstances warrant, playing the parts of family or servants while they live off the victim’s riches. Changelings. Doppelgangers are

Sea Spawn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

ocean and live on as sea spawn, haunting the waves like tortured reflections of their former selves. Coral encrusts them. Barnacles cling to their cold skin. Lungs that once filled with air can now

hearts and minds of land dwellers. They are transformed by the sea and enslaved by powers of the deeps. And the transformation is more than mere fins and tentacles; they come to love their slavery. Poor

Goblin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

. In their own minds, though, they are content to lurk in the shadows only until they fully come into their own and receive the recognition they believe they deserve. They are entitled to some credit

adulthood around age 8. They age noticeably faster than humans, and though few goblins live to old age, the most cautious rarely live longer than 60 years. Alignment. Most of the goblins of Ravnica are

Xaos

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

their full sentences. Because of this, residents tend to live by their own creeds, carving out some semblance of order from a settlement in eternal flux. Either way, locals humor their leader—be they a

the reunification of the gith. Considered radicals and outlaws by their fractured people, members of the Sha’sal Khou work secretly in their respective societies, subtly discouraging violence toward

Sea Spawn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Sea Spawn Many of the stories sung as sea chanteys and recounted in dockside taverns tell of people lost to the sea—but not merely drowned and gone. Some unfortunates taken by the ocean live on as

heart to a sea god. Such cautionary tales disguise the deeper truth: things lurking beneath the waves strive to claim the hearts and minds of land dwellers. Krakens, morkoths, sea hags, marids, storm

Meenlock

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

Meenlock Meenlocks are deformed fey that invoke terror and seek to destroy all that is good, innocent, and beautiful. They primarily live in forests, although they adapt well to urban and

use it to project unsettling hallucinations into the minds of their prey. These hallucinations take the form of terrible whispers or fleeting movements just at the edges of one’s peripheral vision

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