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Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
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
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
Gith
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
The story of the gith is rooted in a cruel twist of cosmic fate. Inspired by the great leader for whom the race is named, the gith rose up to overthrow the mind flayers that held them in
to plunder the Material Plane and other worlds, bringing treasures and slaves back to their ageless realm. At the same time, they hunt down and kill mind flayers whenever possible, as recompense for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
mind flayers demand that Ruxithid’s goblins find peculiar, black stone shards that came from an ancient obelisk once erected in the wilds outside of Phandalin. The obelisk originated in the ancient
obelisk’s shards to Phandalin, covet the shards for some greater purpose, and demand the Sawplees’ help. While communing with their Far Realm patron, the mind flayers learned that four obelisk shards have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Map Hex Sharpe The Sawplee Goblins’ Map The characters learned in chapter 5 about four obelisk shards around Phandalin that the Sawplee goblins gathered. The mind flayer fanatics possess these
shards now, but the fanatics need as many obelisk fragments as possible to ensure their ritual will succeed. The Sawplees’ map reveals the locations of three other fragments: an abandoned dwarven
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, or you throw it into an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you in a body of water that is at least 50 feet wide and 50 feet long. Upon doing so, the tooth burrows into the ground and vanishes, leaving
tooth expends 1 charge and casts revivify on you.
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Duggle’s Surprising Day (human molar)
1 commoner
When you finish a long rest, the tooth casts sanctuary (DC 18) on you, and the spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
overtaken by mind flayers. After conquering the outpost, the illithids reigned over the area for decades, even at one point housing an elder brain within the outpost’s underground sanctum. Eventually, the
flayers who also once lived there. Only recently have the goblins ventured beyond the outpost and ransacked nearby areas. This effort is helmed by a goblin named Ruxithid the Chosen, who receives orders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
crystal loses its light and becomes mundane. The message that plays for the characters upon Ruxithid’s demise is the mind flayers’ last command to him: find and deliver the three other obelisk shards
at once. Three voices emerge, speaking in discordant unison.
The voices hiss: “So you have succeeded. Good. The four shards shall arrive here soon. Now three remain to be found. You know your task
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
power of the characters. Vorpal Shards. Even while keeping the idea that the grand master’s claw shards are from a vorpal sword, you might wish to mitigate their threat of an instant kill by having them
deal an extra 6d8 slashing damage instead. You might also have the shards be from a polymorph blade, a blade of the medusa, or some other type of weapon. Another option is to allow decapitated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
’ biological tampering, while other Underdark-dwelling monsters—including kuo-toa, quaggoths, and troglodytes—often serve illithid masters. Githyanki and githzerai have a long adversarial history with mind flayers and bear the scars of illithid manipulation.
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Mind Flayers Brain-Eating Underdark Tyrants Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: Arcana Scattered survivors of a world-ruining, multiversal empire, mind flayers lurk in secret conclaves hidden deep within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
another of the same or greater value). The walls of force also disappear if the mind flayers are pulled away from the pedestal — though the walls reappear if contact is reestablished, as long as the diamond
seeps into the hall through cracks in the arched, 20-foot-high ceiling, spilling onto a 40-foot-long stone table surrounded by stone chairs as big as thrones.
Dishware. Shallow niches in the walls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Ritual The mind flayers seek to enact a dreadful ritual that will transform the entire population of Phandalin into mind flayers. As if that brutal process weren’t terrifying enough, the ritual
transforming beings into mind flayers from afar requires a powerful source of magic. After much communing and research, the mind flayer fanatics determined that the Netherese obelisk can power their ritual
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
with shards of blue quartz sewn into it (125 gp), and a 1-foot-tall, 3-foot-long alabaster triptych depicting a dwarven wedding (250 gp). The triptych weighs 25 pounds.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Mind Flayers? When the characters are hours away from arriving at the Rock of Bral, read: The ship slows unexpectedly. Around you, on all sides, colossal chunks of rock float in the void. Some of
places for pirates to hide.”
As if on cue, a vessel lurking behind a nearby asteroid comes into view. Its enormous spiral shell merges with an open bow, beneath which long tentacles wave as if caught
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
after death would its consciousness be cast into oblivion. Two divine entities have long been associated with mind flayers by the scholars of other races. These aren’t deities, but rather
long fascinated mind flayers that emulate Maanzecorian, leading to frequent conflict between the two races. Ilsensine. Ilsensine is a broader philosophical ideal than Maanzecorian, leading many sages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Mind Flayer Monsters Mind flayers hardly ever use non-humanoid creatures as thralls or develop other relationships with them. Most of them are either too big and strong to keep penned up for long or
too limited in intellect to complete anything but the simplest tasks. In general, non-humanoids found in the company of mind flayers are those that the illithids have created or bred for specific
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Crypt of the Talhund Constructed beneath Talhundereth, the Crypt of the Talhund was where priests of Dumathoin (known as the Talhund) were laid to rest. The mind flayers who attacked Talhundereth
long ago also plundered the crypt, and the psychic stain they left on this sacred place persists to this day.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. What was once a blessed hall became the home for the colony’s elder brain. Long after the mind flayers left the mining outpost, the psionic remnants of their presence still cling to the sanctum like a
place of rest, rejuvenation, and safety for duergar and their allies alike. However, when the mind flayers conquered the mining outpost, they perverted the sanctum for their own malevolent designs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
and easily controlled. The clever duergar threw off the long-ago attempt by the mind flayers to rule them and have been enemies of the illithids ever since. Grimlocks The first grimlocks were descended
Mind Flayer Thralls Mind flayers never truly ally with any creatures. They either attempt to seize control of a population by subverting its leaders, or they use psionics to dominate a humanoid and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
hundred feet wide floats in the void. A dome of blackened crystal sixty feet across bulges from its top like a bizarre growth. From where you emerge, you see a long walkway made of the same crystal
extending from an opening in the dome.
Five shield guardians shaped like mind flayers normally guard the walkway, but the Ilvaash fanatics have relocated the shield guardians inside the dome where they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
flayers that held them in servitude. But after they won their freedom, two factions among the gith disagreed on what kind of civilization they would forge. That disagreement quickly flared into open
Plane, they send raiders out to plunder the Material Plane and other worlds, bringing treasures and slaves back to their ageless realm. At the same time, they hunt down and kill mind flayers whenever
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
ingredient that makes them more potent. But now the source of that ingredient has been depleted. The secretary fears that this additive—powdered shards from the eggshell of the legendary Dragon of
search unearthed ancient court documents mentioning a secret cache belonging to the Mountain Cloud Empress, a mysterious figure of the long-fallen Yun dynasty. Secretary Wei gave orders to begin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
to ambush unsuspecting victims. A gargoyle might alleviate the tedium of its watch by catching and tormenting birds or rodents, but its long wait only increases its craving for harming sentient
. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.
SHARDS OF
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Obelisk If your players wish to continue the story past chapter 4, they’ll find a tale of ancient magic, a malevolent godlet, and fanatics obsessed with transforming innocents into mind flayers
the goblins are searching for pieces of the titular shattered obelisk. Chasing down the goblins reveals their connection to a sobering plot against Phandalin. The characters learn that mind flayers who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
The Elder Brain Mind flayers use telepathy to communicate with each other and with other creatures. Among their own kind, they form a network of minds. Each mind flayer is an individual node of the
flayers treat thralls made from captured humanoids, an elder brain expects perfect obedience from the illithids that dwell in its colony. If a single mind flayer in a colony sees or hears something, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
centuries, shards from magnificent windows of stained glass that once adorned the Halls have found their way into beautiful and distinctive glass bottles blown locally. Stories in nearby Beliard warn of
predatory creatures lurking in the extensive ruins. Despite forays by adventuring bands and dwarves determined to reclaim and explore the ruins, the halls rarely stay empty for long. As a result
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
druidic shrines. The Marches are the birthplace of the druidic tradition of the Gatekeepers. Long ago, this sect defeated the vile daelkyr; today, its last champions continue to protect Eberron from
cults work with mind flayers and other aberrations. Others have no evil intent but are driven by dangerous delusions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
long ago labeled the lost clan as heretics, spoken of now only as an object lesson concerning the fate of dwarves who stray from Moradin’s teachings. When Laduguer protested this treatment, the priests
, tried to explain that his people had been lured into a trap by the mind flayers, but his assertions fell on deaf ears. Thus, with no other apparent choice, the lost clan fled back to the Underdark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lich-like state. Elder brains forbid mind
Alhoon Mind flayers that pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain (appears in this book) is possible. The road to lichdom offers an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
shelters among the bones. Shattered Sphere Smoky gray shards of crystal, each one a mile thick and hundreds of miles long, float in the outermost regions of Doomspace. These shards are all that remain of
outermost region of Doomspace with crystalline shards as big as asteroids. What happened next isn’t known for fact, but speculation abounds. Some say the gods appeared before the leaders of Fyreen and Malas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Psurlons Psurlons are malevolent, wormlike creatures that were ejected from the Far Realm long ago. They now live on the Astral Plane. They have legs that end in hooves and arms that end in hands
with three long fingers. A psurlon’s eyeless head resembles that of an earthworm, capped by a maw ringed with teeth. Psurlons adorn themselves in richly colored robes and rarely wear armor or carry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
far from the front lines suffered damage from long-distance magic weapons or terror attacks. Any time you are setting a scene, you could add some element that speaks to the ongoing impact of the Last
in a heated discussion about the war. 5 A street vendor is selling unusual souvenirs from the war — pieces of a warforged titan, shards of an airship, and other curiosities. 6 A memorial has been raised to commemorate members of the community lost in the war.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Mind Flayer Magic Items Some mind flayer colonies have developed the ability to create or modify certain kinds of gear, imbuing them with psionic energy. Mind flayers craft magic items that only they
individual) Mind flayers can turn any nonmagical sword into a mind blade. Only one creature can attune to it: either a specific mind flayer or one of its thralls. In the hands of any other creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Fractious in groups and individually weak, derro would have died out long ago but for two elements of their character. They are cautious and distrustful, which serves them well as they navigate the
flayers. These remnants were so distorted by the mind flayers’ psionic power that the dwarves became Aberrations. Derro tell their own stories of flight and survival in the Underdark, in which mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
disinclination toward travel, the githzerai send groups away from Limbo on a regular basis to keep from giving ground in their battles against the githyanki and the mind flayers. Adamantine Citadels When
reinforcements. For those who need such enticement, they offer the promise of sharing the bounty of great treasures held by the githyanki. Mind Flayers. Though they devote most of their military
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
in an unnaturally calm, sing-song voice. At first, he attempts to be cordial to the characters. Unaware that his “mighty gods” are actually mind flayers, Ruxithid explains that he is a divine
harbinger and that his quest for these shards is intended to bring about a metamorphosis of the Material Plane. However, any character who succeeds on a DC 16 Wisdom (Insight) check notices the peculiar way