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Lorwyn: First Light
mountains. They sometimes lend their brawn to smaller species who have something interesting to offer in return.
Giants
The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering
the might of mountains and crush foes with the force of an avalanche.Name Sleep (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Name Sleep"}. The giant falls into a deep
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
wield this wild magic to devastating effect.
Giants
The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering their homeland in search of wondrous things or simply a place to
stocked with a giant’s valuable relics. Such treasure hunters do well to tread carefully, for when angered, these giants can unleash the might of mountains and crush foes with the force of an avalanche.
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe lived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he was very much alive, Kavan had some traits in common with
vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and he lived underground. In battle, he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first blood spear, a weapon
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
has told Kasimir that the Amber Temple, an ancient vault hidden in the Barovian mountains, is where Strahd forged his pact with evil powers and discovered how to become a vampire. Kasimir has been
surrendered. Strahd left the few survivors to the mercy of the Vistani, who bore them to the valley of Barovia, where they have lived ever since.
Old Friends. Kasimir's allegiance to the Vistani is so
Dwarf
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Basic Rules (2014)
ye in trouble if I came out an’ looked for ye!”
— R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
Kingdoms rich in ancient grandeur, halls carved into the roots of mountains, the echoing of
them into an exile that lasted over 250 years. This longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.
Dwarves are solid and enduring like the
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of arms magically orbit the bodies of the titanic, nearly forgotten artisans known as hundred-handed ones. These giants often dwell in remote mountains and seaside cliffs, where they carve their
memories into the ancient stone, covering their territories with intricate reliefs and massive statues of bygone ages. Some linger near ancient temples and palaces, ruins they once raised to the gods or
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
cut yourself with the shard and are poisoned until the next dawn.
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You experience a vision of an ancient calamity—a beautiful city threatened by crumbling mountains and erupting volcanoes
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
arches, swooping from spire to spire, soared through the air. Crafted by ancient dwarven metalsmiths, they were strong enough to hold the weight of an army, yet they appeared so delicate that a bird
ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and
Hermit
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
You lived in seclusion—either in a sheltered community such as a monastery, or entirely alone—for a formative part of your life. In your time apart from the clamor of society, you found
I needed to commune with nature, far from civilization.
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I was the caretaker of an ancient ruin or relic.
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I was a pilgrim in search of a person, place, or relic of spiritual
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
beaked snout vents smoke at all times, and its eyes dance with flame when it is angry.
Klauthen Vale is a narrow, winding valley in the mountains west of Mirabar. Thanks to ancient and powerful magic, the
stone — a task impossible for anyone not as large and strong as an ancient dragon.
Klauth is one of the largest and most fearsome red dragons ever known in Faerûn. Huge but graceful, he
Human
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reckonings of most worlds, humans are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short-lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their
elders pass on the ancient traditions to each new generation, human temples, governments, libraries, and codes of law fix their traditions in the bedrock of history. Humans dream of immortality, but
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
corrupted.
Angel in Disguise. The Abbot is a deva that has lived for millennia. He typically assumes the form of a strikingly handsome human priest in his late twenties or early thirties. More than a
insane. Only then did von Holtz reveal himself to be Strahd von Zarovich. Somehow the deva realized that any attempt to slay Strahd would be futile—that the ancient curse upon the land meant that the
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
violence from people who mistake them for fiends.
Facing a hard life, these genasi seek isolation in the wilds, making their homes in mountains or forests, near lakes, or underground.
Most air and fire
up to the Sword Coast, and into the Western Heartlands to the east. Some remain in their ancient homeland.
In contrast, water and earth genasi have no common history. Individuals have difficulty
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
society.
Halruaa. Located on the southern edges of the Shining South, and hemmed in by mountains all around, the magocracy of Halruaa is a bizarre land to most in Faerûn who know about it. Many folk
Mulhorand’s sweltering deserts and ancient pyramids for a glimpse at a different life do so for many reasons. You might be in the North simply to see the strangeness this wet land has to offer, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
of Strahd and the druids. They have remained undisturbed for centuries. Buried under the rocks are the moldy bones of an ancient tribe of berserkers that once lived in the mountains. (See “Blood Spear of Kavan” in the “Special Events” section below.)
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
You have always been fascinated by other cultures, from the most ancient and primeval lost lands to the most modern civilizations. By studying other cultures’ customs, philosophies, laws
lost tribe, or the truth about an ancient empire’s downfall.
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Personality Trait
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I prefer the company of those who aren’t like me, including people of other races
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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A towering palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has
no faction trusts the others.
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A crystal dragon seeks bold adventurers to steal an egg from an ancient white dragon who is infamous for abject cruelty and utter remorselessness.
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A
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack. Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries
with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Zorzula’s Rest Zorzula’s Rest is an ancient duergar mining outpost located in one of the Sword Mountains east of Phandalin. The meaning of its name has been lost to time, though some history books
mention a powerful duergar leader named Zorzula, who commanded mining operations throughout the Sword Mountains. However, duergar control of the outpost ceased centuries ago when Zorzula’s Rest was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack. Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries
with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Blood Spear Weapon (spear), uncommon (requires attunement) Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe lived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he
was very much alive, Kavan had some traits in common with vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and he lived underground. In battle, he wielded a spear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Kryptgarden Forest This ancient forest tucked behind the Sword Mountains contains the ruins of bygone dwarven civilizations. The lair of the ancient green dragon Claugiyliamatar, nicknamed the Old Gnawbone, is found in these woods.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Kryptgarden Forest This ancient forest tucked behind the Sword Mountains contains the ruins of bygone dwarven civilizations. The ancient green dragon Claugiyliamatar, nicknamed the Old Gnawbone, also lairs in the woods. For more information on this location, see “Claugiyliamatar’s Lair.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of wyverns. Legends say that temples crown both mountains and that an ancient deity placed a treasure able to grant wishes in one of them. Whoever claims the treasure in the wrong temple, though, is turned into a wyvern loyal to Kalakeri’s true leader.
The Vochalams Two treacherous mountains jut from the forest-cloaked hills and cliffs of southwestern Kalakeri. The Greater Vochalam and the slightly smaller Lesser Vochalam are home to vast numbers
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Kryptgarden Forest This ancient forest tucked behind the Sword Mountains contains the ruins of bygone dwarven civilizations. The abandoned lair of the green dragon Claugiyliamatar, nicknamed the Old
Gnawbone, is found in these woods. During Sleeping Dragons Wake, Claugiyliamatar was possessed by the wraith of the ancient dracolich Chardansearavitriol, also known as Ebondeath, which now loyally serves the worshipers of Myrkul (see “Mere of Dead Men”).
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, timeless mountains, the Oraniads are said to be closer to Nyx than any other point on Theros. Ancient shrines lie among the lonely peaks, their origins lost to mortal memory, and their halls haunted
The Oraniad Mountains The Oraniad mountains stretch along the east side of Oreskos. While they don’t share the dark reputation of their western neighbor, they are the more dangerous territory. Tall
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Sources. Personify the past through a tragic ghost, an otherworldly guardian, an artificial intelligence, an ancient sage, or another long-lived individual. Such NPCs give you a way to share relevant
from the Vast Swamp to the Rakers, and from the Solnor Ocean to the Yatil and Lortmil Mountains. Between the Lortmil Mountains and the Crystalmists was the Kingdom of Keoland, mimicking the Great
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Old Keoland United by their shared history as part of the ancient Kingdom of Keoland, the marches and fiefdoms between the Lortmil Mountains and the higher mountains to the west gather diverse
giants in the nearby mountains Gran March, the Commandant Magnus Onyxbeard (dwarf) Nominal vassal of Keoland and ally with Bissel; the commandant is elected from among the March’s noble houses Hold of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Vale of the Spine The bony pillars from which the gate-town of Ribcage derives its name stem from the Vale of the Spine, a narrow valley of towering, curved mountains rumored to be the corpse of some
ancient titan. Dried-up bones and rusted infernal scrap, eroded by acid rain and hellish temperatures, litter the barren vale. As one moves spireward, the landscape gradually gives way to dusty plains.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, the ancient Chaos echo buried deep beneath the mountains of Abanasinia. These four seekers became the elemental prophets. Wielding the power of the elemental weapons, the four prophets recruited
they should have been forgotten for all time. Thousands of years before the Cataclysm, a group of dwarf settlers established an enclave in the mountains north of Thorbardin, which they called Tyar
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
dwarf might seek to restore a clan’s lost honor, avenge an ancient wrong the clan suffered, or earn a new place within the clan after having been exiled. Or a dwarf might search for the axe wielded by
hundred years,” is a dwarf saying that might be hyperbole, but certainly points to how difficult it can be for a member of a short-lived race like humans to earn a dwarf’s trust.
Elves. “It’s not wise
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Chapter 4: The Chosen Path Guided by Harshnag the frost giant, the adventurers travel to the Spine of the World, scaling icy mountains to reach a temple built by the giant lords of Ostoria. Within
this complex, they find the Eye of the All-Father, a chamber that the ancient giants used as an oracle. Here, the characters eventually choose a path that leads them to the storm giants of Maelstrom
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
The Empire’s Rise and Fall Five thousand years ago, the people (mostly humans) who lived in a collection of small fishing villages called the Alliance of Seventon struck an alliance with the elven
of rudimentary spellcasting. Three hundred years later, the Netherese discovered a collection of ancient writings on precious metals that contained vast bodies of magical knowledge. Using these
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
during the pre-Cataclysm Age of Might? Before or during the War of Lance? Where on Krynn will Elemental Evil arise: the hills and mountains of Solamnia? Ergoth? Or the soon-to-be destroyed Istar? We
the Lance. In this scenario, the Sumber Hills are replaced by the hills and mountains between Solace and Haven. Instead of Red Larch, the starting town of the adventure is Gateway, some distance south
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Ironslag North of the Silver Marches is a range of towering, snow-covered mountains known as the Ice Spires. The great dungeon-forge of Ironslag is under the one known to dwarves of the Silver
Marches as Mount Hamarhaast (“hammer of ashes”). Carved into the base of a 500-foot-high mountainside cliff is a pair of 50-foot-tall adamantine doors — airtight valves sealed by ancient magic. Adventurers