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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, Draconic, Elvish, and Loross (the dead language of the Empire of Netheril). Professor Skant is a chatterbox and assumes all humanoids are dunderheads. When elaborating on its areas of expertise, it
surrounding the making, bottling, and drinking of Elverquisst (a rare, ruby-colored elven liquor distilled from sunshine and rare summer fruits)
The tarrasque (see the Monster Manual)
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Bolt","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.Although the dead typically recall little of their lives, some have an obsession with magic that survives both death and rebirth as a Returned. These
such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face
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Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
dead (as an action), dispel magic, speak with dead
1/day each: finger of death, plane shift (self only), project imageSkall can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Baleful
flesh, Skall often delegates his bureaucratic responsibilities to Undead proxies or—on rare occasions—appears as an illusory duplicate. Subtle social cues are lost on the factol, whose
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
key between her hunched shoulders that rotates quickly when she’s in a good mood and slows down as her mood sours. When she is furious, the key comes to a dead stop.
Alignment. Neutral evil
Skabatha and Bavlorna bedevil Endelyn. Nothing much ever comes of these petty plots and squabbles, however.
SHARED SPELLS OF THE HOURGLASS COVEN
On the rare occasions when all three hags of the
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
sight, and allows him to see invisible creatures and objects, as well as into the Ethereal Plane, out to a range of 120 feet.
Halaster wields a blast scepter (a very rare magic item that requires
(save DC 16) without expending a spell slot.
Halaster also wears a horned ring (a very rare magic item that requires attunement), which allows an attuned wearer to ignore Undermountain’s magical
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Acquisitions Incorporated
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
. This property of the occultant abacus can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Bring Out Your Dead
Also at rank 2, you regain the use of your Read the Kill feature after you finish a short or
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face. Convincing a merchant to buy
. They think and speak and even feel emotions based on their new experiences, but given their circumstances, those emotions tend to be muted.
VARIANT: RETURNED KAKOMANTIS
Although the dead typically
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal found in the domain of a territorial stone giant clan.
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A coven of hags seeks to reclaim its hag eye, which rests within an amethyst dragon
magically coexist in multiple places at once across the world during a rare celestial alignment.
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An amethyst dragon is fusing with their echoes on other worlds. They all hope to ascend to
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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An amethyst dragon seeks a rare type of crystal found in the domain of a territorial stone giant clan.
2
A coven of hags seeks to reclaim its hag eye, which
that will allow the dragon to magically coexist in multiple places at once across the world during a rare celestial alignment.
8
An amethyst dragon is fusing with their echoes on other worlds
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creatures. On the rare occasion that one forms nonhostile relationships with other beings, it is almost always to bolster the defenses of the dragon’s lair and hoard.
Ancient Sapphire Dragon
easily accessible entrances or exits at all, and trespassers who do find their way inside must then contend with a maze of corridors, dead ends, and steep inclines.
Sapphire Dragon Lair Features
The
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
treasures within to attract adventurers who can put the traps to the test.
Connected Creatures
Sapphire dragons are generally solitary creatures. On the rare occasion that one forms nonhostile
trespassers who do find their way inside must then contend with a maze of corridors, dead ends, and steep inclines.
Sapphire Dragon Lair Features
The sapphire dragon lair shown in map 5.12 is a series
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Robe of Summer Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) This elegant garment is made from fine cloth in hues of red, orange, and gold. While you wear the robe, you have resistance to cold damage. In
addition, you are comfortable as if the temperature were that of a balmy day, so you suffer no ill effects from the weather’s temperature extremes. Dead in Thay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Rare Plant(s) The characters find one or more unusual plants (see appendix C), determined by rolling a d6: 2d6 dancing monkey fruit growing on a tree Menga bush with 2d6 ounces of leaves 1d4 ryath
roots growing in the ground 4d6 sinda berries growing on a bush Wukka tree with 2d6 wukka nuts 1d6 zabou growing on a dead tree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Potion of Longevity Potion, very rare When you drink this potion, your physical age is reduced by 1d6 + 6 years, to a minimum of 13 years. Each time you subsequently drink a potion of longevity
, there is 10 percent cumulative chance that you instead age by 1d6 + 6 years. Suspended in this amber liquid are a scorpion’s tail, an adder’s fang, a dead spider, and a tiny heart that, against all reason, is still beating. These ingredients vanish when the potion is opened.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Reincarnate Level 5 Necromancy (Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (rare oils worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a dead
Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the table below to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Reincarnate Level 5 Necromancy (Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (rare oils worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a dead
Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the table below to
Goblin
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made from dead darkmantles
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Cloaks made of scraps from an elven tapestry
Booyahgs
Spellcasters of any sort among the goblins are rare. Goblins typically lack the intelligence and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Loadstone Wondrous item, rare This stone is a large gem worth 150 gp. Curse. The stone is cursed, but its magical nature is hidden; detect magic doesn’t detect it. An identify spell reveals the
feet, and your maximum load and maximum lift capacities are halved. You also become unwilling to part with the stone. Dead in Thay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Reincarnate 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 hour Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (rare oils and unguents worth at least 1,000 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: Instantaneous You touch
a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that body. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Reincarnate 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 hour Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (rare oils and unguents worth at least 1,000 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration: Instantaneous You touch
a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that body. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Cauldron of Rebirth Wondrous Item, Very Rare (Requires Attunement by a Druid or Warlock) This Tiny pot bears relief scenes of heroes on its cast-iron sides. You can use the cauldron as a Spellcasting
), which takes 1 minute. The potion lasts for 24 hours, then loses its magic if not consumed. Raise Dead. As a Magic action, you can cause the cauldron to grow large enough for a Medium creature to crouch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, armor, and weapons of long-dead foes to portraits, personal items, and oddities such as a single ancient coin or an arcane clockwork. Copper Dragon Art Objects d8 Object
1 A jeweled cloak pin
A harp that plays by itself on command
5 A six-foot-tall mirror of silvered glass in a precious frame carved with the shapes of coiling dragons
6 A complex puzzle box made of rare woods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Spirit Board Wondrous Item, Very Rare Coupleofkooks Spirit Board This ornate wooden board has the letters of the Common alphabet printed on one side, alongside the words “Yes” and “No” and symbols
must expend to cast the spell. As you cast the spell, you call on the spirits of the dead to guide the planchette across the board’s surface, answering your questions by pointing to the letters or words on the board. Spell Charge Cost Augury 1 Commune 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
necromancers and foul spirits. Whether they’re the remains of the ancient dead or fresh bones bound to morbid ambitions, they commit deathless work for whatever forces reanimated them, often serving as
guardians, soldiers, or laborers. In rare cases, skeletons are reanimated but given no particular direction. Roll on or choose a result from the Skeleton Pantomimes table to inspire how undirected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Ghost Lantern Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) A restless spirit is trapped inside this lantern. While holding the lantern, you can command the spirit as a bonus action to shed bright light
returns to the lantern. The spirit is bound to the lantern and can’t be harmed, turned, or raised from the dead. Casting a dispel evil and good spell on the lantern releases the spirit to the afterlife and renders the lantern nonmagical.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Libram of Souls and Flesh Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a wizard) With covers made of skin and fittings of bone, this tome is cold to the touch, and it whispers faintly. When found, the
book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Stonespeaker Crystal Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) Created by the stone giant librarians of Gravenhollow, this nineteen-inch-long shard of quartz grants you advantage on Intelligence
animals (2 charges), speak with dead (4 charges), or speak with plants (3 charges). When you cast a divination spell, you can use the crystal in place of one material component that would normally be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
priests of Boldrei often maintain charitable clinics, but most of these facilities only provide mundane healing. Resurrection is possible in Eberron, but it’s rare. House Jorasco has a handful of
altars of resurrection, and someone with the Greater Dragonmark of Healing and 5,000 gp worth of dragonshards can use one of these altars to perform raise dead. Beyond this, there’s a few divine healers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
where humans bury their dead, but full-fledged temples are rare. The few that exist are hallowed places where the dead from hundreds of miles around are brought for internment, even if they were not
his influence between them. Myrkul became the god of death and the dead, and ruled over the City of the Dead for centuries until he, in turn, was slain. In time Myrkul returned, for can death itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
died, passed into Erebos’s realm, and ultimately escaped the Underworld. His escape route, the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), has since been employed by rare, but over the ages innumerable
find themselves separate from the living, their memories lost and their unnatural states striking fear in most mortals. As a result, most Returned come to follow certain paths of behavior and gravitate toward two city-states, known as the necropoleis—cities of the dead.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
remains of its magical eyes—orbit its floating, cyclopean skull, while the hateful gaze of its central eye socket stifles life and raises the dead. Beholders typically transform into death tyrants over
magic or Underdark radiation. Sometimes beholders purposefully pursue this undead state, just as depraved magic-users pursue lichdom, although it is rare, as most beholders already believe themselves to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
; in a smaller town, they’ll be more limited still. Uncommon magic items typically cost between 100–500 gp, though costs can be higher based on scarcity. Rare magic. Spells of 4th through 5th level are
beyond the reach of most people. People are familiar with the concept of spells like teleportation or raise dead, but few people have ever seen either of these things actually performed. Only the most
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use for healing magic, and a sorcerer can meet most of the tribe’s other magic-related needs. Kobold shamans are very rare; priests of Kurtulmak, when they reveal themselves, are easily recognized
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
Orc
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killers that washes over the countryside and leaves vast tracts of devastation in its wake. Such an event is rare in the extreme, but its consequences can lay low entire nations that are unable to
until my enemies are dead, no matter the cost.
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I understand the value of civilization and the order that society brings.
5
I don’t trust anyone.
6
I believe in living to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
to obtain a rare ingredient from the Alchemists’ Quarter, or to speak to someone who retired or fled to the Styes to hide from their enemies. Alternatively, the characters might simply be passing
day, yet another citizen was found dead from foul play when the sun rose today. The adventure hooks described below represent three different ways of getting the characters involved in the story. All






