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heart of a mind flayer colony. The brain dwells in a dimly glowing brine pool filled with brackish water infused with its vital fluids and psionic energy.
An elder brain’s ambitions are always
, attack rolls, and saving throws until the end of the creature’s next turn.
Tentacle (Costs 2 Actions). The elder brain makes one Tentacle attack.The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination
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disadvantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws until the end of the creature’s next turn.An Elder Brain’s Lair
The lair of an elder brain always lies deep in the heart
of a mind flayer colony. The creature dwells in a dimly glowing brine pool, filled with foul and brackish water infused with the elder brain’s vital fluids and with psionic energy.
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, a mission of vengeance, or a catastrophe typically lies at the heart of the aarakocra adventurer’s chosen path.
Two other circumstances might call an aarakocra to adventure. First, aarakocra
have historical ties to the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. Exceptional individuals honor that connection and might seek out the missing pieces of the Rod of Seven Parts, the remains of an artifact fashioned by
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seeks adventurers to lead into battle against the mind flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon’s lair.
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Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square
Queen has declared war on an ancient sapphire dragon who has annexed the heart of her cult’s Underdark territory.
Sapphire Dragon Lairs
Sapphire dragons make their lairs in enormous
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Areas of the Heart The areas of the heart are keyed to map 3.2. Dyson Logos Map 3.2: Heart of Havock View Player Version A1: Entry Atrium Beyond the shattered safe room is an oval chamber with walls
of purple flesh dimly lit by pinkish, bioluminescent orbs. The air reeks of death. An opening in one wall leads to another chamber.
A character holding the first rod piece divines that the next
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Chapter 8: The Dragon Queen’s Pride Sidharth Chaturvedi The heroes’ quest for the final rod piece takes
them into a casino in the heart of Avernus The adventurers discover that the final piece of
the Rod of Seven Parts is in the heart of Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. The characters must infiltrate a diabolical casino dedicated to Tiamat, Queen of Evil Dragons, whose lair is nearby.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Second Rod Piece The second piece of the Rod of Seven Parts is inside the hertilod in area A2 in the “Heart of Havock” section later in this chapter. For more information about the rod and the spell this piece allows its wielder to cast, see this book’s introduction.
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Heart of Havock Though much of Havock is petrified and crumbling, the god’s heart still beats. Over time, the heart spawned a parasitic monstrosity known as a hertilod, which feasts on the god’s
residual divine power and terrorizes hapless astral travelers who stumble on Havock’s corpse. When the Lambent Zenith crashed into Havock, the god’s heart began absorbing pieces of the ship’s prow, and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
5. Prison Cell The crystal doors to this room are magically locked, but they open automatically for any creature that carries a Stardock rod (see “Stardock Rods”). There are no physical locks to be
picked, but a knock spell or similar magic also opens a door. Magic wards in the room prevent any creature from teleporting into or out of it. Marquox A mind flayer named Marquox uses its levitate
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
the piece when it crashed into a dying god’s body adrift on the Astral Sea. The characters soon discover that a dragonlike creature devoured the piece and retreated into the heart of the god. The characters must confront the creature and retrieve the rod piece.
Chapter 3 Summary Chapter 3 takes place on the Astral Plane. The characters learn that the second rod piece is in the wreckage of a spelljamming ship called the Lambent Zenith. The ship was carrying
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
wreckage of a spelljamming ship called the Lambent Zenith, then retrieve the rod piece from a dragon-like creature that guards it inside the heart of a fallen god.
Chapter 3: The Lambent Zenith’s Last Voyage Kent Davis The spelljamming ship Lambent Zenith was carrying a
piece of the rod before the ship crashed in the Astral Sea The hunt for the second piece
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
) on a rune destroys it. A rune can also be deactivated if a creature within 5 feet of it says, “The moon sings a song for the lost.” Both runes must be either rendered inactive or destroyed for the safe room’s door to open. This allows access to the heart of Havock, where the rod piece is located.
Accessing the Rod Piece The rod piece was stored in a safe room in the Lambent Zenith’s prow (area Z19). When the ship crashed, the safe room’s security wards activated, and the room’s doors sealed
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
captain, the deva Inda Malayuri, was an arcanist and emissary tasked with guiding the lost and bringing peace to tumultuous worlds. During a voyage, Inda uncovered a piece of the Rod of Seven Parts. Using
her extensive arcane knowledge, Inda harnessed the magic within the rod piece to augment the Lambent Zenith, allowing the ship to travel to the farthest corners of the multiverse in the blink of an
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
characters can easily strike up an alliance with Akarrth, but any such pact is doomed to crumble in short order because the archmage is insane. Treasure. Akarrth carries a wooden rod carved with
tentacles that serves as an arcane focus (10 gp), as well as a spellbook bound in mind flayer skin that contains all the spells he has prepared.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
nearby mountains. It’s overseen by the archmage Teremini Nightsedge, who serves the dreaded Lord Soth. The Stolen Shard. Teremini’s soldiers stole a magical shard at the heart of the peylon tree. The
tree and its dryad became corrupted shortly thereafter. (The characters are certain this is the fifth piece of the Rod of Seven Parts.) The Blue Fire Wardens. Riffel is a member of the Blue Fire
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Chapter 8: Beyond a Lightless Star The mind flayer fanatics have fled from the subterranean stronghold of Illithinoch to the Far Realm. There, the fanatics commune directly with their wicked deity
, Ilvaash, as they begin a sinister ritual that will transform Humanoids in and around Phandalin into mind flayers. In the heart of Ilvaash’s hidden domain, the fanatics use the Netherese obelisk’s
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
into their minds and emits a telepathic call for help. The map leads to a mind flayer who wants to put the God-Brain out of its misery.
7 A farmer hires the characters to protect his family
, whom he believes—without evidence—are being abducted and returned every night.
8 The High Master mind flayer of Mount Grysl seeks to claim all the God-Brain knows. To do this, it creates a copy of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
serve Ilvaash are behind this plot. These mind flayer fanatics are renegades who hope to reconstruct and harness the power of the obelisk. Using the obelisk to focus wicked Far Realm power, the mind
flayer fanatics plan to enact a ritual to transform Phandalin’s townspeople into mind flayers. The characters must follow the mind flayers into their Underdark stronghold and then into the Far Realm
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flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon’s lair.
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Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square. The key to closing the portal is a mythical holy
sapphire dragon wyrmling;sapphire wyrmling who left home months before.
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An adult sapphire dragon and a squadron of githyanki have joined forces to locate and destroy a mind flayer colony
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
. The stone cylinder is a +1 rod of the pact keeper. The urn holds the dried heart of a mighty yuan-ti that radiates transmutation magic if detect magic is used on it. Any character who eats the entire thing gains the permanent ability to understand the speech of snakes and yuan-ti.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Goblins’ Story The goblins at the heart of this chapter’s adventure are part of an enclave whose ancestors have inhabited an abandoned duergar mining outpost called Zorzula’s Rest for generations
mind flayers eventually left, but the goblins remained, sequestered from the rest of the world until recently when the mind flayer fanatics called on them. Some of these goblins’ descendants possess
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
small, shiny, black metal chest next to it (see “Treasure” below). Mounted on other walls are thirteen stuffed mind flayer heads.
Secret Trapdoor. A secret trapdoor in the floor under the table opens
-like maw of the stuffed mind flayer head closest to the chest. A successful DC 25 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools picks the lock, and a successful DC 30 Strength (Athletics) check forces the chest
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
mind flayer colony also abandoned the outpost when their underground empire fell, but echoes of their presence still cling there. Zorzula’s Rest is still the home of an enclave of secretive goblins
telepathically using a special crystal from his “mighty gods”—actually the group of mind flayers at the heart of this adventure. (See the “Indigo Sanctum” section for more.) Ruxithid incorrectly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
overwhelmingly foul stench fills this destroyed and empty room. Where the prow should be is a gaping hole leading into the putrid core of Havock’s heart.
The rod piece was consumed by the hertilod lurking
within the heart. Heart Entryway. The hole in this area leads into the heart of Havock, as shown on map 3.2 and described in the following section. To retrieve the rod piece, the characters must venture into the heart and confront the monster inside.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, pieces of crystal, and mind flayer skulls.
The crystal golem doesn’t attack unless Urlon orders it to do so, or if the characters attack it or Urlon first. Urlon does not attack the characters unless
way of the gate in area 11 while the crystal golem covers his escape. Treasure Urlon carries a Stardock rod (see “Stardock Rods”), a set of mason’s tools, and a green crystal wand (his arcane focus
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
fills the interior of each cell. The doors to the cells, which stand outside the range of the antimagic fields, are magically locked. Any creature that carries a Stardock rod (see “Stardock Rods”) can
flayers, Ezria tells them that a mind flayer colony has formed in Seadeeps (level 17), and the githyanki are waging war against them. He will gladly accompany the characters if their intention is to wipe
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
information and lore for the mind flayers that protect and nourish them. An Elder Brain’s Lair The lair of an elder brain lies deep in the heart of a mind flayer colony. The brain dwells in a dimly
Elder Brain The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination, an elder brain sprawls within a vat of viscous brine, cared for by mind flayer minions as it touches the thoughts of creatures near and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
E6: Passenger Car A mind flayer in a beige coat kneels beside a body in the aisle of this passenger car. Three curious onlookers—a cambion, a drow, and bronze dwarf with flames for hair—poke their
heads out of nearby cabins. “No one move a muscle!” warns the mind flayer. “This whole car just became a crime scene.”
This car contains three cozy passenger cabins and two privies (one at each end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
arrival. Wade Acuff The gates of Illithinoch are slimy and foreboding X2: Reception Hall An enormous statue at the east end of this long room depicts a massive mind flayer with its arms outstretched
holding an assortment of bottles, and an enormous walk-in closet containing dozens of long, elegant robes.
Hashutu is the most self-indulgent of the mind flayer fanatics. He keeps dozens of bottles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Daask. The sinister cultist could be a priest of the Mockery—or a mind flayer serving the Daelkyr. Make every story your own! The Hook 1d8 Plot Hook
1 One of the PCs is nearly crushed when a
an important part of that.
The Final Scene Is In… 1d8 Finale Location
1 An invisible floating fortress above Sharn.
2 The heart of Khyber’s Gate in the Cogs.
3 The Bridge in
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stored in a decorative box whose empty spaces indicate the number of pieces missing. Hoard Linking Items d10 Linking Items
1 The broken pieces of an artifact (such as the Rod of Seven Parts
depicting different kinds of dragons
5 Portraits of the members of a well-known historical family
6 Ornate nesting dolls that feature a large gemstone egg at the heart of the set
7
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
an elder brain always lies deep in the heart of a mind flayer colony. The creature dwells in a dimly glowing brine pool, filled with foul and brackish water infused with the elder brain’s vital fluids
Flayers Three members of the horrific illithid family appear here, joining the regular mind flayer in the Monster Manual.
Alhoon Mind flayers that pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them
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defending him when the Six operatives arrive — as they do only moments later. See “Operatives of the Six” below for more information on the fight with the mind flayer Szorrulax and its minions. Right
Operatives of the Six Szorrulax is the mind flayer the characters might have previously seen in the portal network. It has the iconic secretarian feature (see “Iconic Faction Features” in appendix B
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
construct broke off and was embedded in the ground. Over time, this fragment became buried deep in the earth. Today, it lies under a campground in the heart of town (area T2). Fire giants loyal to Duke
Zalto have been using rods of the Vonindod (see appendix B) to locate fragments of the construct. One such rod has led a mated pair of fire giants named Okssort and Ildmane to Triboar. Their entourage
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
deceive since childhood. You’ve been involved in dozens of schemes and feuds, and you’re likely still tied up in a few of them (consult the Zil Schemes table). Even if you have a good heart and noble
daily life in Zilargo, used both for entertainment and for trickery. The Thurimbar rod is a common magic item that amplifies this natural gift for purposes of creating music. The power to speak with small