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Dungeon Master’s Guide
The contents of this foul manuscript are the meat and drink of the wicked. It contains knowledge so horrid that to even glimpse the scrawled pages invites doom.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna the
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
Magic Items
Legendary Magic Items
Forged by Red Wizards using a secret process known only to them, this grim steel dagger draws its power from the Negative Plane. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using this magic dagger
, the target takes an extra 3d12 necrotic damage.
A creature reduced to 0 hit points by this weapon dies and can’t be raised from the dead except by a deity or by a creature using a tablet of reawakening to cast the true resurrection spell.
Acolyte
Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric—performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power
Commune
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You contact your deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions that can be answered with a yes or no. You must ask your questions before the spell ends. You receive a correct answer for each
rest, there is a cumulative 25 percent chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer. The GM makes this roll in secret.
Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
particular springs and groves (such as Eldath). Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their own secret
Nature Domain
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
particular springs and groves (such as Eldath). Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their own secret
classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
of the elven pantheon. In other worlds, this domain includes Hecate, Math Mathonwy, and Isis; the triple moon gods of Solinari, Lunitari, and Nuitari of Krynn; and Boccob, Vecna, and Wee Jas of
Greyhawk.
Arcana Domain Spells
Cleric Level
Spells
1st
detect magic, magic missile
3rd
magic weapon, Nystul's magic aura
5th
dispel magic, magic circle
7th
arcane eye, Leomund's secret chest
9th
planar binding, teleportation circle
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
of the elven pantheon. In other worlds, this domain includes Hecate, Math Mathonwy, and Isis; the triple moon gods of Solinari, Lunitari, and Nuitari of Krynn; and Boccob, Vecna, and Wee Jas of
Greyhawk.
Arcana Domain Spells
Cleric Level
Spells
3rd
detect magic, magic missile, magic weapon, Nystul's magic aura
5th
dispel magic, magic circle
7th
arcane eye, Leomund's secret chest
9th
planar binding, teleportation circle
Backgrounds
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
lasting impression on you. This deity saw fit to share one secret or obscure bit of cosmic lore with you. Work with your DM to determine the details of this knowledge and its impact on the campaign.
Roll
Initiate feat from the Player’s Handbook and must choose cleric for the feat.
In the Astral Sea, you crossed paths with a wandering deity. The encounter was brief and nonviolent, yet it made a
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric&mdash
;performing sacred rites is not the same thing as channeling divine power.
Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your
Dhampir
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their lineage.
Dhampir Origins
d8
Origin
1
You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a vampiric tyrant.
2
Your pact with a predatory deity, fiend, fey, or spirit causes
. You might have such a connection, but dread what would happen if others in your insular community found out.
Darkon. The Kargat, this shattered domain’s secret police, supposedly know the secret
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.
Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric
spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity’s wishes.
Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes. They can
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
island domain.
Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol — a house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore the Dragonmark of Death — was engaged in secret blood rites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Learning Secrets Every time the characters learn a powerful secret, note it on the Secrets Tracker. Once the characters learn a secret, they can’t learn it again. When one character learns a secret
, it counts as a secret learned for the whole party. Revealing Secrets A character can magically spend a secret like currency, revealing it to the multiverse to gain a momentary boon. To do this, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Sending Vecna Back The Chime of Exile is Alustriel’s property and ultimately can send Vecna back to Oerth, interrupting his ritual. The interruption would dissipate the secret-based magic Vecna is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Reunion in Sigil At the end of chapter 10, the characters learned that Vecna is performing his ritual at a site in Pandesmos called the Cave of Shattered Reflection. At some point after this
potent secrets he has collected. Vecna has already used these secrets to create three demiplanes that are reachable from a small cave network in Pandesmos called Vecna’s Grasp. To reach the Cave of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the affairs of the universe. People gather in public shrines to worship gods of life and wisdom, or meet in hidden places to venerate gods of deception or destruction. Each deity in a pantheon has a
religious rites and festivals. Priests at such sites relate stories of the gods, teach the ethics of their patron deities, offer advice and blessings, perform religious rites, and provide training in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
The Power of Secrets Wade Acuff Cults of Vecna everywhere are conducting rituals to siphon victims’
secrets, which will fuel the lich’s ritual to remake the multiverse Vecna uses stolen secrets to
power his ritual to remake the multiverse. When the characters stumble on the cult of Vecna, whose members are trying to extract secrets from a captive, they gain access to magic fueled by powerful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Citadel (area Y4). Kas’s Secret. Vecna is weaving his Ritual of Remaking deep underground in the Cave of Shattered Reflection. The characters learn this secret when they confront Kas later in this chapter.
Power of Secrets The characters can learn two secrets in this chapter applicable to the Power of Secrets rules found in this book’s introduction: Naxa’s Secret. The drow mage Naxa and her sister came
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Manifested Secret In Vecna’s twisted unreality, Kas is shackled with his legendary sword, but he is forever unable to use it. The Sword of Kas is this unreality’s manifested secret. Kas willingly
lets a character take the Sword of Kas if convinced the characters can destroy Vecna, better yet, if convinced that relinquishing his weapon will enable him to destroy Vecna someday. A character can make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Blue Feather of Habbakuk Within Arekanz’s demiplanar donjon is a blue phoenix feather marked with the symbol of Vecna unreality’s manifested secret. In this unreality, this single feather is all that
remains of Habbakuk, a god on the world of Krynn and one of the many gods Vecna intends to destroy as part of his ritual. Any character with proficiency in the Religion skill recognizes the feather
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
proliferation of secret societies and conspiracies in those lands. If your background is as an agent for one of the main factions of the North and Sword Coast, here are some possibilities.
The Harpers
from many walks of life, setting them to tasks that serve the goals of the Black Network but aren’t necessarily criminal in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
members of Valor’s Call include the dwarf Fighter Elkhorn, the human Cleric Mercion, the human Rogue Molliver, and the human Wizard Ringlerun.
Vecna Vecna (VECK-nah) had humble beginnings in the Greyhawk
setting, where an order of Wizards used him as a bootblack and scribe. He studied magic in secret until he amassed enough power to slaughter the order, and then he turned his efforts toward scribing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
magic to dismantle the unreality. Manifested Secrets Each unreality section notes the unreality’s manifested secret. This is a secret that Vecna made foundational to his plan to reshape the part of the
symbol. Locating the Manifested Secret. An unreality’s manifested secret is an important item integral to the unreality. Whenever a character is in an unreality, the manifested secret’s symbol of Vecna
classes
Player’s Handbook
, Mace, Holy Symbol, Priest's Pack, and 7 GP; or (B) 110 GP
Clerics draw power from the realms of the gods and harness it to work miracles. Blessed by a deity, a pantheon, or another immortal entity
associate themselves with temples dedicated to the deity or other immortal force that unlocked their magic. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on specific training, yet Clerics might learn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
behind him and pulls him through. Visible within the rift is a smoky, red-tinged skyline full of mountains. Kas’s Secret. As Kas is pulled back to Tovag, the characters’ links to Vecna flare. The
links’ magic tears Kas’s last great secret from his mind: Vecna is currently in the Cave of Shattered Reflection. If the characters are on the verge of killing Kas, the vampire tells the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
enemies. A successful DC 20 Intelligence (History) check reveals that this story refers to Kas and Vecna. Mordenkainen’s Secret. If the characters find out at any point in this adventure that
the archmages’ Wish spell. As a consequence, the spell shunts the characters to Alustriel’s sanctum. Suspecting that the characters are somehow linked to Vecna, Kas urges them to retrieve the pieces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
learn about Umberto’s secret role as a historian of Vecna in area C11. The first time the characters learn one of these secrets, they feel a sense that the information they’ve discovered is important
characters encounter in the Neverdeath Catacombs: Indrina’s Secret. A prisoner named Indrina knows that Lord Neverember doesn’t have a legitimate claim to his title. The characters can learn this secret in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Chapter 2 Summary The first part of chapter 2 takes place in a secret sanctum in Sigil, the City of Doors. The second part takes place in the Underdark on Toril. When two powerful spellcasters and an
Mordenkainen (secretly Kas) are baffled by this development, but Mordenkainen pretends to improvise a plan to stop Vecna. He falsely claims that the Rod of Seven Parts, a powerful artifact, might be the only way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
deity or other immortal force that unlocked their magic. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on specific training, yet Clerics might learn prayers and rites that help them draw on power from the Outer
GP; or (B) 110 GP Clerics draw power from the realms of the gods and harness it to work miracles. Blessed by a deity, a pantheon, or another immortal entity, a Cleric can reach out to the divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Secret. Umberto knows that cultists of Vecna are his kidnappers, as he’s one of Neverwinter’s preeminent experts on Vecna’s history. He initially keeps his expertise from the characters lest they
Umberto to impart basic history about Vecna and Kas as described in the introduction. Learning about Umberto’s secret research topic counts as a secret for the purposes of the Power of Secrets rules
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
against the south wall, on which several bodies lie wrapped in funeral shrouds.
The wooden platform is used as a dais for religious rites. The faithful are brought here after death, blessed, and then
Moghadam’s thieves, as well as one of those thieves (a female human). Secret Door Seven small knobs of stone protrude from the south wall at the level of the platform. A character who succeeds on a DC 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
with his queen and report on his ongoing battle of wills to master the Hand of Vecna, which came into his possession during a brief excursion to the world of Exandria. If the characters approach
valuable are permitted to approach his camp. Arkhan believes he can use the Hand of Vecna to unlock the means of freeing Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells, but only if the hand doesn’t kill him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shirt, Shield, Mace, Holy Symbol, Priest’s Pack, and 7 GP; or (B) 110 GP Clerics draw power from the realms of the gods and harness it to work miracles. Blessed by a deity, a pantheon, or another
associate themselves with temples dedicated to the deity or other immortal force that unlocked their magic. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on specific training, yet Clerics might learn prayers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Secret No mortal soul is entirely free of second thoughts or doubt. Even a cleric must grapple with dark desires or the forbidden attraction of turning against the teachings of one’s deity. If you
haven’t considered this aspect of your character yet, see the table entries for some possibilities, or use them for inspiration. Your deep, dark secret might involve something you did (or are doing), or