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then passing through the shadow of That-Which-Endures changed them forever. Now the newest race to call Faerûn home, the verdan do their best to find their way in an unfamiliar world
The verdan owe their existence to chaos. Descended and transformed from a large clan of goblins and hobgoblins, those who became the verdan were simply living their lives, doing goblinoid things. But
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
against others through extortion and threats.
Many other bards hate the College of Whispers, viewing it as a parasite that uses a bard’s reputation to acquire wealth and power. For this reason
other settings of power.
College of Whispers Features
Bard Level
Feature
3rd
Psychic Blades, Words of Terror
6th
Mantle of Whispers
14th
Shadow Lore
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against others through extortion and threats.
Many other bards hate the College of Whispers, viewing it as a parasite that uses a bard’s reputation to acquire wealth and power. For this reason
other settings of power.
College of Whispers Features
Bard Level
Feature
3rd
Psychic Blades, Words of Terror
6th
Mantle of Whispers
14th
Shadow Lore
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
; (Colossus WX-12) squats in the Crawling Swamp, in the northwest corner of the Shadow Marches. How it got there, no one knows.
Hollow Structure. Although it can operate without a crew, a warforged colossus
is built to carry wizards, artificers, magewrights, and elite troops. For this reason, these constructs are largely hollow on the inside, with tunnels, ladders, storage areas, and observation decks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
goblinoid things. But then passing through the shadow of That-Which-Endures changed them forever. Now the newest race to call Faerûn home, the verdan do their best to find their way in an unfamiliar world
New Race: Verdan The verdan owe their existence to chaos. Descended and transformed from a large clan of goblins and hobgoblins, those who became the verdan were simply living their lives, doing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, consider what circumstances brought you into the wider world. The Leaving the Shadow Marches table offers some inspiration. Leaving the Shadow Marches d8 Reason for Leaving 1 You’re associated with
Orcs of the Shadow Marches The orc Gatekeepers played a crucial role in defeating the daelkyr and binding their evil in Khyber, and their descendants continue to maintain the ancient seals and fight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Stalked by a Shadow When Piyarz seized the Tower of the Heavens in his coup, he interrogated Shalfey’s scribes to discern where the elder sage sent his tower hands. Eventually the ruthless sage
discovered the reason for the expedition: recovering a fallen star to acquire new Books of Prophecy. Piyarz then killed the scribes, leaving no allies of Shalfey alive in the tower.
Coveting the power
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of the Shadow.
The Dark Six inspire worship in different ways among diverse cultures. Temples to the Dark Six appear in Droaam, along with wild revels driven by the Fury. The Dark Six aren’t
warriors and assassins. He was once the brother of Dol Dorn and Dol Arrah, but he was stripped of his skin and his name after betraying them. The Shadow is the dark side of knowledge and ambition. It’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
these pockets of terror deep within the Plane of Shadow. The Dark Powers watch and influence events within their dominion. When their gaze drifts, they reach into other planes to collect heroes and
villains to add to their terrifying menagerie. To what end, no one knows. The Dark Powers don’t move in the shadows of Ravenloft; they are the shadows. They’re the Mists and the darkness. They’re the reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
mysterious and terrifying figure known far and wide as “the Dark Lady.” Locals warn everyone to stay well away from the ruins. The truth of the tale is that the “Dark Lady” is a female adult black shadow
. Reason to Visit. A side trek in chapter 6 takes place at Rundreth Manor, and the characters have a chance to confront the Dark Lady and perhaps find common cause against the cults.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Jagged Coast Stark vistas of sheer cliffs, mysterious islands, and knotted forests bleed from one to the next along the Jagged Coast. The shadow of Castle Avernus once loomed over the southern part
of the region, enforcing grim peace on the small communities there. In the north, the thriving city of Martira Bay prides itself on its inhabitants’ wealth and reason. Since Azalin’s disappearance, the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Those who don’t impress him don’t survive long. He encourages rivalries among his students and drives them to push the boundaries of magical possibilities. His goading results in magical wonders, failed
wizard. His favorite—or least disappointing—apprentices include the masked wizard Yhal the Skygazer, shadow-cloaked Ruzelo, and the daring genius Eleni. Inside the Experiment. Hazlik realizes that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
daughter is restored as a potent Returned who now terrorizes the polis.
4 A wealthy noble drives tenants out of a poor part of a polis so he can build a temple to Erebos.
5 The queen of a remote
Shadow MM
2 Two-headed cerberus MOoT
3 Lampad MOoT
3 Nightmare MM
5 Night hag* MM
9 Abhorrent Overlord MOoT
11 Doomwake giant MOoT
11 Nightmare shepherd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
this reason, members of this college rarely reveal their true nature. They typically claim to follow some other college, or they keep their actual calling secret in order to infiltrate and exploit royal
Whispers Features Bard Level Feature 3rd Psychic Blades, Words of Terror 6th Mantle of Whispers 14th Shadow Lore Psychic Blades When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
shadow of evil lies within everyone, waiting for a moment when it can gain a foothold on their souls. Thus its paladins, monks, and clerics spend long hours deep in prayer to keep their inner eye
sentient beings must come to the light of reason and goodness of their own volition. That is why it is not interested in controlling minds: it focuses only on deeds, setting an example to the world in hopes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
horrors — a variety of things that lurk in the dark and embody the deepest fears of Ravnica’s people. All are evil creatures with dim reason and preternatural cunning. At least three guilds have been
territory. House Dimir uses all three base kinds of horrors. The Cult of Rakdos prefers shadow horrors, and the Golgari Swarm uses skittering horrors. Flying Horror
Medium aberration, neutral evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
related to each. Either one could be positive or negative: you might work hard to overcome a low score, for example, or be cocky about your high score. Ideals Describe one ideal that drives your
your core belief system. Ideals might answer any of these questions: What are the principles that you will never betray? What would prompt you to make sacrifices? What drives you to act and guides
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
the call, the spirit is granted undeath so that it can pursue its own malevolent agenda. Wights possess the memories and drives of their formerly living selves. They will heed the call of whatever dark
in all living things. When a wight attacks, this life essence glows like white-hot embers to its dark eyes, and the wight’s cold touch can drain the spark through flesh, clothing, and armor. Shadow of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
drives, the Prince of Demons inspires fear and hatred among other demons and demon lords. Demogorgon towers three times the height of a human, his body as sinuous as a snake’s and as powerful as a
matriarch when she manifests to her followers in the mortal realm, which she does with unusual frequency. When battle breaks out — or if she has a reason to remind her followers to fear her — Lolth’s lower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
accepted and in secret wilderness and underground hideaways where it isn’t. Its followers seek “knowledge and conversation with the shadow,” believing true wisdom is found in darkness and loss, both
literally and spiritually. Its adherents most often follow the Way of Shadow, as described in the Monastic Tradition class feature in the Player’s Handbook. The Hin Fist A halfling monastic order from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Meazel In places where the Shadowfell washes against the shores of the Material Plane dwell meazels, hateful hermits who left behind their old lives to contemplate their misery in shadow. Now evil
, Stealth +5
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Ismark (LG male human veteran) is a young man who sits by himself at a corner table, sipping his wine. Other villagers call him “Ismark the Lesser” because he has lived in the shadow of his father for
knows that, for some unknown reason, Strahd is attracted to Ireena and desires her above all others. If you used the “Plea for Help” adventure hook and the characters show Ismark the letter they received
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
giant shadow lurches across the ceiling as a dark figure shuffles purposefully down the corridor toward you. The figure approaching is Cyrus Belview, a mongrelfolk (see appendix D) and Strahd’s
to himself from time to time for no clear reason. He also likes to tell poor jokes at the most inopportune moments. Stairs at the east end of the north wall lead up to area K23. Along the east wall is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
himself the ruler of the pantheon, they reason, but his dictates can’t alter the rhythms of the sea and the cycles of nature. Thassa and Nylea will continue as they are, as they always have been
shadow. He views the god of the dead as a pathetic liar and coward who wallows in self-pity in his exile. Heliod is also plagued by a nagging suspicion that the true ruler of the pantheon is Kruphix, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Zyrian at once, he fights back and begins to speak, saying, “You shall not free her! I will protect the free peoples of the world against the Princess of the Shadow Glass until the end of time!” If the
story of the Princess of the Shadow Glass that the characters haven’t sussed out. He then relates how, shortly before the fall of Phalorm, the Princess of the Shadow Glass attempted to subvert and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. You could build an entire campaign in the shadow of such a conflict, which is basically taking the ideas described under “Clash of Titans” earlier in this chapter and extending them through many
thousand years for good reason: neither giants nor dragons were ever particularly numerous, and actual skirmishes between giants and dragons were rare. For this reason, you could run a campaign where battles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, like those of the Daughters of Sora Kell, are shrouded in mystery. As described in Eberron: Rising from the Last War, the reason for Daask’s existence depends on the path you choose for the
investigation drives the characters into conflict with increasingly powerful monsters affiliated with the gang. Levels 11–16. Daask operatives kidnap a prominent figure in Sharn, but the freed “victim” turns out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren’t above spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a
its master lives, a destroyed boneclaw gains a new body in 1d10 hours, with all its hit points. The new body appears within 1 mile of the boneclaw’s master.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Describe one ideal that drives your character. Your ideals are the things that you believe in most strongly, the fundamental moral and ethical principles that compel you to act as you do. Ideals
sacrifices? What drives you to act and guides your goals and ambitions? What is the single most important thing you strive for?
You can choose any ideals you like, but your character’s alignment is a good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Crawling Swamp, in the northwest corner of the Shadow Marches. How it got there, no one knows. Hollow Structure. Although it can operate without a crew, a warforged colossus is built to carry wizards
, artificers, magewrights, and elite troops. For this reason, these constructs are largely hollow on the inside, with tunnels, ladders, storage areas, and observation decks. A colossus might be filled with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
course of centuries). For example, take a prophetic snippet like the one mentioned in the book’s introduction: “If the Bear King is slain by a sorrowful assassin in the Shadow of the Mourning, the
the anniversary of the Mourning, the tallest tree in the domain he claimed (the Crown of his nation) will fall. If that is the characters’ goal, for whatever reason, they might try to bring those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Neverwinter, in the shadow of the fuming volcano known as Mount Hotenow. This map is for the DM’s eyes only, as it indicates the locations of places described later in this adventure. A larger
others little reason to visit the area. Sword Mountains These steep, craggy, snow-capped mountains are home to scattered tribes of orcs as well as other monsters. Icespire Peak is the tallest among
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Precognitive Mage
Rakdos
Rakdos Lampooner
Rakdos Performer
Reckoner
Rubblebelt Stalker
Scorchbringer Guard
Servitor Thrull
Shadow Horror
Sire of Insanity
Skittering Horror
Skyjek Roc
, and other peoples, as some of them rise to greet the morning and others retire after a hard night of work or play. They are the reason she is here: sworn to protect them, she leads a flight of roc
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Locating Doors Traveling to another plane requires locating a door that corresponds to the desired destination. There’s no reason to the doors’ arrangement, but creatures on the staircase longing for
Plane of Water 99–00 Curtain of slime framed by writhing tentacles Puddle of brine within the folds of a giant brain in the Far Realm Irina Nordsol A cadre of marching modrons encounters a section of the Infinite Staircase engulfed by the Iron Shadow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
greater than me; it is greater than us all. It is His mark. He made us. He drives us. He eats what we eat. He kills what we kill. He will come if we eat well. He will come if we kill well. He will
, or been the victim of a terrible betrayal. Whatever the reason, the would-be cultist is left isolated and abandoned, making it vulnerable to Yeenoghu’s teachings. The creature’s thoughts and dreams