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Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
see.Jijibisha Manivarshi, a vicious soul from the land’s past, lurks in the nearby forest. Long ago she made a deal with wicked otherworldly forces that gave her longevity and fiendish powers, a
bargain that ultimately resulted in the ruin of Manivarsha.
Despite her fiendish powers, she looks like an ancient, withered human.Acid, PoisonCold, Fire, Lightning; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
, the dragon has resistance to damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the dragon can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Lurkers in Shadow. Jermlaine are invisible to darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The jermlaine has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Vermin Friend. The jermlaine can
odds are in their favor, they strike with a vicious determination that can overwhelm even a heavily armed drow patrol or duergar war party.
Hateful Ambushers. Jermlaine hate and resent all larger
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
unleashed its mightiest creations: the warforged colossi. These enormous mechanical warriors thundered across Cyre, crushing everything in their paths and leaving ruin behind them. Meant to end the 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
Relentless Slasher
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
silence then vanishes into shadow and infamy. Fixated on a specific individual or type of victim, it pursues its target with single-minded obsession.
Relentless killers are hateful, revenge-obsessed
creatures that enter into pacts with fiends or other nefarious entities. Their bargains transform them into vicious butchers that exist only to indulge their endless bloodlust. While some who become
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, where they serve the vicious will of Tymaret the Murder King (see chapter 3).
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they
relationships or establish new lives. Instead, most experience fleeting emotions and follow hollow routines, their existences reduced to shadow plays without weight or substance.
Returned Masks. Adventurers
Dhampir
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, dhampirs retain their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers. Their ties to the undead grant dhampirs a taste of a vampire
to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft):
Barovia. In the shadow of Castle Ravenloft, tales flourish of those who love or descend from vampires
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
and ruin. But for the last few generations, some bands among the tribes were tempted to settle, make peace, trade, and even to build towns. Perhaps this is why Uthgar chose to raise up the totems
’s Handbook can be used for a character whose origin lies with one of the other barbarian tribes in Faerûn. You might be a fair-haired barbarian of the Reghed, dwelling in the shadow of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Desperate Allies and Rivals The Darkon Allies table describes characters and groups who strive to save the domain, while the Darkon Rivals table notes those who scheme to ruin it. Darkon Allies d6
Ally
1 Irik Zal’honen, the mournful spirit of Azalin’s son
2 The Order of the Guardians, ascetics who isolate dangerous magic and prevent supernatural ruin
3 Cardinna Artazas of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. Since then, hordes of these more martial-minded goblins have flourished, with some finding their ways to Material Plane worlds. These vicious invaders seek to sow ruin in preparation for their god’s conquest. Bree-yark!
—Approximate translation from Goblin to Common: “Hey, rube!”
goblin Warrior prepare to strike against a bitter foe Goblins are Feywild embodiments of recklessness and ruin. They delight in wreckage—the louder, the more energetic, and the more convoluted, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Vampiric Touch Level 3 Necromancy (Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand
-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 3. IGOR GRECHANYI A gnome Bard casts Vicious Mockery to skewer a kobold with magical insults
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
contributes to their mutual loathing. Cruel Intentions. Borca’s most influential families are vicious rivals bound by blood, politics, and business. Their rivalries unfold in an endless shadow war of lies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Shadowfell The Shadowfell, also called the Plane of Shadow, is a gloomy dimension whose sky is a black vault with neither sun nor stars. The Shadowfell overlaps the Material Plane in much the same
left, but distorted and often sinister. A mountain on the Material Plane might be replaced in the Shadowfell by a skull-shaped rock outcropping, a heap of rubble, or the crumbling ruin of a once
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
3rd-level Characters
The characters visit the village of Vogler and protect its people from invasion.
Chapter 4: Shadow of War For 4th- to 5th-level Characters
Allying with the forces of Kalaman
search of a magical ruin.
Chapter 6: City of Lost Names For 8th- to 9th-level Characters
Dragon Army commanders seek to reawaken the City of Lost Names as a flying war machine. The characters must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
, and the constant drone of the Draakhorn has forced the local animals to flee or turned them vicious. A handful of villages in the area are bloodstained ghost towns, and every farmstead is a charred ruin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
, and the constant drone of the Draakhorn has forced the local animals to flee or turned them vicious. A handful of villages in the area are bloodstained ghost towns, and every farmstead is a charred ruin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of “anything that someone else could exploit to bring you to ruin or cause you to act against your best interests.” For a hero in Theros, a tragic flaw is something that the gods themselves might
flaw can also be supernatural in nature. A hermit who harbors “dark, bloodthirsty thoughts that my isolation and meditation failed to quell” might have a sinister connection to the vicious god Mogis
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her song
highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the entertainer background. Third, choose the dancing lights and vicious mockery cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells: charm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
himself, and the feeling made him too big by half.
— Paul S. Kemp, The Godborn
The Shadowfell, also called the Plane of Shadow, is a dimension of black, gray, and white where most other color has
a skull, a heap of rubble, or perhaps the crumbling ruin of a once-great castle. A forest on the Shadowfell is dark and twisted, its branches reaching out to snare travelers’ cloaks, and its roots
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Jijibisha’s Vengeance Jijibisha Manivarshi, a vicious soul from the land’s past, lurks in the nearby forest. Long ago she made a deal with wicked otherworldly forces that gave her longevity and
fiendish powers, a bargain that ultimately resulted in the ruin of Manivarsha. She is behind Amanisha’s capture and is loath to let her prisoner escape. Before the party can complete their conversation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
2 Quandrix Pledgemage Humanoid 4 Quandrix Professor of Substance Humanoid 7 Quandrix Professor of Theory Humanoid 7 Relic Sloth Beast 2 Ruin Grinder Construct 5 Shadrix Silverquill Dragon 22
Silverquill Apprentice Humanoid 2 Silverquill Pledgemage Humanoid 4 Silverquill Professor of Radiance Humanoid 7 Silverquill Professor of Shadow Humanoid 7 Spirit Statue Mascot Construct 1/4 Strixhaven Campus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, though, and many allow themselves to be underestimated as a ploy to bring ruin upon their foes. The Mogis’s Villains table suggests a variety of foes that might arise from among the god’s followers
associated with vicious monsters bent on wholesale destruction. He isn’t at all concerned with subtlety, but rather with creating mayhem. Adventures that bring characters into conflict with agents of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Oddlewin’s actions, but they remain connected to his feet. Oddlewin’s Deck of Many Things is a nine-card set containing the Comet, Fates, Fool, Key, Knight, Rogue, Ruin, Sage, and Throne cards. He stole
’ magical effects don’t activate. Price Oddlewin will read any character’s fortune if the character agrees to lend him their shadow. He tells the character their shadow will return to them when the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
16. Papazotl’s Shrine Crocodiles wallow in this muddy lake bed, from which rises a walled ruin. Two columns flank the entrance, carved with images of a long-legged bird with a needle-like beak. At
Leaves with night
Hides in darkness
Does not bite
Always joined to its caster
Never strays from its master
The answer to the riddle (“a shadow”) is a clue to finding the secret chamber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
ruin are depicted on map 2.7 and detailed here: Outer Bailey and Gallery. The castle’s entry, called the Maw by Azalin’s servants, remains partially intact. Undead from the surrounding wilds lurk here
. Despite his tragic fate, he forgives his father—but he doesn’t want Azalin to harm anyone else. He can’t leave the crypt and knows little of Azalin’s plots. Lair of Ebbasheyth. The Shadow Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Second Trollwars, and finally a series of vicious drow raids. By the year 942 DR, human settlements in the Dessarin Valley had been all but wiped out, and the Knights of the Silver Horn were no more
. Their strongholds crumbled into ruin and became known in later years as the Haunted Keeps. Eventually, no one remembered who built them or why. The current wave of settlement in and around the Dessarin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
villages, concealed by the lamia’s magic as they attack. A lamia has a beautiful humanoid upper body that merges into a powerful four-legged leonine form. Its vicious black claws speak to its
their lairs, masking decay with illusion. A lair’s breathtaking gardens, finely decorated apartments, and numerous thralls seem at odds with its remoteness and state of ruin.
Using its intoxicating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
vicious villains or terrifying monsters. But in Valachan, the land is the greatest threat, and the domain’s murderous Darklord hones that threat like a weapon. The Trial of Hearts anchors the terror
.
5 The lizardfolk of the lakes surrounding the Anquara Plateau discover a submerged ruin and unleash an aboleth that now holds them in thrall.
6 Beast-shaped treants animate and lay siege
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
known as the Weeping Paths that the characters will have to traverse. If the characters ask anyone in the camp about what dangers they might face, the soldiers speak of Undead and of vicious vegetation
agree, in the course of their discussions a soldier relates recent gossip about a scouting troop that returned from a ruin called Sorrow’s Zenith and described strange vegetation that “breathed with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Random Encounters Use the Ruin Encounters table for characters traveling the slopes of the hill or its surroundings. Ruin Encounters 1d12 Encounter 1 Animals—such as a brown bear, giant owl, or
pack of 2d6 wolves—attack, made vicious by the effect of Baphomet’s temple deep under the hill. 2 2d4 minotaur archaeologists (their stat block appears in this chapter) explore the hill, looking for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
they can marshal overwhelming numbers. When the odds are in their favor, they strike with a vicious determination that can overwhelm even a heavily armed drow patrol or duergar war party. Hateful
7(−2)
Skills Stealth +5
Senses darkvision 30 ft., blindsight, passive Perception 10
Languages Undercommon
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Lurkers in Shadow. Jermlaine are invisible to darkvision
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.
Feral. Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 2. This trait replaces
the Ability Score Increase trait.
Devil’s Tongue. You know the vicious mockery cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the charm person spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait. When
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
claims to know a path to religious enlightenment. Those who fail to prove their devotion to his teachings turn up petrified.
3 The sea boils around an ancient, submerged ruin called the Drowned Altar
, and the shadow-bereft soon sicken and die. A local leader claims that the strange plague’s cure lies among the hidden isles known as the Ashram of Niranjan (detailed in “Other Domains of Dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
above it. Drowned Altar The sea boils around an ancient, submerged ruin called the Drowned Altar. With Kalakeri’s upheaval, no one has performed the rites to placate what dwells in the deep. Forest of the
The shadows of people of Meenakara are disappearing, and the shadow-bereft soon sicken and die. Meenakara’s people believe the cure lies in the Ashram of Niranjan. Neelakurinji Bandits overtook the