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Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Become a Gruesome Agent of Malice
A Scion of the Three draws power from a group of malevolent gods known in Baldur’s Gate as the Dead Three: Bane, a god of tyranny; Bhaal, a god of violence
such as the Shadow Thieves of Amn or the Xanathar Guild in Waterdeep might call on a Scion of the Three to undertake an especially violent contract.
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
The Oath of Redemption sets a paladin on a difficult path, one that requires a holy warrior to use violence only as a last resort. Paladins who dedicate themselves to this oath believe that any
. Violence is a weapon of last resort. Diplomacy and understanding are the paths to long-lasting peace.
Innocence. All people begin life in an innocent state, and it is their environment or
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
The Oath of Redemption sets a paladin on a difficult path, one that requires a holy warrior to use violence only as a last resort. Paladins who dedicate themselves to this oath believe that any
. Violence is a weapon of last resort. Diplomacy and understanding are the paths to long-lasting peace.
Innocence. All people begin life in an innocent state, and it is their environment or
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Gloomwrought and asked Naeryx to help him run it. For Urmius, the carnival was a chance to emerge from under his family’s shadow and become the master of his own fate, but it also meant forsaking his
of the two of us, long ago. Perhaps that streak of violence hasn’t quite left me.”NecroticLightningBlessing of the Raven Queen (1/Day). Witch magically teleports, along with any equipment
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
disguise, its visage becoming a symbol of its crimes.
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Penitent. The killer can’t help itself from committing crimes and seeks help to thwart its own continuing violence.
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Ritualist
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned palamnites. These Returned led violent lives, existences filled with such pain and hatred that violence now suffuses their deathless bodies. Such makes them exceptionally dangerous to the
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
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
’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
societies.
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Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
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Don’t expect me to save those who can’t save themselves. It is nature’s way that the strong thrive and the weak perish.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
for my age, and I can’t wait for the day I can retire to my lair to be taken care of by doting fey.
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I look down upon any being who resorts to violence to solve a problem.
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Nonviolence. Violence need never be the answer in a multiverse of infinite possibilities. (Neutral)
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Whimsy. Why waste time on boring, ordinary concerns when the world is filled with fantastic and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
for shadow dragons. Like many other dragons, shadow dragons collect hoards. Their tastes tend to be morbid—collecting coins from ruined empires and their victims’ skulls. Juvenile Shadow Dragon Medium
Shadow Dragons Dragon Corrupted by Darkness Habitat: Planar (Shadowfell), Underdark; Treasure: Any Justin Gerard A shadow dragon lurks among haunted ruins, attended by shadows raised by its life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
precariously by a hinge and the other door missing. Beyond this open gate, in the shadow of a great mountain to the east, lies a ruined settlement. All is quiet.
If the characters announce their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Daask Operations Violence and intimidation are Daask’s most used tools. Rather than using bribery, Daask manipulates the Sharn Watch through displays of force and brutal reprisals against officers
ruined temple to the Dark Six in Khyber’s Gate. Followers of the Dark Six have few other opportunities to practice their faith, and providing this new facility for them has made many allies for Daask across the city.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
scorpion-god and strike terror into their enemies’ hearts. Umbragen Shadow Walker. Umbragen drow are the descendants of drow who fled the giants and found refuge underground. For countless generations, they
have lived in the lightless caverns of Khyber. There, they tapped into a mysterious magical shadow they called the Umbra. Though some have emerged to haunt the surface in the wake of the giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
light. Violence is never the answer, and the only way to defeat evil is to redeem it. Lightbringers seek to inspire those who live in fear and enlighten those whose evil is driven by ignorance. The
faith has followed this path for over a thousand years, but now a splinter sect advocates greater action. These shadow watchers believe that evil must be fought, that sources of darkness that poison
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
waited patiently, plotting her return. Unbeknownst to the other gods, she planted a piece of the kingpriest’s ruined temple at Neraka—hidden in the volcanic Taman Busuk region. There it grew into a
baleful shadow of Istar’s greatest edifice. Though this allowed the Dragon Queen to influence the world through a portal opened there, a fragment of the temple’s foundation stone was missing, preventing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Rundreth Manor Atop a hill overlooking the Long Road less than a day’s travel northeast of Amphail stands ruined Rundreth Manor. This large stone mansion, now roofless and overgrown, is home to a
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
to the castle’s strange magic. The region is ruled by Ebbasheyth, Azalin’s Shadow Dragon ally who maintains a lair in Castle Avernus. Adventures in Lychgate likely relate to the mystery of Azalin’s
disappearance. Roll on or choose a result from the Doom in Lychgate table to inspire adventures in this ruined realm. Doom in Lychgate 1d6 In Lychgate, Adventurers Might Seek … 1 Azalin’s spirit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Oath of Redemption The Oath of Redemption sets a paladin on a difficult path, one that requires a holy warrior to use violence only as a last resort. Paladins who dedicate themselves to this oath
justice. Peace. Violence is a weapon of last resort. Diplomacy and understanding are the paths to long-lasting peace. Innocence. All people begin life in an innocent state, and it is their environment or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
chancellor of the Platinum Concord and founder of the Shadow Cabinet. He owns vast gold and silver mines in the Mror Holds and mints his own currency, and he travels in a gilded airship. Loyal Daison
blatant violence in any form. Aurum NPCs d4 NPC 1 An aging dwarf — a retired general and an Aurum Concordian — collects unusual constructs, hoping to find a way to transfer his mind into a superior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
everyone: The dream is as vivid as anything you remember from your actual life. You feel the sweltering sun beating down as you take shelter in the shadow of a tumbledown tower. In the distance, a vast
army is on the march across mud-churned farm fields. The need to hide from that force overwhelms you, and you quickly retreat inside the tower.
Inside the tower’s half-ruined walls, you discover a
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
-great castle. The forests of the Shadowfell hold sinister-looking trees, their branches reaching out to snare travelers’ cloaks, and their roots coiling to trip those who pass by. Shadow dragons and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, not she, must stand aside. If this leads to violence, the headmaster quells the conflict as quickly as possible and tells Skrianna that she is confined to her quarters. Once she is out of sight of the
headmaster and the characters, she takes her spellbook and returns to her quarters as commanded, but not before ordering her grell valet to shadow the party, spy on their activities, and report back
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
assassins congregate in secret in communities across Theros, engaging in campaigns of violence. The only major festival dedicated to Erebos, called the Katabasion or “the Descent,” features a ceremony
casting a shadow in the sun’s first light. Followers of Erebos say that this tale is self-refuting. Before there ever was a sun, the entire world stood in shadow, and the shadow was Erebos—elder to Heliod
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
pilgrims’ goals. If the characters offer aid or helpful advice, Mercy talks about the pilgrims’ expeditions to ruined colossi. Mercy then tells the characters that the pilgrims have been extracting
’ base in Ialos (see “Ialos” earlier in this chapter). Mercy and the pilgrims happily travel with the characters, though they hide if violence breaks out, emerging only when it’s safe. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
stone in the shape of a fang The Mockery, god of violence and treachery NE War Five blood-spattered tools The Shadow, god of evil magic CE Knowledge Obsidian tower The Traveler, deity of chaos and
Eberron The world of Eberron has many different religions, but the most important revolves around a pantheon called the Sovereign Host and their malign shadow, the Dark Six. The gods of the Sovereign
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
grick alphas 75 1d6 + 2 xorn 76–80 A ruined village that once belonged to deep gnomes. A search has a 50% chance of uncovering 1d3 potions of healing and a 25% chance of finding a random common magic
spawn 90 1d3 cloakers 91 1d4 fire giants 92 1 mind flayer arcanist with 1d6 + 1 mind flayers 93 1d4 dao 94 1d8 + 1 driders 95 1d3 behirs 96 1d4 aboleths 97 1 beholder 98 1 young red shadow dragon 99 1 death tyrant 00 1 purple worm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
stretch of water where the once-notable port district of a minor city had fallen into decay and corruption. Known as the Styes, the district was only a wretched shadow of what it had once been. But
cadre of fishers and sailors, sending them to infiltrate every corner of the ruined district. And to the aboleth’s surprise and unnatural delight, it discovered an active cult of Tharizdun in the Styes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
placid elven empire of Aerenal and leaving further ruined remnants of fallen Dhakaani goblin kingdoms in their wake. During this migration, they founded the settlements that would grow into the Five
9 A warlock from the Shadow Marches, teetering on the edge of sanity while contemplating the daelkyr 10 A Thrane paladin of the Silver Flame who’s looking for something to prove the truth underpinning belief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, waiting for their lord’s commands. Hall of Records. A column of stationary but still deadly magical fire blasts through Avernus’s library. Scattered on ruined islands of rubble are the remains of a
. 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->Shadows of Sithicus
. You are now in another place entirely, standing amid other bewildered figures.
A gloomy, ruined city surrounds you. Abandoned, crumbling buildings loom over smaller structures and tents. From the
cataclysmic breakdown of the domain. This has disturbed ancient spirits, to the detriment of the folk living here. Shadow Spirits. The realm has always been rife with shadowy spirits who wander the land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
numerous heroes among their number. To the east stands Gryphon Manor, the notorious House on Gryphon Hill. The mansion has a history of violence, tragedy, and hauntings and is the home of the domain’s
of coastal noble estates. Many of these great homes are abandoned, including Lumley House and Preston Hill. Candle Cross The hamlet of Candle Cross spills from the remains of a ruined castle, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
gnome nation of Zilargo, and they held the Demon Wastes in name only. Other states were born in violence: the elves of Valenar and the goblins of Darguun seized their realms by force. But Aundair
conflict. Forests and farmlands scorched by fire and magic are still recovering. Ruined cities have yet to be reclaimed, along with shattered villages and abandoned fortresses. These deserted sites now
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
sister Violence to escape. Statues The room’s three statues are life-size carvings of robed human wizards. They are used for testing the spellcasting abilities of pupils. A detect magic spell reveals
an aura of transmutation magic around each one: East Statue. This statue depicts a young Shou woman whose face is half ruined by acid. She clutches an orb in one hand.
South Statue. This statue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
trade, Kalakeri is now locked in an endless storm of violence. At the center of that storm stand the remnants of the Vasavadan: three heirs transformed into unspeakable monsters by their depravity
Sri Raji, the Steaming Lands, the Land at the Heart of the World, and other fanciful names for Kalakeri. Now Kalakeri is a shadow of its past glory, a quagmire of intrigue and despair where fortunes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Individual Quests As described on the character sheets, the characters have their own reasons for visiting Dragon’s Rest. The Cleric The cleric was led here by a recurring dream involving the shadow
Dragon’s Rest seeking rest and new resolve. Runara welcomes the character and encourages them to talk to Tarak and Varnoth, who both know about escaping lives of corruption and violence. She also