Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'souls of instead beauty'.
Other Suggestions:
soul of instead beast
soul of instead beasts
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Hit Points until the start of the scion’s next turn.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the scion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The scion has Advantage
), using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. The scion can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Some wicked mortals have bound their souls to Bane, Bhaal, and
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
instead.
Magic Resistance. Zlan has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Next of the Seven (6/Year). If Zlan dies within 100 miles of a piece of chardalyn at least 4
darkness
Fetchigrol
Abused authority as a spiritual leader to trade souls for power
First Grandfather Wu
Unleashed a magical contagion that killed a world of billions
Solmé of Gharr
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place
teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.Vampire Arcanist of the Nine Hells
While mortal wizards tend to hesitate before bartering their souls to devils for magical power, vampire wizards
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Lampads guard the shadowed paths of the world, depths typically trod by souls destined for the Underworld. These rarely seen nymphs assist Athreos in guiding the dead, moving among the spirits that
collect along the Tartyx River and reclaiming wayward souls that try to slip back to the mortal world. This means lampads are most often spotted in graveyards, crumbling crypts, and tunnels that bore
Light Domain
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
shadow and see through every deception. Some are deities of beauty and artistry, who teach that art is a vehicle for the soul’s improvement. Clerics of a god of light are enlightened souls infused
Gods of light — including Helm, Lathander, Pholtus, Branchala, the Silver Flame, Belenus, Apollo, and Re-Horakhty — promote the ideals of rebirth and renewal, truth, vigilance, and beauty
classes
Player’s Handbook
Bring Light to Banish Darkness
The Light Domain emphasizes the divine power to bring about blazing fire and revelation. Clerics who wield this power are enlightened souls infused with radiance and
the power of their deities’ discerning vision, charged with chasing away lies and burning away darkness.
The Light Domain is associated with gods of truth, vigilance, beauty, insight, and
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
against what I hold dear.”
Ideal. “Truth begets art and beauty, while deceit does nothing but tear the fabric of our souls.”
Bond. “Evildoers beware! Valor’s Call is
and beauty, and that those who embrace deceit should be censured and punished. Light is her domain.
Alignment. Lawful good.
Personality Trait. “No one dies on my watch—unless they stand
classes
Easily Create and Destroy Matter as a Master Artisan and Arcanist
Some Wizards abandon the limitations set by magic schools and instead focus on the binding force that holds everything together
and creations to be a form of magic all its own.
Some arcanists focus on altering the living, whereas Materializers focus on creating and enhancing the inanimate. These mages see beauty in the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the false lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The false lich has advantage on saving throws against spells and magical
corpse’s eye sockets; the gems allow the false lich to trap creatures’ souls and transfer the souls to its creator.
A false lich often gradually gains a sense of self-identity. While many
monsters
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the angel fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The angel has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
.
Each angel of slaughter dwells in a fortress in the Shadowfell. In return for its services, an angel of slaughter is gifted some of the souls and corpses that it harvests during its catastrophic
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
perfectly formed spiral horn elicit awe from even the most hardened souls. As powerful and striking as she is in her true form, she’s just as wicked in her alternative state. With necrotic energy
twisting and dancing at the tip of her black horn, this corrupted avatar of Lurue is instead a nightmare come to life.
While tainted by the influence of Malar, the avatar of Lurue carries out the Beast Lord’s will: to slaughter anything that dares to cross its path.Poison
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
no effect on the sentinel and instead targets the caster.Multiattack. The sentinel makes two ram attacks.
Ram. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Ram
vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its
Demilich (Variant)
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Avoidance. If the demilich is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half
damage if it fails.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the demilich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Turn Immunity. The demilich is immune to effects that turn undead.Howl (Recharge
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Hulgaz fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Hulgaz has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Nine Hells. The self-styled Tempter corrupts mortals’ souls by offering them tantalizing but ruinous boons. To do so, she directs her entourage of loyal succubi and incubi to the Material Plane
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
instead regains a number of hit points equal to the radiant damage dealt.Multiattack. The breath drinker makes two Enervating Claw attacks. It can also use Drink Breath.
Enervating Claw. Melee Weapon
multiverse from the Far Realm. They drift through reality like living voids, remaining unseen while searching for souls to consume. When they strike, breath drinkers consume a victim’s personality
classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.
These druids
believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn’t the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
limbs, with the effect of such loss determined by the GM. If the creature has no limb to sever, you lop off a portion of its body instead.
In addition, you can speak the sword’s command word to
understand Common, Draconic, Elvish, and Sylvan. In addition, the sword can ascertain the true value of any gemstone brought within 5 feet of it.
Personality. Tearulai admires great beauty, music
Gallows Speaker
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
speakers arise from places of mass death or sites where creatures regularly meet their doom. Over time, pain-wracked phantoms and lingering souls combine into an entity that knows death in myriad forms
suffering, foreseeing dooms leveled against them and overwhelming their foes with visions of innumerable violent deaths.
Gallows speakers rarely speak coherently or communicate with the living, instead
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
resurrection or wish spell.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If Skall fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If Skall dies, he turns to dust. If his orrery of souls hasn’t
Doors. The Heralds of Dust idolize their ageless factol, whose stoic visage has become the faction’s emblem. Skall can usually be found examining his orrery of souls (detailed in Adventure Atlas
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
success, Wersten drops to 1 hit point instead.
Unusual Nature. Wersten doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. Wersten makes three Banner Pike attacks and uses Terrifying
recites names of souls slain by Lord Soth;Soth and his company, channeling their mortal terror. Each creature that isn’t an Undead within 30 feet of her must make a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw. On a
Inquisitor of the Mind Fire
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
.” With those words, the psychically gifted priest Ulmed founded the Ulmist Inquisition, an order of psionic inquisitors that seeks to discover the wickedness hiding in people’s souls.
In the
osybus;priests of Osybus. When Strahd fell into darkness, Ulmed was heartbroken at his friend’s transformation and changed the inquisition’s mission. Instead of focusing on hunting monsters
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
of Moradin and his false promises. Their period of enslavement and the revolt against the mind flayers led by their god, Laduguer, purged the influence of the other dwarven gods from their souls and
thus made them into the superior race.
Duergar have no appreciation for beauty, that ability having been erased from their minds by the mind flayers long ago and any thought of recapturing it
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
pitiable souls who managed to escape from the Underworld only to find themselves stripped of the passions that motivated their flight. Lacking purpose and shunned by the living, these Returned typically seek
long-term memories, they generally can’t build meaningful relationships or establish new lives. Instead, most experience fleeting emotions and follow hollow routines, their existences reduced to
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the archaic fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The archaic doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The
tangle, the answer they seek is revealed.
In truth, archaics are the reincarnated souls of the oracles of Strixhaven. When an oracle dies, their soul travels back through time to the explosion of magic
classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.
These druids
believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn’t the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, hairless warriors stands 15 to 21 feet tall and possesses a lust for magic, an inherited memory (composed of recollections from the souls sacrificed in their creation), and an insane hatred for
they acquire, instead choosing to protect and venerate such items. Tappers spend their long lives in the search for the source of all magic, which they believe to be hidden deep in the Underdark. They
Inquisitor of the Sword
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
founded the Ulmist Inquisition, an order of psionic inquisitors that seeks to discover the wickedness hiding in people’s souls.
In the days before Count Strahd von Zarovich became the first
, Ulmed was heartbroken at his friend’s transformation and changed the inquisition’s mission. Instead of focusing on hunting monsters, it would also hunt the seeds of evil that can corrupt a
Inquisitor of the Tome
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
against the attack. If this causes the attack to miss, the attacker is hit by the attack instead.“Evil lurks everywhere. With our minds, we will unearth it, we will plumb its depths, and we will
;s souls.
In the days before Count Strahd von Zarovich became the first vampire, Strahd thundered across the lands with Ulmed. Their mission was clear: to destroy the infernal powers that had
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede Zariel’s darkvision.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zariel fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic
gruesome demon-slaying machines.
To replenish her legions, Zariel needs the souls of mortals to create lemure;lemures, which she can then promote to higher forms of devils. She is keenly interested in
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
like those of other liches.
Unlike a true lich;lich's phylactery, the periapt of mind trapping doesn’t restore the alhoons to undeath if they are destroyed. Instead, a destroyed alhoon’s
Lizardfolk
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
; Instead, aggressive, stronger creatures register to the lizardfolk as fearsome beings to be avoided if possible. If such creatures attack, lizardfolk flee, fighting only if cornered. Lizardfolk aren
’t scared of a troll; instead, they understand that a troll is a fearsome, dangerous creature and react accordingly.
Lizardfolk never become angry in the way others do, but they act with
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Auril has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. Auril doesn’t require air, food, drink, or
;Divine Rank” sidebar in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.) Auril’s beloved ice grasps all things in her clutches, preserving them against the ravages of time. She hoards beauty in
monsters
fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, Saidra has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rollsMultiattack. Saidra makes three Necrotic Burst
’t one of the living. Nevertheless, servants and sycophants flatter her poise, beauty, and array of lavish masquerade costumes. When not hosting decadent social events, Saidra removes her mask and
monsters
.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Domain). If Lord Soth fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Lord Soth has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other
elven beauty that once captivated him lies ruined, the land burns with the flames of Krynn’s Cataclysm, and the realm’s shadows remind Soth of his past failures. Worse, no worthy foes exist
Aasimar
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Dragons
Aasimar bear within their souls the light of the heavens. They are descended from humans with a touch of the power of Mount Celestia, the divine realm of many lawful good deities. Aasimar are
;provides guidance to the aasimar, though this connection functions only in dreams. As such, the guidance is not a direct command or a simple spoken word. Instead, the aasimar receives visions, prophecies