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Elf

Species Player’s Handbook

to rest. In that state, they remain aware of their surroundings while immersing themselves in memories and meditations. An environment subtly transforms elves after they inhabit it for a millennium or

more, and it grants them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been

Magic Jar

Spells Player’s Handbook

Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s Material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your

take a Magic action to return from the host body to the container if it is within 100 feet of you, returning the host creature’s soul to its body. If the host body dies while you’re in it

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

and become entombed in a state of suspended animation in an extradimensional sphere. Everything you’re wearing and carrying disappears with you except for Artifacts, which stay behind in the space

guard the place. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is inert, ceases aging, and requires no food, air, or water. A Wish spell can’t return your soul to your body, but the spell reveals the location of the object that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

, and the Verdan emerged. I’m sorry, was that the question? — K’thriss Drow’b Created by Chaos When the power of That-Which-Endures mutated the verdan, their skin was

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

Troglodyte Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

in the shallow depths of the Underdark in a constant state of war against their neighbors and one another. They mark the borders of their territories with cracked bones and skulls, or with

in the Abyss. Laogzed offers the troglodytes nothing in return except aspiration, for it is the dream of his troglodyte worshipers to become as well-fed and wearily content as he seems to be.

Astral Projection Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation; it doesn't need food or air and doesn't age. Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game

enter a new plane or return to the plane you were on when casting this spell, your body and possessions are transported along the silver cord, allowing you to re-enter your body as you enter the new

Blindheim

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

travelers. They typically make a cautious approach to stronger creatures, speaking in halting, croaking Undercommon to offer their services in return for fresh food, metal weapons, and trinkets from

of the surface rouses their anger. Pitiable Slaves. Some Underdark creatures, particularly the drow and kuo-toa, raid blindheim settlements in search of slaves. Although the light from these creatures' eyes is a formidable threat to these raiders, a captured blindheim is a useful living weapon.

Magic Jar Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell's material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your

. While possessing a body, you can use your action to return from the host body to the container if it is within 100 feet of you, returning the host creature's soul to its body. If the host body dies

Shapechange Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

can't use any legendary actions or lair actions of the new form. You assume the hit points and Hit Dice of the new form. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you

or merge into your new form. Equipment that merges has no effect in that state. During this spell's duration, you can use your action to assume a different form following the same restrictions and

Bugbear Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. Cunning Grankhul is the younger one, and in the stories bugbears tell, he gifted them with stealth but in return he sapped their vigor, so that bugbears sleep in his stead while he remains eternally alert

natural state. Thanks to Grankhul, they can use their size and strength to work as stealthy assassins rather than blundering around like ogres. Bullying, murder, and engaging in battle are all holy

Barbarian

classes Basic Rules (2014)

of his drow foe, then turns to drive his armored elbow into the gut of another. These barbarians, different as they might be, are defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and unthinking fury

berserk state where rage takes over, giving them superhuman strength and resilience. A barbarian can draw on this reservoir of fury only a few times without resting, but those few rages are usually

Dungeon State

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

Dungeon State This adventure describes each area as it exists when the characters first arrive in the Doomvault. As they explore, they change the dungeon’s state. Record the state each area is in

when the characters leave. You need to track which rooms have been explored, which monsters have been defeated, which secrets remain undiscovered, what treasure has been taken, and so on. If the characters return to an area, your notes can remind you what is different from the original text.

A Night to Remember

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

for delivering the letter, cautions them to mind the City Watch and the City Guard, and heads back to the Palace of Waterdeep. The drow spies return whence they came. Conversation with Laeral If

the gloom like elves slipping through a forest. Where they came from and where they’re going, you don’t know. The shadowy figures are the three drow gunslingers Fel’rekt Lafeen, Krebbyg Masq’il’yr, and

Special Delivery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

fewer drow in their party, since they have had no opportunity to replace lost members. If his mission in Gauntlgrym was successful, Draac carries an iron flask that he aims to return to Duke Zalto. The

Special Delivery Draac and Taal Xorlarrin, a pair of drow mages, arrive at Ironslag with six drow elite warriors. If the characters encountered these drow previously in Gauntlgrym, there might be

Drow Chase

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

, although she and others from Velkynvelve might reappear when the adventurers return to the Underdark (see chapter 15, “The City of Spiders”). If you want to extend the chase, the drow could pursue the

Drow Chase If the adventurers flee from the drow, use the chase rules in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to play out the pursuit. The drow are on foot. If she gets close enough to do so

26. Spider Queen's Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

26. Spider Queen’s Temple Years of neglect have left this temple in a terrible state. Work has begun to repair the damage. Web Curtain A web curtain separates a 50-foot-high arched narthex to the

north from the temple to the south. The curtain blocks line of sight and catches any ammunition shot into it. If set on fire, it burns away quickly. Temple Nave If Vlonwelv is here, the drow priestess of

Mantol-Derith

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Mantol-Derith Population: Approximately 140 (drow, duergar, humans, and svirfneblin) Government: Informal council comprised of four chief negotiators (one per enclave), recently dissolved Defense

: Private guards Commerce: Rare and exotic goods; see each enclave for information on the goods traded by the duergar, the drow, the svirfneblin, and the Zhentarim Organizations: The drow, duergar

Random Encounters in Sorcere

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

(your choice of race) are on an errand for their drow mage master when they run into the party by accident. If the characters state that they have legitimate business in Sorcere, the slaves answer

Random Encounters in Sorcere Inside Sorcere, the characters might encounter drow wizards as well as their apprentices, familiars, and other magical creatures. If they enter with Quenthel Baenre’s

Reflections of Lolth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Lolth’s offer of mortality in return for destiny, but then they turned against her in a pathetic effort to win back Corellon’s favor. Drow view the elves of the surface world as cowardly children who

defy their parents when they’re not around but cower in the corner when their parents return, terrified of having their bad behavior found out. Reverence for Lolth touches every aspect of drow life

12. Drow Battle

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

house’s wrath. If the characters side with the house that wins, the leader of the victorious drow parleys with them to find out what they expect in return (see below). If the characters end up on the

12. Drow Battle Characters who approach this 50-foot-high cavern for the first time hear the sounds of battle ahead. Demons. In the narrower section between the north and south halves of the cavern

25. Auvryndar Hall

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

25. Auvryndar Hall This hall was once a market where the drow kept and sold slaves. It now serves as House Auvryndar’s main military stronghold in Undermountain. If Vlonwelv Auvryndar is here, the

drow priestess is seated on the throne in the southern alcove (area 25b), listening to tedious reports of the battles waging against House Freth. 25a. Hall of the Dark Seldarine Any character who tries

Capture

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Capture The drow try to capture the escaped prisoners if at all possible, since Ilvara wants the pleasure of teaching them a lesson about disobedience. If the dark elves reduce any characters to 0

, Ilvara is obsessed enough to cast raise dead to restore them to life (assuming the character’s soul is willing to return). Captured characters are disarmed, their hands bound with spider-silk rope, and

The Dark Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

aspect of Kiaransalee that appeals to most drow, because it becomes a necessity in every ambitious drow’s life — usually more than once. The state of undeath is of less concern to them, but those who

unknown, as is Corellon, yet elves called “dark” exist in this world. These are elves whom others believe have betrayed their people, but to the eye, they bear none of the physical hallmarks of drow. I wonder if, with so mutable a race as elves, that state is permanent.

The Demonweb Connection

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

The Demonweb Connection Lolth’s personal realm is a layer of the Abyss known colloquially as the Demonweb Pits. Far from being intimidated by their deity’s connection to the Abyss, the drow revel in

it — sometimes literally. Drow have respect for the power of demons, but they don’t fear them the way most other mortal creatures do. A drow who calls up a demon from the Abyss into the Underdark

Rockblight

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Rockblight When the drow attacked Blingdenstone, Ogrémoch’s Bane retreated to the far corners of the ruined city, waiting for the time to reemerge and seek out earth elementals to corrupt. The

malevolent entity didn’t have to wait long, as the drow sent teams of scavengers to loot the treasures the deep gnomes left behind, bringing their own elemental creatures with them. Map 6.4: Rockblight

7. Pain and Pleasure

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

transformed into a drider and is instructed to flee by way of the southern tunnel and never return, lest they be killed. Drow who pass the test return to this chamber as they were, with Lolth’s

7. Pain and Pleasure T’rissa Auvryndar has converted these temple barracks into torture chambers. The screams of the drow in areas 7d and 7e echo throughout this space. 7a. Entryway This room is

Xanathar Guild

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Xanathar Guild The Xanathar Guild aims to secure this level, plunder it thoroughly, and return valuable items to Skullport to be sold, thus boosting the town’s sagging economy. There are two Xanathar

Guild watch posts on the level, and each one has a leader: a drow named Shunn “Spider Eyes” Shurreth commands the northern watch post at area 9, and a human berserker named Nadia the Unbent leads the

13. Detention Cave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

13. Detention Cave A male drow elite warrior named Xirk Dezpeti’il is chained to one of three sets of manacles that hang from the west wall. The nagas use the manacles to bind creatures that resist

’ routine in exchange for freedom to return to the Underdark. If he is freed, he avoids combat and is not above stealing from his benefactors.

Elf

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

that state, they remain aware of their surroundings while immersing themselves in memories and meditations. An environment subtly transforms elves after they inhabit it for a millennium or more, and

it grants them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some

Elf

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

worlds in the Material Plane. Elves have pointed ears and lack facial and body hair. They live for around 750 years, and they don’t sleep but instead enter a trance when they need to rest. In that state

them certain kinds of magic. Drow, high elves, and wood elves are examples of elves who have been transformed thus. Drow Drow typically dwell in the Underdark and have been shaped by it. Some drow

Enemies Everywhere

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

Enemies Everywhere Elder brains seek stability and safety for their colonies, and a colony can remain in a relatively peaceful state for decades if it can evade discovery while it acquires food. Two

as much of a threat to a colony. Although the mind flayers and their elder brain are incredibly powerful, they aren’t invincible: highly accomplished heroes, drow raiding parties, rampant demons, and

11. Drow Outpost

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

11. Drow Outpost The drow of House Auvryndar established this outpost after discovering the arch gate in area 11c. All told, this area contains a drow priestess of Lolth named Melith Auvryndar, a

female drow mage named Thirza Helviiryn (Melith’s consort), two female drow elite warriors named Balryn and Talafaere, and four male drow named Altonrel, Kalanszar, Rezz, and Tsabalin. 11a. Main Cavern

House Auvryndar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

House Auvryndar House Auvryndar uses Muiral’s Gauntlet as a staging ground for raids into other levels and as a base from which to launch attacks against House Freth, a rival drow house that has a

them cordially at first, offering them food, drink, shelter, and safe passage. In return, she demands that they hunt down and slay Muiral, who has become an unwelcome distraction. Vlonwelv kills them

A Flight of Demons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

catches all of the drow off guard. The drow rush to defend the outpost from a possible attack. The demons initially buzz past the hanging towers, leaving the walkways and caverns out of range of the

effects of their droning and screeching. However, drow and quaggoths in the towers are close enough to be affected. The aerial battle eventually circles around the platform and the towers of the elite

Meeting with Vizeran

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

command words for the levitation effect. Vizeran DeVir Vizeran DeVir is one of the greatest magical talents produced by the drow city of Menzoberranzan. Unfortunately for him, his rise to power came at the

mastery of the magical arts. He has watched from afar as countless events unfolded in the Underdark and across Faerûn, gathering information and making plans for his eventual return. After waiting for

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