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"source": "GHMG",
"author": "Shawn Merwin",
"group": "homebrew",
"id": "GHMG",
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"A",
"B",
"C",
"D",
"E",
{
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"header": "Etharis Companions"
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"F",
"G",
"H",
"I",
"J",
"K",
"L",
"M",
"N",
"O",
"P",
"Q",
"R",
"S",
{
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"header": "Steeds of Etharis"
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"T",
"U",
{
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"header": "Unusual Beasts"
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"V",
"W",
"X",
"Y",
"Z"
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"type": "chapter"
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"header": "Vampiric Existence"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Curing Vampirism"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Ancestries"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Age"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Lairs"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Salvage"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Lore"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Building a Vampire"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Vampire Encounters"
},
"Vampire Statistics",
"Vampire Ancestry",
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Bugbear Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Downcast Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Dragonborn Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Dreamer Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Dwarf Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Elf Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Gnome Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Halfling Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Laneshi Vampire"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Ogresh Vampire"
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"depth": 1,
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Nature and Intelligence"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Reading Stat Blocks"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "What Does a Monster Want?"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Choosing the Battleground"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Thwarting the Party's Path"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Ambush and Surprise"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Movement and Cover"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Opportunity Attacks"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Ready Actions"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Choosing Targets"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Focusing Fire"
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{
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"header": "Dialog"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Dodge and Disengage"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Special Actions: Help, Grapple, Shove"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Area and Recharge Attacks"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Legendary and Lair Actions"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Narrative Advantages"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "A Final Note"
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{
"name": "Magic Items and Salvage",
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"type": "chapter"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "The Power of Salvage"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Overcoming Incredible Odds"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "The Power of Survival in the Narrative"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Keeping Friends Close"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Salvage and Crafting Rules"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Crafting Time"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Necessary Proficiencies or Spells"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Ability Checks"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Alternative Failure System"
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"New Magic Items"
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{
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"header": "Monstrous Heroes"
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{
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"header": "Making Monsters Work"
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"Races",
{
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"header": "Bugbear"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Faevlin"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Gnoll"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Grudgel"
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{
"depth": 1,
"header": "Morbus Kobold"
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"Monsters as PCs Trinket Table"
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{
"name": "Concept Art",
"ordinal": {
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"type": "appendix"
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{
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"Shawn Merwin"
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"entries": [
"Shawn Merwin"
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{
"type": "item",
"name": "Writing:",
"entries": [
"Shawn Merwin"
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{
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"name": "Editing:",
"entries": [
"Rex Gibson, Shawn Merwin"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Proofreaders:",
"entries": [
"Robert M. Everson, Shawn Merwin"
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},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Art Direction:",
"entries": [
"Suzanne Helmigh"
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Graphic Design:",
"entries": [
"Martin Hughes"
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{
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"name": "Interior Illustrators:",
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"Alvaro Nebot, Anastassia Grigorieva, Andreia Ugrai, Anna Verhoog, Ben Ee, Brent Hollowell, Carlos C Diaz, Cristiana Leone, Cynthia F G, Damien Mammoliti, Dan Watson, Diana Franco Campos, Doruk Golcu, Eakphot Naphachot, Elisa Serio, Elizabeth Peiro, Emily Ormerod, Guilherme Motta, Helge C. Balzer, Isabel Gibney, Jordy Wedding, Josiah Cameron, Julia Bax ,Julia Fernandez, Katerina Ladon, Klaher Baklaher, Kurt Jakobi, Leanna Crossan, Linda Lithen, Lucas Torquato, Marco Morales Yanez (Peyeyo), Marius Bota, Matthieu Fouchier, Mattia Rangoni, Olga Drebas, Olivia Rea, Ona Kristensen, Philipp Urlich, Quintin Gleim, Roena I. Rosenberger, Sam Keiser, Stanislav Sherbakov, Suzanne Helmigh, Tijana Jankovi., Torgeir Fjereide, Viviane Souza, Xabi Gazte, Yan.M, Zuzanna Wuzyk"
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"name": "Product Design:",
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"Matt Witbreuk, Simon Sherry, Martin Hughes"
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{
"type": "item",
"name": "Marketing:",
"entries": [
"Hannah Peart, Eduardo Cabrera, Kathryn Griggs"
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{
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"name": "Fulfilment:",
"entries": [
"Matthew Witbreuk, Nick Ingamells, Rosa Man"
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{
"type": "item",
"name": "Discord Community Managers:",
"entries": [
"Lukas \"ToastiChron\" Scheerer, Ian \"Butters\" Gratton, Caleb \"Connendarf\" Engelhardt, Nelson \"Deathven\" DiCarlo, Cameron \"C4Burgers\" Brechin, and Tom \"Viking Walrus\" Garland"
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},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Playtesting:",
"entries": [
"All the amazing people who took the time to playtest and provide feedback."
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Special Thanks:",
"entries": [
"To Wizards of the Coast and all the employees within. Thank you for the fantastic work!"
]
}
]
}
]
},
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"type": "entries",
"name": "Ownership & Copyright",
"page": 2,
"entries": [
"This product is compliant with the Open Game Licence and is suitable for use with the 5th Edition rules system.",
{
"type": "list",
"style": "list-hang",
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{
"type": "item",
"name": "Product Identity:",
"entries": [
"The following items are hereby identified as Product Identity, as defined in the Open Game License version 1.0a, Section 1(e), and are not {@b Open Content}: All trademarks, registered trademarks, proper names (characters, deities, etc.), dialogue, plots, storylines, locations, characters, illustrations, and trade dress. (Elements that have previously been designated as Open Game Content or are in the public domain are not included in this declaration.)"
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},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Open Content:",
"entries": [
"Except for material designated as Product Identity (see above), the game mechanics of this game product are Open Game Content, as defined in the Open Game License version 1.0a Section 1(d). No portion of this work other than the material designated as Open Game Content may be reproduced in any form without written permission."
]
},
{
"type": "item",
"name": "Grim Hollow:",
"entries": [
"The Monster Grimoire © 2021, Ghostfire Gaming Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. Reference to copyright material in no way constitutes a challenge to the respective copyright holder of that material. Ghostfire Gaming, the Ghostfire Gaming logo, Grim Hollow and the Grim Hollow logo are trademarks of Ghostfire Gaming Pty Ltd."
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"{@i Grim Hollow: The Monster Grimoire} is the third installment in the Grim Hollow series of setting books. Two other tomes\u2014{@loader Grim Hollow: The Campaign Guide|book/Ghostfire Gaming; Grim Hollow Campaign Guide.json} and {@loader Grim Hollow: The Players Guide|book/Ghostfire Gaming; Grim Hollow Player's Guide.json}\u2014preceded it. The three books form the complete set of books for gamemasters to run dark fantasy and horror campaigns in the Grim Hollow setting.",
"The Grim Hollow setting takes place in a world known as Etharis, a dark and gritty environment where the vicious, terrible, horrifying monsters that hide in the shadowy alleyways and remote wildernesses are only the start of the peril. As much as the monsters of the world threaten the citizenry, the dark figures that entice those who seek power are just as dangerous. Blood magic, undeath, lycanthropy, fey magic, fell sorcery, and other temptations: would-be heroes are always one wrong step away from becoming the villains they claim to fight."
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"{@i The Monster Grimoire} offers more than 400 new creature stat blocks, allowing GMs to challenge, frighten, and delight their players. From new characters cutting their teeth on relatively weak threats, to the most advanced heroes dealing with world-shattering events, the monsters in this book offer something for everyone.",
"The monsters in this book are drawn from every corner of horror and dark fantasy: gothic intrigue, existential dread, gruesome fairy tales, slasher horror, undead hoards, body horror, killer dolls, and so much more."
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"With so many horrible monsters and threats at your fingertips, there's a good chance that something presented here will bring into your players' minds something that they're uncomfortable with. Before you use these monsters, or run any sort of horror-based campaign, we urge you to discuss with your players their preferences, desires, and limits. Gore, child endangerment, loss of free will, nightmares: all of these and more infest these pages.",
"The previous Grim Hollow books talk about safety tools and methods you can use to ensure that everyone involved in your game is having a good time and avoiding problematic material. We suggest you review those guidelines\u2014or use other safety tool procedures and guidelines\u2014to learn more about running games, especially games steeped in horror and dark fantasy, for any player."
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"Etharis provides a great setting for a grim, gritty campaign. One tool provided in {@i The Monster Grimoire} is salvage rules. These rules encourage a type of play that invites characters to make the most of their knowledge and proficiencies, as well as their downtime, in order to have the best chance of surviving the threats they face. The blood, bones, brains, and bile of the creatures they kill might provide characters with advantages later. Weapons, potions, components, and other magic items might not be readily available, but the characters can make their own from salvaged parts of monsters. And in some cases, monsters might be nigh invulnerable unless the characters use their wits."
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"Like the salvage rules, lore plays an important part in a grim fantasy setting. Characters may be in trouble if they don't take the time to learn more about the monsters they face. Local legends about a beast may be myth or folly, but even within the malarky there could be an iota of truth\u2014and that truth could be the difference between surviving an encounter and suffering an ultimate defeat.",
"The ability checks associated with each monster are meant to provide details on what a character might know about a monster\u2014or what a character might find out. Use these checks to dole out important information. Some checks might require characters to do some research, or even face the creature to observe its traits and behavior. Failed checks could result in characters gaining incorrect or partial bits of information, which could lead to dire consequences."
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"Regardless of how you run your games, or what your players want from a game, it's important to remember that the goal of playing this game is to have fun and tell great stories. The monsters in this book are there to challenge characters, but they're also there to enhance stories. No bit of lore or game mechanical number is more important than the fun and the story. Change whatever you must to make sure everyone at the table is enjoying themselves, contributing to the story, and leaving the table satisfied.",
"With that said, prepare yourself to encounter some of the most terrifying, challenging, entertaining, and bizarre creatures to ever stalk the lands of your imagination!"
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"In desperate times science and magic can progress by leaps and bounds, but such rapid advancement has its risks. Without proper precautions, experimenters or their subjects might be caught in forces beyond imagining and become twisted into something abominable. No two mishaps are alike, yet each of the misbegotten results is known as an aberrant horror."
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"Those who survive the uncontrolled transformation into aberrant horrors become living weapons. Some theories say the body sees the transmuting force as a threat and evolves defenses against it. Others believe that the accident triggers dormant bestial adaptations from the distant past. Whatever the reason, aberrant horrors are vicious combatants, armed with hardened claws, venomous spines, and other strange adaptations."
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"Aberrant horrors have been saturated in eldritch energies. Each horror's body can provide a number of material components for arcane necromancy or transmutation spells equal to half the horror's challenge challenge rating. Each component is consumed when used to cast, but the spell is cast as if the caster used a spell slot one level higher, up to a maximum of a 5th-level slot."
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"Aberrant horrors are the results of failed arcane experiments that twist the body into unnatural forms."
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"Each aberrant horror is different. Some grow extra limbs, others dissolve into oozelike creatures, and others swell to massive proportions. They contain eldritch energy that can fuel necromancy and transmutation."
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"The arcane origins of aberrant horrors give you a great deal of room to challenge your players with unusual traits. For example, one horror might only take damage when it's under the effects of a {@spell bane} or {@spell bless} spell, but ferreting out this information requires the characters to face it once and succeed on a {@dc 10} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check. The secret to pulling this off is to make the odd traits easy to learn and possible to accomplish without overly taxing the characters."
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"These valorous angels were created to punish the wicked and ensure the sincerity of the penitent. When Maligant called his heavenly hosts in the war of the Four Divines, the angels marshalled out with the other upper echelons under the command of the Arch Seraph Empyreus. When Aurelia sacrificed herself and revealed the madness of the war, the Angels fought on, refusing to admit that they were part of a calamitous tragedy, seeing surrender as tantamount to blasphemy. With the zeal of a censorious bureaucratic tyrant, they now wage a guerilla war with a piecemeal retinue of veteran battle angels, zealots, fanatic paladins, cohorts of penitent levies, and volunteer convert militia auxiliaries as part of an anti-corruption peasant revolt in the hinterland of Altenheim."
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"Each Angel keeps a copper cage under a velveteen cover inside a lead box encased in blessed orichalcum on a thick chain around its neck. In the cage is a pathetic, impish fiend of Malikir, withered like a raisin. The creature has an uncanny knack for teasing out corruption, and compelling wicked behavior in mortals. It only takes moments to get a confession once a weak-willed mortal has revealed their true self in the presence of the fiend."
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"An Angel of Empyreus uses its original orders as a pretext for further violence. It will never surrender. Surrender is a trick of the enemy. It must fulfill its purpose: to root out corruption and sin, and it will do anything to find sin in mortal hearts. The imp claims to put mortals to the test, and the Angel knows what it is doing. It won't kill the imp, as using the imp reveals the innate corruption in mortal souls."
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"The Angel of Empyreus wields a {@item holy avenger|DMG}. Upon its death, its intelligence inhabits the sword. To attune to it, a paladin character must agree to carry on the angel's mission to cleanse the land of immorality. A cup of its blood can be made into a {@item potion of supreme healing|DMG} with a {@dc 10} Intelligence ({@skill Religion}) check from someone proficient with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB}. Six cups of blood can be taken from the Angel of Empyreus. Its bones can be used in place of diamonds for use in {@spell raise dead} and similar magic, up to the equivalent of 10,000 gp worth."
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"Animated flame tongues can be created in many ways, but the most common way is when a magical sword's attuned wielder is killed with magical fire. The sword becomes mobile and semi-sentient, seeking to defeat those who killed its master, and anyone who uses magic to destroy life. This makes animated flame tongues a particular risk to those who wield magic."
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"The threads of an apparmarole contain trace amounts of magic and are valuable as components for the construction of several magical items. They can be sold for 50 gp if the apparmarole was not consumed by flame.",
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"The Arcanist Inquisition contends that all magic is dangerous, not just that wielded by demons and nefarious sorcerers. Their blanket denunciation of all mages might be harsh, but their zealous belief in the perils of magic isn't unfounded. Even a well-meaning mage can invite catastrophe with a slip of the tongue, a misaligned gesture, or momentary lapse in {@status concentration}.",
"Arcane anomalies, as some mages euphemistically call them, are one such product of careless magic. Ritual objects used in particularly powerful spells, when not disposed of properly, can gain a malevolent sentience. Many an apprentice has learned the hard way that \"Go wash up!\" is not only a chore, but an essential safety practice. As one might imagine, water is a particular weakness of all arcane anomalies."
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"Woe to any wizard who fails to pay attention to the expiration of their magical inks. If left untreated, old ink coalesces into bizarre two-dimensional creatures that masquerade as graffiti and psychically hurt victims through disturbing glyphs and imagery. These creatures can detach from walls, transforming into clouds of liquid ink to dissolve and drown unwary victims."
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"The arcane components that birthed an anomaly are irrevocably ruined. However, a defeated anomaly might yield a small quantity of useful material.",
"A tallow toad leaves behind a lump of warming wax. One lump can be rubbed onto a single small or medium creature's skin to provide cold resistance for 1 hour.",
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"The Arcanist Inquisition exists to detain and destroy arcane spellcasters. Inquisitors believe that arcane magic is inherently corrupting and that even the best intentioned spellcaster can succumb to dangerous behavior and moral ruin. At first, the inquisition's masters sought to monitor spellcasters, with detainment reserved for those who abused their magical gifts. Over time, the ideology became more hardline. Now, inquisitors put spellcasters whom they don't imprison indefinitely to the fire.",
"Inquisitors train to discover mages, but they don't rely only on their acumen. Folks fearful of being accused are happy to point a finger at a suspicious neighbor if doing so focuses the inquisition's interest elsewhere."
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"The Arcanist Inquisition is known for its ongoing efforts to eradicate arcane magic and its practitioners. However, it also investigates other crimes against the edicts of the Arch Seraphs. Inquisitors carry a book of dogma derived from the words of Empyreus as spoken to Sagrado Valieda, the Inquisition's founder. The book identifies moral crimes that call for punishments, ranging from public humiliation to death. Initiates apply a strict and literal reading to the crimes and consequences detailed within the book. High-ranking inquisitors have more leeway in how they choose to interpret the edicts. Inquisitors claim that if they set an innocent afire, Empyreus would douse the flames. That he has never done so is proof, adherents say, that no one has been wrongfully condemned."
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"Inquisitor ranks vary from location to location. Sometimes, initiates give themselves grand titles, whereas powerful and stealthy mage-hunters might take no title at all. Certain areas have motley bands of inquisitors, some little more than thugs extorting the population. Other areas have organized detachment of inquisitors, some highly honorable and bound to their duty. The inquisition includes paladins and priests, but many members are soldiers or hunters with divine talents."
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"Lord Inquisitor Crevax is the master of the Cathedral of Embers, the headquarters of the Arcanist Inquisition and the largest prison in Etharis. She is an imposing dragonborn, covered in golden scales and rarely seen without her flaming longsword, Heretic's End. She has a stern demeanor and an unflinching faith in the ideology and goals of the Arcanist Inquisition. Once an accused has come under her authority as warden of the cathedral, she considers it her personal duty to ensure they never threaten others with their corruption again."
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"Inquisitors carry fine armaments and religious trappings. Seraph iconography is common, as is holy water. Some members carry trinkets of religious significance such as angel feathers or silver boxes holding the ashes of martyrs. Some carry magical arms and armor, such as {@item armor of resistance} and {@item vicious weapon|DMG|vicious weapons}. Traveling inquisitors carry the book of Arcanist Inquisition dogma.",
"Lord Inquisitor Crevax has her magic equipment. She also carries the only master key to the Cathedral of Embers, as well as a map of the facility."
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"The founder of the Arcanist Inquisition claims that the Arch Seraph Empyreus said that magic is dangerous, corrupt, and corrupting. People of the Castinellan Provinces hold this belief to be true, and the sentiment has spread beyond that region.",
"The majority of the Arcanist Inquisition comprises soldiers from the Castinellan provinces, including many dragonborn. Their task is to seek out and punish magic-users."
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"Any suspected arcanist or associate of a suspected mage who publicly declares allegiance to Empyreus and confesses to crimes against the divine order can request judgment from a speaker for the Arch Seraph. If they do so, inquisitors are obligated to take the individual to the Cathedral of Embers for trial rather than passing judgment and meting out punishment as they normally would."
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"The Cathedral of Embers, headquarters of the Arcanist Inquisition, is a well-known prison for suspected arcanists awaiting trial or serving a sentence. Less known is that the complex also contains an enormous collection of magic items, kept locked away. The inquisition is concerned as much with keeping the items safe as sequestering their potential influence."
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"Trained to root out secrets, some inquisitors have special blessings that allow them to pierce illusions and uncover deceit. Their devotion leads them to pursue their foes despite personal risk, making them difficult to evade."
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"While the Arcanist Inqusition, like any fanatical organization, can do both good and evil depending on the individuals involved and the details of the situation, the organization as a whole tends toward evil. Good organizations care about each and every case that comes before them, and work. hard to ensure that innocents are never injured, even if that means a few guilty parties go free. The Arcanist Inquisition is the opposite: they are content if a few innocent people are imprisoned or killed if it means no guilty escape. Because of this, characters should often find themselves on the hostile side of an inquisitionists wrath.",
"On the other hand, unscrupulous or morally gray characters might find the Arcanist Inquisition a convenient ally in certain situations. Characters will always find arcanists willing allies in a conflict against evil-doers who employ arcane means to gain and hold power."
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"In campaigns where humanoid beings like humans are a main foe, GMs may often find that there is a lack of diverse humanoid foes. In cases when this happens, reskinning monsters is a valuable tool. Reskinning simply means taking an existing monster, keeping the statistics exactly the same, but describing the creature and its abilities in a different way to match the needed foe. Any of the arcanists here, or any of the other humanoid monsters in this book, are easy to reskin.",
"An inquisitor hunter can be used to represent any hunter-type NPC. Inquisitor priests can be a stand-in for any creature or humanoid that uses both weapons and magic. Knights can be altered to represent any powerful armored foe. The underlying math works, regardless of how you describe the attacks or the spells that the enemy uses."
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"The blight of arcane magic is the single greatest threat to the welfare of the common citizenry of Etharis. Until we take our fight to the farthest corners of the world, where the ruling powers have yet to be taught the dangers of arcane magic, the insidious spread of magic cannot be properly stemmed. Once the local threat is eliminated, I look forward to traveling and educating folks on our mission. And where education doesn't succeed, a sharp sword will."
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"Illusions. Enchantments. Necromancy. Conjurations. There's no denying the varied and terrible methods that arcanists might use to wreak their corrupted havoc on the innocent sheep. The only force standing between the population and vile arcanists are us. Striking down the users of magic is one step in our plan, but we also have to understand how magic affects our charges, and how to break the magical bonds that they often find themselves shackled by."
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"One rotten arcanist in a community might seem like a small threat, but like a similarly rotten apple, within days the entire bushel basket is corrupted if the rot is not discovered and eliminated quickly. Unlike an apple, however, discovering a rotten soul is much more difficult. Fortunately, our Inquisition have tools at our disposal that allow us to ferret out that rot. Once it's discovered through our use of the will of Empyreus, then more mundane tools are at our disposal. Assuming, of course, that you consider a very sharp blade applied to a neck as a mundane tool."
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"Oozing lesions cover a pox dog's body, matting its fur. Pus runs from its eyes. Lack of hydration has receded its gums. Pox dogs attack other creatures on sight and form packs, seeking blood to slake their thirst. They are harder to kill than appearances might make it seem."
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"If a cat is hardier and more aggressive than a regular cat, it might carry the disease called {@disease Seven Shades of Sitri|GH}. Such cats otherwise show no signs of illness. A rub against the leg, a pet on the head, or a claw can all transmit the sickness."
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"Additionally, the beautiful silver feathers of a faith finch can fetch 5 gp per finch from a costume maker or other clothier."
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"No one knows when the Great Beast appeared on Etharis, because no one can confirm the Beast exists. Many claim to have seen the Beast, but when the sight of a thing causes madness, and when the many horrors on Etharis are mistaken for that thing, it's impossible to ferret out the differences between fact and fiction."
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"When alleged eyewitnesses to attacks by the Beast come to any sort of consensus, they describe a towering, shadow-wreathed figure, as tall as the tallest cathedral spire. Its head is described as an enormous deer skull crowned with ever-branching antlers. Its elongated, emaciated, human-like body moves with unnatural grace when it is not stopping to destroy any living thing in its path. Its long limbs claw and grasp, eviscerating its terrified victims without care or mercy."
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"Many alleged sightings of the Beast end with shaken witnesses talking about seeing a gigantic hazy form towering above the foliage in the distance. The insubstantial form meanders across the landscape, phasing into and out of view at seemingly random intervals. Then the form disappears completely, fading to nothing.",
"Not long after these sightings, strange and horrific creatures emerge from the wilds or the city sewers. Sometimes these creatures are undead, sometimes they're monstrosities, but they're always corrupted versions of the normal creatures inhabiting the area."
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"While the truth of the Beast is unknown\u2014and perhaps unknowable\u2014that has not stopped others from using the myths and rumors surrounding the Beast for their own purposes. The Arcanist Inquisition points to the Beast as a reason for their existence and an excuse for their often brutal methods. Doomsday cults welcome the Beast as the one to bring an end to this tainted world. Even individuals who perform calculated crimes cry out at their trials that they'd fallen under the sway of the Beast, hoping to play on fear and sympathy to earn undeserved mercy."
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"The Great Beast is not something that has a stat block and a set of limited abilities. This is because the Beast is as much an idea as a being. Evil. Corruption. Uncaring and wanton destruction. The inevitability of annihilation. Gods and mortals alike can defeat almost anything if they are lucky, skilled, and powerful enough. But they can't outlast the sad truth that all things end. That's what the Beast represents.",
"That doesn't mean, however, that the monstrosities that the Beast spawns can't be temporarily defeated and cleansed from an area. An aspect of cosmic horror, which the Beast represents, is the unknowable vastness of the multiverse transcends both our understanding and our very senses. The fun of cosmic horror is letting heroes win small victories over the evils they can understand, with the vague uneasiness that something much more dangerous is lurking behind it.",
"Just as the full nature of the Beast can't be known, its origins are equally veiled in mystery. As a representative off all things that horrify and annihilate living beings, the Beast was always there. However, its current aspect on Etharis can be given a starting point. Maybe it was when the gods died. Maybe the Beast slipped into Etharis when King Leopold went mad and fell to assassins' blades. Maybe some other event triggered this manifestation of woe.",
"For your campaign, use the Beast as a tool rather than a goal. Maybe the Beast's attention is drawn to powerful mortal energy or powerful magic. This allows a game master to counterbalance the characters gaining power or casting high-level magic. Maybe the Beast's appearance in an area is tied to some choice the characters made. Maybe it shows up as a mechanical counterbalance to using the {@book Beast|GHPG|11|The Beast Pool} and {@book Resolve Pools|GHPG|11|The Resolve Pool} highlighted in {@book Grim Hollow: The Players Guide|GHPG}. As a game master in a Grim Hollow campaign, you are the Great Beast. Ravage the land as you see fit."
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"I was having a pint at the inn one night. This strange lass started asking us questions about the time when the Beast passed by the town. We tried to tell her what we saw in the wake of the Beast, but she had this far-away look in her eyes, like she wasn't even listening. Worse than that, as we got to the gristly parts about the animals changing into monsters, or people going mad, she got this little smile on her face. Pretty soon she just got up and left. I don't know if she was a sage, an adventurer, or just a stranger with an unhealthy obsession."
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"Arcanists mix the blood and bones of slain foes with the masonry of city streets, making them weapons of subjugation. The ritual connects the senses of the bloody avenue to other servants of the city's overlord. Using this bond, bloody avenues deliver information to other agents in the city."
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"Bugbears fear very little, but Tormach's Rage is an exception. In the few places in Etharis where bugbears have not succumbed to the disease, stopping its spread or reversing it might be one bargaining chip that characters have to strike a bargain. A more advanced version of the disease, creating an even more dangerous bugbear, is always a possibility as well."
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"Many creatures and cultures revere the dead. Those with the ambition and the know-how even build catacombs or necropolises to house the bones of those who have passed before. Many of those dead rest peacefully, but the spirits of some remain behind to keep the living out. Among these undead are catacomb haunts."
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"The bizarre ectoplasm a catacomb haunt leaves behind fluctuates between material and immaterial states. The ectoplasm from one haunt can be preserved in a sealed container. Applied to one weapon or 10 pieces of ammunition in 1 minute, the ectoplasm makes those coated weapons magical for 1 hour."
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"Folktales say the Arch Daemon Beleth created the cauchemange as another tool to torment mortals. Those who've studied the secret histories of the Arcanist Inquisition know that these aberrations are a result of a failed experiment by a long-dead Ostoyan wizard. Her intent was to create a creature that allows command over armies of mind-controlled servants. Instead, the experiment created a creature that feeds on and manipulates people's nightmares."
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"When the Weeping Pox struck Liesech, many fled the city ahead of the Bürach Empire's quarantine. After their tales had time to spread, the troops stationed outside the city were astonished that knights wanted to gain passage inside. These self-proclaimed Champions of Filth saw the new virulent disease as an embodiment of their belief in decay and corruption."
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"The Champions of Filth gave themselves over to {@disease the Weeping Pox|GH}, seeking to purify themselves in its horrifying embrace. Most succumbed to the disease, but a few emerged changed by the experience. Their bodies had become hosts to an altered form of the disease, granting them control over its spread and symptoms. These few managed to break out of quarantine, the guards' flesh withering before the knights' new powers. Now they roam free, seeking to spread their grisly gospel."
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"Someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB}, {@skill Arcana}, {@skill Nature}, or {@skill Medicine} can remove the heart of a blightwalker. Treated with reagents worth 100 gp, wrapped in an iron chain, and dried in the sun for 3 days, the heart can become a magic item called a {@item blight effigy|GHMG}. Creating this {@item blight effigy|GHMG} using this process requires a successful {@dc 13} Intelligence or Wisdom check with the proficiency used. Someone holding the heart can use an action to squeeze it, casting {@spell blight} as a 4th-level spell with a saving throw DC of 15. Once the heart casts the spell, it and the chain binding it crumble to dust."
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"Champions of filth obviously have a twisted concept of what disease means, thinking of it as purifying rather than corrupting. This makes them easily manipulated, and perfect minions for a greater threat that uses disease\u2014or even just tricks the champions into thinking that they believe the same things. A group of blightwalkers, all casting {@spell blight} at the same time on enemies, can be a potent killing force.",
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"Chapped brutes are hulking humanoids altered by malign magic and forbidden alchemical compounds to create inhuman bodyguards and enforcers. They are so named because of their skin, which has been mutated into hairless calluses. This hide is so thick that its folds have compressed the brute's eyes and mouth to such a degree that it can no longer see or speak. The skin pulses with veins and shifts unnaturally, showing evidence of continued mutation."
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"Rumors abound of some chapped brutes unexpectedly undergoing hideous transformations into other forms. Because of the unstable state of the chapped brute's physiology, their bodily fluids and organs are highly prized for mutagenic qualities."
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"When a chapped brute would die, on rare occasions, its body splits lengthwise along its limbs and swells in size, muscles and viscera peeking out through shredded skin. This transformation drives the creature beyond reason. In this form, a brute can distend sagging limbs into long tentacles.",
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"Chapped brutes rarely carry treasure or equipment unless doing so as instructed by their master. An accomplished leatherworker can fashion the callused skin of a chapped brute into +1 armor\u2014{@item Chapped Brute Leather Armor|GHMG|leather}, {@item Chapped Brute Studded Leather Armor|GHMG|studded leather}, or {@item Chapped Brute Hide Armor|GHMG|hide}\u2014that grants the wearer resistance to necrotic damage and doesn't require attunement. This armor takes 10 extra days of work to fashion, and magical components worth 100 gp must be expended in its creation."
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"The magical and alchemical process that creates these brutes leaves them resistant to necrotic damage."
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"Rumors of the chiropteran behemoth are just that. The batlike monster is said to be the size of a house, as silent as the breeze, and unkillable. The only verified account of a chiropteran behemoth describes one that serves Grand Duke Koshevek of Soma, lairing beneath the dome of the Vonsantra Cathedral. Sages posit that if one behemoth can be created, others can."
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"Chiropteran behemoths serve their creators with undying devotion, following orders to completion. The ritual creating a chiropteran behemoth allows the creator to know where its servant's location at all times. While its natural weapons are dangerous, its ear-splitting shriek is more so. The bat-monster can also unleash a sphere of darkness that doesn't hinder its senses."
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"Unfortunately for the forces of good and light, the rumors of the chiropteran behemoth's immortality are true. The beast returns to life unless exposed to an elixir of rare components, including its own guano. Gaining access to this last ingredient is the challenge, made even greater if the behemoth's master knows its vulnerability."
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"To make one dose of an undoing elixir that can render a chiropteran behemoth vulnerable to death, its guano must be mixed with other reagents worth 250 gp. Someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} must brew the mixture for 3 days. As an action, someone can splash a dose onto a behemoth if it's within 5 feet or throw a vial of it up to 20 feet, the vial shattering on impact. In either case, the attacker makes a ranged attack against the behemoth, treating the vial as an improvised weapon. On a hit, the behemoth takes 7 ({@damage 2d6}) radiant damage and its regeneration temporarily ceases.",
"The chiropteran behemoth's two canines are good for making a {@item Rapier of Life Stealing|DMG|rapier} or {@item shortsword of life stealing|DMG}. Making the weapon requires someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} to work for 7 days and use materials worth 1,500 gp along with the two upper canines from the behemoth. Somebody must cast {@spell vampiric touch} on the fangs three times during the process.",
"Claws of a chiropteran behemoth can be used to make a unique {@item vorpal sword|DMG}. Crafting the sword requires the remnants of the behemoth and other rare components worth 25,000 gp. Someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} must work with someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} to create the weapon over 30 days. Somebody must also cast {@spell power word kill} on the weapon each day of its making."
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"A chiropteran behemoth serves Grand Duke Koshevek of Soma. This behemoth is the only one whose existence has been verified."
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"The ritual that created the chiropteran behemoth makes it regenerate even when it should die. However, any mortal magic can be undone. The behemoth's leavings\u2014skin, fur, broken teeth, and guano\u2014found in its lair need to be studied to learn the behemoth's weakness."
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"The Churning stops for nothing and no one. It can't. Sages say that if the Churning is stopped, its insides will seize up, resulting in a swift and sudden demise. But if the creature dies, it or another of its kind reappears somewhere in the world within a few decades, although sometimes sooner and sometimes much longer."
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"Accounts of coral grazers can be found throughout recorded history, yet their origins re main a mystery. The oldest legends tell of a cataclysm that precedes the creatures being seen in the shallows. Sages speculate this disaster either gave rise to coral grazers or forced them into new territory. The look of coral grazers is akin that of Aether Kindred and denizens of their mad realm. If the cataclysm that gave rise to coral grazers had its source there, it could explain much."
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"While a coral grazer is at home in the coastal waters of the lands of Etharis, they can be captured and trained by evil-doers to acts as guards and thugs. Little is as terrifying as a moated lair of an enemy that is also full of coral grazers. In fact, some coral grazers have been gifted with the power of magical flight, making them extremely effective and dangerous hunters, even out of water.",
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"In the uncertainty following the Aetheric War, the absence of the previous deity of war, Malignant, paved the way for the worship of the unhinged Arch Daemon Tormach. People of Unterland birthed the Cult of Tormach within their militaristic nation. Many fear the cult's influence will spread if left unchecked."
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"Daemon oaks can cause other trees to share their corruption. Instead of awakening trees, daemon oaks can replace wood and sap with acidic ichor. Once corrupted, a tree serves the daemon oak, amplifying the daemonic tree's menace until the thrall is destroyed. Then, it explodes into a shower of acid."
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"Daemon oaks are sedentary creatures, drawing their nutrients from corrupted soil. They might stand for decades, wailing in some gloomy corner of deep woods, avoided by animals and sane folk alike. But when roused to action, they rarely stop their rampage until forced to do so."
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"Daemon oak ichor is a powerful if unstable reagent. Harvesting one vial from a daemon oak requires a successful {@dc 20} Wisdom ({@skill Survival}) check. One vial of ichor harvested from a daemon oak can fetch 500 gp from the right buyer.",
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"A daemon oak can turn other trees into thralls. Each servant is nearly as powerful as its master, although far less cunning. A daemon oak thrall can't spit acid like its master, and thralls perish if their master dies. When a thrall dies, it cracks apart, showering acidic ichor over an area within 10 feet of the thrall."
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"It's a blessing that danxoni\u2014strange, elongated, multiarmed monstrosities\u2014are a rare sight. Not only are they prone to violence, but if they were to proliferate any faster, their voracious appetites would quickly strip an area of its natural resources."
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"Danxoni observed in the wild have been recorded as eating anything. They eat fresh prey, carrion, wood, poisonous plants, and rock and metal. To eat, a danxoni rips chunks with its strong arms and stuffs the material down its throat. The digestive powers of a danxoni's hitchhikers allow it to extract sustenance out of any substance."
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"Some observant adventurers have noted the oddly humanlike appearance of a danxoni's face. All attempts to communicate with a danxoni have confirmed an animal intelligence, leading some to wonder whether danxoni were once a sapient species."
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"Someone who has proficiency with an {@item herbalism kit|PHB} can process portions of a dead danxoni's internal colonies to produce {@item Antitoxin (vial)|PHB|antitoxin} or an herbal cure for {@disease sewer plague|DMG}. Doing so requires 1 hour of work and a successful {@dc 11} Intelligence or Wisdom check. One danxoni can provide enough material for four doses of {@item Antitoxin (vial)|PHB|antitoxin} or herbal cure, or a mix of both."
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"As we made camp the mist rolled in. Lassiter screamed, but we didn't see anything. Then another scream. And an arrow. Then another. No twang of a bow, just the sharp sound of impact. A full retreat was ordered and we all ran for our lives. At least the three of us who weren't dead."
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"In places where the fey courts claim dominance in the mortal world, guards were placed to keep out trespassers. Then the Mists came. The noble fey guards were turned into dark versions of their past selves. They no longer serve their fey patrons\u2014instead, they kill any interlopers."
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"The hunting bows of the dark mist stalkers are renowned for their accuracy and ranges so much so that foolish adventurers and hunters of all skill levels attempt to recover them. A slain dark mist stalker has a {@chance 10|10% chance|Dark Mist Stalker Bow|The bow can be truend into an oathbow.|The bow cannot be turned into an oathbow.} to be carrying a weapon that can be turned into an {@item oathbow}. Such a weapon can be altered by a proficient weaponsmith, who must succeed on a {@dc 25} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check after spending 10 days and 7500 gp of components."
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"Dark mist stalkers hide in the woods and always come with the mist! Avoid the mists to avoid your death!"
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"Dark mist stalkers can hide in the rain and see you without light. Find another way to find them."
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"A figure moves silently through the city, well past midnight, a masked doctor treating those who have contracted {@disease the Weeping Pox|GH}. Those who look closer see a monster\u2014and not a masked healer\u2014walking the streets."
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"Darkfeathers are monsters that mimic the appearance of the few who try to safely help victims of {@disease the Weeping Pox|GH}. Traditionally, these healers dress in long, feathered black robes with a beak-like mask to protect themselves from contracting the disease. A warped mixture of magic and disease transformed these healers, merging the mask and pestilence, into a humanoid creature with a bird-like skull."
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"To some, darkfeathers might be a blessing. Within their skull are two poison glands and a proboscis to deliver the poison to sickened individuals. Victims of a darkfeather seem to improve for a couple of days after the creature's visit, giving the family and victim hope. But death comes quickly, and the darkfeather tracks its victims to drink the liquified remains."
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"Glands within a darkfeather's skull can be harvested and processed into one dose of a {@item necrotic poison|GHMG}, which acts as a {@item potion of poison} that inflicts both poison and necrotic damage if invested. Harvesting and preparing the poison requires proficiency with a {@item poisoner's kit|PHB}, takes 4 hours, and requires a successful {@dc 12} Intelligence check."
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"These creatures are thought to have emerged from the City Below. Others claim dawndrinkers came to this world to defend their summoners against the Arcanist Inquisition. Whatever the case, dawndrinkers leech light from the surroundings, feeding on it and growing stronger. In the presence of a dawndrinker, torches flicker and fail, the sun seems distant, and magical illuminations dim and go out."
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"When a dawndrinker makes its home, usually in a cave or dense thicket hidden from the sun, it slowly feeds on light in the area. The longer it feeds, the stronger it grows and the shorter the days seem near its lair. After a season, a dawndrinker can grow powerful enough create a small area where it appears the sun never rises."
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"Dawndrinkers have a special organ that stores and processes light the way that other creatures digest food. Most of the creature's body disintegrates after it dies, but this light stomach remains. Someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB}, {@item cook's utensils|PHB}, or an {@item herbalism kit|PHB} can prepare the stomach with other ingredients worth 25 gp. If the preparer succeeds on a {@dc 13} Wisdom or Intelligence check, the organ makes a tasty, sweet meal for up to four creatures. After partaking, those creatures add 60 feet to their {@sense darkvision} range for 24 hours, those that lack {@sense darkvision} gaining it to a range of 60 feet. All partakers also gain {@sense blindsight} to a range of 10 feet for the same duration."
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"A dawndrinker can sense light, its food, at a great distance. The monster is also resistant to fire, absorbing some of its energy, and immune to radiant damage, which is a source of quick nourishment for the dawndrinker."
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"These caps are slow movers\u2014landbound slitherers. It spends most of its time patiently waiting for prey, seeming nothing more than a clean but discarded item of clothing made of a lush material. It doesn't reveal its true nature until someone dons the hat."
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"Once upon a living creature's head, the transformation begins as the hood attempts to control the mind of its host. When it does, it stretches into a deep black hood, and that's when the carnage begins."
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"The cap wants nothing more than to slake its murderous desires. While it can be cunning, it rarely passes on an opportunity to kill. It kills its host by pushing it into battle and psychically draining the host's life force."
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"The fabric of a defeated death cap is very valuable to tailors and creators of magical clothing, fetching 250 gp. Creating a magical cloak, hat, or other clothing using the fabric from a death cap cuts the creation time in half."
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"Placing the death cap on one's head opens one up to possession by the malignant undead. Once a death cap takes control, it pushes its host to murderous carnage. While one can cut down the host, the easiest way to rid a possessed creature of the cap is to turn undead."
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"The death cap rides roughshod over its host, not only pushing it into battle but also denying it sustenance and sleep. Worst still, it slowly devours those it possesses. The cap can be forced off a host's body by using {@spell dispel evil and good} or similar magic."
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"When the gods fell, their agents struggled with how to go on. Most served the Arch Seraphs, who claimed their fallen god's mantle. Others found a different path. Either by choice or through an Arch Daemon's corruption, these celestials embraced evil. Such fallen celestials are known as disavowed."
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"Many of the god Jezra's seraphs fell victim to Gorodyn's greed-filled words and joined the forces of the Arch Daemon of Avarice, becoming avarice seraphs. These beings still resemble the ideal of a glorious, winged angel. However, an avarice seraph's wings are black with silver-tipped feathers. Its eyes are also black, dripping with oily tears. The seraph has two faces on opposite sides of its head. One face smiles while the other frowns. The seraph rotates its head, displaying the face that suits its situation."
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"Arch Daemon Sitri's temptations seduced seraphs who became gluttony seraphs, who now help further the Tempter's plans. Seeing their gods fall made these celestials recognize the futility of their previous ideals. Such seraphs have given in to their desires, particularly gastronomic ones, becoming giant froglike beings. Stunted wings sprout from a gluttony seraph's rotund form, allowing it awkward flight. A gluttony seraph has an enormous mouth, and the largest of them can swallow other creatures."
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"An avarice seraph's metal-tipped feathers can be sold. Those of the lesser seraph are worth 250 gp, while those of the seraph are worth 1,000 gp.",
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"The disavowed are seraphs fallen to evil. Each still retains a measure of its celestial power."
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"From their celestial heritage, disavowed retain magic resistance and resistance to nonmagical attacks, as well as immunity to being {@condition charmed}, {@condition exhaustion|PHB|exhausted}, and {@condition frightened}. Even in a fallen state, the seraph imparts magic and radiant damage to its attacks. Gluttony seraphs are also immune to poison."
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"For the disembodied, their vanishing and subsequent reappearance happened in the blink of an eye. Disembodied who weren't members of the Great College attempted to pick their lives up where they left off, rebuilding the infrastructure of Ulmyr's Gate or leaving to work their trade elsewhere. Those disembodied from the school of magic spend their time looking for a way to reverse the damage caused by the magic that transformed them."
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"People react to the disembodied with fear. In appearance and ability to travel between the Material Plane and the Ethereal Plane, the disembodied seem to be ghosts. Others also wrongly worry that the disembodied state might be contagious. Many shun close contact even when they recognize the disembodied aren't incorporeal undead.",
"Those who returned struggle to regain some semblance of normalcy. Most disembodied have returned to their trades. Some, in their grief and rage, have turned to hunting spellcasters before they can do further harm."
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"An ancient species that survived a cataclysm by entering sleep stasis, dreamers are still finding their footing in Etharis. They can recall little of their civilization prior to entering stasis, but the experience had a profound impact on them, granting them the ability to sense and enter the dreams of others. This ability has allowed dreamers to learn about the other people of their world, but their psychic intrusions have done little to endear dreamers to others.",
"The same stasis that allowed dreamers to survive a major calamity also caused them to forget most of their cultural history. Without a shared past, they split on whether to look forward or back. Some believe they should attempt to uncover the ruins of their civilization and resurrect its culture. Others see an opportunity to invent a new place in Etharis."
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"Other dreamers have unlocked magical powers related to sleep and dreaming. Other people find dreamer power to enter dreams disconcerting. Some dreamers, such as somnolists, market this ability to fulfill customer fantasies. Their power over sleep can make them more dangerous than one might think a dream performer could be."
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"Dreamers make excellent mystical advisors for foes looking for an edge in the realms of information and dreams. Dreamers might not even realize what their leader is really doing, as their focus is firmly in other realms of reality."
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"Dreamer eyelashes can be used to create a soothing tea that brings about deep sleep. The eyelashes of a dreamer can be had for 4 gp. Someone who has proficiency with an {@item herbalism kit|PHB} can add herbs worth another 1 gp and boil the mixture for 10 minutes. If the herbalist succeeds on a {@dc 10} Intelligence or Wisdom check, and if consumed within an hour of preparation, the tea induces restful sleep. The drinker must succeed on a {@dc 12} Constitution saving throw, which they can fail willingly, or sleep for 8 hours, until they take damage, or until another creature uses an action to awaken them. If the drinker sleeps for 8 hours and thereby finishes a long rest, the drinker can eliminate an extra level of {@condition exhaustion} and gains 2 ({@dice 1d4}) temporary hit points until they finish another long rest. Making this tea requires eyelashes from both a dreamer's eyes. It takes one month for the lashes to grow back to sufficient length to use again."
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"This psychic feeding is debilitating and eventually fatal to the prey. But such a death releases a surge of emotional energy, elevating the eagal sithe to greater heights of power for a fleeting time. And once this surge dissipates, the fey moves on, searching for a new victim and starting the horrid process anew."
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"A dried and ground eagal sithe is a potent reagent for many potions, elixirs, poisons, and magic items that can {@condition charmed|PHB|charm}, {@condition frightened|PHB|frighten}, or affect the mind. When combined with such items' standard components, the DC of any effects requiring either a Charisma or Wisdom saving throw increases by 1. An eagal sithe is typically worth 50 gp to a person knowing its worth."
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"Some warlocks ritualistically infuse their followers with demonic humors to give the underlings fiendish power. Those who survive become operatives with extraordinary abilities. Some of the most powerful of these subjects become eaters of orbs.",
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"A spellcaster that has at least one 3rd-level spell slot can fashion the scalp of an eater of orbs that has eaten an eye within the last 24 hours into a {@item hat of disguise|DMG}. This process takes 8 hours, materials worth 100 gp, and a successful {@dc 15} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check."
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"Paladins who bow to unholy powers serve with fanaticism in life. Those who lay down their lives for their wicked masters return to serve in death as ebon knights. They move wreathed in sulfurous smoke that makes them appear, from a distance, as ghostly or fiendish beings."
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"The plate armor of an ebon knight roils with the energy of undying evil. Someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} can melt the armor of three ebon knights to make plate armor of invulnerability that also grants resistance to necrotic damage. However, this wicked armor requires an attuned wearer to sacrifice life force to it. After the wearer finishes a long rest, or the first time they put the armor on after having not worn it while finishing one or more long rests, they must either give up one-quarter of their remaining Hit Dice to the armor (rounded up) or gain 1 level of {@condition exhaustion}. Someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} takes 30 days to make this armor, which requires other materials worth 10,000 gp to craft. The intended first wearer must give blood each day, losing Hit Dice or taking {@condition exhaustion} as if wearing the armor. The process fails, consuming half the materials, if the wearer doesn't feed the armor as it's made. If this being then fails to wear and feed the armor daily for 30 days after it's complete, it disintegrates into ash and smoke."
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"Want to tease your player's a bit? When they defeat an ebon knight, have the steed remain alive. A player may want their character to bond with this powerful steed. But then what happens when the soul of the ebon knight living within the steed decides to make its presence known?"
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"Certain entities are so ancient that some theorize they sprang from the primordial chaos that predates creation. The mere sight of these otherworldly abominations drives most beyond reason, yet some seek them out. These beings, called Aether Kindred, take little notice of mortals. Many of them exist in torpor, dreaming mystical, gruesome dreams in the emptiness between stars. Occasionally, however, mortals touch those dreams and garner a portion of the Kindred's attention. Among these people are eldritch priests."
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"After the demise of the Etharis pantheon, divine magic waned across the world. Desperate souls turned to worshipping the gods' killers in the hopes of currying favor. These priests are few. One of their primary goals is to disseminate the \"truth\" that the gods waged war against a greater power and died for their hubris."
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"The touch of an Aether Kindred's dreams can taint objects with an unstable nature, particularly potions. Any potion found on the servants of these beings has a {@chance 50|50% chance|Tainted Potion|The potion is tainted.|The potion is not tainted.} to be tainted, making the potion's effects unpredictable. Someone inspecting such a potion must succeed on a {@dc 17} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check to identify the instability. Otherwise, the potion appears to be a normal potion of its type. When an unstable potion is consumed, roll on the {@table Eldritch Effects|GHMG} table to determine the effect of the instability, which is in addition to the potion's normal effects and can last as long as the potion does or 1 minute, whichever is longer. However, a creature can attempt a {@dc 13} Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the instability effect on itself on a success."
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"In the wake of the gods' disappearance, some turned to other ancient entities for power. Those that succeed are known as eldritch priests."
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"These priests draw their power from maddening entities known as the Aether Kindred, which some arcane scholars point to as the cause of the gods' disappearance. The power granted by such creatures can produce bizarre and unpredictable effects."
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"Some eldritch priests seek to awaken their new \"gods\" by spreading the story of the demise of members the Etharis pantheon. As more people tap into the dreams of the slumbering Kindred, the creatures begin to rouse. If they wake, the world is doomed."
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"This golden metallic bull is filled with divine fire. A nimbus of soul fire dances around it, emanating from its glowing and intelligent amber eyes, and flaming hoof tracks follow in its wake."
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"The stomachs of this divine bovine are full of soulfire, and all that it eats is consumed in its heavenly absolution. A soul of pure celestial energy inhabits its divine and golden metal trappings. It delights in the cleansing of evil, steadfast in its purpose, and stubborn in its execution of its duty."
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"The exploded metal hide of the Empyrean brazen bull can be harvested to make gleaming and radiant {@item brazen armor|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see Chapter 4)}. A proficient armor smith can make a suit of {@item brazen armor|GHMG} by succeeding on a {@dc 20} Strength ({@skill Athletics}) check and using 2500 gp of components. This process takes 20 days to complete."
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"The Empyrean brazen bull is obviously a strong force on the side of law and good, and evil or chaotic characters could easily find themselves getting the horns if they mess with the bull. However, just like any other creatures, brazen bulls can be tricked into working against their own interests. They can also be manipulated or corrupted by agents of evil to work against good characters.",
"Brazen bulls can be altered to take other forms as well. Other forms might have different modes of movement to match their environment, and they might have different types of natural weapons. Regardless of the form they take, however, their attacks and traits should remain the same. An Empyreus brazen dragon or whale, for example, might be able to fly or swim, but they'll still be able to charge, swallow, damage with their aura, and explode when defeated."
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"An epachrach is a creature of fey fury and might. Empowered by the strength of ancient oaks, it crashes through the forest, seeking those who defile places of primal power. It can abruptly manifest, like a sudden storm of woody skin and twisting tusks, bringing pain and death."
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"Epachrachs seem like forces of uncontrolled rage, but their wrath has purpose. Each epachrach, or a herd of such creatures, guards a sacred natural place. Powerful druids bind some to protect sacred groves from enemies. Other epachrachs defend a place where primal forces naturally gather. Whatever the nature of this spot, the epachrachs guard it with their lives."
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"The leaves and bark that form an epachrach's skin are as durable as steel but much lighter and more flexible, making them ideal for creating scale mail. Someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} or {@item woodcarver's tools|PHB} can use the hide to craft scale mail that allows a wearer a maximum Dexterity bonus to AC of +3 and doesn't cause the wearer to have disadvantage on Dexterity ({@skill Stealth}) checks. This armor takes 10 days to make, requires other materials worth 250 gp, and weighs 25 pounds."
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"Legends say that epachrachs can disappear suddenly or appear from nowhere. The truth is that they can teleport through areas of living plants."
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"Several tales tell of those who stumble into an area epachrachs watch over. Leaving the guarded area or proving no harmful intent saved wily heroes in those stories."
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"In general, monsters that knock characters {@condition prone} are best paired with monsters that perform melee rather than ranged attacks, since ranged attacks against {@condition prone} targets are made with disadvantage.",
"Creating encounter areas where {@condition prone} creatures are grabbed by creeping vines and {@condition restrained} until they escape is a great way to increase the challenge of an encounter with epachrachs. This also gives the epachrachs plenty of opportunities to use their Plant Stride ability."
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"Everything in this damned land tries to kill you: that's my experience. But every once in a while you find a true friend. They only try to kill you if you deserve it."
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"Etharis's citizens are simply trying to survive in a hostile, unforgiving world. Some are good, a few are evil, but most have neither the power nor the imagination to stand out. That's what heroes are for.",
"There are some, however, who have intriguing stories and the ability to strike out on their own. These individuals have something important to do, but they may not be able to manage these grand tasks on their own. These nonplayer characters make perfect companions."
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"As part of her education, Andora learned etiquette, estate management, and several foreign languages\u2014but not even the basics of her inventor's craft. After years of careful research into his methods, she attempted to restore her creator to life using a modified version of the alchemical ritual he'd used to create her. The ritual failed to bring the inventor back to life, but it did waken his corpse and instill it with an insatiable need for violence. Andora fled the estate and began a new life in Castalore."
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"Now Andora serves food and drink at a tavern and listens for news of the ruthless serial killer stalking the Raevan countryside with anxious guilt. She believes the murderer is none other than her accidental creation. Although Andora is reluctant to ask for help, if she discovers the player characters are also looking to find and stop the killer, she would share what she knows and join them on their mission. If the player characters help her in destroying her creation, they earn her trust\u2014 and she requests to join them for further adventures."
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"Llanna is terrified of her ability to transform but has resolved herself to use the Clockwork Horror to get justice for the death of her friends. She travels through the Bürach Empire in search of heroes to aid her in her quest. If the player characters agree to help her track and slay the Beast and its minions, she happily joins them, even if they have more pressing tasks to resolve first."
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"Since the dissolution of her clan, Gillian has taken to spending her inheritance drinking away her nights. She came to Liesech hopeful that she could earn a lasting heroic legacy for the Hammerstorm name, but the rampant cynicism and brutality of the city quickly wore her down\u2014and she abandoned her dream. Quick to anger, Gillian has been kicked out of most reputable taverns in the city for starting fights, leaving her to exclusively patronize ale houses of lesser quality."
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"To that end, Claunt took to worshipping Gorodyn. After a particularly bad falling out with a previous business partner, Claunt made a terrible sacrifice to the Arch Daemon of Avarice and was rewarded with a {@i satchel of sorcerous sale}. With supply no longer an issue, and hoping to escape the consequences of the sacrifice, Claunt began traveling to sell his wares. It wasn't long before he discovered that even individual buyers wanted little to do with someone in his condition."
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"Now more distraught than ever, Claunt is most likely to be encountered on the road or the outskirts of major settlements, living on whatever meager sales he can make. He happily travels with any player characters agreeing to purchase his goods on an ongoing basis. If Claunt believes he can mentor (or exploit) a particularly charismatic player character, he offers to provide them with supplies if they serve as the face of his business. If he believes the player characters as a group are capable, he asks their help in tracking down and slaying the sorcerer who cursed him."
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"Having lost her parents at a young age to a wicked spellcaster, Abree Simoni dedicated her life to becoming an inquisitor. Her diligent study of Empyreus' dogma earned her the privilege of joining the Inquisition's ranks at fourteen years old. Over the course of her first years in the Arcanist Inquisition, Abree's faith was unwavering. When her superiors directed her to root out corruption, she did so with meticulous fervor When asked to put fire to the kindling beneath accused spellcasters, she did so without hesitation. Then she was deployed to the village where she and her brother had been raised by distant family following the death of their parents. She discovered her brother was accused of casting magic. Her unit was charged with incarcerating him until his trial and execution."
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"Fractured people carry items normal for their public persona. Many craft this persona to be as unlike their true, enraged form as possible. As a result, they often possess objects of delicate or expensive craftsmanship, such as silk handkerchiefs, fine clothing, or jewelry. Clothing seldom survives the fractured person's rage intact."
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"To Gegazol, her mind is her own, but deep down, something else swirls. The daemon's psychic essence intermingled with the dragon's consciousness when her body became undead. The daemon's essence either refuses to or is incapable of communicating with any creature. It can't speak; the skull is silent. Its mind can't be reached via magic."
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"Gegazol both longs for and fears war. She remembers her death, and many deaths since, leaving her hesitant to muster her undead army and march south again. As the festering will of the daemon prods her, however, it's only a matter of time before the Valikan Clans learn the myths of her existence are all too real."
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"At the center of a gore elemental is a skull, which belonged to the most powerful creature that perished at the slaughter that created the gore elemental. With a successful {@dc 15} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) and 100 gp worth of components, one can create a {@item talisman of Tormach|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see Chapter 4)}. This process takes 8 hours."
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"Crawled beneath my ragged skin,",
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"The origins of this fey remain unclear. Some suggest Arch Daemons called them forth from the fey realm to lure mortals to an early death. Others contend they are dark fey seeking vengeance for their destroyed forests. Though normally loners, pipers sometimes work for evil beings on the promise of powerful magic."
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"Grim pipers use dark wooden flutes fashioned from rare wood grown only in the remote Etharian woods. These instruments are of the highest quality, easily worth ten times the price of a typical instrument to discerning buyers.",
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"A grim piper makes a powerful companion for a more powerful and hard-hitting creature. This symbiotic relationship sees the grim piper neutralizing creatures with its song, allowing the powerful partner creature to focus on damaging resisting creatures without having too many heroes beating on it in concert.",
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"Grinstagger entered a pact with a fey queen in exchange for more arcane power. He never intended to become a slave to another, however. Using ancient magic, Grinstagger wrested control of his pact away from his patron. Enraged, she sent numerous servants to hunt down the rogue warlock, but he eluded or slew each one."
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"Unable to subdue Grinstagger, the fey queen cursed the oni. With each use of his power, Grinstagger's flesh hardened into a woody substance. His face locked in a rictus and his right side stiffened, giving him a limp. But this punishment did little to deter Grinstagger, who redirected the curse, freeing himself from its continuing effects before slipping from his former patron's clutches."
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"Grinstagger retains the power he stole from his patron. He can curse others with his attacks."
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"Grinstagger generally travels and lairs with minions who serve him until he no longer has a use for him. With the fey powers pursuing Grinstagger relentlessly, his minions are generally kept around as a buffer between the oni and his pursuers, and don't last long.",
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"Even the longest-lived people of Etharis don't remember grudgels, but they remember their elders speaking of these dreaded creatures: humanoid monsters who used their ferocity and martial prowess to lay waste to towns before disappearing. These myths lingered, but the grudgels have returned. These beings, unlike those of the terrible tales, are measured and wise. They don't speak of their communal past, but they seem to carry an otherworldly knowledge with them. Grudgels look to the stars as if those far-flung orbs are memories rather than mysteries."
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"Grudgels, now wandering in from the wilderness in small groups, are proving to be valuable members of the communities they join, assuming they're not killed on sight out of misguided fear. The grudgels employ advanced building and crafting techniques, and they share this knowledge, alongside a willingness to work. These traits help others overcome initial hesitation at the sudden appearance of an unusual stranger.",
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"Most grudgels carry a piece of glassy material called stryllum, which isn't from Etharis. This substance is handed down from parent to child. The more powerful a grudgel is, the larger the piece of stryllum they carry. Small pieces of stryllum can be sold for 10 gp, while bigger pieces fetch 100 gp in large markets.",
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"The corrupting influence of a horror-out-the-box spreads to its treasure. Mixing the coins from a horror's collection with other coins can cause gold to turn to lead or gems to turn to glass. Use your favorite trinket table to randomly create a horror's \"hoard.\" There's a {@chance 50|50% chance|Horror-out-the-Box Hoard|The hoard contains a magic item.|The haord contains no magical items.} that the hoard contains a common or uncommon magic item."
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"Some hungerer beasts resemble starving animals, with an unhealthy coat and a spark of desperation in their eyes. Others change in monstrous ways, becoming new beasts. As with the hungerer snake and its tail blade, a beast can develop new traits. An attack from such a beast might transmit {@disease Tears of the Hungerer|GH}.",
"The change is so drastic that feeding a beast isn't enough to return it to the animal it once was. Only powerful magic can restore a transformed beast. Some hungerer beasts breed their affliction into their offspring. Even greater magic is required to alter that change."
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"When a dwarf is cursed this way, their skin adopts a rocklike texture and hue. Their arms twist and harden, resembling a weapon and shield. The luxuriant beard they cultivated, the pride of any dwarf, becomes like metal wire. Most pronounced among these changes, their head bulges and distends in a mockery of familial great helms, their visage horrifying and unnatural. The mind snaps under the strain as their dwarf essence slowly leeches out of them.",
"As a hurrock loses touch with their former life, they grow to prefer the safety and solace of the rocky depths. A hurrock burrows ever deeper into solid rock, occasionally coming across mine shafts and underground tributaries. Hurrocks can often be found delving alone, but groups can also form, whether they sought each other out or were cursed together."
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"Eventually, the curse changes an ancient hurrock into a creature with only the barest resemblance to a dwarf. The hurrock's weapon arm and shield arm have worn to nubs, and the creature can travel quickly on all four limbs. Cursed rock makes up three-quarters of its body mass, and grows larger. Where the hurrock's metal-infused beard once was, there is now a tangle of iron blades and spikes bristling from its jaw. The rock comprising most of its head now covers its eyes, obscuring its vision, so the hurrock relies upon its {@sense tremorsense|MM}. In its final form, the hurrock no longer sleeps or enters a trance and can't be rendered unconscious."
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"The monster is hard to catch, escaping from a hold almost as quickly as a foe can wrestle it. An ithjar can quickly turn the tables on an enemy intent on capturing it. Its constricting coils can be as deadly as its bite."
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"When the ground becomes corrupted with violence and sin, it rises into a great stain of hate and brutality. Cloying with corruption, this jangle of stone and bones chews up the land and seeks to destroy living creatures in the area."
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"Many collectors of bizarre objects prize the fossils that make up a jespaith's skeleton, and poisoners and alchemists covet them for deadlier purposes. Grinding jespaith bones and adding them to poison increases the poison's saving throw DC by 1. One jespaith can produce 10 doses of such powder. Two doses can affect one poison with a cumulative DC increase, but further additions of the powder have no further effect."
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"Sailors are warned to be wary when they sail near Thrull in the cold north of Grarjord. It's not the people above the water that they worry about, but what hides under unusually warm waters."
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"Hundreds of years ago, the clan Keppmir tried to make a living off the unyielding land. The settlers found meager fishing and game, few crops could grow, and little wood made the cold a daily challenge. After ten seasons, the king of the clan turned to praying to Gormadraug. He encouraged his people to do so, thinking that the Great Prismatic Wyrm would be impressed with their dedication and fervor.",
"The prayers were heard, but the people were deceived. A powerful daemon appeared and claimed to be the avatar of Gormadraug. The king pleaded with the avatar, asking to keep his people warm and fed. The price was high\u2014the avatar demanded all the children of the settlement. The people thought that they could renegotiate for the children once they were comfortable, and an agreement was reached."
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"Each member of the clan clasped arms with the avatar. At the last, as the king gripped the avatar, hope quickly changed to pain. The people fell to the ground, clutching their legs as they transformed into long, fishlike tails. Chains sprang from the ground and wrapped tightly around each lower torso, embedding into the red scales. Four horns sprouted from every head, and their teeth grew into fangs.",
"As they felt suffocation creeping in, the avatar directed them to the water. It calmly explained they would always be warm in the water. They could eat anything, including each other, to make sure that they were never lacking in food. The avatar granted them long lives to remember the price they paid."
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"Memory of the Keppmir clan faded, leaving only monsters behind. The king and his people actively hunt in the northern waters, devouring anything that crosses their path, including unfortunate sailors.",
"Most keppmirs wait for their elite hunters to attack. These stalkers are skilled warriors and wear armor from whale bones. They have mastered hiding in dark waters, and they coordinate attacks on large ships, closing in silently and communicating with hand gestures. When the stalkers attack, other keppmirs dive after meat falling to the ocean floor.",
"Keppmirs are capable of speech and might negotiate. But the influence of their infernal contract has twisted them into beings loath to enter bargains."
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"The Keppmir King lives on. His tribe has ebbed and flowed over the years, but he hasn't aged. He vacillates between pride in keeping his tribe alive and the guilt of the price they paid. But if any of his people are harmed, he reacts brutally."
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"Brave sailors hunt keppmirs for their horns. Someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} can use one horn combined with other reagents, including dried seaweed from the Sea of Turmoil, to create a {@item potion of glacial resistance|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)}. Creating the potion requires 4 hours of work and a successful {@dc 13} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check.",
"The ancient {@item Crown of the Keppmir King|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)} has never been removed from his massive horns. Anyone who could defeat the leader could claim this prize."
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"The story of the Keppmir clan is known to many."
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"Because of their need to breathe water, keppmir are less of a threat on land. If you want to make them a larger threat, make them amphibious instead. Additionally, if they ever gained access to magic that allowed them to breathe air, this could pose the same threat.",
"Providing weapons that can also {@action grapple} on a successful attack, like some form of barbed spear, would allow keppmir to not only do extra fire damage, but also hold enemies underwater and provide a drowning risk."
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"The brutes grin, revealing teeth honed to a vicious point, as they lope through the fields at the edge of civilization."
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"When strife strikes the wilds of Etharis, those living in the wilderness retreat to urban areas. Those unwilling or unable to flee to safety do what's necessary to survive. Most survive through cooperation and luck. Occasionally, however, a group embraces malevolent forces to stay alive. The Knifetooth Horde is one of those latter entities.",
"The Knifetooth Horde isn't a name chosen by those within the horde. Most speak no language more sophisticated than grunts and gestures. The Knifetooth gained their name through the filing of their teeth to better eat raw meat. A raving band of homicidal brutes, they slaughter any who come into their territory, devouring their kills. It's hard to mistake members of the horde\u2014they ritualistically flay, mutilate, and pierce themselves and one another."
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"Most members of the Knifetooth Horde are warriors. Hunters, who work in small groups, range along the unofficial borders of Knifetooth territory, looking for prey. Among the hunters are a few slayers, wild and fearless fighters inured to pain. They battle as if their purpose in life is to bring ruin to anyone or anything outside the horde.",
"Rarely, a leader who has retained basic language skills and the ability to command fear and respect surfaces among the Knifetooth Horde. Such warlords serve as captains for raiding parties, if the Knifetooths used such terms.",
"Even more rare than warlords, the only Knifetooths to command magic are called firebrands. No one knows exactly how these warlocks manage to gain their control of their purple-tinged fire, but they have learned to use their eldritch powers to great destructive effect."
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"The tattered, scorched leathers of a Knifetooth firebrand can become infused with magic. Cleaning and fitting them takes someone who has proficiency with {@item leatherworker's tools|PHB} 5 days and materials worth 250 gp. The finished armor is {@item Knifetooth studded leather armor|GHMG|studded leather armor of resistance (fire) that also confers a +1 bonus to AC}."
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"A living shrine listening for a longlost melody, the kokela sleeps, waiting for the one who returns that song. This mysterious tune can kill, but only the kokela\u2014this song's creator\u2014can use it to bring about the end of all things."
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"During the kokela's slumber, it emits a hum that kills anything nearby and eventually cracks stone and softens the earth. This vibration can also call an individual on the same plane as the kokela to find the kokela's lost song.",
"Such a \"chosen one\" relentlessly seeks the song and anything that can aid in the search, from knowledge to wealth. When the task is complete, the kokela's hum guides the chosen one to it. In the kokela's presence, the chosen one succumbs to the kokela's dream. Thereby, the chosen one gains an audience with the slumbering aberration to remind it of the apocalypse song.",
"Then, the kokela sings in the end of the world."
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"Upon defeat, the kokela and its dream disappear, revealing its true form, a {@item malleus macabre|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)}, a blunt, jagged, bonelike object that jitters and peeps. A mortal can use this object, but it is a testament to the kokela. The kokela can be defeated, but it can never truly die."
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"The kokela is the remains of some long-dead or absent being. It slumbers, but it affects the world around it with its dreams, creating a nightmare landscape. The kokela also reverberates with a hum that can kill creatures and damage objects."
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"Using magic on the kokela is risky. It can reflect at the caster, or the kokela might dream it out of existence. The kokela can suddenly disappear and reappear elsewhere in its bizarre environment."
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"Tales tell of a priest who silenced the kokela for a time by rendering it unable to hear."
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"The kokela is an entity that is a mere reflection of the horror brought by the Aether Kindred, but that doesn't mean it isn't powerful. Living creatures in the vicinity of the slumbering kokela are constantly agitated, as the hum of the kokela's song slowly eats away at their psyches. Characters may find creatures in this area more hostile than normal. Also, the \"chosen one\" does anything in its power to find the source of the song."
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"After generations of walking the isolated forests of Etharis, the Laethlyn is a source of much esoteric lore. To those who prove themselves allies, rather than threats, the Laethlyn could be an unparalleled source of knowledge and history for druids and others who want a deeper understanding of the natural world or the things that endanger it."
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"Rumors in ancient texts have it that planting the Laethlyn's heart in soil that has never been trodden upon by mortal foot and watering it daily for 30 days will grow a single sapling of great power. Any druid that subsequently expends 10 spell slots of 4th level or higher on the living sapling can magically shape it into a {@item staff of the woodlands|DMG}."
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"The laneshi call their domain the Llana'Shi Empire. For most of its history, the leaders of the empire showed no interest in the activities of surface-dwelling peoples or the events of the surface world. Recently, this reluctance to engage with the world above the waves has changed, and agents of the empire go to air-covered lands with increasing regularity. The true purpose of these expeditions is unknown even to most laneshi."
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"Caste membership is determined at birth and dictates much about the life of a laneshi. Despite the caste names, their functions are much more expansive. Warriors form the bulk of the Llana'Shi Empire's army, but they also serve as the empire's diplomats. They are responsible for raising children, animal husbandry, and negotiating trade with others. Mystics serve society as loremasters, undertakers, and artisans."
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"Laneshi are an ancient aquatic species divided into two castes: warriors and mystics."
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"The ring of a large bell instantly disrupts all connections from the infested who can hear the ringing, destroying all spores within the same radius. For this reason, subconsciously, the leeching willow imparts memories onto the infested of strong hatred toward anything that can ring or vibrate in such a manner. All bells are gathered up and hidden far away where they cannot be heard (destroying them is difficult without making them ring). Common objects like silver utensils or glass are discarded and not used anywhere on the settlement either, for fear of any form of ringing."
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"A leeching willow is potent and powerful while inside of its protective tree form, but when severed from it and extracted, it's as weak and feeble as newborn lamb. The greatest treasure one can get from the aberration is the incredible font of knowledge it possesses about humanoids it has fed from.",
"A book made from the pulp of the tree containing the aberration can be made into a {@item tome of clear thought|DMG}. This process requires a successful {@dc 20} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check from a proficient bookmaker or sage, as well as 5000 gp of ink and other rare components used over 15 days."
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"The air around you is sweet and delectable, it feels fresh as if you were high on a mountain. It's not a fragrance you recognize, and it doesn't smell like any food you have experience before, but it smells delicious all the same."
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"Arch Daemon Malikir, corrupter of all that is good, crafted the first lenchtahg from the seraphic body of a captured member of Arch Seraph Empyreus's court. Taking glee in twisting a follower of the so-called \"Unbroken Seraph,\" the Arch Daemon killed the Seraph, distorted its spirit, and transformed it into a construct of smoke and flame, a being in constant agony, compelled to obey its demonic overlords."
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"Lenchtahgs possess many useful properties, such as magic resistance, rejuvenation, and the ability to absorb holy power to heal themselves. This latter trait is useful against the forces of the Seraphs. However, a lenchtahg is difficult to create. Even if capturing a Seraph alive were a straightforward task, the effort expended in transforming it into a lenchtahg is almost prohibitive, a luxury only afforded to Arch Daemons and their most powerful followers."
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"The severed head of a lenchtahg is a potent magic object. To the right buyer\u2014a necromancer, a daemon cultist, an evil alchemist, and the like\u2014a lenchtahg head is worth 750 gp. The servants of the Arch Daemon Malikir guard the secrets of binding a lenchtahg, but hags and other wicked creatures with magical skills possess knowledge to convert a lenchtahg head into a construct with similar unholy power."
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"Radiant damage heals a lenchtahg, which still has the flesh of a Seraph."
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"Dowsing a Lenchtahg with a lot of water or any holy water can temporarily weaken it."
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"The lenchtahg's head must be consecrated in a holy ceremony or otherwise rid of its evil to avoid the lenchtahg's rejuvenation. But those with the right knowledge can use the head to craft a magical servitor."
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"Those who use lenchtahg as troops in battle will use radiant magic to damage foes while at the same time healing the lenchtahg. This greatly heightens the strength of these monsters."
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"Before research led to the creation of the first soul vessel and lich, desperate wizards made many failed attempts in the pursuit of immortality. Given that trolls return to a hale, hearty state after most injuries, some wizards decided inserting the soul into a troll's body might be the right course. The results were poor."
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"Most lich trolls look like a humanoid skull with burning eyes atop a troll's body. Due to the imperfect process, the creature lost some of its arcane power. It gained the benefit of the body of a regenerating giant."
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}
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"Someone who has proficiency with {@item jeweler's tools|PHB} or {@item woodcarver's tools|PHB} can fashion the skull of a lich troll into a {@item ring of regeneration|DMG}. Doing so takes materials worth 5,000 gp, 10 days of work, and a successful {@dc 15} Intelligence or Wisdom check. Somebody must also cast {@spell greater restoration} on the ring each day during the process. If the ring's wearer dies while wearing the ring, the soul of the lich has a {@chance 75|25 percent chance|Lich Ring|Nothing occurs.|The Lich's soul takes over the body of the ring's wearer.} to take over the corpse and use it as a new body. But if the ring is created entirely in the area of a {@spell hallow} spell with the everlasting rest effect, the tie to the lich's soul is broken"
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"The lich troll is remnants of early attempts of powerful spellcasters to transfer their souls into trolls."
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"My great grandfather spoke of the lindwyrm terrorizing the countryside and devouring whole villages. But it's been so long since anyone has seen the beast, it's likely the creature is long dead. Thank Miklas!"
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"After a few months of gorging itself, a lindwyrm burrows deep into its underground lair where it slumbers, only stirring if something disturbs it. But in another hundred years, its hunger wakens it again."
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"Lindwyrms are voracious eaters, consuming all manner of crops, livestock, and people. If it can swallow it, it does, and lindwyrms have very big mouths."
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"A dose of {@item lindwyrm venom|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see Chapter 4)} can be harvested by someone proficient with a {@item poisoner's kit|PHB} and succeeds on a {@dc 18} Dexterity ({@skill Sleight of Hand}) check, but this must be done within 1 hour of the lindwyrm's death. If the check fails by 5 or more, the harvester instead poisons themselves. This injury poison is worth 1,000 gp."
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"Lindwyrms sleep for 100 years and when they waken are devastating to communities in its hunting area."
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"Lindwyrms have a poisonous bite and may swallow creatures they bite."
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"One exciting adventure seed could find a powerful enemy of the adventurers looking to waken and control a lindwyrm. Whether that plot succeeds or not is up to you, but a three-way battle between involving a lindwyrm and other foes should be memorable as the action ebbs and flows."
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"The two-headed, four-armed, blood-covered statue moves forward, weapons at the ready."
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"With the rise of the Cult of Tormach throughout Unterland, the bloody ambitions of Speaker Schlei have come to fruition more and more. Under his orders, cultists devoted to the demented Arch Daemon of war fight one another to the death in single combat as an offering of sacrificial bloodshed. If both combatants die from their wounds and their combat is glorious, Tormach grants the devotees special favor."
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"Tormach grafts combatants honored for their bloodthirsty sacrifice, together forming a four-armed, two-headed creature known as a lithobel. The creature's skin is transmuted into rough stone, and it is granted massive stone weapons capable of slaughtering a draft horse in a single swing. The hulking creature is then turned loose on the hapless population of Etharis, possessing only the drive to maim and kill any living creature unlucky enough to cross its path."
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"I've got lotions, potions, dusts, draughts, tinctures, and even a balm or two. What do you need? I've tested them all myself!"
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"Most warriors spend their entire lives perfecting their skill with their weapons, but a few lack the focus, skill, dedication, or patience for such a path. These warriors seek any edge over their foes, no matter the cost. Trickery or magic can provide that edge. Some turn to alchemy."
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"Potions are not a strange sight on the battlefield. Adventurers rarely leave the safety of town without at least a few healing potions, and some of the more exotic ones if they can afford it. Gaining the title of \"Living Crucible\" is a different matter. These warriors use alchemy to alter their own bodies in search of greater battle prowess. While this takes a toll on them in the long run, it also allows them to ingest unusual combinations of alchemical reagents for a quick boost in combat."
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}
]
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"When looting a drug-crazed warrior, there is the possibility of finding {@dice 1d4} chemical compounds, like the ones they use in battle. Anyone consuming one of these compounds must make a {@dc 13} Constitution save or be {@condition poisoned} for 1 minute. On a natural 1 on the save, the creature dies. After 1 day, the compounds become inert and lose all special properties."
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"Though most ogresh are good-hearted creatures, little is worse than an evil one. They use their influence to corrupt whole communities. These communities tend to do the bidding of their ogresh leader, and often they are tricked into not even realizing their actions are vile. Such ogresh are as duplicitous others are kind."
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"While oozing vultures are frequently found in groups, their blood frenzy keeps them from working together as a flock like other avian creatures. However, they might enter symbiotic relationships with ground-dwelling creatures to maximize their hunting prospects. If caught and trained, oozing vultures can act as excellent guards or hunters."
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"Travel in Etharis is a dangerous proposition. Those who venture beyond the safety of city walls often stick to the network of roads laid down during the Bürach Empire's heyday. These roads have their own perils, however, as evidenced by the outlaws who've made highway robbery their trade."
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"The {@item blackpowder pistol|GHPG|blackpowder pistols} outlaws favor are extremely rare and valuable. However, rough use and poor upkeep comes with a robber lifestyle, which means that the pistol requires maintenance before it can be used reliably. This maintenance costs 100 gp and must be performed by someone who has proficiency with {@item smith's tools|PHB} or {@item tinker's tools|PHB}. Without this refurbishing, the pistol breaks beyond repair the next time a shooter using it rolls a 1 on the {@dice d20} for an attack roll. This catastrophe occurs before any other trait can mitigate it unless the GM rules otherwise."
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"Followers of Solyma, the Arch Seraph of Justice, crafted the first pactbreakers. Bereft of her guidance, members of this sect decided to take vengeance on those who treat with fiends, evil fey and Aether Kindred. They forged pactbreakers to enforce their holy laws, using celestial magic and forces drawn from elemental chaos. This magic grants each pactbreaker the ability to alter its attacks."
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"Pactbreakers have an instinctive sense, instantly recognizing those who make infernal, evil fey, or aberrant bargains. Those bound by such rules set off the construct's enhanced senses. A pactbreaker uses this ability to relentlessly pursue any warlock or fiendish thrall."
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"The closest creature within 30 feet of a pactbreaker when it is destroyed absorbs a portion of the construct's chaotic energy. If more than one creature is that close, each creature rolls a {@dice d20}. The creature that rolls the highest or each creature that ties for highest gains the effects of a {@item potion of heroism}."
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"In the world of Grim Hollow, characters are going to face powerful temptation to gain power through contracts with evil or unscrupulous powers. Not only are there typical warlock pacts, but there are some transformations granted through dealings with unholy forces. The pactbreaker is a wonderful tool for the GM to use to provide suitable consequences for those deals.",
"Introducing a pactbreaker at lower levels, before the characters are powerful enough to simply kill it, can make for a fun, recurring threat that the characters must first escape from, and then later deal with. The more toward evil the characters shift in their behaviors with the campaign, the more frequently the pactbreakers find and challenge them."
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"When the Primordials need champions and emissaries, they empower mortals with their elemental blessings, exalting them into panjaians. These panjaians bridge the gap between elemental and humanoid. Most panjaians look vaguely human with hair, eyes, and skin tones that reflect their elemental affinity.",
"When fighting on behalf of their Primordial patron, a panjaian could never be mistaken for a normal mortal. They weaponize the elements. Towers of flame, rising walls of earth, grasping tendrils of water, and lightning arcing from outstretched fingertips are the chosen weapons of an enraged panjaian.",
"Once a humanoid becomes a panjaian, their patron can't undo the process. Most panjaian's loyally serve their masters, allying with those who share the same creator. But if a threat is dire, or a quest critical, panjaians empowered by different Primordials work together to ensure success."
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"Although they vary as humanoids do, panjaians have tendencies related to their element. Alondons prefer to remain neutral unless the outcomes are serious or impact them directly. Morakeshi are as charismatic as they are quick tempered. Citrolachi are the most stoic of the panjaians and the least likely to act out of impulse or passion. Ilharans are far more likely to act as spies and saboteurs than soldiers."
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"Within the last decade, panjaians with the ability to manipulate coldfire\u2014a swiftly spreading, freezing, blue flame that plagues Grarjord\u2014have reappeared in the world. These servants of Gormadraug frighten other Primordials. Many speculate the reemergence of these panjaians is a sign of Gormadraug's return.",
"But the origins of the panjaian gormadraugons are unknown to those outside their ranks. Their presumed patron, Gormadraug, has been dormant for some time, and the gormadraugons aren't sharing their origins. Pariahs among other panjaians, gormadraugons' motives are as enigmatic as their existence."
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"Someone who has proficiency in {@skill Medicine} can attempt a {@dc 13} Wisdom ({@skill Medicine}) check to remove a panjaian's heart intact. Somebody who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} can treat the heart with reagents worth 100 gp in a process that takes 3 days and a successful {@dc 13} Intelligence or Wisdom check. This process, if successful, hardens the heart into an {@item elemental gem}: {@item Elemental Gem, Blue Sapphire|DMG|blue sapphire} for ilharan, {@item Elemental Gem, Yellow Diamond|DMG|yellow diamond} for citrolachi, {@item Elemental Gem, Red Corundum|DMG|red corundum} for morakeshi, and {@item Elemental Gem, Emerald|DMG|emerald} for alondon. What this process creates when used on the heart of a panjaian gormadraugon is unknown. History records no such act. (A {@item gem of brightness|DMG} is a good possibility, however.)"
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"Panjaians first appeared near the end of the Primordial's war with the gods. Some scholars believe if panjaians had been created earlier, it might have changed the conflict's outcome."
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"Since a panjaian can be created from any type of humanoid creature, the stats shown here can be used as a template for adding powers to other creatures. For example, there's nothing stopping you from creating an ogre ilharan. Creatures within the 4\u20138 CR range won't become too powerful if given some of the traits of the panjaian. Creatures lower than CR 4 would become a CR 6 monster and should just use the regular panjaian stat block. Creatures of CR 9 or higher don't gain much by adding the traits, but it could be a great mystery for the characters to unravel."
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"Aether Kindred exist in the far reaches beyond normal space and time, but they aren't the only entities to inhabit those in-between places. Other strange entities writhe and swim in the nothingness between stars, hungering for energies they can sense just beyond the veil. Occasionally they taste freedom when a mage manages to open a thin crack, whetting the appetite of these strange beings and drawing them toward the known world."
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"Contact with the outer cosmos is rare, but a seeker of arcane knowledge might briefly touch the mind of a creature from that far realm. If that creature takes notice, it might be intrigued by the rich domain it senses. Such an entity perceives the mortal world as a fertile spawning ground, abundant with food for its offspring. And so, it sends forth a fragment of its will in the form of a larva to worm its way into the mind and body of the one foolish enough to contact it."
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"A parasite warlock always has a blightworm within. In the typical blightworm warlock, the worm is immature and unable to live outside the host. Extracting a blightworm from the host requires someone who has proficiency in the {@skill Medicine} skill to succeed on a {@dc 15} Wisdom ({@skill Medicine}) check. The corpses of two such immature blightworms or one mature one can be used to create four doses of a potion that mimics the {@spell telepathic bond} spell for those who drink it at the same time while within 30 feet of each other and are willing to participate in the bond. Making this potion requires the blightworm or worms, reagents worth 250 gp, 8 hours of work, and a successful {@dc 15} Intelligence or Wisdom check."
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"Parasite warlocks draw their power from a parasitic creature dwelling within them. The parasite, known as a blightworm, is from some other plane of existence."
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"Blightworms exist to consume energy, draining worlds until they are depleted husks. Their hosts gain limited ability to siphon magic from their foes. The parasite does the same to its host, eventually merging into a unified being."
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"The blightworm can survive the death of its host. It emerges from the corpse and attempts to infest a new body. The new host's soul departs and that of the original warlock takes its place, a horrific reward for service to otherworldly forces."
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"A parasitic blightworm infestation can be a devastating plot twist in a campaign. A trusted ally who falls prey to one can do irreparable harm to the characters. If this happens, give the characters subtle hints that their ally is acting differently, without stating it outright. The players will feel great if they figure it out based on your subtle clues, and they can solve the problem before it gets too far out of hand."
]
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"Appearing as yellowish, humanoidshaped clouds, pestas can be hard to spot due to their incorporeal form. During hot days, a pesta and a heat shimmer appear identical.",
"Pestas are also called \"the farmer's shade.\" Most of their victims are found in or around fields. They blend in with the wheat and corn, and farmers have mistaken a pesta for a cloud of dust."
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"Pestas are the risen souls of people who died of a disease while working under the hot sun. In their final moments, they cursed their life being cut short. This emotion kept their soul anchored as an angry reflection of what they were in life, bound to spread the disease that claimed them."
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"The victims of a pesta appear drained of vitality and have an unhealthy yellow hue to their skin. No matter how vigorous they were in life, in death they look as if they spent months battling a horrid disease. Such bodies are wrapped in cloth to avoid touching them and burned soon after they're found. The pesta might be long gone, but the diseased corpse left behind can spawn another and continue to wreak havoc."
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"Stoneborn trolls are hulking, musclebound creatures sheathed in grey, warty skin as tough as rock. Their claws and teeth are harder than normal, as well, and can sheer through metal and flesh.",
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"Ilhara, the Queen of Air and Shadow, has a dedicated following of windborn trolls. They carry powerful confidence in their stormy souls. Windborn trolls are impatient to help their matron ascend to control Etharis.",
"Mighty windborn can twist shadows, creating minor illusions to trick their enemies. The coloring of their smooth skin adjusts to their surroundings, making them difficult to spot and find. These infiltrators subtly pursue Ilhara's agenda. However, if subterfuge fails, they are cunning fighters who can hurl lightning."
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"Nodules inside primordial trolls empower them with elemental traits. Someone who has proficiency in the {@skill Arcana} or {@skill Medicine} skill can extract these \"organs\" with a successful {@dc 13} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) or Wisdom ({@skill Medicine}) check. Somebody who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} can take the nodules from one troll, along with other reagents worth 100 gp, to refine an {@item elixir of elemental spittle|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)}. Making one elixir takes 1 day of work."
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"Putrid giants kill and eat most other creatures. But their laziness competes with their depravity. A putrid giant might attract a following of morbus kobolds, who see the giant as a living representative of the Filth Grazer. This misbegotten clan serves the giant as further spreaders of its ailment, and the giant allows this service, likely eating only enough kobolds to keep the others servile."
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"Note this doom we've spoken.",
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"Only another mighty fiend can control a quoxxarie, but risking a quoxxarie offers such a fiend a valuable soldier. An army with multiple quoxxaries is a powerful one. If their commander provides them with enough battles, the quoxxaries serve without much problem, and their fearsome reputation can keep enemies and rivals at bay."
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"The four colors indicate unique traits. Red or izil quoxxaries are most common. The creature resembles a bloody carcass trailing gore, and its lust for battle is infectious. Black or ara quoxxaries are the smallest of these fiends, with the appearance of a burnt corpse. These quoxxaries weaken enemies and pollute the ground they walk on. White or oko quoxxaries resemble a pale, disease-ridden corpse, with a pestilential cloud hanging around it. The creatures appear weak, prone to stumbling and coughing, but they are as supernaturally sickening as their appearance suggests. Gray or boza quoxxaries are the rarest and most powerful, and they are also the most patient and circumspect in battle. A gray quoxxarie is skeletal, its ashy skin stretched tight over the bones, its desiccated organs giving off dust. This fiend brings pain and death with it, causing wounds to fester and refuse to heal. A gray quoxxarie prefers foes that are close to death."
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"Ravens of ill omen are larger than normal ravens. A plume of feathers, red and white, and alabaster eyes set it further apart from its kin. These regal ravens also have magical influence over fortune. This prescience causes misfortune for the raven's enemies and good luck for fellow corvids.",
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"Many people believe the crown feather of the raven of ill omen bestows good fortune, while others insist the opposite is true. Someone can sit with such a feather for 1 hour and attempt to attune to it, making a {@dc 10} Charisma check. On a success, the feather acts as a {@item stone of good luck|DMG}. On a failure, the feather seems to be a {@item stone of good luck|DMG}, but the GM secretly subtracts 2 from ability checks and saving throws after the player adds the \"luckstone's\" +1. The ill-fortune feather is cursed. Until the curse is removed, the attuned user can't discard it. The good-fortune feather crumbles to dust if the user rolls a 1 on a death saving throw. The ill-fortune feather crumbles, ending the curse, if the user rolls a 20 on a death saving throw."
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"Sand giants are also expert cartographers, carrying detailed maps of the areas that they travel. A sand giant monarch carries maps worth up to 500 gp. Some might be more valuable to anyone interested in mapmaking, trade, or travel. One or more of these maps might show locations of potential treasure, such as ancient ruins in the desert."
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"A spellcaster can capture a psychic fragment's essence before it dissipates after death. The spellcaster requires a container worth at least 100 gp. Anyone who succeeds on a {@dc 13} Intelligence ({@skill Arcana}) check can capture a portion of the defeated psychic fragment. The container can store up to 10 hit die worth of undead essence for 8 hours before they dissipate.",
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"The wings that sprout from an Empyrean knight's back look like they're made from swords, in homage to the Arch Seraph they serve. Someone can attempt to attach the wings to their back as an action with a successful {@dc 15} Strength ({@skill Religion}) check. On a success, the wearer can fly as per the {@spell fly} spell for 10 minutes.",
"The bloodied are a strange occurrence, and their chains are a powerful magical ward. Someone succeeding on a {@dc 15} Wisdom ({@skill Arcana}) check can attach them to their body for a brief time. On a success, the chains provide life protection as per the {@spell death ward} spell for 1 hour."
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"Running combat on a grid with a slumbering titan can offer challenges if you play by the rule that creatures cannot share the same space. If this is the case, you'll likely want to reduce the size of the slumbering titan and have the characters occupy the squares around it.",
"For a great deal of fun, have a combat between other creatures and the characters take place on top of a slumbering titan. The monstrous mountain would attack the pesky creatures on its back indiscriminately. If the characters are lower level, this turns a typical combat encounter into one where the goal for the characters is survival!"
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"Soman vampires crumble into dust when they die, and alchemists value that dust for its properties. The Morbus Doctore purchase vampire dust. Sold to such a buyer, one vampire yields dust worth 100 gp times its Challenge. The dust must be kept dry and out of direct sunlight to retain its value and usefulness.",
"Someone who has proficiency with {@item alchemist's supplies|PHB} can use the dust and other materials worth 500 gp to make an {@item elixir of life protection|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)}. Making the elixir takes 2 days and requires the alchemist to succeed on a {@dc 13} Intelligence or Wisdom check."
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"Soman vampires are undead who feed on the blood of the living by night and the hard work of the living by day. These vampires can pass as human and live according to rules. Other Soman vampires shun their fellows who give in to bloodlust or needlessly terrorize mortals."
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"Vampires throughout fantasy rules rule the night. Soman vampires rule the day as well, as they are the leaders of the land. This makes Soman vampires much more dangerous\u2014not because of their martial or magical powers, but because of their political power. Anything that the characters might use to fight the powers of the Soman vampires will soon become outlawed in Soma, the possession or use of it punishable by death. Characters opposing the Soman vampire leaders might easily find themselves hunted by the very population they are trying to save and free from oppression."
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"Just because it's made to gather corpses doesn't mean it can't harm the living."
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"Gathering corpses for necromantic rituals is difficult, dirty work. Powerful arcanists delegate that work to constructs. Suture golems are that sort of construct, made to bring corpses back to their masters. If corpses are hard to find, the golem can make them."
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"A suture golem is a hulking mass of flesh and tough wire. The magic imbued in the construct allows it to use its filaments as limbs. These entangling threads work well to grab and hold those the golem intends to return to its master."
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]
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"Someone who has proficiency with {@item weaver's tools|PHB} can use the wire from one suture golem to make a {@item living net|GHMG} {@homebrew |(see chapter 4)}. Doing so takes 3 days of work and other materials worth 100 gp. Someone must cast {@spell hold person} on the net each day of its crafting."
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"Suture golems are constructed of body parts and wires. Necromancers use them to collect corpses. However, the golem can use its abilities to entangle and restrain living beings."
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},
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"A suture golem is immune to nonmagical weapon attacks. However, adamantine weapons can harm it, as can slashing weapons, although adamantine or magic slashing weapons are more effective. The golem's attacks are magical."
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}
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"In a world fraught with danger, sometimes even the underfoot flora is deadly."
]
},
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"type": "entries",
"name": "Cursed Grass",
"page": 330,
"entries": [
"Stories claim that imps plant svangras, but it really grows in places where travelers died, particularly from {@condition exhaustion}. Svangras is a bulb plant that looks like a large onion that can move on small tendrils. When svangras forms, grass in its area falls under its control. Anyone walking on svangras is said to be doomed to unending {@condition exhaustion}."
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}
]
},
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