The Dungeons and Dragons ArchiveIt’s simple to understand what drives Harold: faith. He genuinely believes that he has been selected by his god to oppose the machinations of the Bleak Vista in the world of mortal men, and to fight the spread of the Church of Lereina. In the short term, his methods have been extraordinarily successful, as the trail of slain fiends and Lereina-worshiping priests and mercenaries in his wake attests.
Cruel, cowardly, and controlling, Alvart Algartsson is the last scion of a once-noble house.
A low drone fills the air around a cloud of thousands of faintly glowing insects
A wispy, ethereal-looking man sits astride a black-coated horse, clutching a wicked-looking spear in one hand. Locks of white hair float like cobwebs around his pallid face as he charges down out of the night sky, eyes burning with spectral green fir
These magical fish are attractive and peaceful despite having the general shape of a sturgeon, with scales that show a coruscating pattern of light, often with a rainbow effect. The creature’s translucent, shining fins are the basis for its name, but ironically the fins are only noticeable when the sturgeon employs its supernatural enthralling shimmer ability.
The being before your eyes is short and lithe, almost elfin in appearance, but with pale blue skin and violet eyes and hair. She is garbed in silken garments in shades of blue, green, and violet, and a sheen of moisture seems to glisten on her skin, hair, and clothing.
These animals are specially bred in Ilmuk, one of the Federated River Kingdoms to the east of the Kingdom of Enteria. Ilmuktan military tactics depend greatly on the use of charges by massed heavy cavalry—plate armored riders wield lances astride the backs of these massive destriers, which often are armored in the same fashion as their riders.
A great black hound the size of a horse crouches before you, its teeth flashing blue-white and its breath rimed with ice. Pale green light flickers in its eyes.
The creature before your eyes is shaped like a greyhound, but stands as tall as a pony at the shoulder. Its coat is mottled in silver and blood-red, and its gorgeous silver eyes regard the world with more-than-animal intelligence
This being resembles a tiny, hairless, nut-brown elf with enormous, luminous green eyes.