Category: Best of the Bestiary

  • Yuan-Ti Part 1: Lore and Design

    The yuan-ti cast off their humanity long ago, and with it, their sanity. From Masters of the Forbidden City by Codo Vidak Lore: Slithering Tyrants Dwelling within abandoned temples buried within jungles, swamps, and deserts, the yuan-ti plot to supplant the dominant races of the world and become gods. Once, they were humans who worshipped…

  • Yeti: Fear Not the Snow…

    On your guard! That’s not the wind howling! Kelesta Hawke of the Emerald Enclave Lore: …Fear That Hidden Within Miners and herders the world over fear the windborne howls of the yeti. Folk traveling the peaks go well-armed in large groups for fear the ever-hungry yeti will smell them out. Not even a blizzard can…

  • Xorn: Maw of the Earth

    Keep a few gems in your pocket. A hungry xorn is a helpful xorn. X the Mystic’s 6th Rule of Dungeon Survival Lore: Delicious Diamonds Native to the Elemental Plane of Earth, and sometimes residing within the Underdark on the Material Plane, xorns devour treasure and precious gemstones. A well-fed xorn is relatively docile, while…

  • Wyvern: Not-Dragon

    Lore: Bird of Prey Ultimate Edition A cousin to the mighty dragons, wyverns are deadly skyward hunters. They’re relentless and cunning, only ever retreating from a hunt if it sustains potentially deadly injury. It can even be tamed, making for a deadly mount indeed. And… yeah, that’s it. No, I’m not messing with you. That’s…

  • Wraith: Raise the Banners of Death

    Lore: King of the Dead When malice is concentrated into an incorporeal, murderous form, a wraith is born. All life flees or dies in its presence, from animals to plants. Even flames die in its wake. Should a humanoid mortal live a vile life or enter a pact with a fiend, they doom their soul…