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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight (coming soon!).Her music bends hearts and minds to her will, draws animals to her side, and reshapes her environment. The magic of a wish spell granted by a lucky draw from the Deck of Many Things made her the greatest bard in the Multiverse. The legendary bard Ellywick Tumblestrum-a gnome whose many journeys began on an unknown world of the Material Plane-has beguiled a fey prince, calmed the fury of the Nine Hells, twisted the mind of an archmage, won the love of a dragon-god, and brought a demon queen to tears. Instead, she became a general in the devils' forces and ruler of Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. Obsessed with the conflict between devils and demons that rages across the Lower Planes, she attempted to intervene in that Blood War and exterminate evil from the cosmos. Zariel was once an angel, but her impetuous nature and love of battle led to her fall. Known as the Spider Queen or the Demon Queen of Spiders, Lolth commands the absolute loyalty of her cultists. She then convinced a group of drow elves to follow her to the Underdark-where they remain her fanatical worshippers to this day. Millennia ago, Lolth ignited a divine war between elven gods, sundering the elven peoples forever.

The Spider Queen maintains a stranglehold over her Underdark cult of drow elves, severing them from the rest of the world. Lolth is an ancient goddess who spins webs of deceit and feeds on destruction and chaos. For the sake of the Balance, the cosmos must remain in a static state where neither side in any of these struggles can permanently gain the upper hand. He posits that if any side in a struggle grows too powerful, it becomes tyrannical. He is the primary adherent of a philosophy of Balance, which holds that the Multiverse is a collection of opposing forces, each one trying to tip the scales of fate in its favor. He has also crafted many renowned spells (most notably Mordenkainen's faithful hound). Mordenkainen, a human archmage from the world of Greyhawk, leads a powerful group of adventurers called the Circle of Eight and has authored several planar tomes.

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight.Adventurers and dragons alike pray to Bahamut to uphold honor and justice, or when they need courage to face a great threat. In human form, he is usually accompanied by seven ancient gold dragons magically disguised as canaries or other songbirds.īahamut is deeply invested in the affairs of mortal creatures, especially when they fall victim to the machinations of Tiamat the Dragon Queen and the evil dragons that serve her. He makes his home in the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia, but he often wanders the Material Plane in the magical guise of a venerable old wizard, a humble fisher, or a dashing young monk. Known as the Platinum Dragon, Bahamut is the patron and progenitor of the metallic dragons. They range from gods to exalted adventurers. The Planeswalkers in Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms are characters of tremendous power whose influence extends across many worlds of the D&D Multiverse.

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