Setting Overview

Sixty generations ago, the people of Cerilia fought a great battle against the Shadow at Mount Deismaar. They stood alongside their gods and prevailed against the evil god Azrai, and in so doing they changed the world. The old gods died in that battle, as did many mortals, but those who survived were imbued with a divine essence. This power can be passed through blood inheritance, and the land itself responds to it, recognizing some of those with this divine heritage as having the right to rule.

Character Creation

Blood Abilities by Strength and Derivation

Blood Abilities in Detail

Elemental Control (Great)

Derivations: Anduiras, Basaia, Masela, Reynir

Each of the elements had its patron god. Anduiras was god of the skies. Basaia held dominion over fire. Masela, as goddess of the sea, controlled water, and finally Reynir was the patron of earth.

You can speak with elemental creatures affiliated with your element. Elementals of that type will not attack you unless compelled by an outside source. In addition, at 7th level you can cast conjure minor elementals to summon elementals of that type. Once you cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it again. At 9th level you can instead cast conjure elemental.

Enhanced Sense (Minor, Major)

Derivations: All

You have improved powers of perception.

Anduiras. You can cast detect evil and good. Once you cast it, you must finish a short or long rest before you can cast it again. As a major ability, you can cast it at will.

Azrai. You have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, increase its range by 60 feet. As a major ability, you can also see through magical darkness effects as if they did not exist.

Basaia. You do not suffer disadvantage for making ranged attacks at long range. As a major ability, you are immune to the blinded condition when inflicted by anything short of having your eyes removed or destroyed.

Brenna. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks associated with hearing. As a major ability, you are immune to the deafened condition and you cannot be surprised.

Masela. You never suffer disadvantage on skill checks as a result of wind, rain, snow, fog, or other weather-related conditions. Your sight and hearing are not hampered by poor weather. As a major ability, whenever anyone within 10 miles speaks your name and both of you are outdoors, the wind carries their words to you. You hear their words as well as what is said about you.

Reynir. You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track quarry. As a major ability, you automatically succeed on these checks and you cannot be surprised in wilderness or rural environments.

Vorynn. You have a limited ability to see the future. You can cast augury. Once you cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it again. As a major ability, at 5th level you can also cast divination. Once you cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it again.

Fearsome Mien (Major)

Derivations: Azrai

You can awaken the deepest fears of those around you. You can cast wrathful smite. Once you cast it, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again. At 5th level, you can also cast fear. Once you cast it, you must complete a long rest before you can cast it again.

Healing (Minor, Major, Great)

Derivations: Anduiras, Basaia, Reynir

You gain the ability to heal with a touch.

Minor. You can cast cure wounds. Once you cast it, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again.

Major. You can cast lesser restoration. Once you cast it, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again.

Great. When you reach 7th level, you can cast greater restoration. Once you cast it, you must complete a long rest before you can cast it again.

Home Hearkening (Major, Great)

Derivations: Brenna

You have a strong connection to your domain. If any of your holdings experience a challenge or threat, you immediately know it, though you do not know the nature of the threat. As a great ability, you can address the issue from a distance, imposing your will on your domain from another location. You can take a single domain action to address the threat, even if you are not in your domain.

Iron Will (Minor)

Derivations: Anduiras, Azrai, Brenna, Reynir

You gain advantage on all saving throws against the charmed condition.

Long Life (Minor, Major, Great)

Derivations: All (Anduiras: Minor only)

Minor. You age only one year for every five that pass.

Major. You age only one year for every ten that pass. In addition, your Constitution score increases by 1.

Great. You do not age.

Mebhaighl Sense (Minor, Major)

Derivations: Vorynn

You are in tune with the natural magic of Cerilia.

Minor. You can cast detect magic at will, although you can only use it to detect arcane magic. In addition, you can detect ley lines and mebhaighl sources within one mile.

Major. You no longer need to concentrate to use detect magic. It is simply always active. You must concentrate to learn the school of magic for any magical effects that you spot. Your ability to detect ley lines and mebhaighl sources extends to five miles.

Poison Sense (Minor)

Derivations: Azrai, Reynir

You can cast detect poison and disease at will.

Poison Touch (Minor, Major)

Derivations: Azrai

Minor. You can cast poison spray at will.

Major. You can poison food or water at a touch at will. Anyone eating or drinking a poisoned substance must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 poison damage and become poisoned. The poisoned creature must repeat the saving throw every 24 hours, taking 1d6 poison damage on a failed save. Until the poison ends, the damage the poison deals can’t be healed by any means. After seven successful saving throws, the poison effect ends.

Protective Veil (Major)

Derivations: All except Azrai

You can cast protection from evil and good. Once you cast it, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again.

Regeneration (Great)

Derivations: Anduiras, Azrai, Reynir

You heal unnaturally fast. When you take a short rest, you heal additional hit points equal to your Bloodline ability modifier for each Hit Die you expend. You regain all your Hit Dice at the end of a long rest. You automatically succeed on death saving throws. Finally, you can recover from lingering injuries given enough time. An injury that can be cured by magical healing is removed after a short rest. If the injury requires magical healing of 6th level or higher, it is removed after a long rest. Injuries requiring a regenerate spell can be healed after three months (one domain turn).

Resistance (Minor)

Derivations: All

The ancient gods grant some of their scions improved ability to resist harm.

Anduiras. You gain resistance to psychic damage.

Azrai. Choose necrotic or poison damage. You gain resistance to that damage type.

Basaia. You gain resistance to fire damage.

Brenna. You gain advantage on all saving throws against effects that would inflict the paralyzed or restrained conditions.

Masela. You gain the ability to breathe water.

Reynir. You gain resistance to cold damage.

Vorynn. As a reaction, you can shield yourself against magical effects and gain advantage on a saving throw against a spell. Once you have used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again.

Touch of Decay (Great)

Derivations: Azrai

You can cast inflict wounds. When you cast it, you can target objects as well as creatures, and the spell automatically inflicts maximum damage on objects. Once you cast it, you must complete a short or long rest before you can cast it again.

Travel (Great)

Derivations: Azrai, Basaia, Brenna, Masela, Vorynn

Your blood grants you the ability to transport yourself long distances. To use this power, you must be familiar with your destination. This power is similar to the teleport spell, except as noted below. Once you have used this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can cast it again. In all cases, using this ability requires several minutes of focus, and the journey itself takes an hour.

Azrai. You travel through the Shadow World. You can only use this power between sunset and sunrise, and your entry and exit points must be in places where the barrier between the worlds is thin, such as a graveyard, deep cavern, or bloody battlefield.

Basaia. You travel through fire. You must enter and exit through a fire large enough to cover your entire body. You are protected from the flames during the transition.

Brenna. You travel along the roads of Cerilia. You must be standing on a road to use this power, and your destination can be anywhere you could reach without leaving the roads.

Masela. You travel through the sea and other bodies of water connected to it. You must enter and exit through a natural body of water large enough to immerse you to the waist.

Vorynn. You can travel only while the moon is visible. You must be able to see the moon from your entry and exit point.

Unreadable Thoughts (Minor)

Derivations: All

You are immune to the detect thoughts spell and gain advantage on saving throws against all other spells and effects that read your mind or emotions. Attempts to use Insight to determine your motives have disadvantage.

Ancestry

Most of the standard races are available in a Birthright campaign, but some of them have been changed to account for differences between the PHB and the Cerilian versions.

Ability Score Increases. All characters, regardless of ancestry, can choose one of the following: either increase any ability score by 2 and another score by 1, or increase three different ability scores by 1.

Common

    Fury of the Small. When you damage a creature that is larger than you with an attack or spell, you can deal extra damage equal to your level. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on your turn.

Elite

    Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity as well as the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Imposing Presence. You have proficiency in Intimidation.

Half-Elf

Half-elves are rare in Cerilia. Those who live among humans can face ostracism and suspicion, which tends to result in the half-elf traveling widely. The elves are more welcoming, treating the half-elf as one of their own. Often, half-elves serve as the public face of elven communities.

Size. Half-elves are the same size as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Versatility. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Languages. You are fluent in Sidhelien, one human language, and one additional language of your choice.

Halfling

The halflings of Cerilia fled to this world from the Shadow World, a realm of twilight and magic. Once they could walk between the worlds freely, but now they are tethered to this world and cannot move across the border as they wish. Halflings tend to adapt and emulate the cultures surrounding them, leading to cultural distinctions between those who live in human realms and those who live among the elves.

Size. Halflings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, your can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature whose size is larger than yours.

From Shadow. As an action, you can attune your senses to the Shadow World, allowing you to cast detect evil and good and detect magic (necromancy only). You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the misty step spell, but only while standing in a region of dim or darker lighting. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again. When you reach 7th level, you can cast dimension door once per day, but only under the same conditions.

    Languages. You speak Umbric and one additional language of your choice.

Culture. Choose your cultural heritage from among Sidhe-friend and Human-friend.

Human

Humans are the most populous race in Cerilia and inhabit every part of the continent. Most are descended from the tribes of Aduria—save for the Khinasi, who ancestors sailed to Cerilia from across the Sea of Dragons.

Feat. You gain one feat of your choice.

Languages. You speak one language of your choice as well as the language of your culture.

Culture. Choose your cultural heritage from among Anuirean, Brecht, Khinasi, Rjuven, and Vos.

Orog

Orogs are a subterranean race of miners and warriors that inhabit Cerilia’s mountain ranges. Most orog holdings are in a state of perpetual war against all their neighbors. Like their traditional enemies, the dwarves, orogs are skilled artisans. Their culture values strength and skill at arms.

Size. Orogs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall and weigh close to 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Orog Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed toward an enemy of your choice that you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.

Martial Training. You are proficient with two martial weapons of your choice and light armor.

Languages. You are fluent in Orog as well as an additional human language of your choice.

Class

The standard classes are available in a Birthright campaign. The available subclasses are listed below.

Barbarian

• Ancestral Guardian (XGE)
• Battlerager (SCAG)
• Berserker (PH)
• Storm Herald (XGE)
• Totem Warrior (PH, additional totems in SCAG)
• Zealot (XGE)

Bard

• Glamour (XGE)
• Lore (PH)
• Satire (UA)
• Swords (XGE)
• Valor (PH)
• Whispers (XGE)

Cleric

Blooded clerics can cast realm spells using temple holdings. Halflings have no gods of their own but adopt the religious practices of the communities that surround them. Elves similarly lack their own divinities; they tend to be druids, or on extremely rare occasions clerics of one of the human gods.

• Haelyn, Lord of Noble War: Order (GGR), Protection (UA), War (PH)
• Erik, Old Father of the Forests: Life (PH), Nature (PH)
• Cuiraécen, Stormlord: Nature (PH), Tempest (PH), War (PH)
• Nesirie, Lady of Mourning: Grave (XGE), Tempest (PH)
• Ruornil, Silver Prince: Arcana (SCAG), Knowledge (PH)
• Sera, Lady of Fortune: Forge (XGE), Trickery (PH)
• Avani, Lady of Reason: Knowledge (PH), Life (PH), Light (PH)
• Eloéle, Sister of Thieves: Grave (XGE), Trickery (PH)
• Laerme, Goddess of Fire, Beauty, and Art: Light (PH), Protection (UA)
• Kriesha, The Winter Witch: Nature (PH), Tempest (PH)
• Belinik, Lord of Strike: Death (DMG), Strength (PSA), War (PH)
• Moradin: Forge (XGE), Order (UA), Protection (UA); dwarves only
• Kartathok: Order (UA), Trickery (PH), War (PH); goblins only
• Orog Ancestor Spirits: Forge (XGE), Strength (PSA), War (PH); orogs only

Druid

Blooded druids can cast realm spells using source or temple holdings.

• Dreams (XGE)
• Land (PH)
• Moon (PH)
• Seasons (XLN)
• Shepherd (XGE)

Fighter

• Arcane Archer (XGE)
• Banneret (SCAG)
• Battle Master (PH)
• Brute (UA)
• Cavalier (XGE)
• Champion (PH)
• Eldritch Knight (PH)

The available fighting styles for fighters are:

• Archery
• Close Quarters Shooter
• Defense
• Dueling
• Great Weapon Fighting
• Protection
• Tunnel Fighter
• Two-Weapon Fighting

Monk

The stereotypical monk is very rare in Cerilia, as monastic orders that train in the martial arts are all but unheard of.

• Drunken Master (XGE)
• Four Elements (PH)
• Kensei (XGE)
• Long Death (SCAG)
• Open Hand (PH)
• Shadow (PH)
• Sun Soul (XGE)

Paladin

• Ancients (PH)
• Conquest (XGE)
• Crown (SCAG)
• Devotion (PH)
• Oathbreaker (DMG)
• Redemption (XGE)
• Vengeance (PH)

The available fighting styles for paladins are:

• Defense
• Dueling
• Great Weapon Fighting
• Protection
• Tunnel Fighter

Ranger

Rangers can be built using the rules in the PHB or the Ranged Revisited (UA) supplement. Revisited rangers are limited to the conclaves in that supplement. When multiclassing, you cannot use the revisited ranger.

• Beast Master (PH)
• Field Marshal (MM)
• Gloom Stalker (XGE)
• Horizon Walker (XGE)
• Hunter (PH)
• Monster Slayer (XGE)
• Primeval Guardian (UA)

The available fighting styles for rangers are:

• Archery
• Close Quarters Shooter
• Defense
• Dueling
• Tunnel Fighter
• Two-Weapon Fighting

Rogue

• Assassin (PH)
• Arcane Trickster (PH)
• Mastermind (SCAG)
• Inquisitive (XGE)
• Scout (XGE)
• Swashbuckler (SCAG)
• Thief (PH)

Sorcerer

Only elves, half-elves, and blooded characters can be sorcerers. Blooded sorcerers can cast realm spells using source holdings. Sorcerers can be built using the rules in the PHB or the Sorcerer Revisited (3PP) supplement. When multiclassing, you cannot use the revisited sorcerer.

• Divine Soul (XGE)
• Draconic (PH)
• Fey (XLN)
• Giant Soul (UA)
• Phoenix (UA)
• Pyromancer (PSK)
• Sea (UA)
• Shadow (XGE)
• Stone (UA)
• Storm (SCAG)
• Wild (PH)

Warlock

• Archfey (PH)
• Celestial (XGE)
• Cold Rider (UA; reflavored Raven Queen)
• Fiend (PH)
• Great Old One (PH)
• Hexblade (XGE)
• Undying (SCAG)

Wizard

Only elves, half-elves, and blooded characters can be wizards. Blooded wizards can cast realm spells using source holdings.

• Abjuration (PH)
• Conjuration (PH)
• Divination (PH)
• Enchantment (PH)
• Evocation (PH)
• Illusion (PH)
• Necromancy (PH)
• Transmutation (PH)
• War Magic (XGE)

Backgrounds

The following backgrounds are available to characters in a Birthright campaign.

• Acolyte (PH)
• Archaeologist (TOA)
• Charlatan (PH)
• Clan Crafter (SCAG)
• Cloistered Scholar (SCAG)
• Courtier (SCAG)
• Criminal (PH)
• Entertainer (PH)
• Far Traveler (SCAG)
• Folk Hero (PH)
• Gladiator (PH)
• Guild Artisan (PH)
• Guild Merchant (PH)
• Haunted One (COS)
• Hermit (PH)
• Inheritor (SCAG)
• Knight (PH)
• Mercenary Veteran (SCAG)
• Noble (PH)
• Outlander (PH)
• Sage (PH)
• Sailor (PH)
• Soldier (PH)
• Smuggler (GOS)
• Spy (PH)
• Urchin (PH)

Available Feats

The following feats are available to characters in a Birthright campaign.

• Acrobat (UA)
• Actor (PH)
• Alchemist (UA)
• Alert (PH)
• Animal Handler (UA)
• Arcanist (UA)
• Athlete (PH)
• Blade Mastery (UA)
• Brawny (UA)
• Bountiful Luck (XGE)
• Burglar (UA)
• Charger (PH)
• Crossbow Expert (PH)
• Defensive Duelist (PH)
• Diplomat (UA)
• Dual Wielder (PH)
• Dungeon Delver (PH)
• Durable (PH)
• Dwarven Fortitude (XGE)
• Elemental Adept (PH)
• Elven Accuracy (XGE)
• Empathetic (UA)
• Fade Away (XGE; available to halflings)
• Fell-Handed (UA)
• Fey Teleportation (XGE; available to all elves)
• Flail Mastery (UA)
• Gourmand (UA)
• Grappler (PH)
• Great Weapon Master (PH)
• Grudge Bearer (UA)
• Healer (PH)
• Heavily Armored (PH)
• Heavy Armor Master (PH)
• Historian (UA)
• Inspiring Leader (PH)
• Investigator (UA)
• Keen Mind (PH)
• Lightly Armored (PH)
• Linguist (PH)
• Mage Slayer (PH)
• Magic Initiate (PH)
• Martial Adept (PH)
• Master of Disguise (UA)
• Medic (UA)
• Medium Armor Master (PH)
• Menacing (UA)
• Mobile (PH)
• Moderately Armored (PH)
• Mounted Combatant (PH)
• Naturalist (UA)
• Observant (PH)
• Orog Fury (XGE; as orcish fury, but available to orogs)
• Perceptive (UA)
• Performer (UA)
• Polearm Master (PH)
• Potent Bloodline (custom)
• Prodigy (XGE)
• Quick-Fingered (UA)
• Resilient (PH)
• Ritual Caster (PH)
• Savage Attacker (PH)
• Second Chance (XGE)
• Sentinel (PH)
• Sharpshooter (PH)
• Shield Master (PH)
• Skilled (PH)
• Skulker (PH)
• Silver-Tongued (UA)
• Spear Mastery (UA)
• Spell Sniper (PH)
• Squat Nimbleness (XGE)
• Stealthy (UA)
• Survivalist (UA)
• Tavern Brawler (PH)
• Theologian (UA)
• Tough (PH)
• War Caster (PH)
• Weapon Master (PH)
• Wood Elf Magic (XGE; available to all elves)

House Rules

The Domain Turn

Realm management is handled during domain turns. Each domain turn represents a season (about 3 months); four domain turns make up a year. During a domain turn, each regent will have the opportunity to take domain actions, directing their domain’s growth. In addition, wars play out over the course of domain turns, with units moving and engaging in mass battles.

Collect Income From Guilds and Temples

Guilds and temples collect income based on their level and the level of the province they're in. Roll using the table below, treating all negative results as 0.

Collect Income From Trade Routes

Trade routes provide income based on the levels of the provinces they connect. Add the province levels together and divide by 2, rounding down. Both regents gain this much income from the trade route.

Claim Money From Law Holdings

You can use law holdings in a province to claim some of the money generated by other regents in the same province. Technically you can claim money generated by your holdings in the province, but as you're simply claiming your own money, you just break even. Consult the table below and roll, treating all negative results as 0.

Pillage Provinces

If you have occupied a foreign province using your military, you can pillage that province. When you pillage, you perform the equivalent of harsh taxation using the lower of the province's actual level or the number of units in the occupying force as the province level. The pillaging army cannot leave the province this domain turn. When you pillage, you also reduce the province level by 1, to a minimum of 0. Pillaging tends to make the residents unhappy with you, to say the least. You can pillage your own provinces, but your armies may disobey the order, and if they do carry it out then there will be widespread repercussions for the loyalty of your holdings.

Pay Costs

Once you’ve collected your income, you must pay to keep your domain functioning. Any mustered units must be maintained, and soldiers must be paid. So to must your lieutenants. Your domain itself requires upkeep, and you may wish to pay for a lavish and well-appointed court to project an image of wealth and power (and to help your diplomatic efforts).

Domain Maintenance

Your holdings and assets cost money to run. Count the number of non-Source holdings in your domain and divide by 5, rounding up. You owe that many GB.

In addition, each castle, palace, and fortified holding you control costs 1 GB per domain turn. Failure to pay leads to the castle or holding degrading; reduce its level by 1. You must also pay to administer foreign provinces that you occupy. Each such province also costs 1 GB per domain turn. If you do not pay this cost, the province rises up in rebellion against your occupying forces.

Source holdings and ley lines do not cost any GB to maintain. Each ley line you control requires 1 RP in maintenance.

Unit Maintenance

All units mustered by the regent must be paid. Each unit has a maintenance cost; you pay those costs during this phase. Unpaid units generally disband. You can trade on your reputation for a time in order to prevent the units from disbanding. You can pay 5 RP for each GB you owe your units. Unpaid mercenary units desert and become brigands.

Lieutenant Payroll

The lieutenants in your service require your support as well. You pay 1 GB for each lieutenant. Unpaid lieutenants leave your service. As with units, you can make up for shortfalls by spending 5 RP for each missing GB.

Holding Court

For the most part, regents are expected not to live like paupers. You must spend money to maintain a court in order to conduct diplomacy, issue decrees, and so on. Determine how much you will spent on court this turn. If you own palaces and have paid their maintenance cost, they effectively increase the GB you spend on your court.

0 GB. If you put nothing into maintaining your court, you cannot take the Diplomacy, Decree, or Grant actions during this domain turn. You may be unable to respond to certain random events. In addition, your courtiers will drift away; when you want to restore your court, you will need to pay double the normal amount in order to lure them back and return the court to proper working order.

1 GB. If you pay only 1 GB, you cannot take the Diplomacy, Decree, or Grant actions during this domain turn. However, your court will continue to function, and you will not pay a premium if you wish to increase its funding on subsequent turns.

3 GB. If you pay 3 GB, your court functions, but it is barely acceptable by the standards of other regents. All Bloodline ability checks made as part of Diplomacy, Decree, and Grant actions this turn suffer disadvantage.

Action Rounds

There are three action rounds in each domain turn, each corresponding to about a month of in-game time. During each action round in initiative order, each regent will take a single domain action and, if desired, a single bonus action. Then, if any domains are at war, the warring regents will move their units, fight any battles that arise as a result, and finally choose to occupy or retreat from foreign provinces where they have troops.

After all actions are resolved, regents prosecute their wars by moving units and resolving battles. If, after these battles, a regent's units are in control of a foreign province, the regent can then choose to either occupy those provinces or retreat to their own borders.

Bookkeeping and Cleanup

After the round is complete, everyone tallies up any expenditures or lingering effects from the round, including adjusting province loyalty if necessary. If the regent did not adequately address certain random events, their results become known during this phase. Untaxed provinces increase their loyalty by one level; harshly taxed provinces decrease their loyalty by one level.

Domain Actions

Domain actions have several properties. Every domain action has a scope, which determines what they affect. There are three possible scopes: holding actions affect a single holding (or, in some cases, a pair of holdings). Realm actions affect multiple holdings simultaneously. Realm and holding actions can only be taken by regents. Finally, character actions are personal undertakings that don’t directly affect the domain. Character actions can be taken by non-regents.

In addition, most domain actions have a base cost expressed in GB, RP, or both. Some domain actions have a DC associated with them. In order to succeed at the action, the character must succeed on a Bloodline ability check with the indicated DC. Regents also add their proficiency bonus to this check. You can increase your chance of success on the check by spending additional GB. Each GB spent gives you an additional +1 on the check. Other regents can assist by spending GB from their treasuries as long as they own a holding in the same province where the action is being undertaken. No more than 10 GB total can be contributed to affect the action in this way.

However, other regents can also attempt to interfere with your success. This requires them to spend regency; for every 1 RP spent, they impose a -1 penalty on your Bloodline check. As with regents attempting to assist you, interfering regents must have a holding in the province in question. If your action directly affects a regent, they can attempt to interfere even if they have no holdings. A maximum of 10 RP total can be spent to affect the result.

When an action is declared, all regents with the ability to affect the result are given the chance to spend GB or RP. All expenditures are public, and regents can increase the amount they spend after hearing about new support or opposition. All expenditures occur regardless of the success or failure of the action.

Contest Holding

    Scope: Domain/Realm

Base Cost: 1 RP

DC: 10+

One regent can attempt to undermine another regent’s holding by contesting their influence. To contest a holding, you must have a holding of your own in the same province or control the province itself. You must pay the base cost for each affected holding. The DC is increased by the level of the holding; contesting a level 6 Source holding requires a successful DC 16 Bloodline ability check. If you choose to affect multiple holdings simultaneously, you must roll a Bloodline check for each such holding.

On a success, the holding is contested. It generates no RP or GB for its owner during subsequent domain turns until the contest is ended. The holding is contested until either:

• The regent who owns the contested holding successfully uses the Rule action to end the contest
• The contesting regent decides to let it drop (no action required)
• The contesting regent loses control of the province or of all their holdings in the province

A contested holding can be targeted by a second Contest action. If the second action is also successful, the holding becomes uncontrolled and can be taken over by another regent (see the Investiture action, later).

Some special rules apply when contesting a province. To do so, no regent in the province other than the contesting regent can possess any Law holdings that are higher than level 0. The province must be rebellious or have poor loyalty. If you have an occupying army in a province, it is automatically contested. Contested provinces are good targets for forcible divestiture.

Cast Realm Spell

    Scope: Special

Base Cost: Varies

DC: Varies

You can use your connection to your domain to fuel vast and potent magical effects. Each realm spell has its own special rules, covered later. Realm spells always require either source holdings (for druids, sorcerers, and wizards) or temple holdings (for clerics and druids). The holding level required is determined by the spell being cast. You must have these holdings in the province you’re affecting with the spell (but see the Forge Ley Line action).

Create Holding

    Scope: Domain

Base Cost: 1 GB

DC: 12+

You use this action to establish a foothold in a given province. If you are attempting to create a holding in a province you don’t control and the regent of that province opposes your efforts, the DC is increased by the level of the province. If you succeed, you create a new level 0 law, guild, temple, or source holding.

If you have access to unclaimed territory, you can also use this action to create a new level 0 province. This requires DM approval and increases the base cost to 3 GB.

Create Trade Route

    Scope: Domain

Base Cost: 1 RP, 1 GB

DC: 10+

Trade is an excellent way to increase your income. Trade routes are forged between two provinces. The provinces must be connected either by water or by a network of roads. In order to create a trade route, you must control a Guild holding in one of the provinces. There must also be a Guild holding in the other province, controlled by another regent who agrees to allow a trade route. Finally, the provinces must have different terrain types.

Once a trade route is formed, the regents controlling the Guild holdings can collect income from it in subsequent domain turns. This income stops if either Guild holding is contested or if either province is occupied. If either Guild holding is destroyed, the trade route is destroyed as well.

A province can only support so many trade routes, based on its population. Level 0 provinces cannot support any trade. Provinces of level 1-3 or less can support a single trade route. Level 4-6 provinces can support two. Level 7+ provinces can support 3.

Declare War

    Scope: Realm

Base Cost: None

DC: None

You begin a war. This action doesn’t just represent the public declaration of war, but also the logistics of establishing supply chains and preparing to enter enemy territory. Taking this action enables you to move troops into provinces that do not belong to you. If you have been attacked, you do not need to declare war to defend yourself, but you must do so in order to launch a counterattack into enemy territory. Regents who do not control provinces can still declare war if they control any troops. Moving soldiers through another regent’s territory can be accomplished without war after a successful Diplomacy action.

Diplomacy

    Scope: Realm

Base Cost: 1 RP, 1 GB

DC: Special

Negotiations with other domains over matters of import require the Diplomacy action. Routine messages and correspondence are assumed to happen as a matter of course; Diplomacy instead represents a court affair in which you aim to achieve some specific goal. For example, Diplomacy can be used to accomplish any of the following ends, among others:

• Create or break an alliance
• Create an agreement to allow trade between two kingdoms
• Convince a regent to allow foreign troops to move through their territory
• Force concessions from a regent, such as tribute or territory
• Respond to random events, such as feuds or unrest

The DC of the Bloodline ability check is set by the DM and depends on several factors, including the attitudes of the regents affected, the nature of the goal, the relative strength of the domains involved, and the nature of the diplomatic effort itself (an elven community is unlikely to be impressed by a diplomatic effort headed by a mercantile guild with an interest in logging, for example).

Diplomacy between PCs still requires the Diplomacy action, but no ability check is required to determine success. The PCs can simply decide what to do when confronted by a diplomatic request.

Downtime

    Scope: Character

Base Cost: None

DC: None

You spend time working on a personal project or endeavor. This domain action allows you to take a single downtime action (XGE p 123). For example, you might spend time forging a suit of armor, engaged in criminal activity, plying a trade, or doing research on a bit of occult lore.

Espionage

    Scope: Domain

Base Cost: 1 GB

DC: 15+

By taking the Espionage action, you engage in spying or covert action. Like Diplomacy, this action is somewhat open-ended. It can have any of the following effects, among others:

• Reveal a diplomatic agreement between two domains
• Catalog troop movements and strengths in a province
• Create a “random” event such as an assassination attempt, intrigue, or corruption in another domain
• Determine responsibility for another Espionage action
• Secretly move messages, items, or individuals

The goal of the Espionage action must be stated in advance. The DC of the action is increased based on the level of the province in which it is being performed as well as any Law holdings in that province controlled by opposing regents. For example, if you wish to perform Espionage in a level 5 province containing a level 3 Law holding controlled by the target and a level 1 Law holding controlled by an ally, the DC is 23—15 base, plus 5 for the province level and 3 for the opposing law law level. If an attempt at espionage fails by 10 or more, your agents are caught and imprisoned. If it succeeds by 10 or more, you also accomplish a secondary goal, as if you’d performed another successful Espionage action in the same province.

Mercantile Cover. If you control a Guild holding in the affected province, you can perform Espionage as a bonus action.

Forge Ley Line

    Scope: Domain

Base Cost: 1+ RP, 1+ GB

DC: 8

Casting certain realm spells requires access to powerful sources of mebhaighl. This magical energy stems from the land itself and is diminished by the encroachment of civilization. Regents who wish to use their realm magic when they are away from the sources they control can do so by forging ley lines, allowing them to tap into that power from a distance.

To forge a ley line, choose a source province and a target province. You must have a Source holding in the source province. Draw a path from the source province to the target province. Forging a ley line costs 1 GB and 1 RP for each province this path passes through. Once forged, the ley line allows you to cast realm spells in the target province as if you controlled a Source of the same level as in the source province. Once you have forged a ley line, you can extend it by taking this action again.

Fortify

    Scope: Domain/Realm

Base Cost: 1 RP, 1+ GB

DC: 8

This action allows regents to fortify their holdings, either by building strongholds in the case of provinces or fortifications in the case of other holdings.

Strongholds. To build a stronghold, choose a province you own. Strongholds, like holdings, have levels which denote how difficult they are to take. Building a castle costs 6 GB per level of the stronghold, up to the level of the province. A stronghold can be higher level that the province it’s in, but this imposes extra costs; every level of a stronghold above the province level instead costs 9 GB. A domain can only have one stronghold asset. This asset might represent a single powerful stronghold or a network of smaller castles and keeps.

Building a stronghold takes time. When you take this action, you must pay half the cost up front. During subsequent domain turns, you can pay up to 6 GB. Once you’ve paid the full amount, the stronghold is complete. You cannot construct strongholds during the winter domain turn. If you do not pay at least 2 GB per domain turn (except the winter) you lose ground, losing 1d6 GB invested in the project.

When a regent builds a castle in a province, they automatically fortify their other holdings in the province up to the level of the castle. For example, if you build a level 5 castle, you can fortify up to 5 levels of other holdings in the same province. You cannot have a partially fortified holding.

Holdings. Fortifying holdings allows them to function even when the province is occupied by hostile troops and makes it harder for enemies to break your control over them. Fortifying a holding costs 4 GB per level of the holding. Like building a stronghold, you must pay half the price up front and then contribute additional resources on subsequent turns.

Improve Holding

    Scope: Domain/Realm

Base Cost: 1+ RP, 1+ GB

DC: 12

You spend time and energy on furthering your political causes, building up your holdings. This action allows you to increase the level of one or more holdings. You can affect a single province at a time with this action. Alternatively, you can affect any number of non-province holdings at once. To improve a province, you must pay GB and RP equal to the new level of the province. For other holdings, you must pay 1 GB per holding affected as well as RP equal to the sum of the new levels of the holdings affected.

Investiture

    Scope: Realm

Base Cost: 1+ RP

DC: Special

This domain action allows you to claim dominion over existing holdings. Investiture is most often performed willingly, when a regent passes control of their domain to their heir. However, it can be used to forcibly take holdings from another regent, as well as to take their bloodline itself. This action can be taken by nonregents. The RP cost for nonregents is incurred as a debt.

Investing Holdings. The regent being invested must pay 1 RP per level of the affected holding. Multiple holdings can be invested simultaneously; the regent must pay this cost for all holdings. Success is automatic if the regent being divested is willing; magical compulsion does not suffice to make a regent willing. If the regent whose holdings are being divested is unwilling, the other regent must have have successfully conquered or contested the affected holdings. An opposed Bloodline ability check is called for here; both regents roll 1d20 + their Bloodline ability modifier + their proficiency bonus. Both regents can spend GB and RP normally to affect their roll or their opponent’s roll.

Investing Bloodlines. This action also allows one character to transfer their bloodline to another. Both characters involved must be present, although the character being divested need not be willing. The divested character loses their Bloodline ability score and all blood abilities. If the character being invested is unblooded, they gain the Bloodline score, derivation, and blood abilities of the divested character. If they already have a bloodline, their score increases as though they had performed bloodtheft. Unwilling regents can resist as described above.

Recruit Lieutenant

    Scope: Character

Base Cost: None

DC: None

By taking this action, you gain the services of a lieutenant. You cannot necessarily determine what lieutenant they get. Typically, the DM will present a few options and allow you to choose a lieutenant from among them. If you have at least one lieutenant, you gain one additional domain action per domain turn, which can be taken alongside your normal action during one action round. You pay all costs for the action and cannot spend GB to improve its chance of success. You do not add your Bloodline check modifier or proficiency bonus to the ability check to determine success; instead, you add the lieutenant’s proficiency bonus if they have skills relevant to the action in question. Additional lieutenants do not allow you additional actions. Lieutenants cannot be regents themselves.

Vassalage

    Scope: Realm

Base Cost: 1+ RP

DC: 8

You use this domain action to formalize a pact of vassalage between two regents. Choose an amount of RP. Both regents involved in the pact pay this many RP; during each subsequent turn, the vassal automatically pays the same amount to their liege. The vassal make break this pact at any time, but the liege is aware of this immediately. A regent may have many vassals, but only one liege. Two regents cannot be each others’ vassals.

Bonus Actions

War

Fortified Holdings

Fortified holdings cannot be destroyed by occupying armies. Fortified holdings do not interfere with enemy troop movement. They can be beseiged or assaulted like strongholds. Use the level of the holding for the level of the fortification where needed.

Mass Battles

When opposing armies meet in the same province, the result is a mass battle.

Orders

A commander issues orders to their units each turn. In the absence of communication, units can sometimes act independently, but this requires a Morale saving throw (DC 15). If this fails, the unit will defend itself if attacked but will not do anything else.

Attacks

Attacks are resolved by rolling 1d20 and adding the unit’s attack modifier as well as any other applicable modifiers. If the result equals or exceeds the target unit’s Defense, the attack succeeds, inflicting one Hit on the targeted unit. A unit that takes more hits than it can is removed from battle; enough members have fallen, become injured, or fled that it can no longer meaningfully affect the battle. Hits also degrade a unit’s performance in battle. Each Hit suffered reduces the unit’s Melee, Missile, and Morale bonuses by 1.

In addition, after any successful attack, the targeted unit must make a DC 12 Morale save. On a failed save, the target becomes routed. Routed units must retreat on subsequent turns. If the unit cannot retreat, or if it is routed a second time, it is destroyed. Their commander can attempt to rally them by making Morale checks.

Once a unit initiates a charge or melee attack against another unit, the two units become _engaged. _Engaged units cannot move unless they retreat, which prevents them from making charge attacks. They cannot make ranged or spell attacks either. One exception to this rule: a unit that’s just been charged or attacked in melee can still make a ranged attack in the same round.

Melee Attacks

In order for a unit to make a melee attack against an enemy unit, it must first move into the same square as the enemy unit. Any number of units can occupy the same square, and any number of units can be engaged in the same melee combat simultaneously.

Ranged Attacks

In order to declare a ranged attack, the attacking unit must be capable of making missile attacks, and there must be an enemy unit within their missile range. In addition, they must not be engaged with an enemy unit, and unless otherwise noted they may not have moved during the movement phase this round. A unit that’s just been charged or attacked in melee can still make a ranged attack in the same round, but in subsequent rounds they will be unable to launch ranged attacks. Attacking an enemy unit engaged in melee combat with a friendly unit is risky. The attack roll is is compared to the Defense scores of both units, and it may inflict a Hit on either or both.

Charging

When a unit first enters melee combat, it can charge. In order to charge, the unit must not be engaged when it is activated. It must move at least one square and up to its full Move in a straight line, ending in the same square as the target it is charging. Charge attacks are resolved before regular melee attacks. In addition, some units (such as cavalry) gain a bonus on charge attacks.

Spells

Spellcasters are rare enough in Cerilia to make it effectively impossible to muster entire units of spellcasters. However, individual spellcasters can be attached to units. Most spells do not affect a large enough area to be useful during mass combat, but there are some exceptions. Units with an attached spellcaster can make spell attacks. They cannot make spell attacks during any turn where they make a ranged, charge, or melee attack; the hectic nature of mass combat makes concentrating on spellcasting effectively impossible while the unit is directly in combat. In addition, units cannot make spell attacks while engaged by an enemy unit.

Spellcasters can also serve as solo units on the battlefield. This frees them from the need to act alongside a unit and allows them to cast spells independently; however, if attacked by any full unit they are automatically removed from play.

Unless otherwise noted, all spells have a range of 2 squares.

The following spells can be used to inflict an automatic Hit on an enemy unit.

• Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
• Call Lightning
• Cone of Cold
• Conjure Volley
• Cloudkill
• Dawn
• Destructive Wave (also inflicts one Hit on attached friendly unit)
• Earthquake
• Fireball
• Flame Strike
• Hunger of Hadar
• Ice Storm
• Incendiary Cloud
• Insect Plague
• Lightning Bolt
• Maelstrom
• Sickening Radiance
• Storm Sphere
• Synaptic Static
• Tidal Wave
• Vitriolic Sphere
• Weird

These spells force an enemy unit to make an immediate Morale saving throw. On a failure, the unit is routed.

• Confusion
• Fear
• Stinking Cloud

These spells instantly destroy an enemy unit.

• Circle of Death
• Fire Storm
• Maddening Darkness
• Meteor Swarm (alternately, Meteor Swarm can be used to inflict one Hit on up to four enemy units)
• Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere
• Storm of Vengeance
• Sunburst

Finally, these spells affect the terrain or battlefield. Their exact effect is dependent on the circumstances in which the spell is cast. Often, the result will be to create one or more squares of hazardous, difficult, or defensible terrain.

• Control Winds
• Fog Cloud
• Move Earth
• Plant Growth
• Reverse Gravity
• Sleet Storm
• Spike Growth
• Transmute Rock
• Wall of Fire
• Wall of Force
• Wall of Light
• Wall of Ice
• Wall of Sand
• Wall of Stone
• Wall of Water
• Whirlwind
• Wind Wall
• Wrath of Nature

Units

Unless otherwise noted, all units in the following table are human; nonhuman versions of the units are available with the same stats. Nonhuman units can generally only be hired as mercenaries, unless the regent has access to a community of the relevant ancestry. Mercenary units are the same as their normal counterparts, but their maintenance cost is doubled.

Unit Special Rules

    Levies. Levies are easily broken. Rally checks involving levies have disadvantage.

Scouts. An army containing at least one unit of scouts can automatically identify enemy forces in all adjacent provinces. Scouts can ignore natural terrain features while moving.

Heavy Infantry. Heavy infantry are good at breaking formations and have advantage when attacking pikemen.

Pikemen. Pikemen cannot be charged. Mounted units attacking pikemen in melee have disadvantage.

Cavalry. As a mounted unit, cavalry have advantage on their attack rolls when charging.

Knights. As a mounted unit, knights have advantage on their attack rolls when charging.

Artillerists. Artillerists ignore any defensive bonuses granted to their targets due to terrain or fortifications. A unit of artillerists counts as two units for the purposes of siege warfare. In addition, an army containing a unit of artillerists can mount an assault on a beseiged fortification.

Sappers. Sappers ignore any defensive bonuses granted to their targets due to terrain or fortifications. A unit of sappers counts as two units for the purposes of siege warfare. In addition, an army containing a unit of sappers can mount an assault on a beseiged fortification.

Mounted Archers. Mounted archers can move and make ranged attacks in the same round.

Vos Varsk Riders. As a mounted unit, varsk riders have advantage on their attack rolls when charging. Varsk riders move freely across tundra and mountain terrain.

Realm Magic

Mass Destruction

    Cost: 10 RP/unit affected, 5 GB

Required Holding: 5

Duration: Instantaneous

By unleashing a massive barrage of fire, devastating hail, coruscating lightning, or poisonous winds, you can slay hundreds or thousands of enemies at once. Choose a unit that you can see. It must make a Morale saving throw; if it fails, it is instantly destroyed. On a success, it suffers one Hit, which may still be enough to destroy it. Solo troops who are capable of acting as units on the battlefield cannot be targeted with this spell. Characters attached to destroyed units must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 10d10 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

This spell lays waste to the surrounding countryside as well, which can cause side effects such as loss of loyalty depending on the circumstances of its casting.

Ward Against Realm Magic

    Cost: Special

Required Holding: 1

Duration: Instantaneous or one domain turn/3 levels

This spell allows you to protect against hostile realm magic. It can be cast to negate a realm spell that’s already been cast or to provide a shield against future spells. When cast to dispel realm magic, it costs an amount of RP equal to the amount spent to cast the spell you are seeking to end. In addition, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. The DC equals 10 + the other spellcaster’s spellcasting ability.

Alternately, you can cast this spell to provide a shield to negate incoming realm spells. You can shield a province, a unit, or an individual using this spell. When you cast the spell in this fashion, pay any amount of RP. While the shield is in place, any incoming realm spell that costs less RP than you spent on the shield is negated, and the shield is reduced by that amount.

Druid Realm Spells

Mighty Forests

    Cost: 4 RP/unit created, 1 GB/unit created

Required Holding: 3

Duration: One domain turn

You can only cast this spell in a forested province. When you cast it, you animate the trees, turning them into soldiers who will fight on your behalf. The forest legion cannot leave the province it which it is created. In a heavily forested province, you can create up to 10 units; a light forest allows you to create up to 5.

Demagogue

    Cost: 5 RP/province affected, 1 GB

Required Holding: 3

Duration: Instantaneous

You unleash a subtle enchantment that manipulates the loyalty of the population of a province. When you cast this spell, you improve or worsen the loyalty grade of the target province by one step. You can affect two provinces with this spell at 5th level, three at 11th level, and four at 17th level.

Legion of the Dead

    Cost: 4 RP/unit animated, 1 GB/unit animated

Required Holding: 3

Duration: Special

Any necromancer can animate the dead. With this spell, you do something far more impressive, animating entire companies of skeletal warriors to serve you. When you cast it, you create a unit of undead heavy infantry. The undead soldiers remain animated for one domain turn. At the end of the turn, you can spend RP equal to half the cost of animating them to keep them active for an additional domain turn. You can summon two units with this spell at 5th level, three at 11th level, and four at 17th level.

Mass Destruction

    Cost: 10 RP/unit affected, 5 GB

Required Holding: 5

Duration: Instantaneous

By unleashing a massive barrage of fire, devastating hail, coruscating lightning, or poisonous winds, you can slay hundreds or thousands of enemies at once. Choose a unit that you can see. It must make a Morale saving throw; if it fails, it is instantly destroyed. On a success, it suffers one Hit, which may still be enough to destroy it. Solo troops who are capable of acting as units on the battlefield cannot be targeted with this spell. Characters attached to destroyed units must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 10d10 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

This spell lays waste to the surrounding countryside as well, which can cause side effects such as loss of loyalty, depending on the circumstances of its casting.

Raze

    Cost: 10 RP/level of structure, 2 GB/level of structure

Required Holding: 5

Duration: Instantaneous

This spectacular spell allows to to reduce a fortification or building to rubble in the blink of an eye. When targeting a stronghold, every 10 RP and 2 GB spent allows you to reduce the stronghold by one level. If you reduce the level of a stronghold to 0, it is destroyed. Fortified holdings can also be reduced if you pay enough to reduce them completely. This destroys the fortification but does not destroy the holding itself. Other buildings can be leveled as well; the DM will decide the RP and GP cost for doing so based on the building’s size and construction.

Scry

    Cost: 5+ RP, 1 GB

Required Holding: 1

Duration: Instantaneous

When you cast this spell, you peer outside of your domain, seeking out information. This spell costs 5 RP plus 3 RP for each province between the province where you cast the spell and the province where you are scrying. When you scry, you effectively take an Espionage action in order to gather information. You cannot use this spell to get any of the other possible results of an Espionage action. However, you need not roll a Bloodline ability check; the action is automatically successful.

Stronghold

    Cost: 10 RP/stronghold level

Required Holding: 7

Duration: One domain turn per 3 levels

This spell lets you create a castle, stronghold, or other fortification. You must pay RP equal to the GB cost of constructing the stronghold. It appears immediately. When the duration ends, it disappears, but it does so gradually so as not to harm its inhabitants.

Subversion

    Cost: Special

Required Holding: 1

Duration: One action round

Your mystic whispers compel a holding, unit, or lieutenant belonging to another regent to take a domain or bonus action of your choice. This occurs immediately, and it doesn’t matter if the asset or holding can’t normally take the relevant kind of action. For example, you could seize control of an army unit and force it to declare war and invade a neighboring country, or you could force a holding to contest another holding in the same province. The action granted by subversion does not take up the target’s action for the action round.

Subverting a holding costs 3 RP per level of the holding. Subverting a lieutenant costs 3 RP per character level of the lieutenant. Subverting a unit costs 5 RP. The regent whose asset is subverted can make a Bloodline saving throw; on a success, the subversion spell fails with no effect.

Transport

    Cost: 4 RP/unit affected, 1 GB

Required Holding: 5

Duration: Instantaneous

You instantly move troops from one province to another. You can move one unit one province per level, ignoring terrain. For example, at tenth level you can move five units two provinces each. Units moved with this spell are available to be moved through mundane means later in the domain turn. You can use this spell on unwilling units, but the regency cost doubles, and the affected units can make a Morale saving throw to negate the effect.

Ward Against Realm Magic

    Cost: Special

Required Holding: 1

Duration: Instantaneous or one domain turn/3 levels

This spell allows you to protect against hostile realm magic. It can be cast to negate a realm spell that’s already been cast or to provide a shield against future spells. When cast to dispel realm magic, it costs an amount of RP equal to the amount spent to cast the spell you are seeking to end. In addition, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. The DC equals 10 + the other spellcaster’s spellcasting ability.

Alternately, you can cast this spell to provide a shield to negate incoming realm spells. You can shield a province, a unit, or an individual using this spell. When you cast the spell in this fashion, pay any amount of RP. While the shield is in place, any incoming realm spell that costs less RP than you spent on the shield is negated, and the shield is reduced by that amount.

Ward Borders

    Cost: 5 RP/province affected, 2 GB/province affected

Required Holding: 5

Duration: One domain turn

You conjure up a shroud of mist that prevents exit or entry from the affected provinces. Units may not cross the border, and trade and diplomacy are all but impossible with the targeted provinces. Trade routes that have an end in the province do not generate income, and it is impossible to use the Agitate or Contest actions on affected provinces unless the regent performing the act is inside the mists. The caster of this spell is immune to its effects.

Monsters of Cerilia

Most, but not all, of the creatures from *Dungeons & Dragons* can be found in Cerilia. However, some monsters do not exist or differ from their familiar forms.

Dragonborn, drow, and gnomes do not exist on Cerilia. Aasimar and tieflings are basically unheard of, though as angels, demons, and devils exist it is possible for someone to have some celestial or infernal blood in their ancestry. Orcs do not exist; orogs and gnolls occupy a similar space. Cerilian goblins are an especially varied race, and the creatures known as goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears are all just called goblins here.

Many Cerilian monsters bear the cursed blood of Azrai or are descended from those who do. For example, all hydras are descendants of the Hydra, a powerful awnshegh who dwells in the Harrowmarsh near the Anuire-Khinasi border. There are some creatures that are unique to Cerilia as well.

In addition, other creatures can be empowered by a divine bloodline, such as a noble charger empowered by the blood of Anduiras or a vicious boar made all the more terrible by the cursed touch of Azrai.

Blood Hound

The blood hound is a breed of blooded war dog, specially bred to hunt and track blooded scions.

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Blood Hound

Medium fey

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points 22 (4d8+4)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
Str 12 (+1)	Dex 17 (+3)	Con 12 (+1)	Int 3 (-4)	Wis 13 (+1)	Cha 11 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages —
• Challenge 1/4 (50 xp)

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Blood Sense. The blood hound can detect scions by scent. Their senses are keen enough to distinguish between bloodline derivations.

Keen Hearing and Smell. The blood hound has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4+2) piercing damage.

Varsk

Varsks are enormous, carnivorous white lizards native to Vosgaard. The elite Vos varsk riders use them as mounts.

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Varsk

Large beast

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 26 (4d10+4)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
Str 19 (+4)	Dex 11 (+0)	Con 17 (+3)	Int 2 (-4)	Wis 10 (+0)	Cha 7 (-2)

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• Damage Resistances cold
• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages —
• Challenge 1/2 (100 xp)

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Natural Camouflage. The varsk has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made in snowy or arctic enviroments.

Skilled Climber. The varsk has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to climb.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) piercing damage.

Shadow Steed

Resembling a mighty stallion made of shadow, shadow steeds are popular mounts among the fey of the Shadow World.

Their otherworldly nature makes them hard to harm with ordinary mortal weapons. They are tougher, stronger, and faster than normal warhorses. They are, however, all but impossible to train and domesticate en masse. This, combined with the fact that they are not native to the mortal world, means that they are not useful as mounts for cavalry units.

However, if someone learned the secret of raising and training these beasts, they could use them to equip a truly terrifying regiment of knights.

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