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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

What You Need to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

How to Use This Book in Your Campaign . . 4

Philosophies of Evil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tradition/There Is No Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

I Am Not Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Evil Curse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Seduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Driven to Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Just Plain Mean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Natural Born Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Mad, I Tell You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Inherently Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Evil Choice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Better to Rule in Hell

than Serve in Heaven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Ends Justify the Means. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Nvestro’s Black Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Pocket Cave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Ravage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Remorseless Charm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Scourge of Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Serpent Arrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Shadow Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Shadow Trap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Slime Hurl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Spellslayer Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Symphonic Nightmare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Tvash-Prull’s Boneﬁ ddle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Undersong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Unholy Beast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Whip of Thorns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Woodwisp Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Epic Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Aumvor’s Fragmented Phylactery . . . . . . . 37

Aumvor’s Soulshatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Bonﬁ re of Insanity (Ritual) . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Cataract of Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Diluvial Torrent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Horrendous Dessication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Necromantic Singularity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Armor Special Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Speciﬁ c Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Weapon Special Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Speciﬁ c Weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Wondrous Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Major Artifact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Example Shadow Weave Node . . . . . . . . . . 98

Shrines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Shrine Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Detecting a Shrine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Shrine Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Example Shrines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Other evil Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

The Caves of Cwuvain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

The Curse of the

Demon Claw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

The Greenstones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Hagskull Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

The Scarab Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Tomb of Queen No’Ris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

The Wizard’s Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Chapter 6:

Encounters with Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

The Tone of Your Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

What the Players Want. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Why Run an Evil Game? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114

Keeping it Fun for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . .114

Enemies and Allies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Damian Krale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Qooql . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Vargo Kent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Chazzar Ne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Alon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Daren Timbide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Dorzad ain Vereet, Krinth . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Horrsin Zespar,

Extaminaar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Leargath, Draegloth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Chapter 1: Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Draegloth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Extaminaar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Krinth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 2: Tools of Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Vile Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Initiate Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Node Magic Feats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

New Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Assassin Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Bard Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Blackguard Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Cleric Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Druid Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Ranger Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Sorcerer/Wizard Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Air Breathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Anathema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Arrowsplit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Battle Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Bedevil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bloodfreeze Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Bloodspear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Brilliant Energy Arrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Control Darkness

and Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Darkﬂ ame Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Doublestrike Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Enrage Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Locate Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Love’s Lament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mantle of the Slime Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Mark of the Unfaithful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Necrotic Skull Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Node Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Node Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Node Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 3: Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Black Blood Cultist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Justice of Weald and Woe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Night Mask Deathbringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Shade Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Thayan Gladiator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Vengeance Knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Chapter 7: Champions of Evil . . . . . . . . . . 125

Aumvor the Undying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Living Zombie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Eltab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Thrall of Eltab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

Soneillon,

“Queen of Whispers” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Dendar the Night Serpent . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Caverns of the

Serpent Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Kezef the Chaos Hound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

The Death Shallows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Ityak-Ortheel, the Elf Eater . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Bazim-Gorag,

The Firebringer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Malkizid, the Branded King . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Chapter 4: Evil Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Cult of the Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Cults of the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Eldreth Veluuthra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Monks of the Dark Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Sharran Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

The Unworthy of Ilsensine . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Zhentarim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92

Chapter 5: Evil Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Evil Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Detecting an Evil Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Evil Node Class and Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Evil Node Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Mining and Modiﬁ cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Example Evil Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Shadow Weave Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

he conﬂ ict between good and evil has occurred

throughout Toril’s history and continues to

permeate the day-to-day lives of its people—but

neither good nor evil ever manages to get the upper hand

for long.

These archetypes tantalize and terrorize: reavers, criminals,

miscreants, antiheroes, pirates, murderers, cultists, seducers,

servants of dark gods, villains, and archvillains. Evil compels.

Whether it’s attractive and seductive or depraved and disgusting,

evil stimulates our imaginations and evokes strong responses.

What are heroes without great threats—and what if you are

one of these threats? What grand schemes can you prepare and

evil designs can you execute if you’re not hampered by good ideals?

Champions of Ruin offers many opportunities for both players

and Dungeon Masters interested in exploring the darker side of

Faerûn.

What You Need to Play

To use this sourcebook, you need the D UNGEONS & D RAGONS ®

Player’s Handbook , Dungeon Master’s Guide , and Monster

Manual , plus the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting .

Finally, several books are referenced herein. In many cases,

this reference is in the form of a superscript abbreviation of

the book’s title, which is tacked onto the end of the name of a

spell, monster, or some other game element. The books (includ-

ing some of those mentioned above) and their abbreviations,

when applicable, are as follows: Book of Vile Darkness (BV),

Complete Warrior (CW), Draconomicon (Dra), Epic Level

Handbook (EL), Fiend Folio , F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign

Setting (FRCS), Lords of Darkness (LD), Magic of Faerûn

(Mag), Monster Manual II (MM2) , Monstrous Compendium:

Monsters of Faerûn (Mon), Player’s Guide to Faerûn (PG), Races

of Faerûn (Rac), Serpent Kingdoms (SK), Unapproachable East

(Una), and Underdark (Und) .

How to Use This Book

in Your Campaign

Champions of Ruin provides players and Dungeon Masters

ideas, options, and tools for incorporating evil into a campaign.

It provides new evil races, feats, and magic items. Initiate feats

lend ﬂ avor to evil divine spellcasters. Supremely evil, powerful

villains give the DM a gallery of new foes, patrons, or friends

for the player characters. The book as a whole offers a wealth of

material for expanding the role of evil in a F ORGOTTEN R EALMS

campaign. Alternatively, much of the book can be used with

minor adjustments in any setting.

Introduction: Why are some people or creatures evil? Here

are a number of different philosophies.

Chapter 1, Races: Three new races are custom-designed for

Champions of Ruin. Meet the extaminaar and the krinth, two

vicious new races, and, at long last, a player can play a draegloth,

using the monster class information provided here.

Chapter 2, The Tools of Evil: More than a dozen new feats,

more than forty new spells, and a selection of newly unearthed

magic items let characters explore their umbral urges.

Chapter 3, Prestige Classes: Six new prestige classes are

detailed here, along with tips on how to place them into your

campaign.

Chapter 4, Evil Organizations: To join or oppose? The player

characters have many opportunities with these organizations.

Each entry includes information on joining the groups as well

as the costs and beneﬁ ts of membership.

Chapter 5, Evil Places: Evil nodes, shadow nodes, shrines, and

places of evil power await the brave, desperate, or devious.

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