#cr 17

Chandra, Spark Hunter

And so we reach not only our first real planeswalker of the set, but the ever-amazing pyromancer Chandra! Personally I never get tired of seeing Chandra show up, and she's probably one of the more interesting characters in the MtG story. It's also nice to check in and see what she's been doing since that big, multiverse-spanning invasion a few years ago.

Legend has it that the first gray lily of the waste was a dryad whose lover died. She pursued him into Hades, but there the emotional climate of the environment tainted and twisted her love and longing into its worst form: obsession, possessiveness, and even abuse. When she eventually died in Hades, her body took the form of the first gray lily.

Gray lilies of the waste are monochromatic beauties; huge white flowers with soft gray innards protrude from their black stems and leaves. Their immense size does little to dissuade the most ardent of florists from obsessing over their beauty, but these flowers are deadly to cultivate and keep.

Sentient and filled with a longing and loneliness little can assuage, gray lilies obsess over acquiring 'paramours' to keep by their side to provide the briefest flicker of contentment in an existence otherwise miserable with solitude. That their grasp proves fatal to all but the most psychically resilient or that they quickly turn to using their lovers as shields do not matter; only the longing does.

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There are great evils in the multiverse: Ancient liches, mad gods, libraries of unspeakable evil, weapons of unimaginable destruction, or deadly byproducts of dark rituals that should have never been undertaken. When these dark forces are imprisoned, the Gods frequently place powerful celestials to watch over them. Sometimes though the evil kept at bay by these stalwart guardians is so great it can corrupt even the uncorruptable, and slowly over the course of eons, these celestial guardians can be tainted.

Tainted Guardians keep to their post, but eventually become extremely aggressive and possessive, seeing them less as a guardian and more of a master of the evil contained within their post. Any intruders are dealt with quickly and harshly, with no quarter given or asked for. Any pleas of innocence will fall upon deaf ears; for the Tainted Guardian the simple act of trespassing warrants immediate execution.

Even if one survives an encounter with s Tainted Guardian, they may not survive for long, as not only is the mind of a tainted guardian corrupted, but so is the once holy light they wield as a weapon. Their very presence poisons all those who come into contact with them, and the light from their attacks carries a strange sickness which causes the victims own flesh to slowly consume them from the inside out, a sickness which seems resistant to most forms of magical treatment.

DEEP DRAGON

As one would expect, deep dragons are found deep, deep in the earth. It's not completely certain whether deep dragons are their own species, or some kind of mutated version of a true dragon. Regardless, they're just as powerful as true dragons. Surface dwellers may now give a sigh of relief as it's made known that deep dragons have no interest in leaving their dark world. They sometimes make pacts with drow, but that's mostly to keep an eye on them and make sure that whatever the drow do, it won't interfere with the deep dragon's well-being.

Deep dragons cannot be trusted. They’re especially tricky creatures, and similarly difficult to fool. Even a wyrmling is born with innate true seeing, making them immune to the effects of illusions and invisibility. Older deep dragons become more attuned to their cavernous and stony environment. They start out being able to easily burrow through stone and worm their way though small cracks. By the time end of their lifespan, deep dragons can command the stone to open, close and warp as they please.

Why fight some repugnant humanoid skulking in the tunnel you've left behind when you can simply command the tunnel to seal itself, crushing the intruder?

As you may or may not know, on Sundays I post homebrew content chosen by my Patreon patrons in a weekly survey. One of the winners for this week was a random Soulsborne boss given the 5e treatment, similar to my conversion of the Darklurker from DS2. This time around the random result was the Champion’s Gravetender, but there’s no way I could just do the Gravetender without the Greatwolf too, so today is like a two-for-one.

Looking to mix up your dragon fights? Why not throw in a linnorm, a species of dragon based on Scandinavian lindworms.

An ice linnorm is a CR 17 dragon. Like all linnorms, it has constant freedom of movement and true seeing, as well as a death curse that activates on whoever kills it. In this case it’s a Curse of Frost (Su), inflicting a weakness to ice damage on the target. For offense it has a breath weapon of freezing slime that entangles and chills targets, congealing into ice if they don’t manage to escape one round later.

When looking at linnorms there’s two main things to take into account: 1) they’re older than dragons, and 2) they’re largely forgotten by the world at large. No dragon likes being ignored, and when that dragon is older that those upstart chromatics and metallics who go around like they own the place? Things will get messy.

Linnorms have existed for ages past, living to see the rise and fall of entire eras. The oldest have seen not only the nations of men and elves but what came before, empires built by beings from the stars and collapsed by their own disobedient servants. Such linnorms are all too happy to tell adventurers of the shapeless things lurking in those ancient ruins, hoping to lay claim to the few structures older than themselves once their current occupants are slain.

In a land of extreme temperature changes, it can be difficult to lay claim to a particular region. Ice linnorms rule the freezing nights and polar caps, but with the planet constantly rolling on multiple axes, they must frequently hibernate and cede their territories to the heat-craving salamanders, only to reclaim them in bloody attacks when the temperature falls once more. 

Lyra Dawnbringer