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dailyadventureprompts · 2 months

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Villain: The Hollow Lords

Though their reign was long thought ended, this circle of skeletal tyrants have returned from the dark depths of history to conquer the ream once again. Their awakening heralded by a tide of destruction and plague meant to destabilize the land and seed it with corpses to make up their army of undead.

Something is wrong with this story though, details that don't match up, an unknown will at work behind the actions of the lifeless villains. Whatever threat they may pose, an even greater danger pulls the strings of the hollow lords, a danger the party will confront all too soon.

Adventure Hooks:

Before they awaken, the hollow lords should be woven into the campaign as an innocuous background detail, a threat from a previous millennium which defined the heroes of that era. Forgotten today outside of festival traditions, old monuments, and the standing alliances between kingdoms, This sets a standard against which the party can measure themselves.

Scenario A sees the Hollow Lords emerging in the party's own realm, a wave of inexplicable disasters paving the way for the rise of an emerging threat just in time for our heroes to enter a new adventuring tier. In this instance it's about preventing the disasters from spreading/ the undead from establishing their foothold across a land the party has just finished journeying across. Our heroes will be stretched thin, People they know are going to suffer, and deliberate choices will need to be made about what they can save. Looking into the history of the lords only raises more questions, namely that many of them emerged from graves belonging to people who were born and died centuries after the original Hollow Lords were vanquished.

Scenario B has the Hollow Lords as an established threat, ruling over a Mordor like kingdom of darkness either bordering the party's own homeland, or being the party's own homeland if you want to get bleak about it. After our heroes defeat their first of the villains they receive a strange invitation, another of the Hollow Lords has broken partially free of whatever enchantment binds them and is pleading for help. If the party are willing to take a gamble, this rogue undead is willing to use all its dread power to aid them if they can figure out a way to put it to rest for good.

Though each was mighty or powerful in their own right, there was no unholy conspiracy that connected the Hollow Lords during their living years, at-least not on their part. Instead they were all called back to the mortal plane by a veiled necromancer who had some invisible claim on their soul. Stripped of their will, they were forced to act on behalf of this faceless puppeteer, allowing whoever it was beneath the skullmask and robe to carve out a kingdom while remaining in the shadows. Most troubling of all, those one or two Hollow Lords that were around for their first attempt at world domination also remember the veiled necromancer, speaking of a conspiracy centuries in the making.

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#undead #villain #villain undead #darklord #mid level #disaster #warlock #villain warlock #high level #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #ttprg #pathfinder

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ennyclown · 3 months

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#doom #doom slayer #doom eternal #davoth #darklord #art #artdigital #drawing #nutshell

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mewintheflesh-2 · 6 months

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One day there will be enough Mikeys to make a Danganronpa AU and that day might be soon

#mandjtv #team sky #team nightsky #nightsky mikey #sky mikeys #Dr. Fuse #Fuchsia Orion #Grunty Boi #grass leader mikey #Electric leader mikey #Dark leader mikey #Darklord #Vampire Mikey #Fairy type mikey #Ice type mikey #Oh yeah and the bug bitch #Team sky mikey

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mx-lamour · 2 months

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14 - Blood Moon

Inspired by that one scene in I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin where Strahd scrunches into Madam Eva's vardo and his knees stick out because he's too tall. (Somehow he still manages to weild the intimidating dark vampire aura despite his poky lil' knees situation.)

#vampentine's 2024 #strahd von zarovich #knees #scrunchy guy #tall boy #creature of the night #darklord #i strahd #i love him

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rainbowsarah12 · 6 months

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"The fate of Ganondorf"

Happy Halloween out there. I thought daddy Ganondorf would be the perfect art post for today (he took me fooorever to paint^^´). Painted in Photoshop.

#ganon#ganondorf#daddy#loz#totk#tearsofthekingdom#demise#evil#darklord#art#digitalart

#totk #tearsofthekingdom #ganon #ganondorf #daddy #zelda #legendofzelda #evil #darklord #malice #gloom #underworld #katana #art #digitalart

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pen-bee · 1 year

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DARKLORD GRANDMA | I’ve been using markers to make Penpal art lately.

#darklord grandma #darklord #grandma #Character Design

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dark-lord-beans · 6 months

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there is only one reason i have not yet taken the world, and it's because this bitch spilled the beans

#beans #darklord #truck

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darklordazalin · 1 year

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Azalin Reviews: Darklord Ebonbane

Domain: Shadowborn Manor Formation: 611 BC Final Score: 💀💀💀 ⚫ ⚫ (3/5 Skulls) Sources: Darklords (2e), Secrets of the Dread Realms (3e), Ravenloft (3e), van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (5e)

Ebonbane is the Darklord of Shadowborn Manor. In van Richten’s most recent guide, the Mists have changed this from a single ancestral home to “The Shadowlands”, which is described as a forested land best known for its order of questing knights known as the “Circle” or the Order of the Circle.

Ebonbane’s history is tied directly to that of the Shadowborn family and in particular, Kateri Shadowborn. Ebonbane is a sword harboring an unnamed fiend forged for the sole purpose of destroying Kateri. The Shadowborn family was one of those do-gooder noble families that are all into donating to charity and other such nonsense, so, naturally, growing up amongst such piety, Kateri became a Paladin to increase her holier than thou aesthetics. Palidanhood suited Kateria and she traveled far and wide smiting foul creatures.

Being old and feeble, like some monster hunters I know that should have retired years ago, Kateri decided to hang up her sword and live out the rest of her days in the Shadowborn Family Manor. Of course, being a hunter of what she deemed to be “evil”, she made many enemies over the course of her life and some of them decided to seek vengeance. It wasn’t enough for them to just kill her, they wanted to do so in such a way that it would destroy her faith.

Priests of an unnamed evil deity created the Ebonbane to serve this purpose. The blade was fashioned from a strange metal from another dimension and carved with archaic, ominous runes of power that glow with an eerie black aura. The Priests summoned a being from the nether regions and sought to bind it to the blade, fully under their control. Foolish. They should have sought out the assistance of a powerful mage, but were secure in the belief that their own faith would be powerful enough to control this being. The spells they had cast to bind and control it were pathetically inadequate and they found themselves slaves to the Ebonbane instead of the other way around. Needless to say, the blade turned upon its creators.

Though, these Priests surprisingly weren’t completely inapt in their casting and they did manage to bestow their hatred for Lady Shadowborn into the blade. Knowing only this drive, the blade found its way into the hands of a monk that served Kateri and taking complete possession of the monk’s body and soul, it came into Shadowborn Manor. A battle of epic proportions raged on through the night, ending only when Ebonbane managed to destroy Kateri’s holy avenger and shortly after landed a killing blow on the aging paladin. This pulled Ebonbane and Shadowborn Manor into the Mists where the blade would be trapped forever as the Darklord of the newly formed realm.

Ebonbane, however, is not aware of its imprisonment, only its continued hatred for the Shadowborn. For, now Lady Kateri lives on as a geist and she can bring those of her blood into the realm in an attempt to slay the evil sword. As you can imagine, the Dark Powers do not make this easy and they play their game over the course of the centuries, neither ever truly winning. However, Kateri has the upper hand as she knows of four elemental keys that, once combined, can be used to destroy Ebonbane forever.

Interestingly, the 5e version of Ebonbane describes the sword as being Kateri’s accursed sword and ties the Shadowlands not only to the Shadowborn family but to Elena Faith-hold and Morgoroth. In past editions, Elena was a fallen paladin and Darklord of Nidala and Morgoroth was a ghost and Darklord of Avoleigh. Both Darklords were tied to the Shadowborn family and I shall be reviewing them in the future.

Ebonbane is a powerful weapon. The runes etched upon its metal allow it various abilities, allowing it to change those abilities on a daily basis. It can control any weapon, regardless of how intelligent said weapon is and use it against the one welding it. It can also dominate anyone foolish enough to try to weld it themselves. Ebonbane is a fiend of some unknown nature, much like the Dark Powers themselves, and trapped within a sword that is trapped within a small manor (or realm depending on which source you’re going with). I will award this sword a rare 3 rating for even though it doesn’t understand what has happened to it, at least it isn’t another vampire.

#Ebonbane #darklord #darklordreviews #azalin rex #Shadowborn #Shadowbon Manor #the key to darklordhood is an obsession that one can never break #even swords aren't exempt

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brown-eyed-slytherin · 5 months

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#ai generated #ai art #ai image #artificial intelligence #slytherin #slytherin boys #men #hot #green #suit #sexy #seductive #draco malfoy #draco #lord voldemort #voldem #thedarklord #darklord #lord

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illastrologist · 1 year

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"Divinity will stain your fingers and mouth like pomegranate."

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#art #digitalart #artists on tumblr #dnd #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #dungeons and dragons art #darklord #ravenloft #van richten's guide to ravenloft #character art #original character #oc #oc art #Cyrilla Rochefort #my art #oc: cyrilla #KotNcampaign #setting: ravenloft

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matou-empatart · 2 years

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Tom Riddle & Harry Potter, Hogwarts, June 1944 ________________ Timetravel AU, Tomarry

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circifox · 1 year

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The Major NPCs of EoC

I'm going to put the links at the bottom this time as there is more than usual. I'm hoping that this year is the year that I finish Miitopia: The Epic of Ci. I've had quite a few bumps and roadblocks for one reason or another, but my (currently unfinished) redux playthrough has helped reinvigorate me to finish the story. Plus I do want to get to the crossover short stories with my friend Rachel's Clayfighter playthrough and some ideas that I've had with my own playthroughs. Since I hadn't drawn King Freddie or the Fab Fairies, I thought it would be good for me to just. Do a redraw lineup of all the Major NPCs. Mostly because I was dissatisfied with some of my old ones and because I wanted to do a big lineup on a big sheet of paper. I think I've grown a lot with my art since 2017. Let's hope I finally get this project done! Process Sketch: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6E18MOD6y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Great Sage Penelope: https://www.deviantart.com/circifox/art/Great-Sage-Doodles-853196356 Dark Lord Freddy and Darker Lord: https://www.deviantart.com/circifox/art/Dark-and-Darker-2020-852221084 Old Royal Triangle: https://www.deviantart.com/circifox/art/Miitopia-The-Royal-Love-Triangle-728772174 Old Genie: https://www.deviantart.com/circifox/art/Miitopia-The-Genie-of-the-Lamp-779670736 Five Nights at Freddy's- Scott Cawthon Drawn to Life- 5th Cell and 505 Games Kingdom Hearts- Disney and Square Enix Penelope, Anne/Anthea- Me (@circifox)

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