Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

CREDITS Lead Designers: Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford Designers: Adam Lee, Ben Petrisor, Robert J. Schwalb, Matt Sernett, Steve W ...

CONTENTS Preface ............................................................ 4 Ch. 2: E lves .................................. ...

PREFACE You have in your hands that which you covet, just as I promised. It is indeed the true worlc of that Oeridian wizard Mor ...

CHAPTER 1: THE BLOOD WAR HROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE TEEMI NG HORDES of the Abyss and the strictly regimented legions of the Nine Hel ...

6 MORTALS AN D MINIONS ____ _ Devils and demons are far from the only combatants in the Blood War. Both sides exploit the Materi ...

vading demon s. Also, the prospect of a permanent death compels the devils fighting on Avernus to maintain the utmost readiness ...

8 the scars earned during its time in Avernus a.{ld t.ell tales of the great battles it has seen. Talk to one for a ~ little lon ...

LORDS OF THE NIN E From his throne at the bottom of the Nine Hells, As- modeus commands a sprawling bureaucracy tied to a massiv ...

10 When he testified before Primus, Asmodeus attributed his actions to the dictates of law and the survival of the cosmos. He ad ...

TIAMAT WAITS AND WATCHES The Queen of Dragons resides in Avernus. Her lairs sits atop a towering mountain, with flights of drago ...

12 a highly subjective matter. A farmer has no use for an arcane spell that could incinerate a legion of warriors, but the promi ...

sway others with h is interpersonal skills and focuses on the duties of ruling a layer of the Nine Hells. The two seem to hate a ...

the planes play a key role in the struggle. Both sides sometimes employ adventurers to seek out knowledge that could free Levist ...

knew that in many cases, procedures that d evils ob- served and obeyed as laws were merely traditions, and failing to observe a ...

Second, Asmodeus decreed that any deal Baalzebul strikes shall end in disaster for the other party. For th'is reason, other devi ...

join the cause of Mephistopheles sees that invitation as proof of one's ascension to greatness. The downside to this arrangement ...

THREE PATHS TO POWER Rank-and-file devils have three ways of ascending through the ranks. The Nine Hells uses a complex sys- tem ...

Renegade mind flayers sometimes strike pacts with Dispater in search of the secrets needed to forever es- cape an elder brain's ...

20 CULT OF GLASYA Goals: Power gained by turning a system against itself, yielding power that isn't only absolute but legitimate ...

Spell Leech. As a bonus action, this creature chooses one ally it can see within 30 feet of it. The target loses its lowest-leve ...