Candlekeep

Hoar, known in the lands along the Inner Sea as Assuran, is a god of revenge and retribution. He isn’t typically worshiped habitually, but his name is invoked by those who seek vengeance. When a guilty party falls prey to fate — such as when a murderer escapes prosecution, but is then accidentally slain himself — the hand of Hoar is given credit. When one hears three rolls of thunder in succession, it is thought to be a sign from Hoar that some act of vengeance has been performed. Many human societies have the custom of ringing a bell or a gong three times when judgment of a crime is rendered or an execution takes place.

Folk speak Hoar’s name when they want revenge, particularly when they are incapable of avenging themselves. This invocation might be in response to a petty slight or a true injustice, and the acknowledgment of Hoar might be a short prayer said aloud or might be written down somewhere. It’s generally believed that the more permanent the form of the prayer, the more likely it is to be fulfilled. For this reason, some etch their prayers in lead and bury it or hide their prayers inside diaries. Aside from bounty hunters and those on crusades of vengeance, few truly revere Hoar, and he is served by fewer still who would call themselves priests. Temples or shrines of Hoar are almost nonexistent except for ancient sites in Chessenta and Unther.

Hoar became a member of the Faerûnian pantheon when his worship extended beyond the lands that originally revered him. Most consider Tyr to be the arbiter of laws, and Hoar to be the god who metes out punishment that comes as a result of breaking those codes. A judge might favor the worship of Tyr, while a jailor or a headsman is more likely to pray to Hoar.

Reaver's Touch
Necromancy cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
The touch of your hand drains a target’s life energy,
allowing you to sacrifice animals or sometimes
other creatures to make their vitality your own.
Make a melee spell attack against a conscious living
creature within range. You have advantage if your
target is a beast. On a hit, the target takes 1d6
necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points
equal to half the damage dealt (rounded up). The
spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th
level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Lesser Acupuncture
Necromancy cantrip
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: S, M (acupuncturist’s needles)
Duration: Instantaneous
Inserting needles into precise centers of ki in the
body, you energize a creature’s natural healing
abilities. The creature may spend 1 Hit Die, and it it
can roll 1d4 and add the result to any Constitution
saving throws it makes before the end of its next
turn. Once a creature benefits from this cantrip, it
cannot benefit from it again until it finishes a short
or long rest.
As you gain levels, the number of Hit Dice the
affected creature can spend increases. When you
reach 5th level, the creature can spend up to 2 Hit
Dice, at 11th level it can spend up to 3, and at 17th
level it can spend up to 4. This spell has no effect on
undead or constructs.

Blade of Nightmares
1st-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The next time you hit a creature with a weapon
attack before this spell ends, your weapon is
weathed in dark energy that freezes your foe in
terror. The attack deals an extra 1d6 psychic
damage, and if the target is not immune to the
frightened condition, its speed is reduced to 0 until
the end of its next turn. If the attack was an
opportunity attack, the target is also frightened
until the end of its next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage
increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. The sword’s purpose is to consume souls. It doesn’t care whose souls it eats, including the wielder’s. The sword believes that all matter and energy sprang from a void of negative energy and will one day return to it. Blackrazor is meant to hurry that process along.

Despite its nihilism, Blackrazor feels a strange kinship to Wave and Whelm, two other weapons locked away under White Plume Mountain. It wants the three weapons to be united again and wielded together in combat, even though it violently disagrees with Whelm and finds Wave tedious.

Blackrazor’s hunger for souls must be regularly fed. If the sword goes three days or more without consuming a soul, a conflict between it and its wielder occurs at the next sunset.

Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)

Your Intelligence score is 19 while you wear this headband. It has no effect on you if your Intelligence is 19 or higher without it.

Jinx Shot
Enchantment cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: the normal range of your ranged weapon
Components: V, M (a ranged weapon)
Duration: Instantaneous
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a ranged weapon attack against a creature within range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and your enchanted shot renders your foe unaccountably clumsy. It has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the start of your next turn. If that attack misses, it falls prone and the spell ends.

This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the attack deals an extra 1d4 psychic damage to the target. This extra damage increases to 2d4 at 11th level and 3d4 at 17th level.

Vendetta Arrow
1st level evocation
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 24 hours
You magically imbue a single piece of ammunition, such as an arrow, bolt, or sling stone, to strike with deadly effect against a particular foe. You name a creature type (aberration, beast, celestial, construct, dragon, elemental, fey, fiend, giant, humanoid, monstrosity, ooze, plant, or undead), you may name a species of creatures within that type (for example, if you chose giant, you might name half-ogres as a species), and you may name an individual creature of that species (for example, if you named orcs, you could choose the orc Uligar). If the enchanted ammunition strikes a creature of the chosen type, it deals an additional 3d6 force damage. If it strikes a creature of a chosen species within that type, it instead deals an additional 4d6 force damage.

If you shoot the ammunition at a chosen individual creature of that species, it instead deals an additional 5d6 force damage and the creature must make a Dexterity save or be blinded until the beginning of your next turn.

You may only have one instance of this spell active at a time. Casting it again causes the first piece of ammunition to lose its enchantment.

Awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces.
Dark Desires. Whether or not a vampire retains any memories from its former life, its emotional attachments wither as once-pure feelings become twisted by undeath. Love turns into hungry obsession, while friendship becomes bitter jealousy. In place of emotion, vampires pursue physical symbols of what they crave, so that a vampire seeking love might fixate on a young beauty. A child might become an object of fascination for a vampire obsessed with youth and potential. Others surround themselves with art, books, or sinister items such as torture devices or trophies from creatures they have killed.

Born from Death. Most of a vampire’s victims become vampire spawn — ravenous creatures with a vampire’s hunger for blood, but under the control of the vampire that created them. If a true vampire allows a spawn to draw blood from its own body, the spawn transforms into a true vampire no longer under its master’s control. Few vampires are willing to relinquish their control in this manner. Vampire spawn become free-willed when their creator dies.

Chained to the Grave. Every vampire remains bound to its coffin, crypt, or grave site, where it must rest by day. If a vampire didn’t receive a formal burial, it must lie beneath a foot of earth at the place of its transition to undeath. A vampire can move its place of burial by transporting its coffin or a significant amount of grave dirt to another location. Some vampires set up multiple resting places this way.

Undead Nature. Neither a vampire nor a vampire spawn requires air.

Minor Disguise
Transmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour
You can alter minor features of your appearance. The spell can’t make major changes to your appearance, such as altering your height or weight. However, you could make a scar or wrinkles appear on your face, or you could change the color or length of your hair. (OR if you wanna be a vampire, you could give yourself some nifty fangs!) For the duration, you may add +2 to any ability checks you make to create a visual disguise for yourself.

Shadowing Mark
1st-level divination
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 8 hours
You choose a creature you can see within range and place an invisible mark of shadow upon it. Until the spell ends, the target has disadvantage on Wisdom checks to find, notice, or discern information about you, and you have advantage on Wisdom checks to find, follow, or discern information about the target (SO you can stalk people LIKE A VAMPIRE!!!). Once before the spell ends, you can give yourself advantage on one weapon attack roll against the spell's current target during your turn. That attack deals an extra 1d12 psychic damage on a hit and scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark a new creature.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 24 hours, and you add your proficiency bonus to the psychic damage inflicted.

Skulking Spy
1st-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you would make a Dexterity check for initiative
Range: Self
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous
At the moment hostilities begin, you can immediately seek to evade your foes' notice. As part of the reaction used to cast this spell, you can move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks, before initiative is resolved. If you have any cover or concealment at the end of this movement, you can take the Hide action as part of the same reaction, and you can even attempt to hide from creatures who saw you move. (So you don't get caught stalking people LIKE A VAMPIRE!)

Nightshield
1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
There is a bare whisper of rushing air as a protective field of shadowy energy cloaks your body. For the duration, you have resistance to force damage from spells, and you take no damage from magic missile. In addition, for the spell’s duration, whenever you make a saving throw, roll a d4 and add the number rolled as a bonus to your saving throw. The spell ends at the end of the turn if you are exposed to direct sunlight. (like a vampire)

It seems to be written in Deep Speech. Does Wirrow open it?

Punishing Strike
necromancy cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 5 feet
Components: V
Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make an unarmed strike or melee weapon attack against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers Page 236 the attack's normal effects. In addition, a black web of necrotic energy radiates across its skin from where it was struck until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly takes a reaction before then, it immediately takes 1d8 necrotic damage, and the spell ends. This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels.

At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 necrotic damage to the target, and the damage the target suffers for taking a reaction increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.


Chill of the Grave
1st-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 50 feet
Components: V, S, M (a knuckle bone)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Choose one undead creature within 50 feet. For the duration, whenever the target hits with a melee attack, that attack inflicts an extra 1d8 cold damage.


Withering Smite
1st-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Your weapon radiates terrible energy that empowers the next strike you make with it. The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, your attack deals an extra 1d6 necrotic damage. If the target of that attack was a creature, it must make a successful Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns for the spell’s duration, its flesh rotting around the wound. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. The rotting effect also ends if the affected creature receives magical healing.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage dealt by the weapon’s hit increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st. Subsequent necrotic damage doesn’t increase.

You may not believe what I am about to tell you. Most people don't, and I can't blame them. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Not the city itself, of course. Nobody gets that far without their say-so.

But I've seen them.

Elves that can fly, zipping around through the mists and laying CURSES on those who venture too deep. And if you don't heed their warnings... they TAKE YOU. My brother Jeb was gone for three months before they let him go, brain addled beyond the repair of any cleric. That's how I know.

There are elves in them hills.

Long ago a portal was opened to another world, and hordes of orcs poured through into what would later become Thay. These orcs were notably different from the variety that lives in the North. Gray skin, an appearance far less beast oak, and able to call on their gods through mighty spellcasting. Eventually they were routed, but not before their pantheon killed most of the Mulhorandi deities.

For 1 hour after drinking it, you gain 10 temporary hit points that last for 1 hour. For the same duration, you are under the effect of the bless spell (no concentration required). This blue potion bubbles and steams as if boiling.

After drinking this potion, you can use a bonus action to exhale fire at a target within 30 feet of you. The target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 4d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The effect ends after you exhale the fire three times or when 1 hour has passed.

This potion's orange liquid flickers, and smoke fills the top of the container and wafts out whenever it is opened.

A military saddle braces the rider, helping you keep your seat on an active mount in battle. It gives you advantage on any check you make to remain mounted.