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Visit our website at 620-95372720-001-EN 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Printing: July 2006 ISBN-10: 0-7869-3916-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-7869-3916-9 www.wizards.com/dnd 620_95372 Xendrik_Ch1.indd 4 5/1/06 2:17:19 PM Contents Lightning Revelations ....... 105 Major Sidebars Lost .............................. 107 Using This Book ....................7 Introduction ...........................7 Lost Soul ....................... 108 Why Go to Xen’drik? ..............8 Maul of the The Sahuagin of the TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE Chapter 1: Glacial Heights ............ 110 Thunder Sea .....................12 Welcome to Xen’drik .............. 11 Missing Missionaries ........ 111 Sahuagin Encounters .............13 Crossing the Thunder Sea ......11 Reforging ....................... 114 Stormreach Names ................18 The Dangers of Travel .........13 Snake Hunt .................... 115 Buying and Selling Stormreach .........................14 Spear of the Desert Winds ...118 in Stormreach ...................19 Dar Qat ............................. 20 Staff of the Magma Falls .... 120 Other Settlements ................ 22 The Lands of Xen’drik .......... 22 Trade Goods of Xen’drik ....... 23 Chapter 5: The Traveler’s Curse ............. 25 Chapter 2: Adventure Sites ......27 Xen’drik Unveiled ............... 123 Other Sites ......................... 28 Ancient Harbor ................... 27 Prestige Classes .................. 123 Old-Growth Forests ............ 42 Colossal Monument .............. 29 Landforged Walker ........... 123 Jungle Hazards .................... 43 Desert Canyons ....................31 Primal Scholar ................ 127 Thirty Ancient Ruins ........... 48 Dreary Marsh ...................... 33 Scorpion Wraith .............. 130 A Sulatar Speaks .................. 52 Fog Lake ............................ 34 Feats ................................ 133 Strange Flora and Fauna Forsaken City ...................... 36 Racial Feats .................... 133 of Xen’drik ..................... 54 Honeycomb Caverns ............. 38 Tactical Feats .................. 133 High-Level Adventurers Mountain Glacier ................ 39 Equipment ........................ 135 in Xen’drik ..................... 56 Old-Growth Ruins ................41 Armor ........................... 135 Adventuring Group ELs ........ 58 Primitive Camp ................... 43 Weapons ........................ 136 Adapting Animals Quori Outpost .................... 44 Gear ............................. 138 to Other Climates ............. 59 Volcanic Fields .................... 46 Magical and Psionic Giant Factions of Xen’drik ..... 60 Ziggurat Ruins .................... 48 Locations ....................... 139 Abeil Commanders ...............61 Cavern of Peerless Form .... 139 Mutated Monsters in Xen’drik ...62 Chapter 3: Encounters ...........51 The Claw of Vulkoor .........140 Lizardfolk in Xen’drik .......... 63 Drow: Beyond the Scorpion .....51 Memorial Marker Monstrous Trade Goods ........ 64 The Sulatar ......................51 of the Elven Dead ..........141 Yuan-Ti in Xen’drik ............. 67 The Umbragen ................. 52 Pillar of the Titans ........... 142 Shulassakar: Forgotten Civilizations ......... 52 Shattered Dreamwar Gate ...142 The Feathered Servants ...... 68 The Qabalrin ................... 52 Timeless Fountain ........... 143 Vulkoor ............................. 72 The Sul’at League ............. 53 Artifact Spells .................... 143 Drow Crests ........................ 73 The Gyrderi .................... 53 New Magic Items .................145 New Monsters Outside A Legacy of Doom ................ 53 Arquis Tellora ................. 145 Xen’drik ..........................74 The Curse of the Titans ...... 53 BracersSample of the Hunter .......file 145 Alchemy Beetle Lore ............. 75 The Du’rashka Tul ............ 53 Siberys Compass .............. 146 Dream Serpent Lore ............. 77 Xen’drik Encounters ............ 54 Sulatar Items .................. 146 Jungle Giant Lore ................ 78 New Monsters ......................74 Vulkoor’s Headdress ......... 147 Giants of Xen’drik ............... 80 Alchemy Beetle ..................74 Warforged Components ........ 148 Scorrow Lore ...................... 82 Dream Serpent ................. 76 Behemoth Belt ................ 148 Tentacle Spider Lore ............ 83 Giant, Jungle ................... 77 Belt of Fortifi cation .......... 148 Warforged Scorpion Lore ...... 86 Giant, Primordial ............. 79 Claw Gauntlet ................. 148 Yuan-Ti Wretchling Lore ...... 87 Scorrow ...........................81 Elemental Axe ................. 148 Location, Location, Location ...94 Tentacle Spider ................ 83 Essence of the Jungle ........ 149 Curses of Xen’drik ............... 96 Warforged, Quorcraft ........ 84 Spinning Flail ................. 149 The Shard of Arcane Warforged Scorpion .......... 85 New Artifacts ..................... 149 Endowment .................... 100 Yuan-Ti Wretchling ........... 86 Blade of the Burning Destiny Arms ..................... 101 Encounter Traps .................. 88 Promise ...................... 149 The Marsh of Desolation ...... 108 Destiny Arms .................. 150 Prokres as a Patron .............. 110 Chapter 4: Dream Prison ................. 152 Missionaries Timeline .........112 Adventures in Xen’drik ..........93 Elixirs of Antiquity .......... 152 Lycanthropy in Eberron ....... 113 Using Adventure Frameworks ...93 Ingots Arcanum ............... 152 100 Adventure Ideas ............ 116 Academic Errand .............. 93 Sanguineous Tome ........... 153 Giant Ruins ....................... 121 City of Gold ..................... 94 Shard of Arcane Sulatar Materials ................ 147 The Creation Forge ........... 96 Endowment ................. 154 Art of Xen’drik .................. 153 Dream Prison .................. 97 Shira (docent component) ... 154 The Docent Shira ............... 154 Glaive of the Artifact Components ........... 156 Dealing with Docents ...........155 Darkest Depths ............. 100 Defense of the Makers .......156 Destroying Artifacts ............ 156 Hunting Party ................. 102 Scorpion Belt .................. 156 Magic Item Effects .............. 157 Illicit Shipment ............... 104 620_95372 Xendrik_Ch1.indd 5 5/1/06 2:17:23 PM he dark elf warlord Twhispered a word in an ancient tongue, and fl ames engulfed her blade. Sample file housands of years ago, that Tblade killed his ancestor. Tonight he would take his vengeance and reclaim his honor. 620_95372 Xendrik_Ch1.indd 6 5/1/06 2:17:26 PM.