Sample file Archetypes of the Realms: Savagery & Shadow By Jeremy Forbing Contents How to Use This Book ...................................................................................... 2 Chapter 3: Lycanthropes of Faerun ................................................................ 27 Chapter 1: The Realmslore of Lycanthropes, Shifters, and Their Life as a Werebeast .............................................................................................. 27 Kin ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Lycanthrope Adventurers ......................................................................... 28 Shifters and the Weretouched ................................................................. 4 Passing the Curse ........................................................................................... 28 Weretouched Homelands ........................................................................................... 4 New Downtime Activity: Enduring Lycanthropy ............................ 29 Baldur’s Gate ................................................................................................................4 Werebeast Society ......................................................................................... 29 The Wood of Sharp Teeth ........................................................................... 4 Legends of the Lycanthropes ........................................................................ 30 Vehlarr, City of the Moon ........................................................................... 4 Creation Mythology ..................................................................................... 30 The Dalelands ..............................................................................................................5 The Curse of the Moon............................................................................... 30 Dambrath ........................................................................................................................5 Werebadgers ............................................................................................................ 31 Durpar .............................................................................................................................5 New Monster: Werebadger ....................................................................... 32 Durpar and the Shining Lands ..................................................................... 6 Werebears ................................................................................................................. 33 The Great Dale............................................................................................................6 Wereboars ................................................................................................................ 34 Luskan ...............................................................................................................................6 Wererats .................................................................................................................... 34 Moonshae Isles ...........................................................................................................6 Wereravens .............................................................................................................. 35 Rashemen .......................................................................................................................6 Weretiger .................................................................................................................. 36 Sembia ...............................................................................................................................6 Werewolves.............................................................................................................. 37 Silverymoon .................................................................................................................7 New Monster: Wereserpent ..................................................................... 38 The People of the Black Blood ................................................................ 7 Chapter 4: New Class Archetypes ..................................................................... 39 The South Moonsea .................................................................................................7 Path of the Flamewarden ................................................................................ 39 Ylraphon Reborn ............................................................................................... 8 College of the Fates ........................................................................................... 40 Tethyr ..............................................................................................................................8 Hunting Domain....................................................................................................... 41 New Background: ............................................................................................................. 8 Circle of the Solstice........................................................................................ 42 Weretouched Kinfolk .............................................................................................8 Thayan Knight ......................................................................................................... 43 What is your home region? ........................................................................... 8 New Cantrips ..................................................................................................... 44 Feature: Kinfolk Network .......................................................................... 10 Challenger’s Mark ......................................................................................... 44 Suggested Characteristics ........................................................................ 10 Echoing Blow .................................................................................................... 44 Chapter 2: New Races and Feats ......................................................................... 11 Frostwind Blade .............................................................................................. 44 Shade ................................................................................................................................... 11 Looming Shadow .............................................................................................. 45 Shade Classes .................................................................................................... 13 Punishing Strike .............................................................................................. 45 Shade Traits.............................................................................................................. 14 Way of the Incarnate Ancestor ................................................................... 45 Independent Shade ......................................................................................... 14 The Adama, Religion of the Shining Lands ....................................... 46 New Cantrip: Shifting Shadow ................................................................ 14 Moonstalker ............................................................................................................ 47 Netherese Shade ............................................................................................. 14 Alternate Rangers ......................................................................................... 47 Life Among the Shadovar........................................................................... 15 Abjurant Champion .............................................................................................. 48 Shifter ............................................................................................................................... 15 Darkmoon Theurge............................................................................................... 49 Shifter Names ................................................................................................... 16 The Benighted City ............................................................................................... 50 Shifters and the Gods .................................................................................. 17 Pact of the Gloom ............................................................................................... 51 Shifter Traits .......................................................................................................... 17 Pact of the Scar ................................................................................................... 51 Beasthide.............................................................................................................. 17 Augmenting with Blood of Great Lineage ......................................... 52 Cliffwalk ............................................................................................................. 18 New Eldritch Invocations................................................................................. 52 Dreamsight .......................................................................................................... 18 Augmented