Yesterday, I was finishing one of NPC for my next campaign when I realise that I knew so few about the link between Toril and Faerie.
I know that the Star Elves have a connection with this plane and that a LeShay city reappears in the Moonshaes in 1375. But that’s almost all.
My NPC is a member of the Gatekeepers, a group whose purpose is to prevent any unexpected intrusion in Faerie by the various portals of Faerun and fight against aberrations invasions.
These are her stats:
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Sahiris “Feywild Keeper”, Watcher of the Emerald Garden CR 23
Female Greenbound Nymph Drui5/ Planar Shepherd 10
CG Medium Plant (Augmented Fey, Extraplanar)
Init +4 Senses low-light vision 60ft, Tremosense 60ft;
Listen +27, Spot +27
Languages Common, Druidic, Elven, Sylvan
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AC 44, touch 30, flat-footed 24
(+7 Dex, +13 Deflection, +8 Armor, +6 Natural)
Hp 160 (21HD); Fast Healing 3
DR 10/Magic and Slashing and Cold Iron
Immune mind-affecting effects, poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, stunning and critical hits.
Resistance Cold 10, Elecricity 10
Fort +29, Ref +29, Will +32 (+4 against fey, +2 against aberrations)
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Speed 30 ft. (6 squares), swim 20 ft
Melee Nature’s Fury +27/+22/+17 melee (1d6+8/*2 +2d6 against aberrations) or
Slam +22 melee (1d6+3)
Space 5ft.; Reach 5ft.
Base Atk +15; Grp +22
Atk Options Blinding beauty, stunning glance
Special Actions Rebuke animal or plant 14/day (+13 on check), Wildshape 5/day (max: 15 HD), Planar Bubble 3/day
Druid Spells Prepared (CL 22th, 23rd in a Faerie manifested zone):
9th – miracle, summon monster IX, nature’s avatar
8th – planar ally greater, spell immunity greater
7th – holy word
6th – heal
5th –
4th –
3rd –
2nd –
1st –
0 –
Spell Save DC 23 + spell lvl.
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 7th):
At will – entrangle (DC 25), pass without trace, speak with plant, detect manifest zone
2/day – Planeshift (Feywild and back only)
1/day – dimension door, wall of thorns (DC 28), intensify manifest zone
Item Provided Spells (CL 21st):
43 times – Earthquake, Whirlwind (heightened to 10th level, DC 33), Fire storm (heightened to 10th level, DC 33)
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Abilities Str 16, Dex 25, Con 16, Int 16, Wis 17, Cha 36
SQ unearthly grace, wild empathy
Feats: Combat CastingB, DodgeB, Fey BloodB, Fey Shape, Gatekeepers Initiate, Greenbound Summoning, Initiate of Nature, Natural Spell, Weapon FinesseB.
Epic Feats: Plant Wild Shape
Skills Concentration +27, Diplomacy +15, Escape Artist +16, Handle Animal +22, Heal +12, Hide +16 (+32 in forested area), Knowledge (nature) +20, Knowledge (the planes) +18, Listen +27, Move Silently +16 (+32 in forested area), Ride +9, Sense Motive +12, Spellcraft +18, Spot +27, Survival +20, Swim +11, Use Rope +7 (+9 with bindings)
Possessions As above, plus Bracers of armor +8, Gloves of dexterity +6, Cloak of charisma +6
Note The Planar Shepherd prestige class comes from Faith of Eberron and the Gatekeeper Initiate feat from the Eberron Campaign Setting.
Advancement by character class
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Description Sahiris is a beautiful little nymph with green hairs. She has a powerful connection with the world of faerie and guards most of the portal in north faerun to this plane. She was a servant of the Pillywiggin Queen Ariel in the Seelie Court before she took his charge of Gatekeeper.
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Blinding Beauty (Su): This ability affects all humanoids within 30 feet of a nymph. Those who look directly at a nymph must succeed on a DC 26 Fortitude save or be blinded permanently as though by the blindness spell. A nymph can suppress or resume this ability as a free action. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Stunning Glance (Su): As a standard action, a wrathful nymph can stun a creature within 30 feet with a look. The target creature must succeed on a DC 26 Fortitude save or be stunned for 2d4 rounds. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Unearthly Grace (Su): A nymph adds her Charisma modifier as a bonus on all her saving throws and as a deflection bonus to her Armor Class. (The statistics block already reflects these bonuses).
Skills: A nymph has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. She can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. She can use the run action while swimming, provided she swims in a straight line.
Grapple Bonus (Ex): Sahiris has a +4 on her grapple checks.
Spontaneous Casting: A druid can channel stored spell energy into summoning spells that she hasn’t prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any summon nature’s ally spell of the same level or lower.
Animal Companion (Ex): Sahiris has chosen a dire wolf as animal companion. By means of miracle spell and due to her high connection with the natural world, she has given him the greenbound template.
Nature Sense (Ex): Sahiris gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks.
Wild Empathy (Ex): Sahiris can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person. Sahiris has a +24 to this check.
Woodland Stride (Ex): Sahiris may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion still affect her.
Trackless Step (Ex): Sahiris leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired.
Resist Nature’s Lure (Ex): Sahiris gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like abilities of fey.
Wild Shape (Su): Sahiris has the ability to turn herself into any Tiny to Huge animal, plant or fey and back again five times per day. Instead she can choose to wildshape into a magical beast, an elemental or an outsider from Faerie plane (however the last two options cost two use of her wildshape ability).
Planar Attunement (Ex): Sahiris and her animal companion ignore any harmful effect from the plan of Faerie.
Planar Bubble (Su): three times per day, Sahiris can wrap herself a portion of the plane of Faerie.
Planar Self: Sahiris gains a damage reduction of 10/magic and the extraplanar trait. Whenever she is in a manifest zone of Faerie, she gains a +1 bonus to her caster level for all her druid spells.
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Sources PHB 3.5, PHB II, DMG 3.5, Planar Handbook (3E), Faith of Eberron (3.5E), Player’s Guide to Faerun (3.5E), Lost Empire of Faerun (3.5E)
Nature’s Fury: This +5 aberration bane quarterstaff allows use of the following spells.
- Earthquake (1 charge)
- Whirlwind (heightened to 10th level, 1 charge)
- Fire storm (heightened to 10th level, 1 charge)
After all charges are used up from a staff of nature’s fury, it remains a +5 quarterstaff with no special abilities.
Caster Level: 21st; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Epic Staff, Heighten Spell, Improved Heighten Spell, earthquake, fire storm, summon monster I (or summon nature’s ally I), whirlwind; Market Price: 500,000 gp.
Sahiris “Feywild Keeper”, Watcher of the Emerald Garden CR 23
Female Greenbound Nymph Drui5/ Planar Shepherd 10
CG Medium Plant (Augmented Fey, Extraplanar)
Init +4 Senses low-light vision 60ft, Tremosense 60ft;
Listen +27, Spot +27
Languages Common, Druidic, Elven, Sylvan
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AC 44, touch 30, flat-footed 24
(+7 Dex, +13 Deflection, +8 Armor, +6 Natural)
Hp 160 (21HD); Fast Healing 3
DR 10/Magic and Slashing and Cold Iron
Immune mind-affecting effects, poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, stunning and critical hits.
Resistance Cold 10, Elecricity 10
Fort +29, Ref +29, Will +32 (+4 against fey, +2 against aberrations)
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Speed 30 ft. (6 squares), swim 20 ft
Melee Nature’s Fury +27/+22/+17 melee (1d6+8/*2 +2d6 against aberrations) or
Slam +22 melee (1d6+3)
Space 5ft.; Reach 5ft.
Base Atk +15; Grp +22
Atk Options Blinding beauty, stunning glance
Special Actions Rebuke animal or plant 14/day (+13 on check), Wildshape 5/day (max: 15 HD), Planar Bubble 3/day
Druid Spells Prepared (CL 22th, 23rd in a Faerie manifested zone):
9th – miracle, summon monster IX, nature’s avatar
8th – planar ally greater, spell immunity greater
7th – holy word
6th – heal
5th –
4th –
3rd –
2nd –
1st –
0 –
Spell Save DC 23 + spell lvl.
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 7th):
At will – entrangle (DC 25), pass without trace, speak with plant, detect manifest zone
2/day – Planeshift (Feywild and back only)
1/day – dimension door, wall of thorns (DC 28), intensify manifest zone
Item Provided Spells (CL 21st):
43 times – Earthquake, Whirlwind (heightened to 10th level, DC 33), Fire storm (heightened to 10th level, DC 33)
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Abilities Str 16, Dex 25, Con 16, Int 16, Wis 17, Cha 36
SQ unearthly grace, wild empathy
Feats: Combat CastingB, DodgeB, Fey BloodB, Fey Shape, Gatekeepers Initiate, Greenbound Summoning, Initiate of Nature, Natural Spell, Weapon FinesseB.
Epic Feats: Plant Wild Shape
Skills Concentration +27, Diplomacy +15, Escape Artist +16, Handle Animal +22, Heal +12, Hide +16 (+32 in forested area), Knowledge (nature) +20, Knowledge (the planes) +18, Listen +27, Move Silently +16 (+32 in forested area), Ride +9, Sense Motive +12, Spellcraft +18, Spot +27, Survival +20, Swim +11, Use Rope +7 (+9 with bindings)
Possessions As above, plus Bracers of armor +8, Gloves of dexterity +6, Cloak of charisma +6
Note The Planar Shepherd prestige class comes from Faith of Eberron and the Gatekeeper Initiate feat from the Eberron Campaign Setting.
Advancement by character class
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Hook "''
Description Sahiris is a beautiful little nymph with green hairs. She has a powerful connection with the world of faerie and guards most of the portal in north faerun to this plane. She was a servant of the Pillywiggin Queen Ariel in the Seelie Court before she took his charge of Gatekeeper.
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Blinding Beauty (Su): This ability affects all humanoids within 30 feet of a nymph. Those who look directly at a nymph must succeed on a DC 26 Fortitude save or be blinded permanently as though by the blindness spell. A nymph can suppress or resume this ability as a free action. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Stunning Glance (Su): As a standard action, a wrathful nymph can stun a creature within 30 feet with a look. The target creature must succeed on a DC 26 Fortitude save or be stunned for 2d4 rounds. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Unearthly Grace (Su): A nymph adds her Charisma modifier as a bonus on all her saving throws and as a deflection bonus to her Armor Class. (The statistics block already reflects these bonuses).
Skills: A nymph has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. She can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. She can use the run action while swimming, provided she swims in a straight line.
Grapple Bonus (Ex): Sahiris has a +4 on her grapple checks.
Spontaneous Casting: A druid can channel stored spell energy into summoning spells that she hasn’t prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any summon nature’s ally spell of the same level or lower.
Animal Companion (Ex): Sahiris has chosen a dire wolf as animal companion. By means of miracle spell and due to her high connection with the natural world, she has given him the greenbound template.
Nature Sense (Ex): Sahiris gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) and Survival checks.
Wild Empathy (Ex): Sahiris can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person. Sahiris has a +24 to this check.
Woodland Stride (Ex): Sahiris may move through any sort of undergrowth (such as natural thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain) at her normal speed and without taking damage or suffering any other impairment. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion still affect her.
Trackless Step (Ex): Sahiris leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. She may choose to leave a trail if so desired.
Resist Nature’s Lure (Ex): Sahiris gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spell-like abilities of fey.
Wild Shape (Su): Sahiris has the ability to turn herself into any Tiny to Huge animal, plant or fey and back again five times per day. Instead she can choose to wildshape into a magical beast, an elemental or an outsider from Faerie plane (however the last two options cost two use of her wildshape ability).
Planar Attunement (Ex): Sahiris and her animal companion ignore any harmful effect from the plan of Faerie.
Planar Bubble (Su): three times per day, Sahiris can wrap herself a portion of the plane of Faerie.
Planar Self: Sahiris gains a damage reduction of 10/magic and the extraplanar trait. Whenever she is in a manifest zone of Faerie, she gains a +1 bonus to her caster level for all her druid spells.
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Sources PHB 3.5, PHB II, DMG 3.5, Planar Handbook (3E), Faith of Eberron (3.5E), Player’s Guide to Faerun (3.5E), Lost Empire of Faerun (3.5E)
Nature’s Fury: This +5 aberration bane quarterstaff allows use of the following spells.
- Earthquake (1 charge)
- Whirlwind (heightened to 10th level, 1 charge)
- Fire storm (heightened to 10th level, 1 charge)
After all charges are used up from a staff of nature’s fury, it remains a +5 quarterstaff with no special abilities.
Caster Level: 21st; Prerequisites: Craft Staff, Craft Epic Staff, Heighten Spell, Improved Heighten Spell, earthquake, fire storm, summon monster I (or summon nature’s ally I), whirlwind; Market Price: 500,000 gp.
- Are there any known portals to Faerie in the North?
-Yes. There are portals to the Plane of Faerie everywhere.
- Is the Seelie Court a group of influence in the Realms, as the Archdevils or the demons are?
-Do they have influence? In certain circles of Fey, Sylvan creatures, as well as Elves, they do. As much widespread influence as certain Archdevils or Demon Lords? Probably not, but that's your call as DM. My personal opinion is no.
- Will the Eladrin be removed form Arvandor and the Gates of the Moon to Feywild in 4E?
-Probably not. Eladrin have been the traditional servators of the Seldarine since at least 2e. There's no reason they'd suddenly all disappear.
- Are there any resources on the LeShay in the Realms?
The Epic Level Handbook
Darkvision
Another question: Are the Leshay members of the Seelie Court ? Before reading the article on the Moonshaes, I have never seen any information on Leshay in the Realms.
-The LeShay were created much after the D&D Seelie Court was created. As such, they were not originally affiliated with the Seelie Court. They are Fey creatures, however, so it would make sense that there are LeShay who are servitors of the deities that compose the Seelie Court.