Terrible Beauty
Heed the Call of the Faerie Queen!
All across Urth stand doorways to hidden places. These are the realms of the faerie¸ entire worlds of magic and wonder¸ fear and horror. No friends to mortals¸ the faeries abandoned Urth long ago¸ leaving their homelands to humankind to do with as it wished. Now¸ with the Demon Lord's shadow casting a pall across the land¸ the faeries have begun to return from their self-imposed exile¸ to join the fight against the darkness and purge the world of the evil that grips it. Terrible Beauty presents tools for players and Game Masters to introduce faerie stories¸ mechanics¸ and themes into Shadow of the Demon Lord campaigns. Inside¸ you'll find:
- The elf¸ hobgoblin¸ and pixie ancestries.
- An assortment of new paths such as the Avowed expert path and the eternal guardian and troll hunter master paths.
- The Fey tradition¸ and new spells for existing traditions.
- Overviews of several sample faerie kingdoms.
- New relics such as the Vorpal Sword and a new enchanted object table.
- New creatures ranging from the fair nymph to the foul jabberwock.
- A complete adventure for expert characters.
Terrible Beauty opens new doors to adventure and horror in a dying world¸ and the options presented here will leave your game forever changed!