Nightshades were large undead creatures from the Plane of Shadow.[1][3]
Description[]
Nightshades were all different in form, but they were often said to appear to be made of darkness. They were also said to smell like open graves.[1]
Personality[]
Nightshades were composed as much of evil as of darkness.[1]
Abilities[]
Nightshades varied greatly in abilities, but all of them radiated a 20‑foot (6.1‑meter) aura of desecration so powerful as to be akin in strength to a shrine of an evil power; only dispel evil or a similar effect could get rid of it, although a consecrated or hallowed area would suppress the aura, but at the cost of being suppressed in turn.[1]
Nightshades were averse to natural sunlight, which weakened them upon contact. They understood all languages but communicated only by telepathy.[1]
Varieties[]
There were at least four known types of nightshades:
- Nightcrawlers were massive, wormlike monsters.[1]
- Nighthaunts were the smallest and weakest of nightshades, gargoyle-like creatures that were still formidable in their own right.[2]
- Nightwalkers were massive, vaguely humanoid horrors.[1]
- Nightwings were bat-shaped entities that hunted on the wing.[1]
Relationships[]
Some nightshades were known to act as servants of the deities Urdlen[4] and Shar.[5]
Appendix[]
Appearances[]
Video Games
External links[]
- Nightshade article at the Neverwinter Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter MMORPG.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 195–197. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Travis Stout (February 2005). Lost Empires of Faerûn. Edited by Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 185–186. ISBN 0-7869-3654-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Richard Baker, James Wyatt (March 2004). Player's Guide to Faerûn. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 162–163. ISBN 0-7869-3134-5.
- ↑ Eric L. Boyd (November 1998). Demihuman Deities. Edited by Julia Martin. (TSR, Inc.), p. 158. ISBN 0-7869-1239-1.
- ↑ Sean K. Reynolds (2002-05-04). Deity Do's and Don'ts (Zipped PDF). Web Enhancement for Faiths and Pantheons. Wizards of the Coast. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2018-09-08.