Step 1

Ensure you have the following sourcebooks.

You can acquire the EE and NPC books for free online through the links above.

The following sourcebooks are optional. They are referenced, but are not required to run the adventure.

Step 2

Read the adventure introduction (IW) and decide if this book is right for your group. Run a "Session Zero" with your group to set expectations going forward.

Step 3

Give your players the Into Wonderland Player's Guide to help them make characters. Its content is included in Part 2 of this book (IW).

Step 4

Read through Part 1: Adventure Background (IW) and the Running the Adventure section (IW) in Part 3. Start the adventure in The Shimmer (IW) in Part 3. Make clear the following short and long term goals for the party.

• Short Term Goals. Fulfill the basic needs of Endercoast: food, water, shelter, community, and safety. Establish relationships (positive or negative) with the archfey who rule the nearby courts.
• Long Term Goals. Return Endercoast to the Material Plane. Leave the Feywild behind.

Step 5

Incorporate plot hooks (IW) into your session. Let the players decide which hooks appeal to them.

Step 6

The following characters can help the party leave Endercoast by explaining the rules for entering the Feywild (IW).

• Jilwocky Niftywoop (IW)
• Hermione Galanodel (IW)

Step 7

Use the travel rules for entering the Feywild (IW).

Step 8

Incorporate random encounters into your party's travel (IW).

Step 9

Use the quests of the fey courts (IW) and location descriptions (IW) for descriptions on how your party might achieve their short and long term goals.

Step 10

Characters can't take a long rest in the Feywild. They must return to Endercoast to take a long rest.

Return to Endercoast using the rules to leave the Feywild (IW). Use the Fey Influence table (IW) to describe how the Feywild has begun creeping into Endercoast, and use the Unfulfilled Needs table (IW) if the party hasn't been able to achieve a short term goal.

Step 11

Conduct downtime activities (IW) in Endercoast and use the event tables for each faction (IW) to further the story. Review plot hooks (IW).

Step 12

Repeat from Step 6 until the party have achieved all of their short term goals and at least two archfey court quests (IW).

Step 13

Conclude the adventure with the Looking Glass quest (IW).

Step 14

Your party returns home to the Material Plane and conducts a narrative-focused denouement (IW) to wrap up each character's personal journey.

The Rundown

Into Wonderland is a book detailing an adventure in the Feywild, a setting for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. This book provides player options, encounters, variant rules, and a campaign of expeditions into the unknown centred around the city of Endercoast that has been spirited away from the Material Plane. To survive, you'll need to balance the needs of the displaced city with the mercurial whims of four powerful archfey.

Player Experience

This book is best suited for a group that is confident with the rules and expectations of Dungeons and Dragons, led by an experienced DM. A good rule of thumb is that players should have played a DnD character up to 8th level before beginning this adventure, even if they make a new character for it.

Forward

What is the Feywild?

The Feywild is a timeless, forgotten place: the past, present, and future mix, and the old ways roll over to neverending change. Man still hangs on to the ways of the old world. The Feywild does as it pleases.

In more certain terms, the Feywild is a sister realm to the Material Plane home to the mercurial fey -- pixies, sprites, dryads, and the like. It's a realm of fairy tales, a realm of wonder, and a realm of nameless horror.

Why Play a Game in This Setting?

The Feywild is a setting for those who enjoy fairy tales, who like fairies and witches and mischief and magic, and who long to feel once again the sense of wonder and discovery they felt as children. It eschews dungeon crawling and tactical encounters for difficult, meaningful decision-making that balances the needs of many disparate and ineffable forces.

Most of all, the Feywild is a setting of the unknown. It's about striding forth into a realm of dreams, emotion, feelings, and wonder. All of this only works because of the juxtaposition between the other main setting of this adventure, the city of Endercoast, whose strict routines and rituals contrast heavily with the dreamlike nature of the fey.

What's Included in This Book?

• A whole section on the city of Endercoast including great detail about 14 key locations, 4 factions, a heap of downtime activities, seasons, weather, holidays, and the influence of the fey on the city.
• A whole section on the realm of the Feywild including a step-by-step approach to creating an archfey, rules for using emotional truths to travel, examples of dreamlike descriptions, effects of the seasons and the weather, fairy pranks, consequences for getting lost, and descriptions of 14 locations
• 7 new races (14 including subraces) plus lists of races from official books that would work well in the setting and specific goals or ideals for each race
  • bullywugs (frog people)
  • centaurs (unicorn, plant, beetle, and spider forms)
  • changelings (face changers)
  • dryads (tree people)
  • faeries (pixies, sprites, quicklings, faerie dragons, and storm mephits)
  • kuo-toas (fish people)
  • satyrs (goat people)
• 10 new subclasses plus lists of subclasses from official books that would work well in the setting
  • Path of Mercury (barbarians that let chaos decide their actions)
  • Circle of Growth (druids that turn into plants)
  • Survivalist (fighters with a defensive focus)
  • Way of Gardens (monks with a plant theme)
  • Primal Wardens (half druid, half ranger)
  • Warlock Patrons (Lord Cals, patience and death, Cirrus, trickster spirit, Dailili, consuming growth, and Tettlebug Moonflower, charms and storms)
  • School of Witchcraft (wizards that learn their craft in the wild, brew potions, and form powerful covens with their party)
• 3 new backgrounds, including an Endercoast guard, a courtier for an archfey, and a hag's servant, plus extra material for other backgrounds that would work well in the setting
• 2 new feats: Chaos Caster (wild magic surges) and Feywild Navigator (easier to get around).
• 14 new spells: babble, coin toss, despair, discord, euphoria, extract dream, knight's hop, mouse, our little secret, rainbow, reflect, return to earth, tormentor, and trick
• 9 questlines taking a party through the courts of the archfey and through journeys inspired by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
• Random encounter tables
• 60 random Feywild encounters
• 35 new monsters, including 8 ancient beasts, 3 dangerous plants, 4 extremely powerful archfey, a heap of NPCs based on the new subclasses of the book, creepy new fey like the darkwood stalker and the time vulture, and other such creatures found in the Feywild
• A handy guide for applying races quickly to NPC statblocks
• A list of works that inspired the book

Quirks of This Book

• There's a lot of self-referential content, which means the book includes a tonne of in-text references. Flip to a random page and use the in-text references to guide your way through various sections of the book, flitting wherever your heart takes you.
• In parts 1, 3, and 4, the pronoun "you" refers to the DM. In part 2, it refers to the player.
• The rules in the Feywild are intentionally "jujjy". They leave a lot up to the DM. Let your feelings guide you to what is right.

Mayor Hitchen Attercat

Flustered and incompetent, Mayor Attercat struggles to maintain control of the city of Endercoast after it is spirited to the Feywild. His lack of competence has opened up opportunities for several competing factions to vie for control, all under his nose.

Mayor Attercat can be represented by a human king (NPC 220). He relies on his magic items, given to him as bribes throughout his political career, to reassure him of his self-image as an effective leader.

• Appearance. Short, overweight, with a bright red nose from his alcoholism. He's dressed in glorious purple robes.
• Voice. He has a nasally voice and a sneering affectation. New York accent.
• Personality. Paranoid and mousey.
• Ideal. One's financial standing is a measure of one's worth as a person. The richer you are, the more deserving of those riches you are. The poor oughtta pull themselves up by their bootstraps. (Lawful Evil)
• Bond. Indebted to the Union of Small Business Owners who have bribed him with luxurious piles of magic items and gold.
• Flaw. Easily bribed, which means that his government really has no identity distinct from its "investors". Whatever the lobbyists say is what goes.

Commissioner Huck Lasick of the Endercoast Guard

Commissioner Lasick is a brutal, no-nonsense infrastructure coordinator who has built his career in the engineering sector. He has recently acquired the badge of commissioner and intends to reform the slipshod Endercoast guards into a fighting force to be reckoned with.

Commissioner Lasick can be represented either by a stout halfling trebucheter (TPN 14) or artillerist (NPC 186) and is never seen without his arcane turret (TPN 14, NPC 186).

• Appearance. A dark-skinned halfling with deep scars on his face and calluses of a life working with his hands. He wears drab, functional armor somewhat visible underneath his commissioner's uniform.
• Voice. Deep, gruff, and a bit snarly. Canadian accent.
• Personality. No nonsense.
• Ideal. A single competent person can make all the difference in the world. (Lawful Neutral)
• Bond. His six chiefs and their immediate underlings are his "untouchables" -- they cannot be bought.
• Flaw. His failures as an engineer follow him. He sees his mistakes in Endercoast's infrastructure everywhere he goes.

Hermione Galanodel of the Sentinels of Equity

Hermione Galanodel is a devotee and spokeswoman of the Sentinels of Equity whose goals are to return Endercoast to a state of nature. She believes that by presenting her arguments reasonably, people will be turned to her point of view. Anyone who isn't convinced is therefore unreasonable and should be eliminated.

Hermione can be represented either by a wood elf court debater (TPN 20) or glamour bard (NPC 36).

• Appearance. Tall, thin, covered entirely in white robes. Her long black hair trails out from her hood.
• Voice. Oozes like honey. Upper class non-rhotic Southern American.
• Personality. Affable, insistent, and self-assured. Prides herself in her stoic affectation.
• Ideal. All shall be made equal. (Chaotic Neutral)
• Bond. Joined the sentinels after her high elven village elder betrayed her people to become a lich.
• Flaw. Cannot suppress her emotions as well as she thinks.

Turph Musheen of the Union of Small Business Owners

Turph Musheen is a retired adventurer and small business owner. He owns a flower shop. He's also on the board of the Union of Small Business Owners and has gained massive support from the other union members for his rejection of the Feywild's influence over Endercoast. The city should be self-sufficient. It should not give in to the magic of the Fey.

Turph is represented by a half-orc commander (NPC 206).

• Appearance. Well-dressed grey-skinned man with tusks. Braided through his hair are four flowers: a white rose, two daffodils, and a chrysanthemum.
• Voice. Rough and working class, hiding a sharp intelligence. Heavy cockney accent.
• Personality. Everything's a negotiation to him. He likes to beat around the bush before getting to the point.
• Ideal. If we don't stand up for ourselves, nobody's gonna do it for us. (Neutral)
• Bond. His son was killed in the Endercoast salt mines ten years ago. He vowed never to let anything like that happen again, no matter the cost. His wife and two daughters now live a respectable lifestyle in a nice part of town. The four flowers in his hair symbolise his family. Flowers need a gardener.
• Flaw. Not above using dirty tricks and intimidation to get what he wants, and he doesn't see the hypocrisy in his actions.

Downtime Activities

• Carousing (IW)
• Crafting (IW)
• Crime (IW)
• Gigs (IW)
• Operating a Small Business (IW)
• Research (IW)
• Relaxation (IW)

Factions

• The Government (IW)
• The Endercoast Guard (IW)
• The Sentinels of Equity (IW)
• The Union of Small Business Owners (IW)

Faction Leaders

See Dramatis Personae (IW) for key faction leaders.

Happenings in Town

• Feywild Influence (IW)
• Holidays (IW)
• Saltine News (IW)
• City Gossip (IW)
• Government Faction Events (IW)
• Endercoast Guard Faction Events (IW)
• Sentinels of Equity Faction Events (IW)
• Union of Small Business Owners Faction Events (IW)

Map

Refer to the map of Endercoast (IW).

Leaving and Returning

Refer to Thresholds of Endercoast (IW).

Government

• Act 1: The Marketplace of Ideas (IW)
• Act 2: I am Not a Crook (IW)
• Act 3: Bad Enough to Save the Mayor (IW)

Endercoast Guard

• Act 1: Establish Credibility (IW)
• Act 2: Intercept Suppliers (IW)
• Act 3: Expose Corruption (IW)

Sentinels of Equity

• Act 1: All Shall Be Made Equal (IW)
• Act 2: Sinners Shan't be Granted Leniency (IW)
• Act 3: Choose Carefully One's Allies (IW)

Union of Small Business Owners

• Act 1: Identify Your Target Market (IW)
• Act 2: Promote Your Unique Selling Point (IW)
• Act 3: Profit (IW)

Other

• Bring It to a Boil (IW)
• Purse Your Lips (IW)

Lliira (IW)

Chaotic Good. The Joydancers of Lliira exist to provide a welcome distraction from the tribulations of the common people. Their church, a modest but long-running circus in Endercoast, risks pulling farmers from their families, knights from their quest, wives from their husbands, and children from their parents, all for a chance to be lost forever watching the hypnotic sway.

Sentinels of Equity (IW)

Chaotic Neutral. The Sentinels of Equity do not worship a specific god, but moreso the abstract concept of a "truly equal society". Perhaps there is a god that grants them their powers, though such a god has yet to reveal itself. Now that the city has been cut off from the Material Plane, their power has remained steady while other churches of Endercoast, aside from those of Lliira and Silvanus, have waned.

Silvanus (IW)

Neutral. The woodlands must be preserved at all costs. Worshipping their Forest Father from impossibly high treehouses, followers of Silvanus stand steadfast against the intrusion of civilisation into the natural forests of the world. Sometimes this involves warnings. Other times, arrows.

Government

Leader

Huck Lasick is the commissioner of the Endercoast Guard. See Dramatis Personae for details.

Fighters

The guards in the Endercoast Guard are all fighters. The guard is made up of six precincts (refer to NPC 75 for the rundown on fighter squads) with 5d100 guards (MM 347) in each precinct (roughly 250 per precinct and roughly 1500 total). The precincts are respectively led by a veteran (MM 350), a master-at-arms (NPC 80), a rally guard (NPC 80), a commander (NPC 206), a brute (NPC 82), and a banneret (NPC 79) as their chiefs.

Goals

The Endercoast Guard pursues the following goals over the course of the story.

• Crack Down on Enormities. Endercoast is a city of sinners. The commissioner knows that a few broken windows is all it takes for criminals to think they can get away with it, so his strategy is one of zero quarter.
• Replace Shoddy Engineering. A lot of Endercoast's engineering work was done shoddily, in a rush, to keep up with a velocitous population growth. Now that the population has levelled off (especially because everyone is trapped here), now's the time to push for some infrastructure work that desperately needs to get done.
• Ally with the Cult. Huck Lasick isn't a religious man, but he knows the power of church on ensuring the obedience of the masses. He thinks the Sentinels of Equity are a bunch of crackpots, but if they can help him maintain order, maybe a bunch of crackpots is what this city needs. He doesn't quite understand the true purpose the cult, unfortunately.

Influence

• Leadership. The guards command respect from their citizens, who go along with what they say unless they have a good reason to disobey (and are willing to potentially put their life on the line to do so). The commissioner commands the guards, and time and time again he proves his capabilities as a leader.
• Persistence. Commissioner Huck Lasick does not rest until he has his man. He does not sleep until he has a solution to his problems. He does not give up, not now, and not ever. He is relentless. He is inevitable. And his guards must follow suit.
• Violence. In concept, as an organisation a city guard has widespread societal permission -- and in fact, expectation -- to inflict violence on those who would go against the interests of the city. They employ mercenaries and train recruits to become lethal fighters. They are the largest combative force in the adventure, moreso even than any individual archfey's forces.

Leader

The Sentinels of Equity have no official leader, but Hermione Galanodel is their spokeswoman. See Dramatis Personae for details.

Religious Details

Chaotic Neutral. The Sentinels of Equity do not worship a specific god, but moreso the abstract concept of a "truly equal society". Perhaps there is a god that grants them their powers, though such a god has yet to reveal itself. Now that the city has been cut off from the Material Plane, their power has remained steady while other churches of Endercoast, aside from those of Lliira and Silvanus, have waned.

Cultists of the sentinels of equity dress in identical white robes and often speak together as many voices merging into one. Once a day, each cultist can replace any result of a die roll with 10 (before adding modifiers).

Goals

The Sentinels of Equity pursue the following goals over the course of the story.

• Absolute Fairness in All Matters. The cult believes that the government and the city guard are incapable of objectively doling out justice. Only the Sentinels of Equity are capable of viewing criminal acts from an unclouded perspective and should therefore be the adjudicator in all cases.
• Return to a State of Nature. Endercoast is a city encroaching on the natural order of the world. Being transported to the Feywild is a sign that the city has strayed too far from its roots and must tear itself apart to coalesce into the soil once more.
• Eliminate the Opposition. Any who disagree with the Sentinels of Equity are acting unreasonably, and there is no room in this world for unreasonable people. The cult must eliminate anyone who crosses them.

Influence

• Divine Magic. The sentinels command divine power in a place that is otherwise largely cut off from the gods. Most major religious institutions find their clerics powerless. Not so for the sentinels. They heal the sick, banish undead, and bring light to the masses.
• Luck. The sentinels have made a pact with Lord Cals, who supplies Hermione Galanodel and other influential members of the cult with a warlock's magic. Lord Cals provides them the boon of patience -- the dice will be in their favour if they are willing to wait.
• Manipulation. The sentinels have their claws in most influential organisations in Endercoast. They've bribed the government, they've installed secret members on the board of the Union of Small Business Owners, and they've convinced the Endercoast guard that their presence in the city helps maintain order.

Leader

Turph Musheen is the most influential member on the board of the Union of Small Business Owners. See Dramatis Personae for details.

Features

The union uses thugs (MM 350) for intimidation purposes. Thugs have access to Pack Tactics, which is a powerful feature that grants advantage when ganging up against a target. You can grant other NPCs the Pack Tactics feature if they work for the union.

As an alternative to Pack Tactics, you can grant NPCs the ability to use the variant flanking rules (DMG 251), which is also what player characters gain access to as a result of allying with this faction. If you're running this adventure with theatre of the mind, you can adapt the flanking rules as follows:

Goals

The Union of Small Business Owners pursues the following goals over the course of the story.

• Protect Our Own. Members of the union are granted special protections and must be allowed to call upon the resources of the union to support them. All for one and one for all.
• Absorb Competitors. Almost every other guild in Endercoast has been incorporated into the union, and they won't stop until everyone is a part of their organisation whether they like it or not.
• Return to the Material Plane. The Feywild isn't good for business. Law is preferable to chaos.

Influence

• Arcane Magic. When the court wizards joined with the union, Mayor Attercat knew that attempting to circumvent the union would be hopeless. The wizards possess scrying and illusion magic that make it impossible to pull a fast one on them. Or so they think, for their overconfidence breeds complacency.
• Intimidation. The union wields the power to shut the city down at any moment. Endercoast can't function without the businesses that supply its people with essential services like food, clothing, water, and medicine. If the union is crossed, they will strike, and the city will suffer.
• Law. The union's team of expert lawyers can worm their way in and out of the legal labyrinth, always ensuring that the union comes out on top in a negotiation.

a. The Church of Her Inimitable Joyousness

The Church of Her Inimitable Joyousness is a large colourful circus that runs nightly performances doubling as both entertainment and sermons meant to spread the joy of their goddess Lliira.

When the party first enters the circus, describe the following scene.

The concierge, Greta, a lithe half-elf church hand (NPC 205), helps the party find their seats and cheerfully tells them that she'll be checking in on them periodically to ensure they're having a good time (and to take any orders for snack food). She flashes a pearly-white smile and then skips off to help out other audience members.

b. Council Hall

The Council Hall is the center of bureaucracy for Endercoast and house of the government (IW). It has a courthouse and a records room that dates back decades to Endercoast's inception. Its architecture is magnificent thanks to Huck Lasick overseeing the project in his early days as a municipal engineer. Mayor Hitchen Attercat spends most of his time here.

Local Knowledge

"It's a hunk of plaster and wood, what can I say? Check it out if you've got a half dozen gold pieces burning a hole in your pocket and you'd rather give it to the government than the homeless."

Directions

"Just north of the council hall. Ugliest building this side of the river. Hard to miss what with all the signs pointing right at it."

The front room is a gaudy, cramped, souvenir shop helmed by a baggy-eyed old dwarven lady. Two goat-legged men, satyrs you reckon, flip through brochures with wide-eyed excitement. They speak to each other in Sylvan. "Oh my god, Brian, have we seen the dragon turtle yet? Oh, and the beautiful architecture of the council hall, that's just across the street, how grand!"

Activities

• Accommodation. A room at the Endercoast Officially Sanctioned Tourist Hotel and Museum costs 20 gp per week. The rooms are very nice, if bland. A renter can find a lost invitation to Shiner's (IW) in their room's dresser drawer with a DC 5 Intelligence (Investigation) check. It's been ripped in half but could easily be repaired with mending or a forgery kit.
• Research. The small museum attached to the souvenir shop provides an opportunity to spend a week of downtime conducting research. Entry to the museum is 10 gp per week. The museum provides low-quality surface-level information; the highest result possible for a research check in this location is 10.
• Tourist Attractions. The souvenir shop downstairs has brochures to the Petrified Dragon Turtle, the Sylvan Gardens, and the Council Hall, as well as many out-of-city-limits locations like the Salt Mines that are unfortunately no longer accessible while Endercoast is in the Feywild. Ethel hasn't removed these brochures because she is too lazy to do so and looking at them makes her depressed.

Local Knowledge

"The guardhouse? Well I hope I don't look like the kind of person who'd be well acquainted with it."

Directions

"Bad side of the river, wish it wasn't so close to the south end of the gardens. Cluster of grey buildings about a street or two back from the river."

Local Knowledge

"Great food and a beautiful view. Expensive, but it's worth it if you've got the gold. Took a date there once. Cost me two weeks' salary."

Directions

"South Wharf. About as far south as you can go while sticking to the lakeside."

Smells like saltwater and brine but otherwise the restaurant is opulent. Spectacular sunset view across the lake. Silver chandeliers glitter on the ceiling. All the clientele are dressed up nicer than you are.

Activities

• Fancy Date. This is a good place to take a date if a character wants to dazzle them. Eating here costs 32 gp (4d10 + 10) per head.
• Work (Sidequest: Bring It to a Boil). If the party seeks work at this location, Ben can give them the following sidequest.

See the next page for Lord Cals' rules of etiquette.

Local Knowledge

"You guys look like a proper rough-and-tumble gang of adventurers. Seems like you'd make good use of Matthew's Shop. He sells everything you'd ever need for an expedition."

Directions

"Right at the end of the bridge, directly across from The Prince and the council hall."

Huge place. Shelves are lined with torches that burn forever. You've got weapons. You've got armor. You've got camping gear, backpacks, kits for dungeoneering and exploring and diplomacy alike, tools of every trade imaginable, trinkets of mysterious origin, brochures for livestock, horses, vehicles, and homes, goods traded in from every corner of Toril, and in the center of it all is a big flaming stone forge.

Activities

• Adventuring Equipment. Any item in Chapter 5 of the PHB (143) can either be found here directly or can be sourced (or created) by Matthew within 1 week. He uses the standard prices and is generally inflexible about them. Note that other than ambiguously-magical trinkets, Matthew does not sell magic items.
• Work (Dungeoneering). Matthew gruffly supplies each party member with a dungeoneering kit and tells them to start spelunking the caves near Endercoast. Roll for a Feywild Cave random encounter (IW) and roll for two magic items from the Magic Item Table B (DMG 137). The party gives one of these magic items to Matthew to prove the success of their mission. As a reward, Matthew allows them to keep the other magic item and gives them a 20% discount the next time they spend 100 gp or more. What use does Matthew have of magic items? Nobody knows.
• Work (Scouting). A character with proficiency in Nature or Survival can earn 20 gp per week by scouting the surrounding area for Matthew, who otherwise doesn't have a good way of discovering what he's dealing with in the Feywild (and therefore which types of goods he should be pushing to his customers).

Local Knowledge

"You gotta check out the Nine Layers. Heard they've got that tiefling rocking out on a fiddle tonight."

Directions

"South Wharf. Follow the pounding music."

Local Knowledge

"Scary the first time you see it, comforting the twentieth. I'd welcome the sight of it after a long vacation because it meant I was back home. Now that we can't leave the city, it gives me comfort that it came along for the ride, as though it's still watching over us."

Directions

"Just outside the North Lakeside gate. Turn left and you'll be looking down its gullet."

The tour guide describes with glee the terror of a real dragon turtle. With a wink, she tells the enthralled onlookers that nobody is quite sure whether it's a particularly life-like statue or, perhaps, a real dragon turtle that fell victim to a medusa's wicked gaze. Either way, there are certainly legends of such a beast that once lived in the lake. Well, not that lake specifically, but the lake that that was here back in the Material Plane. "Real beaut', they used to say."

Activities

• Dragon Turtle Presentation. Tipping Bepsy at least 10 gp and listening to her presentation on the dragon turtle grants a character advantage on the next ability check they make relating to the legends and lore of Endercoast's past.
• Release the Dragon Turtle. The legends are true. Casting greater restoration on the dragon turtle releases it from its petrification, potentially causing a rampage across the North Ward of Endercoast -- or a suitable distraction. The party aren't the only ones who can take advantage of this ticking time bomb; factions like the Sentinels or even the Union might use it to further their goals if they are out of suitable alternatives. The dragon turtle can be calmed by reducing its hit points to half or lower and succeeding on a DC 20 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. Once calm, it dives into the lake and causes no further harm unless provoked.

Local Knowledge

"Got kicked out my first night there for causing a ruckus. Never been back. Way too posh. Heard it's got great food though, and you can't ask for a better room for the prices they offer."

Directions

"Suspiciously close to the council hall. Mayor probably drinks there in disguise."

Blissfully quiet. The patrons aren't particularly well-dressed and certainly not as posh as you'd been led to believe, but they are miraculously polite. Gentle music wafts from a string quartet.

Activities

• Accommodation. A week's rent of a room above the tavern costs 10 gp. Most people who stay here claim it's worth the price. The rooms are nice and the locale is quiet.
• Quiet Date. This is a good place to take a date if a character wishes for a neutral, risk-free evening. A meal at the Prince costs 8 (1d10 + 3) gp per head.

Local Knowledge

"Those sentinel folk weird me out, always staring at me from underneath those white hoods. Do they even worship a god? Where does their power come from? Gives me the creeps."

Directions

"Don't know why you'd want to go there, but I'm not in the business of prying. You'll find it way up on the north end of the city, right on the edge of the east riverbank. It's a bit hard to see on account of being majorly inconspicuous. Here's the exact street number if you need it, one forty-one East River. Got it? Good."

A quiet hum of conversation. Dozens of white-robed figures glide across the headquarter floor. You can see shelves of records and information, desks for work, tools of the trade like alchemist's supplies and weaver's tools all laid out, and most obviously, enough hammocks it seems to accommodate the city.

Religious Details

See the description of the Sentinels of Equity (IW).

Activities

• Adventuring Equipment. The sentinels sell at base price any adventuring equipment they can reasonably create from standard artisan's tools.
• Clerical Services. The sentinels have access to scrolls of cleric spells of up to 5th level. They charge a price equal to 100 times the spell's level.

• Work. A character with proficiency in Religion can earn 15 gp for a week's work consulting with the sentinels.

Local Knowledge

"What, you think they just hand out invitations to anyone? There's no way in the Nine Hells they'd let me in."

Directions

"If you have to ask where it is, you aren't invited. But let's say you want to admire it from afar. You can find it in the North Ward by the docks near the lakeside gate."

Invitations

A party member can obtain an invitation to Shiner's in one of the following ways:

• Leveraging one's Noble background.
• Taking a noble on a date and suitably impressing them.
• Stealing an invitation from a noble.
• Finding an invitation accidentally left behind in a room at the Endercoast Officially Sanctioned Tourist Hotel and Museum (IW).
• Bribing the mayor (IW).

When the party enters the club, describe the following scene.

A high elf noble (MM 348) woman, eyes far away in a trance, beckons a party member to dance with her. The dance is impersonal and she quickly moves on to someone else, but by now, the whole party has been absorbed into the crowd.

Activities

• Carousing. See the Carousing section (IW).
• Work (Performance). A character with an invitation can earn 40 gp per week as a performer at Shiner's, and completing a week's worth of work earns them one invitation they can give to anyone they like.
• Work (Sidequest: Purse Your Lips). The high elf noblewoman, who refuses to give her name, demands that the party locate her lost purse. It contains a very powerful magic item.

Local Knowledge

"Great place for a picnic. Those elves sure are an unfriendly bunch, though. I mean, none of the trees there are sacred, right? They're just planted by the city. Who cares if my kid goes and hangs off the branches?"

Directions

"Right in the center of the city, east side of the river. Greenest place there is inside the city walls."

There's a clear paved path through the gardens, where botanical delights capture your attention through your eyes, with beautiful reds, purples, greens, and blues, and through your nose, with fragrant scents mingling in the air. Up high in the tree tops, off the paved paths, are treehouses where wood elves have made their home. You see an elf glaring at you from his window before he disappears.

Religious Details

Neutral. The woodlands must be preserved at all costs. Worshipping their Forest Father from impossibly high treehouses, followers of Silvanus stand steadfast against the intrusion of civilisation into the natural forests of the world. Sometimes this involves warnings. Other times, arrows.

Followers of Silvanus are prone to fits of violent rage followed quickly by apologies.

Activities

• Garden Tour. A character can pay Jilwocky 10 gp to give them a tour of the garden. After taking a tour and listening to Jilwocky speak, the character gains advantage on the next ability check they make relating to nature, herbalism, or the god Silvanus.
• Clerical Services. The Church of Silvanus in Endercoast is suspicious of anyone who isn't a wood elf, forest gnome, or firbolg. Making use of their services requires a successful DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check. Jilwocky can cast any spell from his spell list or any 3rd-level or lower cleric spell for a fee of gp equal to 200 times the spell level. Followers of Silvanus (or those who falsely calim to be and succeed on a DC 15 Charisma (Deception) check) receive a 50% discount on these services.
• Work. Characters with proficiency in Nature, Religion, or Survival can spend a week working in the Sylvan Gardens, receiving 15 gp. From the gardens they can steal components for any spell, or ingredients for any potion, with a successful DC 15 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. On a failure, they do not receive what they have stolen, they do not get paid for their work, and they and their companions permanently lose access to clerical services from followers of Silvanus.

Local Knowledge

"Wish there were some competitors, but the Union's not gonna do anything about it, and I bet that dragonborn's misplaced a few coppers near the mayor's office if you catch my drift. The only 'atrocities' in that shop are the prices!"

Directions

"North bridge, east side. It's a tiny little place. You'd think the shop-owner would be able to afford a bigger lot, but what do you know. Guess she just doesn't care about appearances."

Crammed between a shelf of magic scrolls and a misshapen, inert metal crab, Thinkiad inspects a floating bauble with a magnifying lens. Satisfied, she breathes a puff of cold air to freeze it solid then stuffs it in her pocket. "Adventurers, it appears. How can I supply you?"

Activities

• Magic Items. Thinkiad sells (or can quickly source) any magic item from the Magic Item Tables A and B (DMG 137) as long as she's given at least a week to prepare. She sells them using the magic item price chart below. Most people agree that her prices are outrageous, but that's what happens when you've only got one supplier in the market. The nobility of Endercoast doesn't mind paying out of pocket for the exclusivity.
• Work. If the party is equipped with sufficient dungeoneering tools, Thinkiad can send them on a mission to explore the caves near Endercoast. Roll for a Feywild Cave random encounter (IW) and roll for two magic items from the Magic Item Table B (DMG 137). The party gives one of these magic items to Matthew to prove the success of their mission. As a reward, matthew allows them to keep the other magic item and gives them a free common magic item of the party's choice. Thinkiad can't sell them back the item they've given her, as she needs to run some analysis on it before she puts it out to sale, which can take weeks if not months to do correctly. Or so she says. Maybe she's just lazy.

Local Knowledge

"Commissioner tells us his guards keep the good people of Endercoast safe, but when some big-shot Neverwinter organisation started muscling its way onto my block and pressured me to fold up my father's shop, was it the Endercoast Guard that stepped in to tell those Neverwinter fat cats to shove it? No, it was the Union of Small Business Owners. That's why I'm a card-carrying member today."

Directions

"Start at the Council Hall and take a stroll along the river for ten minutes. You'll see a cluster of buildings on the left, that's union headquarters."

The union headquarters are alive with secretaries, number crunchers, and paper-pushers. A circle of modestly-dressed business people argue about tax rates. You recognise Turph Musheen, a famous figure in Endercoast for his dramatic calls to action against the influence of the Feywild on this great city.

Carousing

Spending quality time with good company and good drinks is easy enough in Endercoast, a city known for its lively celebrations. Carousing has the potential benefit of making useful contacts and learning city gossip and news, but can often result in messy situations without proper care.

Almost every night of the week there is some interesting event on at one of the main haunts of the city. Most carousers recommend the Nine Layers (IW, building G) on the South Wharf, which usually attracts a lower-class crowd, or Shiner's (IW, building K) in the Turtle District, which attracts a young wealthy elite and is usually invitation-only.

Skilled Work

Possible job opportunities are available for characters with the following proficiencies.

• Acrobatics. The Church of Her Inimitable Joyousness (IW 13)
• Athletics. The Prince (IW 17)
• Investigation. Guardhouse (IW 14)
• Nature. Matthew's Shop (IW 16), Sylvan Gardens (IW 19)
• Performance. The Church of Her Inimitable Joyousness (IW 13), Nine Layers (IW 16), The Prince (IW 17), Shiner's (IW 19)
• Persuasion. The Union of Small Business Owners (IW 20)
• Religion. The Sentinels of Equity Headquarters (IW 18), Sylvan Gardens (IW 19)
• Survival. Matthew's Shop (IW 16), Sylvan Gardens (IW 19)

Characters can also find generic gigs for any other proficiencies they might have (including tool proficiencies), earning 10 gp per week.

If a character thinks that a skill or a tool they have makes them suited to one of the work opportunities in a location listed above, they can do that job if they can convince you they're well suited to it.

Unskilled Work

A character can spend a week performing unskilled labour for 6 (1d4 + 4) gp.

Dungeoneering

Matthew's Shop (IW 16) and Thinkiad's Magic Atrocities (IW 20) provide an opportunity for adventurers to cave-dive to acquire magic items and receive discounts or rewards.

Sidequests

Horizon's Edge Eatery (IW 15) and Shiner's (IW 19) offer two rewarding sidequests for the party. Sidequests for factions can be found using the page references below.

1: Decide on a Business

The party identifies a product or service they wish to sell based on their collective strengths and abilities as a group, or based on gaps they see in the types of goods and services available in Endercoast.

2: Pay Business Costs

The major costs of starting a business are 100 gp to bribe the mayor for a business license, 100 gp for the Union's support (small businesses very rarely survive without it; refer to IW 20), Union cut, and property prices. A business has two options for property:

• Buy. A small storefront in Endercoast goes for 4,000 gp, including any bribes to the mayor and other incidental expenses.
• Rent. Renting a storefront costs 40 gp per week.

3: Calculate Revenue

A small business earns revenue based on how long it has been operating and based on the success of business-related ability checks. The party elects one character to hold responsibility over the success of the business, and this character is the one who makes the checks. As everyone helps out, these checks are made with advantage.

A business-related check (BRC) is a type of check of the party's choosing related to the operations of their business. For example, a private investigation business might use an Intelligence (Investigation) check.

A character can supplement their small business' revenue with crafting (IW).

4: Calculate Costs

Each week, a business costs 80 (70 + 1d20) gp to operate. Add 40 gp to that cost if the party is renting their storefront.

5: Calculate Profit

Profit is costs subtracted from revenue.

The party can use their small business to launder (legitimise) any money they receive from criminal activities by over-reporting their profit. With a successful DC 10 Charisma or Intelligence (Deception) check, investigations into the source of the party's funds cease. The penalty for laundering money is 26 weeks in jail.

6: Split Profits

Other organisations will likely take a cut of the profit.

• Insurance. The party can opt to insure their business, paying 10% of the profit to an insurance company (owned and operated by the Union, of course). An insured business does not lose money if costs exceed revenue, and if the business is rendered permanently incapable of operating due to external forces, the party is paid out 3,000 gp total. A successful DC 20 Charisma or Intelligence (Deception) check allows a party to conduct an insurance scam; on a failure, they are jailed for 52 weeks.
• Union Cut. 20% of profit. If no profit is made, the party pays nothing.

Once all the cuts have been divvied out, the party splits the remaining profit (or cost, if no profit is made) equally between them.

The Saltine News

The Saltine News is run by Rita Barnacky, a human courtier (NPC 207). She writes the headlines for her newspaper. She is known for a strong conservative bias and for her journalistic integrity, although the latter is usually said with sarcastic air quotes. There aren't any major competitors to her newspaper, especially not after it was backed by the Union of Small Business Owners.

If a character purchases The Saltine News for 5 sp, roll for the newspaper headline on the chart on the next page.

Winter

• Winter Solstice. Week 1. Things will only get better from here. Celebrants throw flaming torches from their windows which would traditionally melt the snow in the streets. Here in the Feywild without the snow, it's a bit of a fire hazard, but volunteer Union spellcasters patrol the streets to put out any fires.
• Midwinter. Week 6. Friends and family exchange exotic gifts. It's been of particular contention whether items obtained outside of city limits in the Feywild should be so freely traded, but contention hasn't stopped anyone from doing it.

Long Rests

Party members can't take long rests in the Feywild.

What are the Fey?

See the Nature of the Fey (IW) for an explanation that does not really answer the question in any meaningful sense.

Fey Pranks

Fey creatures like to prank characters. See the Fey Pranks table (IW) for examples of such pranks.

Archfey and Courts

• Lord Cals (IW 5) of the Litter and the Peat (IW)
• Cirrus the Jester (IW 5) of the Court of Jest (IW)
• Dailili (IW 5), the Tree of Infinity (IW)
• Tettlebug Moonflower (IW 5), Princess of Dewdrops (IW)

Custom Archfey

Refer to the Create an Archfey section for instructions on how to construct a custom archfey (IW).

Random Encounters

Refer to the random encounter appendix (IW).

Travel

See the travel section for travel rules (IW) and the general features section for descriptions of travel (IW).

Quests

Map

What would make you think the Feywild would have a map, or that such a map would be useful?

1: Concept

Your archfey should be more than just a person -- they are a force of nature made manifest. Think of powerful emotions, abstract concepts, natural phenomenae, and existential threats to humanity. You can also base them off of recognisable tricksters like the Mad Hatter, Loki, Jack Sparrow, Koh, or Anansi. And if you prefer, you can make them human, in a sense: as flawed and anxiety-ridden as anyone else in such an absurd world.

2: Name

Come up with your own name or roll on the following chart.

3: Appearance

Describe your archfey's appearance or roll on the following chart.

4: Voice

Describe your archfey's voice or roll on the following chart.

5: Personality

Describe your archfey's personality or roll on the following chart.

6: Ideal

Describe your archfey's ideal or roll on the following chart.

Generic Goal: Expand the Court

The archfey intends to keep Endercoast in the Feywild for as long as possible. It's not often that new opportunities to amass followers are placed so neatly in one's lap. A hundred thousand potential new warlocks! What a delight.

Generic Influence: Magic

The archfey achieves their goals primarily through the use of powerful fey magic. They also have a general awareness of when magic is cast in the Feywild and can track their enemies by following trails of magical energy, which they usually send their minions off to do for them.

Entering the Feywild

The best person to ask about how to leave Endercoast is Jilwocky Niftywoop in the Sylvan Gardens (IW), a nature priest who has a special connection to the Feywild already due to her stewardship over the Sylvan Gardens in Endercoast.

To leave Endercoast, choose up to three of the following requirements. Only once these requirements are filled does the party find themselves immersed in the Feywild, Endercoast far behind them. Each party member must individually fulfill the requirements, or the party as a whole remains in Endercoast. You can tell the party about these requirements, but never write them down, and never tell them which ones specifically they need to fulfill.

• Humility. You must show deference to someone you believe to be beneath you.
• Humour. You must make someone laugh.
• Invitation. You must be invited by the Feywild itself. You'll know it when you see it.
• Sacrifice. Something dear to you must be given up.
• Serendipity. You must be guided only by chance.
• Threshold. You must pass through a door, gate, life event, or abstract idea that you have never passed through before.
• Truth. You must speak openly, without inhibitions, and with intent to speak truth. Leave cynicism behind.

You alone determine if the party is ready.

If everyone is ready, while describing another location in Endercoast, shift your description to any location in the Feywild of your choice as naturally as you can with as little fanfare as possible. The party slowly regains memories of leaving Endercoast, travelling for a few days through the Feywild, but these memories are hazy, often contradictory. Roll on the Random Magic Item Table A (DMG) for a single item that the party has managed to acquire in the last few days of travel, and, if you'd like, give every party member a different memory for how it was acquired.

Leaving the Feywild

Given that long rests cannot be taken in the Feywild, the party will need to return to Endercoast to take a long rest.

The world of man is a world of meaningless rituals. The party can return to Endercoast by engaging in ritualistic behaviour, mimicking their routines back home. They can recite their schedule, talk about mundane shared phenomenae like the weather, make small talk about future plans, try to track the accounting of a small business, complain about prices, brush their teeth, cook a standard meal, sing anthems of their homeland, check the time, complain about public figures ...

When the party has engaged in sufficient ritual, have each individual party member make a DC 10 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, they remain in the Feywild. On a successful save, they return home, engaging in that same ritual but in a more mundane context. Unlike leaving Endercoast, returning home can be individually completed. Feel free to have a minute or two of roleplay with each party member as they return based on the ritual they were engaging in. The fog over their mind starts to lift, and they realize that they've actually been home for several days already, but they can't remember for the life of them how they actually managed to return. A party member gains the benefits of a long rest and also finds out that 1d8 weeks have gone by while they were gone, regardless of how much time they spent in the Feywild.

If a party member fails their check three times, they are trapped in the Feywild. They will stumble upon the rest of the party the next time that the party leaves Endercoast. Roll on the Magic Item Table A for an item they've obtained in their travels while everyone else was back home, and roll on the Fey Mark table (IW) for how the Feywild has influenced them.

Increase the save DC of the saving throw to return home by 1 for each of the following behaviours they engaged in while travelling through the Feywild. Fey creatures who are members of the party don't count.

• Ate food prepared by a fey creature.
• Danced with a fey creature.
• Stole an item from a fey creature.
• Insulted a fey creature.
• Lost a game to a fey creature.

If the fey creature is an archfey, increase the DC by 5 instead.

The party may or may not be aware that these reduce their likelihood of returning to Endercoast. You don't have to tell them why their check was more difficult. Most fey understand that engaging with the Feywild in these ways means it's harder to escape, but they probably aren't inclined to say so.

It's twilight, but even the twilight is darker and colder than any night you've slept through in the comforts of Endercoast. The black gaps in the trees watch you, drooling with hunger. You avert your eyes instinctively, knowing that the longer you stare into the darkness, the deeper it will worm its way through your skin.

Crimson clouds roll overhead, and you are struck with a nameless terror, a terror you are all too familiar with. It's the terror you felt as a child when you realized for the first time that your parents could make mistakes. It's the terror of knowing that there is no longer solid ground beneath your feet. It's the terror of craning your neck up to see the top of a mountain that is bigger than anything you could accomplish in your life, a mountain that will stand for millions and millions of years before it too is ground to dust. It's the terror you will feel one day when your death no longer becomes abstract. You know that you are fragile. You know that the world doesn't care. The clouds pass. The sky clears. And you forget that terror for one more day.

The rocks here are rigid, defined, seemingly shaved away at ninety-degree angles with little slots for what appear to be windows and doors, though you know without even checking that there is only more rock behind them. It reminds you of the regimented city streets of Endercoast. There is no function to it, no purpose. Except ... you get the feeling it might be sarcasm.

You realize you've passed the same apple tree at least half a dozen times in the last hour. Only this time, the tree is noticeably larger. Noticeably older. You don't know how you know, but you know that the further you press on, the older this tree will get.

A landmark rises above the trees. A red needle, scraping the clouds as though scratching a record. You spend an hour approaching it, but you never get any closer. Then, someone coughs, and your next three steps take you soaring past it. Now it follows you instead.

The leaves are the colour of cold feet. The ground weeps for the life they could have had together.

A vine that breathes with the sigh of a mother's love has grown in lazy flat circles, curled over and over in on itself, covering the forest floor with nothing but its devotion. With each step, its love slowly but surely turns to the agony of that love fading away. You know better than to stick around for long.

There is a path that bears your name as a cloak, and another that bears your face as a whisper. They fork, but they are the same.

This field was once a promise to keep a secret. It has flourished with flowers, each one an opportunity for that secret to be told, and each opportunity lost. You know in your heart that whispering a secret here will kill the field, and all will be lost. But then again, it is the way of all secrets to be told. The field is even less natural than you.

Upon four great rocks sit four great ravens, each with a beak whose name you know to be Fey. A word spoken out loud and the ravens will never have been here. They are desperate for you to speak.

A door opens up in the path. Through the door is the room in which you slept as a child. It reeks of sulfur and steak. You know that smell, and you remember, long ago, a door opening to a forest. The thought of going through the door never once enters your mind.

This was once a forest, now a field, now a basin, now a coast. Each new step and your surroundings change, but the surroundings are not the important part. The musical note, the very same one they played at the funeral all those years ago, guides your footsteps, and each step takes you further from death. When the music fades, you relax.

You crest the hill and peer down the sheer drop into the valley. It is deeper than a soul. At the bottom, an ocean is nothing more than a puddle. A mountain is a four-sided die. If you fell, you would starve.

You are struck with the realization that every pebble here on the ground was thrown at a friend in anger.

Bullywug Swamp

Describe the following scene when the party arrives.

The Court of Jest

You can find information on the Court of Jest in Part 3 (IW).

Dewdrops

You can find information on Dewdrops in Part 3 (IW).

"Drink deep, laugh hard, feel how you truly feel! When you are happy, scream it to the world until your stomach is knotted with laughter! When you are sad, weep until all the moisture has left your body and you are a lifeless husk on the forest floor! When you extend hospitality to others, let your ego fall away to nothing and serve them as you would serve a master! And when your friends are threatened, strike down your foe without hesitation! Without mercy. In the most pure of those feelings is where the eladrin live."

High up in the trees, high enough that you must crane your neck back to see, are houses grown from the willing bark of the oak. The creatures walking from branch to branch as though they weighed nothing are elves, certainly, but the elves you are familiar with still remind you of yourself. These elves are alien, inscrutable, both eerily calm and explosive in their temperament. Their eyes do not track you, but you feel their gaze upon you anyway.

Plucky Glancinel

Plucky Glancinel is an eladrin (MTF) who changes their gender, personality, and statblock based on the season (or on their whims). They are the speaker for their village.

• Personality. Refer to the sections on the eladrin in MTF. Plucky's personality changes dramatically depending on which season the party encounters them.
• Ideal. There is no shame in feeling one's emotions.
• Bond. Plucky's role as the village's speaker to outsiders is due to learning to speak Common from a wood elf who found her way into their village in the autumn hundreds of years ago. The wood elf died of old age quite recently, which left the village in a seemingly endless winter. Plucky managed to bring the village back to spring, but they are worried that making new outsider friends (who will inevitably die) will cause the same thing to happen again.
• Flaw. Plucky changes their mind as quickly as they change the words in their sentences.

Offerings

The eladrin village can enchant the air to help protect Endercoast from the elements, giving every citizen advantage on saving throws against negative effects caused by the weather. This benefit only applies if the citizen is feeling the "right" emotion for the weather. Anyone who dances in the rain will face the full brunt of the rain.

Price

The eladrin wish to capture the rawest, most perfect emotions they can. Each party member must present a memory of such an emotional experience, though doing so erases that memory from their mind and prevents them from ever feeling that emotion again. If the eladrin are satisfied, they will protect Endercoast, as a city that can produce such a wealth of emotion is a city worth preserving.

Another

The eladrins speak in hushed tones of those who feels emotion the strongest. They speak of the beautiful, unstoppable, unforgettable Princess of Dewdrops. A thousand mothers weeping over the bodies of their children hardly compares to one singular moment of her joy. They too speak of the rage of Dailili, a rage so pure, so encompassing, that it has spread through the Feywild as quickly as the wind. What they wouldn't do for but a taste of that rage, but a peek into her seething mind. Anything. Anything for her.

"Why so serious? Live a little. Relax. Laugh. Have fun. We are not determining the fate of the multiverse. And even if we were, what good is a multiverse that's so stuck up all the time?"

Spotted mushrooms lay dotted around the enclave. An old boot lies on the ground, dazzling lights shooting forth from the lip. A turnip spins in place, hollowed out, something dancing in joy within. Baubles of dreamy lights hang from the treetops, only for them not to be lights at all, but creatures, fey, wings of gossamer, dresses of honeydew leaves. They alight upon your shoulder and giggle in your ear. This is a faerie village.

"The oldest and strongest emotion of your short-lived kind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Did you know that your body reacts to a spider before your mind recognises it's there? And what of a face that is not quite your own? Where have these fears come from? You already know the answer. We have all crawled out of that darkness and been reborn. We have all escaped. But it's still there, waiting for us to dive back in."

That familiar icy terror grips your heart and holds it still. This is not a place for children. It is not a place of safety. The caves wind around you like the coils of a snake. You can no longer tell which way is left or right, up or down, and you suspect such cardinal terms are meaningless here. Luminescent mushrooms grow from the walls. Water drips from stalagmites on the floor up into the endless darkness above you. And there is always, like tinnitus, the screams of those who are lost.

Offerings

If Poppiplob were to become a full-fledged archfey, it could grant the party a host of magic items that would support them in their efforts to battle other archfey. Ploupdoolp promises the party four magic items, and if the price is paid and Poppiplob rises as an archfey, Poppiplob rolls four times on the Magic Item Table F (DMG), granting the party all four of the items rolled.

Price

All Poppiplob needs is a sacrifice: just four more shadows to eat, that's all. A party member who agrees permanently loses their shadow, as well as two points of Constitution. Neither the Shadow nor the points of Constitution can be restored by anything short of a wish.

Another

Also deep within the Feydark there sit those who have been cursed by the hag, Dearest Gran. They made their deal, they paid their price, and now they have nowhere to go but down, down where they wait in the dark, alone, afraid, and lost. You can represent these cursed beings with the specter statblock (MM) or the Lost statblock (MTF). They aren't immediately hostile. They demand that the party bargain with Dearest Gran for their freedom; maybe she will give them back their lives. And if the party shows hesitation, they grow frustrated and attack.

You can roll on the Cursed of Dearest Gran table (next page) for the reasons that each creature was cursed. Killing the cursed one floods the killer's minds with these regrets.

Trapped in the Feydark

Generally, the party ventures into the Feydark only if they have been given a quest to go dungeoneering, or if they have been challenged in other ways. There is nothing down here but the remnant magic items of those who have come before.

Roll on the Feydark random encounter table (IW) for what the party encounters in here, and roll on the Magic Item Table B (DMG) for the magic items they might find.

If a party member fails to return from the Feydark (IW), they become lost here. Only by launching an expedition to find them can the party recover their friend.

"Feel the wind on your face and go where it pushes you! Do not worry about time, or space, or responsibilities, or needs, or wants, or desires, or anything else that should tear your body or your mind from the freedom of the open air!"

An endless plain of delights. Rolling hills to a horizon that your eyes can never meet. A breeze that speaks the language of the grass. Only the nicest and prettiest of insects fluttering from blade to blade. It is as close to Elysium as you will ever reach.

Offerings

If the people of Endercoast were to open their hearts to the most beautiful aspect of the Feywild -- the freedom of the open air -- then this minor realm could surround the city and protect it from the more dangerous locales.

Price

Eliminate the government of Endercoast. Let the Sentinels of Equity take control of the city. They are the only faction that truly understands what Endercoast could become.

Another

Shambler of the Blades speaks of the Sea of Vines and how it threatens Endercoast. He knows that his brother, Gardener of the Vines, was consumed in its churning mass. This Sea of Vines is the work of Dailili, the Tree of Infinity, whose excess rage has boiled over into the waters.

"I can see it behind your eyes. A need. A need that cannot be fulfilled. You know who can help you. You know what you must do."

An old wooden playset illuminated by a single beam of light through the thick black canopy in the woods. A rocking horse swings lazily back and forth. Swings creak with each gust. A climbing wall is overtaken with vines. In the middle of the playset, nursing a weed growing through the litter, is an old woman with kind eyes. She wears a patchwork dress.

"All you have to do is wait. Wait for the sun to rise. Wait for the rain to fall. Wait for the mountains to be ground to dust. Wait for the storms to pass, for the storms to rattle once more, for the ground beneath your feet to split and crack apart with age. Wait for the floods, wait for the droughts, wait for a trillion mayflies to cry out that they will not be forgotten, and wait until they are forgotten. Wait for the sun to grow cold, the rock to grow hot, the stars to die out, the universe to be reborn. And there you will find the Litter and the Peat. Just wait."

"If music be the food of life, play on. Play not from the sheet. Play not from memory. Play the songs of the earth itself. Oh, you already know it, don't you?"

You've been listening to this music since the day you were born. These goat-legged men and women are no musicians. They are prospectors. They have dug deep, and they have revealed what was always there. This is the music that spun the world's threads. These satyrs in their humble huts in a graven grove have grown closer to the Weave than a thousand wizards studying for a thousand years could ever hope for.

"Don't you long for the sparkling Bay of Driving Winds? Don't you remember what it was once like back home? All those summers on the pier, fishing and splashing and diving and swimming. All of that is gone, now, and all that remains is the vines. There will be no fishing, no splashing, no diving, no swimming. Put your nostalgia behind you. And let yourself be consumed."

The sea thrashes with anger. How dare you come here. How dare you set your city down on these shores. In the anger of the fey, the sea is no more, replaced only with the churning matter of the earth. There is an island, on the horizon, too far by many leagues to reach, and you know deeply and primally that, even if you could walk unharmed through the vines and not be sucked into their bottomless depths to be consumed, you would never reach that horizon, and you would never set foot on the island that no doubt carries the key to returning home.

Offerings

The shambling mound is one of the only reasonable cuttings of the Sea of Vines left, and it speaks to the party's good nature towards negotiation.

It offers endless water, all the water that the vines consumed, an infinite amount that stretches perhaps all the way through the border ethereal and into the Plane of Water itself. It communicates all of these through symbols.

Price

The shambling mound says that once water is being supplied to the city, the city has one year and one day to remove itself from the Feywild. After that, the Sea of Vines will once more begin to creep in through the cracks in the cobblestone. One year and one day. That is all that can be afforded.

Another

The Sea of Vines was spawned by Dailili, the Tree of Infinity. If she created it, maybe she can tame it.

"Place in your mind thoughts of safety. Your mother embracing you after a bad dream. The peaceful chirping of birds in the spring time. The touch of a lover's hand on your cheek. These thoughts will bring you to the grove."

The grove is flooded with life, and the sunlight dappled through the blue leaves above your head reminds you, to your great curiosity, of memories you did not think you had from before you were even brought into the world. This place is safe, and more than safe, it is protected by an enchantment more ancient and more feral than the oldest of your ancestors. Even the waterfalls do not churn.

"If such an enchantment were placed over your city, every one of you would die! You are a fickle, violent species, all of you. Do not argue with me when you know it to be true."

"All the trees here are hers. No, not hers, they are her. All with the same roots. All with the same mind. The roots are her veins, the vines her nerves, the bark her skin, the leaves her drinking mouth. The woods and Dailili are coterminous. She is one and she is all. And soon you all shall be too. Join the trees. Join the plants. Coalesce into the soil. Join the Tree of Infinity now, while she is still merciful, for you will join her in the end even still."

"You're lost, aren't you? No compass will help you here."

You have been circling the same dozen trees for the entire day. Completely spent, you collapse in the middle of the path. You are overcome with lethargy. Where do these paths lead? What are you doing out here in the unknown? What is the purpose of your quest? Isn't your bed at home in Endercoast preferable to this? Why is this mission important in the first place? These and other anxious questions play over and over in your head as you prepare to rest.

Once more you find yourselves lost in the limitless expanses of the woods. This time, you feel baleful eyes peering at you from the darkness in the gaps of your Perception. Something has your scent. Best to find the path once more or you will be made the dinner of a most ancient and terrible prowler.

The Prowler

The prowler (IW) is a primordial being, once an avatar of Malar, the God of the Hunt, now lost in the woods just like you. The prowler speaks Sylvan. If no party members speak Sylvan, he just howls.

• Personality. The hunt is all I live for. And I have had nothing to live for for thousands of years.
• Ideal. The perfect hunter requires the perfect prey.
• Bond. I was the avatar of Malar, once, long ago.
• Flaw. I have gone mad with hunger.

The prowler can assist the party in escaping if they succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check and help him find a way out as well. Otherwise, he attacks. Defeating the prowler locks out The Unknown to the party permanently.