Welcome to Ixalan

Ixalan is a pan-Mesoamerican-inspired plane full of uncharted jungles where dangerous beasts, magnificent ruins, and lost treasures lie waiting to be discovered. It is a hollow world full of miles of caverns that lead to an inner core. Dinosaurs, pirates, vampires, and merfolk race to the center to uncover the secrets of the magic cosmium ore.

Life on Ixalan

This sections offers an overview of life on Ixalan, including brief introductions to the plane's factions (which are expanded on in chapter 3). Whatever a character's origin, a native of Ixalan would be familiar with its dating systems, local cuisine, religions, and resources.

Cosmium

Cosmium is a pinkish-purple mineral, a resource of immense power. It comes from Chimil, the star in Ixalan's core, and can be found throughout the caverns and the Core in veins, pockets, and clusters. It can be mined or extracted, refined, and then applied to organic and inorganic matter to enhance any latent magic properties present or imbued in the object or being. Refined cosmium is best thought of as a battery, conduit, and projector for magic, inexhaustible and only limited by the being wielding it or the object to which it is applied.

Only the ancient Oltec civilization inhabiting The Core mastered the power of Cosmium. Exposure to and manipulation of cosmium has allowed them to transform themselves from a small agrarian society to arguably the most advanced culture anywhere on or below the known world. Among the Oltec, it is quite common to have tattoos done with cosmium ink. Oltec scientists and geologists theorize that cosmium is closely tied to the life-essence of Chimil and may be the godly equivalent of blood or soul.

Shortly after surface cultures discovered cosmium, they determined that the application of cosmium to weapons and armor as a coating or inlay would increase that item's durability and enhance any existing properties. In addition to its magical properties, it is quite a beautiful substance when refined and cut by gemworkers. The wealthy and powerful of both Torrezon and Ixalan prize cosmium-inlayed clothing and fine goods, weapons, and regalia. Among the vampires of Torrezon, ingesting cosmium has proven to act as a substitute for a vampire's hunger and need for blood.

Locations

Ixalan is a hollow sphere. It has two known continents on its surface, Ixalan and Torrezon, that are separated by an ocean called the Stormwreck Sea. The journey east from the Queen's Bay on Ixalan to the Sens off the coast Torrezon takes one week by ship. Further north, travelers meet only unmelting ice.

Pachatupa

Pachatupa is located on the Sun Coast on the eastern side of the continent of Ixalan, where the coastal plains rise into the high mountains. The river bordering Pachatupa feeds the city freshwater from vast inland mountain ranges, plunging from sacred Itlimoc through heavily irrigated floodplains. It is the most populous and developed city-state in the Empire, and all roads in the empire lead to the city. Pachatupa's terraced farms, titanic stone buildings, sprawling irrigation systems, and sturdy walls are a testament to the engineering skill of the Sun Empire.

The city surrounds and builds to Tocatli, a glorious, fortified palace that was once the Imperial citadel complex. The palace encompasses many noble mansions, belonging to the various dynastic relations and their offshoot houses. Tocatli's spacious grounds also include three temples, each devoted to one of the Threefold Sun's three aspects. This grand complex was exclusive only to the highest classes of Imperial nobility and citizenry before the invasion, a metropolis atop Pachatupa from which the common folk were excluded. However, after the Phyrexian invasion, this once exclusive palatial complex is open — with some restrictions — to the people, a symbol of the new emperor's love for his subjects.

Atzocan

Atzocan lies on a low coastal plain, where broad fields and lush forests once attested to the fertility of the land. In the wake of the Phyrexian invasion, little of the cosmopolitan city remains intact. Atzocan lies largely empty behind crumbled walls, its once sprawling markets, breezy manors, and dense seaside districts abandoned and left to rot and decay until the empire can make its return.

Sunray Bay

Sunray Bay is a large Brazen Coalition town on the northern coast of Ixalan, close to the lands of the Sun Empire. Controlled by captain Ripley Vance, Sunray Bay was never dull and always dangerous, overflowing with gold, cosmium, and all manner of trade goods — illicit and otherwise. Owing to its wild wealth, Sunray Bay was heavily patrolled by Bluecoats, garrisoned by coalition fighters, and its bay waters protected by both Vance's private ships and the coalition's nascent navy. Nevertheless, Sunray Bay was a rough-and-tumble frontier town, a place where all manner of folk first arrive on Ixalan to chase their fortunes.

Sunray Bay's population was taken over by the mycoids in 5 DE, causing all the inhabitants to go deep underground via the nearby mine of Downtown. Rebuilding efforts by the Coalition have since begun.

Jungle Region

Much of Ixalan is covered in dense jungles, each one dangerous and largely uncharted. Ancient ruins from the Sun Empire's heyday can now be found, overgrown and half-buried, in the depths of the jungle. Hidden in the jungle lies the ruins of the Deeproot Tree, a sacred place for the merfolk.

Deep in these jungles lies the Great River and its nine tributaries. The river and rain forest boast a teeming multitude of species, which make their homes everywhere from the canopy to the depths of the water. Animals live and feed in every layer of the forest, from the tops of the tallest emergent trees to the ferns, leaves, and roots reaching deep into the soil. And certain plants are just as active at hunting prey as predatory animals are. Jungle dwellers include bats, capybaras, coatis*, coatls*, frogs (including giant frogs and poison dart frogs*), parrots* and parrot griffins*, constrictor and poisonous snakes, giant lizards, and all manner of dinosaurs*. Many predatory plants are active, lunging up from the forest canopy to grab flying dinosaurs in woody claws or tangle them in vines. Others pull up their roots and creep across the forest floor in search of good hunting grounds. These plants act as awakened shrubs, awakened trees, blights, and treants.

* Statistics found in chapter 8.

Mountain Region

In the heart of Ixalan's jungles lie mountains in two distinct ranges, though they are collectively known as the mountain region. The mountains are home to the Primal Wellspring, the source of the great river.

In the southern mountains lie the Temple of Aclazotz, a ruined temple containing a broad, deep cenote. A sacred place for the vampires of the Legion of Dusk, it has a door that can only be opened by a blood sacrifice. It leads to Chama Koj in the Lost Caverns.

Queen's Bay

Queen's Bay is a large bay on the southern side of the continent. The bay is patrolled by the naval fleet of the Legion of Dusk.

Torrezon

Torrezon is the eastern continent, dominated by the vampires of the Legion of Dusk. Its citizens are called Torrezonés. Alta Torrezon is the capital territory and seat of the vampire Queen Miralda the pious, deep in Torrezon's interior. Other large cities include Garrano, Iedo, and Lujio.

The Deoro is a vast mountain range looming behind a continent-bisecting river between the Free Cities, occupied by human survivors, and Alta Torrezon.

The Core of Paradise

is a massive, hollow inverted sphere with a star at its center. It is a paradise of lush forests, mountains, valleys, freshwater oceans, rivers, and rolling plains. There was no horizon beyond which the land did not rise in a slow arc, disappearing into the hazy distance above and reappearing on the opposite horizon. Gravity stays consistently down relative to the star, Chimil, that floats in the center of the Core. The only surviving civilization inhabiting the Core is the Oltec, the living human ancestors of the Sun Empire. The Core is the oldest place on Ixalan.

Chimil, also called the Riven Star, is the star at the center of the Core. Because of this geography, the Core experiences no night cycle and it is always day. The Cosmium Reefs is the name for the long tail of cosmium gems, rare metals, and the dust of ruined Fomori shards orbiting around and trailing behind Chimil as it flies through the sky.

The Barracks of the Thousand Moons is likely the first place an outsider will visit when journey to the Core. The Thousand Moons are a kind of guard force for the Oltec. Their barracks is located in the mountain valley overlooking Oteclan, and it guards the inside door of the door at Matzalantli. Within the barracks is the Thousand Moon Smithy where the autonomous gnomes forge cosmium weapons and armor.

Renown in Ixalan

Using the renown system from the Dungeon Master's Guide, track the characters' standing within each faction. Every character begins with 0 renown score with each faction. Characters gain or lose points as they act against or in the service of either faction. As they do so, their standing with the factions changes, granting them access to favors or provoking reprisals. Throughout a campaign, characters typically don't adjust their renown score by more than 5 points each adventure. The Renown in Ixalan table notes general activities that increase or decrease a character's renown score. Further renown adjustments are at the DM's discretion.

Benefits of Renown. Those who advance in their standing with a faction gain favor with that faction's leader or leaders and influence over their plots. Use the examples of these benefits in the following sections to guide you in creating further rewards and concessions appropriate to the characters' standing.

Losing Renown. A character's renown score with a faction can drop to less than 0. A faction mistrusts and actively opposes the suggestions of characters with a renown score of –1 or lower. Those with a renown score of –5 or lower are actively hunted by a faction's members and considered enemy agents.

Recovering Renown. It's possible for characters to gain renown with a faction, betray the faction, and still maintain a measure of respect with the group. Characters might thus thread the needle of serving multiple groups.

Brazen Coalition

The Brazen Coalition is a society of pirates that answers to no one and lives on the Stormwreck Sea of Ixalan. They are a diverse bunch, including humans from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as members of three nonhuman races: goblins, orcs, and sirens. With no more than a handful of small archipelagos under their control, the coalition proudly marked the ocean as their domain. Across deep blue waters, shallow coastal stretches, and the deep river mouths that spill into the sea, members of the coalition are masters of the waves. Since the Phyrexian Invasion, the Coalition has moved in en masse, settling many frontier towns, establishing trade ports, and opening large cosmium mining operations.

The Coalition was formed as the parley between Admiral Beckett Brass, then captain of the Scourge, and Captain Jareth Wake of the Squid Eyes, after the Scourge had rammed the Squid Eyes and the ships became irreparably intertwined and forming the basis of the floating city High and Dry. Over the coalition's first century, great legends cobbled together collections of ships and planted their flags on the few islands that dot the Stormwreck Sea. These captains styled their ranks in many ways but in effect were the same as kings — they ruled over fiefdoms they called fleets, struggling against and with each other for de facto rule over the coalition. Law was written by the last captain standing and enforced first with the edge of a cutlass.

Brass forced the others to support the creation of a free pirate nation between Torrezon and Ixalan, declaring herself Governor of the Coalition. Land-based growth is the basis for much of newly appointed governor Brass's effort to legitimize the coalition as a state: by issuing cosmium prospecting deeds and parceling out land along Ixalan's coast. Enforcing these deeds are the Bluecoats, the Coalition's national "navy" formerly known as Captain Wallis Parish's Deadeye Fleet. Other Coalition fleets include the Captain Lannery Storm's Storm Fleet, and Captain Brandis Thorn's Dire Fleet, which opposes Brass' rule.

Legion of Dusk

The Legion of Dusk is the military arm of Alta Torrezon, an ecclesiastic vampire monarchy on the continent of Torrezon on the plane of Ixalan. It is an alliance between the powerful Church of Dusk and the iron-fisted monarch Queen Miralda the pious (LN vampire). Their expeditions of discovery are led by vampire conquistadors and priests, with human soldiers filling the rank and file and other humans serving support roles as sailors and menial labor.

The vampires who lead the Legion are viewed as holy figures. Dark paladins form knightly orders, while clerics of the church bestow blessings and punish the wicked. The Venerables of the church are its saints and dead vampires who are held up as paragons of church ideals. Devout vampires often call upon the power of a Venerable through the use of relics.

The Church of Dusk, led by Pontifex Mavrein Fein, is centered around the ritual of vampirism discovered by venerable Arguel. The Rite of Redemption is used to turn the nobles of Torrezon into vampires. The church teaches to feed only on the blood of the guilty: enemies of war, rebels of the state, or heretics who defy the church. They pray its power will allow the hopes of the church to be fulfilled and eternal life to be available to all without the need to subsist on the blood of the wicked. Though the guardians of the church utilize mastiffs in its defense, drinking the blood of such animals does not slate blood thirst.

The Church of Dusk is currently in the midst of a schism. Elenda, the Dusk Rose, was a living venerable discovered with the rediscovery of Orazca, the lost city of gold. Her pacifist ideals sparked a controversy with Vona of Iedo, who became known as the Antifex, a fanatical leader who seeks to take all of Ixalan by force. Aclazotz, the bat god of night, was recently freed from the Core of Paradise, and seeks to utilize Vona in his quest to plunge the surface into eternal night.

Malamet

Ancient as the merfolk and humans on Ixalan's surface, the Malamet jaguarfolk long ago decided to move their territory underground to protect themselves against the might of the Sun Empire. Their empires have long ago crumbled, been defeated by pre-Sun Empire humanity and driven into these caverns that—while they have been made luxurious—are generally regarded as evidence of their fallen status. Malamet society is grouped into castes known as cadres, and turmoil between cadre affiliations has on rare occasions fomented into war. At the top of these cadres is sovereign Okinec Ahau, also called the Deep King, ruler of the malamet. The malamet worship Okinec Ahau as a god and bare their throats deferentially when speaking to him.

Malamet of the warrior cadre wear intricate jade armor, wielding bows, serrated obsidian blades, and polearms. The noble and priest cadres wear elaborate headdresses and collars.

The written word carries tremendous weight and importance for the Malamet. Their language is recorded in glyphs that resemble the spot markings that form naturally in their fur. Malamet textiles, carvings, clothing, armor, weapons, icons of status, and so on all bear deeply meaningful glyphs, phrases, and names; mastery over the vast Malamet alphabet is a desirable quality among the Malamet, as well as one's aptitude in combining glyphs to create the most information-dense poetics one can.

Malamet magic, as well, is derived from their glyphs: the will, wisdom, stories, and very forms of their ancestors are written into these glyphs and can be summoned to aid them in times of need. Malamet mythweavers can ascertain someone's intentions by projecting a magic image of their desires. Mythweavers and glyphscribes are known to pilgrimage to the ghost city of Chama Koj to learn its history.

Oltec

The Oltec are an ancient civilization of humans living in the The Core of Paradise. They are the living ancestors of the Sun Empire. They live in harmony with each other and the natural world and view themselves as caretakers of it. Their capital city is Oteclan, a hub within the core.

Stewards are Oltec civic leaders, representatives elected by popular vote of the commune they wish to represent. Once elected, stewards serve on regional councils; those regional councils elect a representative to send to the primary governing body of the Oltec, the Level Council. Stewards wear richly appointed robes of office and etched crowns with glyphs denoting which commune they represent. They typically carry simple wooden scepters and wear quipu with brass or gold plates woven around the collar.

The Gardener Order makes up the priests and laypersons of Ojer Kaslem. Gardeners are at home in the tropical forests and mountainous jungles of the Core, where they ensure the health of the wild, cultivate and gather medicinal herbs and other flora, and maintain ancient ruins, monuments, and Echo stele. Gardeners are some of the most widespread priests of the Deep Gods, as they often are the first to maintain rural roads and trails, keep watch for fires, and minister to far-flung farmers, fisherfolk, and ranchers. They also receive special training to fight off mycoids. Gardeners wear robes and clothing fit for travel and work in humid, rough environments. They can be easily identified by their staves tipped with cosmium crystals, tall caps, and simple quipu, and they often travel with llamas.

Oltec Renown Benefits

Cosmium Eater Renown

The cosmium eaters and the legion of dusk share very similar goals. Treat renown adjustments with the Legion of Dusk as adjustments with the cosmium eaters.

River Heralds

The River Heralds are a merfolk nation in the Jungles of Ixalan. Their society consists of nine tribes, each associated with a tributary of the Great River. The tribes share many cultural, spiritual, and practical affinities, but they are not united. The tribes are fragmented into bands, which are in constant competition with each other for primacy and control of the richest territory. A merfolk band consists of about a dozen individuals, led by a shaman called a Shaper. The nine great shapers of the nine tributaries are Tishana, Falani, Kopala, Kumena, Mitica, Notana, Pashona, Tuvasa, and Vuhana.

Shapers are respected merfolk elders and leaders who guide their bands, adjudicate disputes, represent the band to other merfolk, and speak for the band when dealing with humans. Each Shaper has a single apprentice at any given time. Should a Shaper die, the apprentice takes over the band's leadership. If a band grows too large for its territory to support, the apprentice takes a portion of the band away to form a new band and claim a new territory. Shapers' shamanic magic is focused on controlling wind, water, and their jungle environment. They strive to maintain a peaceful coexistence with nature, not to conquer or defy it.

The River Heralds use weapons and armor made from jade, and use carved pillars of jade to mark and protect their territory. They also construct jade totems that hold elementals in stasis until activated by trespassers

An ancient mangrove of enormous size, the Deeproot Tree towered over a sprawling mangrove swamp that generations of merfolk had cultivated into a titanic temple, coaxing branches and trees to grow around the Deeproot Tree as buildings would spread out around a central citadel. This was a key meeting site for all River Heralds, the closest thing they had to a capital city, but was unfortunately destroyed during the Phyrexian invasion.

Sun Empire

The Sun Empire is the prosperous human empire on the continent of Ixalan. Composed of four major city-states, Pachatupa, Atzocan, Otepec, and Orazca (the capital), and hundreds of minor villages, fortresses, and towns between, the Sun Empire is rich in material wealth, natural beauty, arable land, biodiversity, and people.

The people of the Sun Empire take great pride in their traditions and heritage. The title of warrior-poet is bestowed on only one person in a generation. They keep the stories and weave events into words. To earn that title, one must demonstrate excellence in service to the kingdom.

The Sun Empire worships the Threefold Sun, in the three distinct aspects of Kinjalli, Tilonalli, and Ixalli. The human warriors of the empire cooperate with dinosaurs, and they are protected by the magic of their sun priests. The Canchatan, the temple soldiers of the capital, are specially chosen and blessed by the priests of Kinjalli and Tilonalli. Its soldiers are divided into seven squads, each with its commander, called an intical.

Dinosaurs are important to the Sun Empire's sense of national identity. The empire's people used dinosaur feathers as decorations and as inspiration for design motifs in everything from jewelry to architecture. These creatures are not tame, but under a priest or warrior's control. This is part of the Sun Empire's worldview: nature is a tool to be wielded, bent to human will, but it is a constant test of will and strength. Imperial cities are built to accommodate dinosaur riders, with high arches to allow their knights to pass through unobstructed.

Apatzec Intli IV is the current boy-emperor of the Sun Empire. Until Intli IV is of age to take the throne for himself, the boy serves as a beloved figurehead. The three major families of Atzocan — the Cabrana, Palani, and Cuitzan houses — ensure power in the Imperial court. The boy-emperor's stewards and advisors, often progenitors of these families, vie for control over the direction of the empire. Lord Steward Atlacan Huicintli is the main force behind the plans for a new invasion of Torrezon, a powerful broker who is said to be the true brilliance behind the throne.

Angel

Eons ago, the Core of Paradise was invaded by giants from another plane called the Fomori. These invaders caged Chimil, the core's sun, hoping to harvest its magic. After 320 years of darkness, the human people of the core, the Komon Winaq, launched a final assault against the Kisik, allowing Chimil to destroy its cage and rain cosmimum down throughout the core. The Komon Winaq present that day were transformed, becoming divine in their own right—the first angels of Ixalan.

The angels continue to guard the Core to this day as defenders of Chimil and the Oltec people. Though their loyalty lies in the Core, they have a vested interest in threats that would harm the plane of Ixalan and its people, and have been known in the past to take up causes that they deem to be just. As eternal beings, the angels are as enigmatic as they are beautiful.

Dryad

Dryads are incarnations of the land and its will. They appear humanoid in shape, but have bark-like skin, often decorated with vines and leaves instead of clothing.

The only concern of dryads is the health of the forest: when the trees and ferns are healthy, the dryads flourish. But when the vampires’ dusk fog or a demon’s unwholesome influence cause the jungle to wither, the dryads suffer. As a result, they are generally friendly with the River Heralds, who live in harmony with nature, and hostile to the Legion of Dusk.

As creatures of life and growth, they hate to see any living being suffer. Thus, they have been known to tend to wounded people left in the jungle to die, sharing their own abundant life energy with those in their care.

Echo

Echoes are ghosts, spirits, and shades found throughout the caverns and the Core of Ixalan. Echoes can be human or nonhuman, sentient or lost, autonomous or trapped in ghostly routine—it all depends on how they were created and how they are remembered. They are bound to and manifest from an object—a bone, a sword, a robe, and so on—and are the spirit of a single person.

Gnome

Gnomes are small, cosmium-powered mechanical helpers that the Oltec have utilized since the end of the Night War, when they captured and reverse-engineered the technology to create them from the Fomori invaders. Over the centuries, the Oltec have refined gnome systems and expanded upon the earliest patterns, creating hundreds of variants that fill roles, from simple foodservice automatons to complex models capable of deep thought. Since the rise of the Mycotyrant, gnomes have been extremely useful as explorers, surveyors, and scouts outside the safe confines of the Core.

The word "gnome" is foreign to the Oltec but is nevertheless used to acknowledge the automatons' foreign roots—not as a grace or credit to the invaders but as a reminder to the living Oltec.

Goblin

Goblins are native to Ixalan, and their eager curiosity drew them to the ships of the Brazen Coalition when the pirates first made landfall on the Sun Empire’s shores. Though they still thrive in remote jungle colonies, goblins are most commonly seen swinging on the ropes of sleek pirate ships.

Goblins stand about three feet tall, though they rarely stand upright. They prefer a crouched posture that lets them scramble quickly on all fours, aided by their long prehensile tails. Their hearing and eyesight make them excellent lookouts, and their agility serves them well as crew members on pirate ships. They climb, swing, and jump easily among a ship’s ropes, and can get into tight spaces that humans can’t. For better or worse, many goblins are also incorrigible pranksters, and they often have a hard time determining when a prank is inappropriate, is poorly timed, or has gone too far.

Deep Goblin

Deep goblins are small, sturdy creatures as adept at navigating dark, claustrophobic corridors as their aboveground cousins are at scrambling through a ship's rigging. They are native to Ixalan's underground world, preferring to live in and around the deep chasms that split the lowest bowels of the caverns or in Malamet cities.

Deep goblins have a long history in the caverns but little recorded history as they have never banded together in a massive, centralized society in the way that other races have. Survival for Deep goblins is the marker of success; there is glory in longevity, not how much gold one can scrape together.

Deep goblin society is split between those who swear loyalty to the jaguarfolk and those who wish to remain independent from those who they see as cruel masters. Both independent and integrated goblin settlements are organized in hive-like warrens built from baked mud and clay.

Deep goblins have a rich oral, mystic, and storytelling tradition. Without the presence of a sun and its ensuing day-night cycle, Deep goblins have a less rigid and linear conception of time: thus, there is one age and one everlasting day, with primacy given to moments and cycles.

Oltec

The Oltec are the only human civilization to remain in the Core of Paradise. They are guardians, stewards, sentinels, and protectors of the Core. They live in harmony with each other and the natural world and view themselves as caretakers of it.

The Oltec are the only civilization of Ixalan's core to have mastered the power of cosmium. At the end of a lengthy coming-of-age ceremony, Oltec youths ride bats to Chimil and attempt to claim a piece of cosmium to be forged into a weapon, armor, or for their first tattoo, ensuring one is never without a ready reserve of Chimil's gift. The effect this practice has on a person is substantial — a longer life, greater health, an increased affinity toward schools of magic, strength, and stamina outside of the bounds of what an otherwise unenhanced person can attain.

Malamet

The Malamet are jaguarfolk living in the underground caverns of Ixalan. They are tall and broad, with fangs longer than even vampires. They have spotted fur ranging from dark orange to white. The glyphs of their language are modeled after these spots. They are hearty, clever, and wise but suspicious, territorial, and ruthless.

Malamet society is grouped into castes known as cadres. Malamet of the warrior cadre wear intricate jade armor, wielding bows, serrated obsidian blades, and polearms. The noble and priest cadres wear elaborate headdresses and collars.

Malamet jaguarfolk long to claim the land of the sun for themselves but generally recognize that they exist in the twilight of their culture. Some have taken this to heart and let it curdle them into petty, cruel, vengeful, and jealous monarchs. Others, though, have resisted this impulse and instead work to forge a future from the ashes, believing that a future won through wisdom, diplomacy, and the recording and sharing of their stories will be one that sees them basking in the light of a gentle sun once more.

Mycoid Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Plant.

Size. You are Small or Medium (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Bioluminesence. As an action, you can extrude a bioluminescent growth from your body, which can take the form of a torch, lantern, or other light source you have seen. It sheds bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additionl 15-feet. The light lasts until you reintegrate it as a bonus action on your turn.

Fungal Fortitude. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Fungal Nature. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Mycotyrant's Will. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed, frightened, paralyzed, or stunned condition on yourself.

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Squirming Emergence. !REPLACE!

Merfolk

Merfolk are a race of amphibious humanoids at home throughout the oceans, rivers, and rain forests of Ixalan. They stand between seven and eight feet tall, with skin that ranges from deep burgundy through many shades of violet and blue, to green, bright orange, and yellow. They are humanlike in shape, but have long fins extending from their shoulders, forearms, middle backs, and calves. Frills of fins also protrude from the backs of their heads. All merfolk can breathe air or filter oxygen from the water, and they can walk on land or swim with equal ease.

Green Merfolk

Green merfolk generally have yellow chests and pale green faces, shading to dark blues and purples on their backs and limbs. The patterns on their skin suggest the colors of the tree frogs common in the rain forest, as do their eyes of orange, lime green, or sky blue. Their fins are relatively short and thick. They climb trees with ease, move through undergrowth unhindered, and often wield magic to shape vines and branches to their will.

Green Merfolk Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Amphibious. You can breathe both air and water.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were in dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Jungle Magic. You know one cantrip of your choice from the druid spell list. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the fog cloud spell with this trait. Once you cast fog cloud with this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast it using any spell slots you have of 1st level or higher.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Swim Speed. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Orc

Orcs are tall humanoids, standing head and shoulders above most humans, and are generally twice as broad. They often accentuate their bulging muscles by wearing tight-fitting bands and accessories around the thickest parts of their arms and necks. Their skin color ranges from light brown through gray to almost jet-black.

Orcs originally come from the Sens, a group of islands off the coast of Torrezon, and primarily the island of Sen Gael. They have been enemies of the Legion of Dusk since it was originally formed. The entire race has been declared anathema by the Church of Torrezon, and after centuries of fighting the Legion, the orcs have dwindled to only a few hundred in number. Some still live on remote islands near Torrezon, but many have joined the Brazen Coalition to serve on pirate ships—taking on any role that calls for an abundance of sheer muscle.

Siren

Sirens are humanoids with birdlike features. Their long, slender arms extend into powerful wings that easily carry their light frames into the air. Their fingers bear sharp claws but are nimble enough to wield weapons and perform fine manipulation. Crests of feathery plumage start between their eyes and cover the backs of their heads.

Sirens are at home along the waters of the Stormwreck Sea. They settle on rocky coasts and remote islands, and even on floating piles of kelp. Sirens are mercurial creatures who can turn in an instant from lonely to repulsed, from desirous to hateful, from welcoming to irritated, from loving to murderous—and then back again. They are fascinated with ships, and enjoy toying with them. One siren might call out to a passing crew for company, only to capriciously draw the ship into an entangling mass of kelp. Another might lure a vessel onto jagged rocks so as to study the wreckage and learn more about the strange contraption. But as the number of Brazen Coalition ships passing through siren-controlled waters has increased over the years, a growing number of sirens have decided to satisfy their curiosity by taking positions on ship crews—including, in at least one case, the position of captain.

Vampire Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are an Undead.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. Vampires don't age as other races do. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Blood Thirst. You can use your elongated fangs to drain blood and life energy from a willing creature, or one that is grappled by you or has the incapacitated or restrained condition. Make an unarmed strike against the target. On a hit, or if the target is unable to resist, you deal 1 piercing damage and 1d6 necrotic damage to the target. You regain hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt, and for 1 minute, your speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain advantage on Strength-based and Dexterity-based ability checks, and Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness as shades of gray.

Deathless Nature. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Vampiric Exultation. Starting at 5th level, you can use a bonus action to transform the lower half of your body into an inky black vapor, allowing you to fly up to a number of feet equal to your walking speed. If you are in the air at the end of this movement, you fall if nothing is holding you aloft.

Vampiric Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Rite of Redemption

During a campaign or adventure on Ixalan, a character of another race might be able to take the Rite of Redemption to become a vampire. To undertake the rite, the character drinks the blood of a vampire while a priest of the Church of Dusk recites the following oath:

“Through your sacrifice of self, you become holy. Through your strength, all will be saved.”

When the rite is complete, the character changes their original race to the vampire race and changes their racial traits accordingly.

Blessings of Aclazotz

When Aclazotz, the bat god of night and creator of vampirism, escaped from his prison in the Core of Paradise, he began to bestow vampiric gifts on those loyal to him.

Vampires blessed by Aclazotz become demonic, enhancing their senses and power. Their blood is replaced by a black ichor. Their ears and fangs grow, while their eyes become beady and noses flatten. Though they are still able to wield weapons, their hands end in claws, and large wings sprout from their backs, granting natural flight.

If your adventure or campaign uses the optional feat rules from the Player's Handbook, your character can take the following feat to represent the blessings bestowed upon them by Aclazotz.

Entertainer

You spent much of your youth aboard pirate vessels and in taverns and theaters, performing odd jobs for musicians and performers in exchange for lessons. You've learned some form of art, such as music or acrobatics, and have earned a living off the joy and experiences you bring to others.

• Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Performance
• Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, one type of musical instrument
• Equipment: A musical instrument of your choice, a vial of perfume, a steel mirror, a set of costume clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Farmer

You grew up close to the land. You might be a dinosaur herd or crop farmer in the lands of the Sun Empire, a member of the Oltec Garnder Order, a River Herald shaper, or even a mycoid druid. Your experience gives you a keen appreciation for nature’s bounty alongside a healthy respect for nature’s wrath.

• Skill Proficiencies: Two of your choice from Animal Handling, Medicine, and Nature
• Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, vehicles (land)
• Equipment: An herbalism kit, a sickle, a healer's kit, an iron pot, a shovel, a set of traveler's clothes, and a pouch containing 20 gp

Guide

Ixalan is a dangerous place of jungles and mountains, and the Lost Caverns are a sprawling maze. You grew up outdoors, away from cities and villages, and have earned a living guiding traveling bands of adventurers through dangerous terrain. Your connection to the land has also granted you a modicum of power channeling the raw mana of the wilds.

• Skill Proficiencies: Stealth, Survival
• Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's tools
• Languages: One of your choice
• Equipment: A set of cartographer's tools, fishing tackle, a hunting trap, a tent, a bedroll, a set of traveler's clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp

Miner

The Brazen Coalition still engages in piracy, but with the discovery of cosmium beneath the surface of Ixalan, cosmium mining and prospecting has become an increasingly popular trade. You have thus far been digging away in one the Coaltion's cosmium mines, such as Downtown in Sunray Bay, hoping to strike it rich.

• Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Survival
• Languages: Two of your choice from Goblin, Orc, Pidgin, or Siren
• Equipment: A miner's pick, a shovel, a block and tackle, a climber's kit, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp worth of cosmium

Angrath's Fury

2nd-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 10 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You create a chain whip made of writhing flame, which lashes out in one of the following ways:

• Sweep. Each creature within range must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d8 fire damage and is knocked prone.
• Smash. Make a melee spell attack against one creature within range. If the attack hits, the target takes 3d8 fire damage and is stunned until the end of its next turn.

Arterial Flow

Transmutation Cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 hour

You choose an amount of blood that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You cannot manipulate blood that is still within a living creature, and manipulating the blood of a bleeding creature doesn't harm it. You manipulate the blood in one of the following ways:

• You instantaneously move or otherwise change the flow of the blood as you direct, up to 5 feet in any direction. This movement doesn't have enough force to cause damage and can't stop a creature from bleeding.
• You cause the blood to form into words or simple shapes and animate at your direction.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three effects created by it active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.

Gruesome Fate

1st-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a bit of cheese)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You conjure aether from the blind eternities and form it into an echo of a swarm of rats. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.

The swarm is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the swarm shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don't issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger. If the swarm starts its turn in the same space as a dead creature that is Large or smaller, the corpse is destroyed, leaving behind only equipment and bones (or exoskeleton).

Ray of Ruin

3rd-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self (30-foot line)
• Components: V, S, M (A magnifying glass)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Until the spell ends, you can use an action to create a line of searing light 30 feet long and 5 feet wide extending from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 4d8 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

River's Favor

2nd-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

Channels of water flail around you in a 10-foot radius and move with you, remaining centered on you. The channels lasts for the spell's duration.

The channels of water have the following effects:

• You and other creatures in the area have resistance to fire damage.
• It extinguishes unprotected nonmagical flames in the area.
• The area is difficult terrain for creatures other than you.
• The attack rolls of ranged weapon attacks have disadvantage if the attacks pass in or out of the area.

Atzocan Arrows

Ammunition

100gp, 0.8 oz.

Atzocan arrows use fletching made from dinosaur feathers, and are superior to other arrows. When you make a ranged attack roll using these arrows as ammunition, you have advantage on the roll.

Captain's Hook

Adventuring Gear

30gp, 1 lb.

This item replaces a lost hand or arm. While the hook is attached, your unarmed strikes with it deal 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike, and you have advantage on attack rolls you make with it to disarm a target. You can detach or reattach the hook as an action, and it can't be removed against your will.

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Dinosaur Egg

Trade Good

Varies, 10 lb.

Dinosaurs are revered by the Sun Empire and prized throughout Ixalan. A dinosaur egg acquired from a nest shares its kind with its parents; dinosaur eggs acquired by other means have their kind and value in gold determined by the DM or by randomly rolling on the Dinosaurs table.

A dinosaur egg is a Small nonmagical object. A typical dinosaur egg takes 3d6 weeks to hatch. When it hatches, it uses the statistics of a normal creature of its kind, except it is Tiny, its Strength is 10, it has 4 hit points, and it can't attack. Its size category increases by one—from Tiny to Small for example—at the end of each year. When it reaches the size normal for dinosaur of its kind, it stops growing and uses its normal statistics thereafter. Statistics for Ixalan Dinosaurs are found in chapter 8.

When a dinosaur egg hatches, a creature present for the hatching can attempt to bond with the dinosaur by succeeding on a DC 12 Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. A bonded dinosaur treats the bonding creature as an ally.

Dinosaurs

1d20	Dinosaur	Cost
1	Bristleback	3,00gp
2	Frillback	3,000gp
3	Frilled Deathspitter	3,00gp
4	Herdcaller	3,000gp
5	Needletooth Raptor	3,000gp
6	Pterosaur	3,000gp
7	Hammerskull	30,000gp
8	Raptor	30,000gp
9	Sandwing	30,000gp
10	Benthisaur	100,000gp
11	Sailback	100,000gp
12	Sunwing	100,000gp
13	Aegisaur	150,000gp
14	Armasaur	175,000gp
15	Brontodon	175,000gp
16	Ceratops	175,000gp
17	Dracosaur	200,000gp
18	Regisaur	200,000gp
19	Sky Terror	200,000gp
20	Dreadmaw	500,000gp

Kitesail

Dowsing Dagger

Weapon (Dagger), Uncommon

Sorcerous Spyglass

Wondrous Item, Rare

Galleon

Galleons are long vessels that rely on sails and sizable rowing crews to move. These ships can carry siege weapons and soldiers to war or transport large amounts of cargo for merchants. No matter the ship's purpose, the crew almost always hires extra protection, since galleys make large, cargo-rich targets for pirates.

Dreadnought Summary

2 Firecannons (Crew: 3 Each)

• Armor Class: 19
• Hit Points: 75
• Cost: 2,000gp (firecannon), 5gp (cannon ball)

It takes 1 action to load a firecannon, 1 action to aim it, and 1 action to fire it.

Cannon Ball. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 600/2,400 ft., one target. Hit: 44 (8d10) bludgeoning damage.

Flagship

Flagships are fast-moving designs focused on travel, and often the forerunner of a fleet. The size of a flagship makes it easy for troops to get on and off quickly, making it the perfect ship for engaging in surprise strikes.

Schooner

One of the smallest sailing vessels, schooners can be sailed or rowed by a handful of crew. These ships often transport small amounts of cargo or passengers. They're perfect for pleasure cruises, as they're easier and less expensive to operate than larger vessels.

Ixalan Creatures

Ixalan Creatures (contd.)

Bedrock Tortoise

Deep in the Lost Caverns of Ixalan lie many forgotten ruins of the Komon Winaq, the first peoples who left the core and made the long journey to the surface. Along the way, the Komon Winaq encountered many marvelous creatures living in the caverns who did not inhabit the core; the bedrock tortoise is one such creature. Its enormous size allowed the Komon Winaq to build temples to Chimil the sun god on the tortoise's back, allowing it to function as a wandering place of rest and respite for those journeying in the caverns.

Blight Keeper

While most bats of Ixalan are harmless, some receive demonic blessings from Aclazotz, the bat god of night. These creatures, like other demons of Ixalan, spread blight and rot across the land, preparing it for Aclazotz. Now that the ancient god has been released from the core, these blight keepers are more and more common throughout jungles and caverns, a warning that the future of Ixalan is in peril.

Capybara

The capybara is a large rodent that lives in Ixalan's jungles, usually near bodies of water such as springs, pools, and rivers. It is renown throughout the plane as being a calm and peacable creature, able to make friends with even the deadliest of predators.

Cave Crawler

Giant insects, especiallly giant centipedes, are common in the jungles and caverns of Ixalan. Cave crawlers are an enormous species of insect that resemble centipedes with scorpion-like stingers on their tails. As their name suggests, they are usually found deep in caves and caverns where they feed off everything from rocks to plants to other insects. The oldest of these creatures have even learned to feed off of cosmium, its magic enhancing their size, strength, and poison.

Chupacabra

There are many cities and temples across Ixalan that have been abandoned by peoples past and lost to the jungle. Such places, forgotten by the sun, grow dark and fill with nightmares. One such horror is the chupacabra, who lurks in shadows and feeds on blood like a vampire. It is stealthy and elusive, known more by the blood-drained prey it leaves behind than by actual physical sightings.

Coati

The coati is a small mammal that resembles a raccoon or bear. It has a reputation across Ixalan as being a scavenger, looking through the trash of cities and villages for food, rather than hunting. It has developed a somewhat symbiotic nature with humanoids, and its cute appearance leads some to be informally adopted as pets and friends.

Coatl

Demon

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are the dominant form of animal life in Ixalan—the absolute rulers of the coastal lands held by the Sun Empire, and a force to be reckoned with in the interior jungles.

Altisaur

Armasaur

Benthisaur

Bristleback

Brontodon

Ceratops

Dracosaur

Frillback

Herdcaller

Frilled Deathspitter

Hammerskull

Pterodon

Raptors

Needletooth Raptor

Regisaur

Sailback

Sandwing

Scion of Calamity

Sky Terror

Sunwing

Sunwing Mounts

The find greater steed spell from Xanathar's Guide to Everything can summon a spirit that takes the form of a sunwing.

Dryad

Fleet Swallower

Gnome

Goblins

Deep Goblin

Harpy

Llama

Malamet

Mycoids

Deathcap Marionette

Rage Titan