Elder Evils is an official supplement for the 3.5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragonsrole-playing game. This book presents alien, monstrous evils and is designed as a way of providing game masters a means of ending a current campaign.
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It includes new content for epic level characters, in the form of extremely powerful, alien monstrosities intent on destroying the world. It is designed as a way of providing game masters a means of ending a current campaign.
The book presents nine “Elder Evils”:
Atropus, the World Born Dead (an undead godling in the form of a small moon)
Father Llymic, a being of intense power from the Far Realm who escaped the plane of madness to destroy the world but was encased in ice by elven mages
The Hulks of Zoretha (five gargantuan statues)
The Leviathan (a monster of the deep composed of leftover chaotic energies from creation)
Pandorym (an evil force from the places between the planes)
Ragnorra, Mother of Monsters (a hideous malformed monstrosity)
Sertrous (a vast demonic snake)
The Worm that Walks (a 30’ tall giant composed of worms and maggots, and connected with the demi-god Kyuss)
Zargon the Returner (a vicious beast crowned with a solitary horn)
A 10th Elder Evil, called Shothragot is presented in Dragon #362. It serves the god Tharizdun.[1] The Elder Evil Zurguth, the Feasting Vast, was also in introduced in Dragon issue #358,[2] which describes his accidental creation of the Kaorti.
The D&D book Lords of Madness, published previously (in 2005), also presented Elder Evils (page 27). The five described in that book are all greatly respected by the aboleth.[3] They are provided with the following names:
