One of the things they is touched on in the material around the Unseelie Fey template is that the Seelie are very puritan. Only pure fey are allowed while the Unseelie embrace the freedom to love whomever you please, hence why they have a template that can be applied to any living thing. If you are wanting to make the Unseelie less of a clear cut enemy, you could use that as a leveraging point since the Seelie would likely be unfriendly to any sorcerers, fey heritage bards, or half-breeds of any flavor. There is also the matter of what happens to half-elves when they die as the elven gods refuse to say whether they are in their domains or not. Given that the Feywild is the avenue for souls to be born and reincarnated, it is entirely possible that the Unseelie could be providing sanctuary, enslaving, or doing any other number of things to the half-elven souls as another potential plot hook.

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The main thing with eladrin is that they charge form with their mood, and their mood tends to change easily.

Thoughts on Changeling: The Lost?

I love the adventures of the Odyssey. I really enjoyed your suggestion of having the waters below Scylla still contain Circe's poison. The possibility of being turned into a monster by the water only adds a new level of danger. I could see characters fall off the ship and turn into giant eals or squids that attack their former crewmembers.

Yes. You have achieved "Neutral Hag" status in my head canon. I'd congratulate you, but it's increasingly apparent that I must strictly observe my words around you 🤐

The physicality of the hag concept is part of the entire point of it. The twisted view of these creatures, of the code of right and wrong, is part of where they draw their power from, and the breaking of those rules being what shows the consequences. The form is the game of how they interact with the world of "normal" people... the facade is the game itself, and interacting with it is glimpsing their "true" selves, what in the light of truth is clearly twisted and standing of weak ground in the karmic balance and purity of soul department. The farther away you get from that essence of what makes a hag a hag, you may as well create something new. Just a general spirit, or "good witch". You can have magical women of rage, vengeance, healing, or whatever you'd like... they can be awesome, but needn't be under the Hag umbrella. Eidolons. Basically Fae. Still best kept to whatever game it is that defines them. However it is that their particular aberration, their incursion of the reality and rules thereof they would impose upon "the normal world" being what defines them, and what makes them different from the aesthetic exotica which is quickly becoming the average in modern DnD, and interacting with the metaphysical existential gambit of all that being a riddle solving process in most ways and situations.

I wouldn't be able to resist playing off the proverbial rock and hard place of the metaphor. Scylla being a feminine rage which will pursue obsessively seeking to do onto men, to add injury and poison, to scourge and harry. Charybdis being an enduring static effect... an absence that takes and draws into it. An allegory to wanting and needing. A negative force of drawing entropy. Chary being best kept less exotic but just as relentless, but Scylla being more of a person with complexities which inflicts its volatile psychology onto others. Tactically, of course, the rage of Scylla would be the escalation of scenarios and conflict, while Charybdis being the constant hazard, the bad times beyond simply Scylla's barking vagina mouths.

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I was today days old when I realized that the Crossing Cape Horn sequence in Master of Commander is almost certainly a call-back to Scylla and Charybdis - Lucky Jack Aubrey has to choose "The Lesser of Two Weevils/Evils", sacrifice the life of a popular sailor who has fallen overboard or lose his whole ship...

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Fantastic video!

These ideas are excellent. I'm building a Feywild campaign using WBTW as the basis and looking for as many alternate adventure possibilities to give my party choice in which direction to go. The idea of using Isolde to transition them into the Shadow Carnival is excellent. I'm curious what other offshoot stories have you found that tie into WBTW?

Charybdis as a giant sea anemone. The ones that suck water into their middle to feed.

I love how half the people here are lovers of the The Thunder Saga in the majesty that is the Epic Musical by Jorge Herrans

Really cool that you actually read a passage from The Odyssey. That ancient poetry is so unlike anything written nowadays. I finally made it through the whole book a few years ago, and it was an incredible experience, something that really transported me to a different world.

I know others have mentioned the Dresden Files - but this series does a good job with "beautiful" characters like Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness - she's supernaturally beautiful, but also commands the uttermost respect from the other powerful groups like human wizards, vampire courts, and other fey creatures. Major characters show actual fear when Mab arrives. Like if a mobster, warlord, or royal, happens to be handsome. Their appearance is a feature, but it isn't what most folks are thinking about and it's never used to diminish.

I'm playing a 49 year old vegetarian centaur with mild mid life crisis tendancies that has four leaf clovers growing out of his body at times. Sometimes he gets an uncontrollable urge to dance and cant stop himself no matter what he's doing

Love monsters based on mythology. Great ideas!

UNDERRATED ASF! I’m so happy I found your channel. You make awesome content

SCYLLA MENTIONED!!!! DOWN DOWN KING OF BONES WITH A CORAL CROWN LETS GOOOOO

Yes! I love these sentences that tie together the adventures but leave us DMs hunting for clues to tie it all together! One interesting sentence that might tie this to Wild Beyond the Witchlight (and specifically "current events" happening to the Summer Court in that module), Sir Talevar went to Prismeer as an emissary of Queen to Titania "to persuade Zybilna to ally with the Seelie Court against it's hated enemies, the fomorians." I very much love the idea of tying Witchlight to the Dread Domains of Ravenloft and this thread has been super important to me for my Feywild>Ravenloft Pepe Silvia corkboard. What if the Fomorians are amassing once more to make a bid for territory in the lands of the Seelie? They've been forced to scrape out survival in the Wildlands of the Unseelie lands for too long. Queen Mab is happy to keep them in their place but has routed their attempts to move into Unseelie territory too many times. Perhaps the Fomorians have a new, charismatic leader among them?

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The ancients ::loved:: a many-headed beast! The idea that we're only allowed one (1) should be suppressed with extreme prejudice! Thanks for another great video, happy Kraken Week!

I came looking for information on Scylla and looks like I did at the perfect time between hades two, the thunder saga and this

Brutal! Loving it!

I'm happy to see Scylla! Though you now have me debating if the hydra is more dangerous than the hydra. Hercules and Iolaus defeated the hydra alone, but a crew of trained soldiers were too slow to prevent six of their own from being swallowed whole. I think Scylla is bigger and stronger than the hydra, which fits its role in the story. She is too fearsome to fight, sacrifice six men and flee. Of course you could run a high level campaign where the players are demi-gods, then fighting a creature like Scylla is more fair.

I've heard a few songs recently about aquatic fey. Selkie by Ebony Buckle. A different take on the seal-wife motif. Ebony is a London-based singer-songwriter who performs with the new age prog band Solstice. The Kelpie by Jethro Tull. Gets into the Who is the Predator question, as the alluring Hag concept does, but differently this time. The song was apparently recorded for the Scottish-themed Stormwatch album, but didn't make it onto the vinyl release. And one I knew before, Seven Widows Weep by Sirenia. A tale of Nordic sirens in Symphonic Metal style. The video is outstanding.

It's really interesting to see how Greek mythology monsters permeate the DnD multiverse. At a minimum Centaur, Chimera, Dryad, Hydra, Lamia, Medusa, Minotaur, Nixie, Nymph, Pegasus, Satyr, Sirene, Sylph, Titan, Triton. At least some of this is thanks to Narnia.

With the thunder saga just coming out its looking less like shark week on more like Scylla week

This is brilliant, it truly adds a twist on the adventure and having its end mirror its beginning is genius. Will definitely work to implement.

So excited for this video!!

Scylla is best accomplished by a modified Roper statblock that's located up a cliff, though maybe give her a longer reach. I'd make it 120ft.

Great inspiration! Cheers and... happy Kraken Week!

Really enjoying this video about this terrifying sea monstress! Also the seafaring makeup is on point! The pearls are a nice touch!

For an old-timey depiction of Scylla: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oN1-m7Nq15iYaWw.html

Love it! I feel charybdis always gets more attention, but i prefer the peculiar nature of scylla!

Nekagami spirit cat

Kitsune. The trickster fox

Great video. I'd suggest to add the #krakenweek so that more people can watch this & future videos. :)

Oh, between this and EPIC's Thunder Saga we greek mythology fans are elated today❤

I'd expect plenty of aquatic beasts in Japanese and Polynesian myth too

For Good Hags, look at the "Grannies" of the older editions of Ravenloft... The main thing with Hags is that they're main thing isn't actually "Evil", but being contrary to the world that they're in, essentially, with most domains of Ravenloft, they're on the side of good out of, well, pure spite at the dark powers... You also have the Blood/Red Hags from Kobold Press which are more neutral in nature, though rather bloodthirsty

I hadn't planned on it, but now I'm considering creating a sentient black hole for my Spelljammer game named Charybdis.

Just as a major note from the earlier editions with the Ravenloft setting, other than the Domain of Barovia, Hags rarely exist as, well, Hags... Most end up changing because the hags nature is to be counter to that of the local world...essentially, meaning you end up chaotic good hags with a more, actually, grandmotherly nature there. Perhaps the link and sacrifices to Ceithlenn might be strengthening the nature of Hags, as a whole (considering the nightmare mess with Jenny Greenteeth from the AL Campaign set parallel to Curse of Strahd), inside that domain.

Thanks for the inspiration! I might use this in the campaign arc that our gm just asked me to run (not enough time for planning with young child and work) as Scylla is the spouse of a noble that was cursed, and the party is contracted to find out what happened to them.

Considering the origins, some of the rules from Mythic Odysseys of Theros might be a good option for making things more "interesting" for the players there

We should all steal (even) more from greek mythology

*just looking through play list finds this near the top between stuff I had watched* huh

FEYWILD FIEND JOINS KRAKEN WEEK?????? I'M SO EXCITED!