Whispers of the Ages
"This city, nicknamed 'The Jewel of the North,' is famous for its wizard academy and moonstone bridge."
🔘 Neverwinter
🔘 Silverymoon
🔘 Baldur’s Gate
✅ Silverymoon (Ruled by Alustriel Silverhand)
"What damage type stops a troll’s regeneration?"
🔘 Fire
🔘 Lightning
🔘 Poison
✅ Fire (Or acid)
"How many schools of magic are there in D&D?"
🔘 A) 6
🔘 B) 8
🔘 C) 10
✅ B) 8
"What happens if you eat in the Feywild but don’t thank your host?"
🔘 A) You owe a favor
🔘 B) You’re trapped for a year and a day
🔘 C) Your shadow rebels
✅ B) You’re trapped for a year and a day (Classic Fey etiquette)
"Which plane's nature shifts to reflect the beliefs of its visitors?"
🔘 A) The Feywild
🔘 B) The Outlands
🔘 C) Limbo
✅ C) Limbo (Raw chaos molded by strong wills)
"The Time of Troubles occurred when the gods were forced to walk Faerûn in mortal form during this year of DR."
🔘 1358 DR
🔘 1372 DR
🔘 1482 DR
✅ 1358 DR (When Ao punished the gods)
"What happens when a helmed horror is targeted by a spell it's immune to?"
🔘 A) It absorbs the spell's energy
🔘 B) The spell reflects back at the caster
🔘 C) It gains temporary hit points
✅ B) The spell reflects back at the caster (Specific to their Spell Reflection trait)
"The Clone spell requires this expensive material component:"
🔘 A diamond worth 1,000 gp
🔘 A vessel worth 2,000 gp
🔘 A pint of the target’s blood
✅ A vessel worth 2,000 gp (Plus 1 cubic inch of flesh)
"What color are most Feywild trees?"
🔘 A) Normal colors
🔘 B) Silver and gold
🔘 C) Purple and blue
✅ B) Silver and gold
"What unique property does time have in the Astral Plane?"
🔘 A) It flows backward
🔘 B) It stops entirely
🔘 C) It speeds up exponentially
✅ B) It stops entirely (No aging, hunger, or exhaustion there)
"What was the original name of the Sword Coast before the elves named it?"
🔘 A) The Dragon's Jaw
🔘 B) The Netherese Frontier
🔘 C) No records survive
A) The Dragon's Jaw (From ancient dwarf maps)
"What weapon is a flameskull most likely to use in melee?"
🔘 A flaming scimitar
🔘 Its own biting skull
🔘 A spectral dagger
✅ Its own biting skull (It floats into melee range and chomps!)
"Which archmage’s simulacrum famously runs the Tower of Twilight in the Dalelands?"
🔘 A) Elminster
🔘 B) Sammaster
🔘 C) The Simbul
✅ C) The Simbul (Simbul’s clone guards the tower)
"Breaking a promise in the Feywild might do this."
🔘 A) Make you grow antlers
🔘 B) Turn you into a frog
🔘 C) Curse you to speak in rhymes
✅ C) Curse you to speak in rhymes
"Which layer of the Nine Hells is a frozen wasteland?"
🔘 A) Stygia
🔘 B) Caina
🔘 C) Nessus
✅ A) Stygia (The 5th layer, ruled by Levistus)
"Which civilization built the Floating Towers of Halruaa to survive the Spellplague?"
🔘 A) The Shoon Imperium
🔘 B) The Netherese Survivors
🔘 C) The Bedine Tribes
B) The Netherese Survivors (Halruaa's founders were Netherese refugees)
"A marilith demon wielding six swords can make how many "opportunity" attacks every 6 seconds?"
🔘 A) One
🔘 B) Six
🔘 C) Unlimited
✅ C) Unlimited (Reactive Strikes trait allows one per turn, not round)
"This legendary staff from Netheril is said to be capable of absorbing spells but explodes when overfilled. What is it called?"
🔘 A) Staff of Power
🔘 B) Staff of the Magi
🔘 C) Staff of Swarming Spells
✅ B) Staff of the Magi (Absorbs up to 50 spell levels before detonating)
"A quickling that stops moving for more than 1 minute..."
🔘 A) Explodes
🔘 B) Ages to dust
🔘 C) Turns into a rose
✅ B) Ages to dust (Their speed sustains their existence)
"Mechanus and Limbo are connected by this transitive plane:"
🔘 A) The Astral Plane
🔘 B) The Outlands
🔘 C) The Ethereal Plane
✅ B) The Outlands (The Spire bridges all extremes)
"Before becoming a lich, the archwizard Larloch ruled which Netherese enclave?"
🔘 Xinlenal
🔘 Jiksidur
🔘 Oreme
✅ Jiksidur (The "City of Weeping Ghosts")
"The Sword of Zariel loses its celestial power if the wielder does this:"
🔘 Sheathes it without killing
🔘 Commits an evil act
🔘 Fights a non-devil
✅ Commits an evil act (It judges its bearer’s morality)
"The Karsus's Avatar spell briefly made a mortal into a god. Which Weave-related catastrophe resulted from its casting?"
🔘 A) The Spellplague
🔘 B) The Sundering
🔘 C) The Death of Mystryl
✅ C) The Death of Mystryl (This caused the fall of Netheril before Mystra reformed the Weave)
"The Gloaming Court serves as neutral ground between Seelie and Unseelie because..."
🔘 A) It exists at dusk and dawn
🔘 B) The Queen of Air and Darkness and Titania meet there
🔘 C) It's ruled by ancient korreds
✅ A) It exists at dusk and dawn (The liminal times balance the Courts)
"The Blood War is primarily fought between demons and devils in this plane:"
🔘 The Abyss
🔘 Avernus
🔘 Gehenna
✅ Avernus (1st layer of the Nine Hells)