
Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek, & James Wyatt (2004). The Devourer | The Fury | The Keeper | The Mockery | The Shadow | The Traveler The son of Onatar and Olladra and the brother of Kol Korran, the Keeper is often portrayed as gaunt or grossly fat human, a lich or ghoul, or sometimes a skeletal dragon. Because of his association with souls and the afterlife he has become almost the default deity of necromancers across Eberron. He alone is able to waylay dead souls on their way to Dolurrh and it is said that once in the Keeper's clutches a soul may never escape. Rosenmüller, portrays its Bert (David Kross) as a decent man who is unfailingly kind to children, keeps his word and earns his fellow. In their true form, doppelgangers appeared as tall, elven, gray-skinned humanoids, whose thin hairless bodies made them appear, to human eyes, sexless. The film, a German-British coproduction directed by Marcus H. He is seen as the hunger in the dark, grabbing hold of anyone straying too far from the light. A Doppelganger, or Doppel, also known as a Mimic, Changeling, or Pavrat, is a creature that is an extact double or identical replica of a person or creature. In the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount sourcebook, the low-level adventure hook Kryn Spy involves a doppelganger working for the Kryn Dynasty and perpetrating arsons in the Felderwin Tillage, a major source of food for the Dwendalian Empire.The Sovereign of Death and Decay, The Keeper represents greed and gluttony, the inverse of his brother Kol Korran's focus on material wealth and generosity. She magically tampered with people's memories to help create a false identity, and enjoys the lavish lifestyle she has attained in her new position. Īs of early 836 PD, the Archmage of Industry on the Cerberus Assembly, Baroness Jenna Iresor, appears to be human but is actually a doppelganger. The Darrington Brigade, operating out of Deastok, foiled a doppelganger's plot against an ore baron.
Īt around the same time, a doppelganger with delusions of grandeur replaced a member of the Catyurit family and, as part of a strange plot, began poisoning some of the chellerum gourds they sold in Emon. Some drow commoners, in despair, offered themselves over to the aberrations and were transformed into doppelgangers. Īs of 812 PD, the drow of Ruhn-Shak were so plagued by shapeshifting, mind-altering aberrations as to feed a deep paranoia that was tearing apart their society. The creature had been posing as many different people across Vasselheim, changing itself at will. Kashaw and Zahra were each paid 2,250 gold for their part in the hunt. Vanessa Cyndrial, Kashaw Vesh, and Zahra Hydris killed a doppelganger and brought back its severed head as part of a contract for the Slayer's Take. Surprise Attack: Extra damage against creatures it surprised.Ambusher: In the first round of combat, has advantage on attack rolls against creatures it surprised.
(Doppelgangers are proficient at Insight and experts at Deception.) While reading that creature's thoughts, has advantage on Insight, Persuasion, Deception, and Intimidation checks against the target.
Can continue reading that creature's thoughts as if concentrating on a spell.
Read Thoughts: As an action, magically reads the surface thoughts of a creature within 60 ft., as long as there are no sufficiently thick/dense barriers in between. Shapechanger: Polymorphs into the form of a Small- or Medium-sized humanoid it has seen, otherwise keeping its own equipment and statistics. Condition Immunities: Cannot be charmed. AbilitiesĪll of the following is taken from the Monster Manual, 5th Edition, and may not be exactly canon for Critical Role, as no known doppelganger has been encountered onstream. In their true form, doppelgangers have milky white eyes, featureless gray skin, and wispy white hair, with a humanoid figure.