
Winter Eladrin
D&D 2024 monster: Winter Eladrin. Source: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. challenge rating 10, creature type Fey (Elf), Medium size, speed 30 ft. Winter Eladrin When sorrow distresses eladrin, they enter the winter season, becoming figures of melancholy and bitterness. Frozen tears drop from their cheeks, and their palpable sadness emanates from them as bitter cold. Eladrin To be not just ruled by emotions, but physically changed by them? Better to have no emotions at all. Eladrin dwell in the verdant splendor of the Feywild. They are related to the elves found on the Material Plane, and resemble them in both their love of beauty and the value they place on personal freedom. But where other elves can temper their wild impulses, eladrin are creatures ruled by emotion-and because of their unique magical nature, they undergo physical changes to match their changes in temperament. The eladrin have spent centuries in the Feywild, and most of them have become fey creatures as a result. Some of them are still humanoid, similar in that respect to their other elven kin. The eladrin presented here are of the fey variety. Creatures of Passion The magic flowing through eladrin responds to their emotional state by transforming them into different seasonal aspects, with behaviors and capabilities that change with their forms. Some eladrin might remain in a particular aspect for years, while others run through the emotional spectrum each week. Lovers of Beauty Regardless of the aspect they express, eladrin love beauty and surround themselves with lovely things. Eladrin try to possess any objects they find striking. They might seek to own a painting, a statue, or a glittering jewel. When they encounter people of comely form or luminous spirit, they use their magic to delight those folk or, in the case of evil eladrin, to abduct them. Changeable Nature Whenever one of the eladrin presented here finishes a long rest, it can associate itself with a different season, provided it isn't...