Abomination (Dungeons & Dragons)

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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, abominations are the unwanted offspring of a deity and some other being. Abominations are immortal, spiteful, destructive creatures of immense power. Abominations are epic monsters.

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Publication history

The abominations, including the anaxim, the atropal, the chichimec, the dream larva, the hecatoncheires, the infernal, the phaethon, the phane, and the xixecal first appeared in the third edition Epic Level Handbook (2002). [1]

<i>Epic Level Handbook</i> book by Andy Collins

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More abominations, including the astral stalker, the atropal, the blood fiend, the phane, and the tarrasque, appear in the fourth edition Monster Manual (2008). [2] The rotvine defiler and the discord incarnate appeared in the fourth edition in Open Grave (2009).

Tarrasque (<i>Dungeons & Dragons</i>)

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<i>Monster Manual</i> book by Wizards of the Coast

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Known Types of Abominations

Hecatoncheires name for three mythological monsters Briareos, Kottos and Gyges

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Phaethon son of Helios from Greek mythology

Phaethon was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios in Greek mythology. His name was also used by the Ancient Greek as an alternative name for the planet Jupiter, the motions and cycles of which were personified in poetry and myth.

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References

  1. ↑ Collins, Andy, Bruce R. Cordell, and Thomas M. Reid. Epic Level Handbook (Wizards of the Coast, 2002)
  2. ↑ Mearls, Mike, Stephen Schubert, and James Wyatt. Monster Manual (Wizards of the Coast, 2008)


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