D&D 5E What D&D Product Can Be Seen In The Crystals?

WotC has posted an image of a pile of crystals through which distorted glimpses of what looks like a product can be seen. In the comments below, folks have been flipping, enhancing, and generally squinting at the image behind the crystals, and while it's hard to make out, guesses include 'Journey Through the Radiant Ocean' (although I personally think that first letter looks more like an X or K than a J). 'Citadel' is also a popular guess for that last word--'Journey(s) to/from the Radiant Citadel'? Take a look and see what you think (or check the comments for flipped and enhanced versions).

In Spelljammer lore, the phlogiston--the space between the crystal spheres in which the prime material worlds can be found--is also known as the 'Rainbow Ocean'. And crystal seem on-brand for crystals spheres.

Below the text, the image appears to be of some kind of marketplace. Above it, WotC wrote "Through the depths of the Ethereal Plane is a beacon of possibility and adventure... "

There was apparently a press event today, pending some kind of product announcement on Tuesday.

D&D 5E - Announcement Next Week--What Hints For Upcoming D&D Books?

WotC uses Unearthed Arcana to playtest D&D material which often ends up in a later hardcover book. Mages of Strixhaven was in Unearthed Arcana in June 2021, and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos was published in December 2021. Draconic Options was in Unearthed Arcana in April 2021, and Fizban's...

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[Parmandur]

It's on Screenrant of all places. I now don't believe that Fizban or WoC exist.

I can conform the plot seeds of Saridor's restoration are all over Fizban, which was somewhat confusing.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

It would be interesting if the gem dragons tried to thwart the heroes out of fear for their survival. Non-evil enemies are more challenging to players, since they aren't the kind that you can justify hacking down.

That's actually a really cool idea. I might have to use that at some point. "We know he's our god and all, but if you guys reform him, all of us are going to die. So please stop trying to bring him back to life, or else all of us Switzerland Dragons are going to have to declare war on you."

 

[J.Quondam]

That's actually a really cool idea. I might have to use that at some point. "We know he's our god and all, but if you guys reform him, all of us are going to die. So please stop trying to bring him back to life, or else all of us Switzerland Dragons are going to have to declare war on you."

note to self: "swiss army dragon"

 

[Lidgar]

note to self: "swiss army dragon"

aka, Tiamat

 

[Yaarel]

Sardior.

Are more psionic options on the way?

 

[RoughCoronet0]

Sardior.

Are more psionic options on the way?

One can only hope.

 

[Mort Strudel]

I've read through a lot of Fizban's, and I'm using it as the basis for a lot of the lore for my new spelljammer-adjacent campaign. It frames the greatwyrms trying to resurrect Sardior as being an apocalyptic group. This is because the death of Sardior didn't just destroy Sardior and create the gem dragons from the fragments, but also destroyed the First World and created the worlds of the multiverse from the fragments.

In this way, Sardior's death serves a lore function and sets up Spelljammer/Planejammer, unifying the origin stories of the various settings.

The book is absolutely full of things trying to set up a multi-world setting. It talks a lot about Dragonsight, a power dragons have to communicate with their echoes in other worlds. The cult trying to raise Sardior specifically is encouraging as many dragons as possible to awaken their dragonsight. This is because dragons who communicate with their echoes can merge their conciousnesses across universes, which is how a dragon ascends to becoming a Greatwyrm. The cult believes that this process of merging dragons across universes will eventually reverse the fragmenting of Sardior.

More relevant for mortals is the possibility that bringing back Sardior would ALSO cause the multiverse to collapse back into the First World, as his destruction is what turned the First World into a multiverse in the first place. If THAT happened, all of the material plane as we know it would be destroyed.

Of course, whether any of this would be possible is pretty dubious, and would likely be stopped by the Gods anyway.

 

[Guest 7034872]

I don't think think so. Did you see the anger when the answer to Wordle was Caulk? It made the national news. And that was just obscure, not unsolvable. Cheating on your puzzles is a good way to whip up anger, not salivation.

1. How could anyone come to the belief that the word "caulk" is obscure? Are these people who just don't even know what Lowe's sells?
2. I did specifically mention that I think it's a bit off to classify what WotC posted as a puzzle. My sense of it is that it's more like a teaser trailer. I don't think they ever intended to put enough visual information in that image for the interwebz sleuths definitively to figure it out: I certainly would not have if I were in their marketing dep't.

Still, we'll find out soon enough in any case, right?

 

[darjr]

But… I flipped it around and everything!

 

[Parmandur]

1. How could anyone come to the belief that the word "caulk" is obscure? Are these people who just don't even know what Lowe's sells?
2. I did specifically mention that I think it's a bit off to classify what WotC posted as a puzzle. My sense of it is that it's more like a teaser trailer.

Still, we'll find out soon enough in any case, right?

Less than 14 hours now, in all likelihood.