D&D 5E Capturing Souls

Shrapp Hamnier · May 16, 2019

My wife and I are prepping a new campaign with some pretty heavy fairy tale themes. We also have some plans involving trapping and banishing souls. Before we start creating a bunch of spells and magic items, we were hoping to clarify what is already out there.

Thank you in advance!

Spells:
Magic Jar
Soul Cage
Imprisonment (will fit a lot of the fairy tale things)

Items:
Deck of Many thing (has a couple cards that does things with the soul)
Iron Flask/ Efreet Bottle/ Mirror of Life Trapping (more about capturing an entire entity rather than just their soul, but is usable, or could easily be modified)

MechaTarrasque · May 16, 2019

Night hags have soul bags, and even though they are fiends, they used to be fey, so good fodder for a fairy tale themed adventure.

jaelis · May 16, 2019

Devourer in VgtM has a soul-eating ability.

Also hexblade in XgtE gets the accursed specter ability

Ath-kethin · May 17, 2019

The spell sequester captures creatures in a gemstone and lasts until dispelled.

Yak folk also have a magic jar type ability. Dunno if you are interested in monsters in addition to spells and items, but there it is.

Sword of Spirit · May 17, 2019

Ath-kethin said:
The spell sequester captures creatures in a gemstone and lasts until dispelled.

Yak folk also have a magic jar type ability. Dunno if you are interested in monsters in addition to spells and items, but there it is.

Where are 5e yak folk?

MechaTarrasque · May 17, 2019

Sword of Spirit said:
Where are 5e yak folk?

Storm King's Thunder.

Ath-kethin · May 17, 2019

Sword of Spirit said:
Where are 5e yak folk?

Storm King's Thunder, pp. 244-245.

muppetmuppet · May 17, 2019

You might want to look into Acererak he does a lot of soul trapping type stuff and would be a good opponent throughout the campaign.

jaelis · May 17, 2019

Ath-kethin said:
The spell sequester captures creatures in a gemstone and lasts until dispelled.

That's not really what sequester does, it puts a (willing) creature in suspended animation and hides it away. AFAIK the gemstone trapping is part of imprisonment in 5e?

Ath-kethin · May 17, 2019

jaelis said:
That's not really what sequester does, it puts a (willing) creature in suspended animation and hides it away. AFAIK the gemstone trapping is part of imprisonment in 5e?

Eh, it's nothing a little domination can't handle. Frankly, if you can't force a creature to be "willing" to do stuff by the time you can cast 7th level spells, you aren't much of a wizard.

Point taken that the spell clearly isn't intended as an attack or trap, though.