D&D 5E Here Is The Full & Alternate Cover Art Of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Here is the cover art for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the hardcover D&D product revealed this weekend.

Cover art by Tyler Jacobson

Alternate cover by Hydro74

D&D 5E - Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November...

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[Weiley31]

Well the Standard Cover is a great looking image as full and not divided as a closed book.

The Alternative Cover is, once again, pretty flipping awesome. I just don't know if that is a Displacer beast on the front, or it's supposed to be the same butterfly winged cat from the standard cover.

 

[darjr]

What is that symbol on the back?

 

[Retreater]

Well the Standard Cover is a great looking image as full and not divided as a closed book.

The Alternative Cover is, once again, pretty flipping awesome. I just don't know if that is a Displacer beast on the front, or it's supposed to be the same butterfly winged cat from the standard cover.

Well, it does clearly have tentacles. So ... displacer beast?

 

[Weiley31]

What is that symbol on the back?

To me, it looks like a stylized Fae take on a Dragonfly.

 

[Weiley31]

Well, it does clearly have tentacles. So ... displacer beast?

I know. I just didn't think Displacer Beasts were Fae or related to them.

 

[Umbran]

The spiked tentacles say displacer beast, to me. Unfortunately, I don't associate displacer beasts with the Fey, which makes me wonder if the choice suggests this adventure isn't going to do what I want it to do with the fey.

But then, the creepy carnival also makes me question in the same way, so... I guess I'm prepared to be disappointed now.

Edit: I should say the art is good, quality art. It is evocative. It just evokes things that I don't personally want in a D&D fey adventure.

 

[Weiley31]

I mean, a wispy/dreamlike Carnival that is abnormal and full of "strange oddities" seems like it would/could be twisted by the Fae's understanding of mortals and what they do for fun.

But this just makes things "interesting" with 5E and Carnivals. We have this and Heckna(3PP) which involves DND and strange things happening at a Carnival.

The main difference being, Witchlight involves Fey while Heckna is basically what happens when your trying to survive a killer Carnival operated by an Aberration and full of Aberrations.

I wonder if the Displacer Beast on the Alternative Cover is supposed to be the same thing as the Fae cat on the back cover, but Hydro is going off on the cliff notes that WoTC sent em and it just has the words Big Fantasy DND Cat on the Alt Cover.

Well, another Alternative Cover book added to my ever growing collection.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

The spiked tentacles say displacer beast, to me. Unfortunately, I don't associate displacer beasts with the Fey, which makes me wonder if the choice suggests this adventure isn't going to do what I want it to do with the fey.

But then, the creepy carnival also makes me question in the same way, so... I guess I'm prepared to be disappointed now.

Displacer Beasts, Owlbears, and Phase Spiders (which were actually created by eladrin to fight against drow, believe it or not; I guess they wanted their own giant spider) were all creatures associated with the Feywild in 4E. Unlike 5E, where Fey is its own creature type, in 4E "Fey" was an origin separate from creature type (the origins, IIRC, were Aberrant, Elemental, Fey, Immortal, Natural, and Shadow). So you could have Fey Humanoids, Fey Beasts, Fey Magical Beasts, Fey Giants, etc.

I don't have my Monster Manual on hand, but I believe Displacer Beasts in 5E are still said to have originated in the Feywild.

Also I am most definitely getting that alternate cover. It's probably my favorite one so far.

 

[Weiley31]

Displacer Beasts, Owlbears, and Phase Spiders were all creatures associated with the Feywild in 4E. Unlike 5E, where Fey is its own creature type, in 4E "Fey" was an origin separate from creature type (the origins, IIRC, were Aberrant, Elemental, Fey, Immortal, Natural, and Shadow). So you could have Fey Humanoids, Fey Beasts, Fey Magical Beasts, etc.

I see now. I never played 4E so that makes sense on why the Displacer Beast would qualify for being on there.