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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[Urriak Uruk]

Hey, man, Elves can be corpulent.

Theoretically sure... but almost all depictions of elves in 5E lean on elves being slim and athletic, and I'm struggling to think of one piece of 5E art where an elf isn't depicted as such.

This guy especially doesn't look elfy, he's even got a bit of a hunch indicating a heavily muscled (or pudgy) back.

The ears are pointed, a clear indication he's not human. They however point a little downward instead of upwards, as most elvish ears are. His ears are more similar to how goblinoids are. I did check Fomorians, which actually have rounded ears, so I'm thinking this fellow is has goblinoid, orcish, or ogre blood in him. Or he's something else entirely.

 

[Parmandur]

Theoretically sure... but almost all depictions of elves in 5E lean on elves being slim and athletic, and I'm struggling to think of one piece of 5E art where an elf isn't depicted as such.

This guy especially doesn't look elfy, he's even got a bit of a hunch indicating a heavily muscled (or pudgy) back.

The ears are pointed, a clear indication he's not human. They however point a little downward instead of upwards, as most elvish ears are. His ears are more similar to how goblinoids are. I did check Fomorians, which actually have rounded ears, so I'm thinking this fellow is has goblinoid, orcish, or ogre blood in him. Or he's something else entirely.

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Generalizations are made to be broken. It looks more like a corpulent version of the bottom image, to my eyes, anyways.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Shadar-Kai, most likely.

Way to thick and stocky to be a Shadar Kai (the dude in the Jester uniform is the Shadar Kai), the dude in the top hat is a Feywild Hobgoblin I believe, a way to shatter Gobliniod stereotypes. I mean we know we're getting character options in this book, so that clearly comes from the folks of the feywild article.

 

[Parmandur]

Way to thick and stocky to be a Shadar Kai (the dude in the Jester uniform is the Shadar Kai), the dude in the top hat is a Feywild Hobgoblin I believe, a way to shatter Gobliniod stereotypes. I mean we know we're getting character options in this book, so that clearly comes from the folks of the feywild article.

The product description for this book says nothing about character options, just characters.

This carnival is run by a pair of Shadar-Kai partners. Not all Elves need to be the same, guys, geesh.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Generalizations are made to be broken. It looks more like a corpulent version of the bottom image, to my eyes, anyways.

I'm not sure what the fantasy of being an elf is, if elf now means "Anyone with pointed ears," but whatever.

The product description for this book says nothing about character options, just characters.

This carnival is run by a pair of Shadar-Kai partners. Not all Elves need to be the same, guys, geesh.

It says mechanics, which could include races. I doubt it, but it's possible.

You seem pretty certain they're shadar-kai, is this written somewhere that the carnival is run by shadar-kai?

 

[Marandahir]

I'm not sure what the fantasy of being an elf is, if elf now means "Anyone with pointed ears," but whatever.



It says mechanics, which could include races. I doubt it, but it's possible.

You seem pretty certain they're shadar-kai, is this written somewhere that the carnival is run by shadar-kai?

Read Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. They traded their carnival with the pawn of a Dark Lord's. It's a tie-in to a Domain of Dread.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm not sure what the fantasy of being an elf is, if elf now means "Anyone with pointed ears," but whatever.



It says mechanics, which could include races. I doubt it, but it's possible.

You seem pretty certain they're shadar-kai, is this written somewhere that the carnival is run by shadar-kai?

In Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, one of the Domains detailed is "The Carnival," which is overseen by an Eladrin woman named Isolde with an evil sword (the sword is the Dreadlord). The books goes into a little detail about her background in the Feywild, where she was cursed by a treacherous archfey to run a Fey carnival. Isolde's Fey Carnival met up with the Domain of Dread carnival, which was run by two Shadar-Kai who traded carnivals with Isolde and gave her the Magic sword, so she could pursue her vengeance on the Gentleman Caller. The Shadar-Kai them took her Carnivsl back to the Feywild. This was a pretty oddball story in the book, but interesting. In the most recent Studio blog, one of the little teases was wondering what happens to the two Shadar-Kai and Isolde's old Carnival...and now it looks like we will learn.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

In Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, one of the Domains detailed is "The Carnival," which is overseen by an Eladrin woman named Isolde with an evil sword (the sword is the Dreadlord). The books goes into a little detail about her background in the Feywild, where she was cursed by a treacherous archfey to run a Fey carnival. Isolde's Fey Carnival met up with the Domain of Dread carnival, which was run by two Shadar-Kai who traded carnivals with Isolde and gave her the Magic sword, so she could pursue her vengeance on the Gentleman Caller. The Shadar-Kai them took her Carnivsl back to the Feywild. This was a pretty oddball story in the book, but interesting. In the most recent Studio blog, one of the little teases was wondering what happens to the two Shadar-Kai and Isolde's old Carnival...and now it looks like we will learn.

Ah. Well, I'll hold that the fellow there is something other than a shadar-kai (first depiction of a portly 5E elf), but I'm open to being wrong.

 

[Parmandur]

Ah. Well, I'll hold that the fellow there is something other than a shadar-kai (first depiction of a portly 5E elf), but I'm open to being wrong.

About time to get some.body variety, isn't it?

 

[The Glen]

Am I the only one getting a 'Choose your own Adventure' vibe from the alt cover?