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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8328104" data-attributes="member: 79428">There was a lot of info on the fomorians in 4E, actually. I'll list everything I'm familiar with, but I'm sure I'll leave some things out.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragon #362, which was released a few months before 4E became available, detailed the new take on the fomorians in an article called The Eye of Madness: Tyrants of the Feydark. The article has a ton of details that include mad fomorian tyrants, spy networks of fey underlings, general paranoia in fomorian society due to rampant treachery, opposition to the drow who attempt to gain a foothold in the Underdark of the Feywild, various forms of cruelty to captives (slavery, forced combat, magical experimentation, etc), and a desire to plunder eladrin civilizations for their magic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The fomorian warrior and painbringer are in the first Monster Manual for the edition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Monster Manual 2 introduced more variety with the ghost shaman (who has ghostly slaves), cackler (an assassin that can shrink to help stalk prey), totemist (who fights with a chain of curse-inflicting severed eladrin heads!), the blinder (a sage that collects the eyes of victims), and the straightforward butcher.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dungeon #166 featured the adventure Throne of the Stone-Skinned King, in which the goal is to parley with a fomorian lord during a banquet for ambassadors and expose his manipulative advisor, who is secretly an agent of Tiamat. This was part of the Scales of War adventure path.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dungeon #176 added even more fomorians in a Creature Incarnations article. These included the portal lord (who specialize in teleportation), the witch (which turns enemies into animal-like hybrids), and the abyssal eye (who has a link to demons but is terrified of becoming one).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragon #420 included an article on the greatest of the fomorian lords, the immortal Thrumbolg, his portal-ridden fortress of Mag Tureah, the members of his court, and how a meeting with the First Lord of Mag Tureah is likely to go. Thrumbolg was prophesied by Baba Yaga herself to live until slain by the actions of one of his own sons. Though he slew them, the sword that the last son had forged to kill Thrumbolg with was lost through one of the fortress' random portals and is the only means by which he can be killed. After traveling through the portal the sword, Fragarach, ended up in the Temple of Elemental Evil.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Underdark details Inbharann, a wealthy fomorian kingdom with rivers of liquid gold whose king has been prophesied to perish within the next few years. Rather than the firstborn becoming the new sovereign, the children of the king are each candidates for appointment upon the king's death. As such, each potential successor is scrambling to prove themselves the most worthy heir to take the throne.</li> </ul>4E also repurposed the cyclopes from their usual role as big dumb brutes to the intelligent and highly skilled servants of the fomorians. They revere the fomorians as gods and create magic items for them that rival anything produced by dwarven and elven artisans.</blockquote>

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