WotC Vecna Eve of Ruin: Everything You Need To Know

WotC has posted a 19-minute video telling you 'everything you need to know' about Vecna: Eve Of Ruin.

• Starts at 10th level, goes to 20th.
• Classic villains and setting, famous characters, D&D's legacy.
• Vecna wants to become the supreme being of the multiverse.
• Vecna is a god of secrets and secrets and the power of secrets are a theme throughout the book.
• A mechanical subsystem for using the power of secrets during combat.
• Going back to Ravenloft, the Nine Hells, places where 5th Edition has been in the last 10 years.
• It would be a fun 'meta experience' for players to visit locations they remember lore about.
• Finding pieces of the Rod of Seven Parts, pieces throughout the multiverse.
• Each piece in one of seven distinct planes or settings.
• Allustriel Silverhand has noticed something is wrong, puts call out to Tasha and Mordenkainen, who come to her sanctum in Sigil.
• The (10th level) PCs are fated to confront Vecna.
• Lord Soth and Strahd show up. Tiamat is mentioned but doesn't appear 'on screen'.
• Twists, turns, spoilers.
• It's a 'love letter to D&D'.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

So the weird symbols are llikely the glyphs that allow the rod to fuse together.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Rowan Darkwood aka Gifad might be a big bad for Planescape, as he was one of the big causes behind Faction War. Though 5e reset things to before Faction War, with Darkwood still being the factol of The Fated and his timeloop future self Gifad still being in The Prison and presumably his further future self the Ancient Archmage still being trapped in a gem.

Otherwise it would be Orcus as he was the villain behind the scenes in 2 different adventures from the classic setting.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t think they will go for Illmarrow but I have been wrong before.

Would seem a bit redundant with Vecna.

The Lord's of Dust, perhaps?

 

[TravDoc42]

With Lolth and Miska the Wolf Spider being here, and these demonic images, I wonder if this book will feature a foray into the Abyss?

 

[Quickleaf]

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"It's about time."

 

[Nikosandros]

Yeah, some smaller scale (compared to Vecna) Big Bad for each of the 7 Settings seems likely, with Lord Sotheby's and Count Strahd being the easy given pickings.

Strahd is finally retiring and he's auctioning off his castle in Barovia through Sotheby's? That would be an original set-up, to be sure!

 

[Demetrios1453]

Strahd is finally retiring and he's auctioning off his castle in Barovia through Sotheby's? That would be an original set-up, to be sure!

"He's drained your blood; now we'll drain your bank account!"

 

[Weiley31]

Well, it should go without saying that if you missed out on the 5E Vecna stat block from Beyond, it seems like it would be a shoe-in for said stat block to return in Eve of Ruin.

Now, the real question is, will Lolth get a Stat Block as well? We have one for Bahamut, Tiamat, And Vecna? (As well as the various Arch Devils and Demon Princes in some format or another). So, stat blocks aren't TOO much of an off limit thing for 5E and Deities.

I will be surprised if Miska The Spider-Wolf doesn't get one. Especially considering the official new art(if he ever had art to begin with from prior editions). Given the history between Miska and The Rod of Seven Pieces it would seem likely it will happen though.

 

[darjr]

Now this makes more sense.
Lolth in the Shadows

Looks like it's from Vance Kovacs

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[Parmandur]

Now this makes more sense.
Lolth in the Shadows

Oh, hey, had lost track of that!