Dendar

Dendar the Night Serpent is an elder evil and a primordial who, according to legend, came into existence shortly after the first being slept and had a nightmare. She has an uncountable horde of horrible dreams and foul visions in her gullet that she has been devouring since the dawn of time. She relishes the taste of particularly choice nightmares and savors the dreams of kings and deities alike. More horrifying, if she did not feed her insatiable appetite, every being, mortal or deity, would remember every nightmare he or she has ever dreamed in excruciating detail. Supposedly, she will be the harbinger of the end of the world and even the gods themselves.

Divine Domains

Dreams

Holidays

None Known

Divine Goals & Aspirations

Dendar's followers say that one day she will grow so large from feasting on the fears and nightmares of the world that she will devour it whole. Yuan-ti that serve Dendar terrorize other creatures in any way they can, growing and nurturing the fears of humanoids to feed the Night Serpent.

Physical Description

Facial Features

Her forked tongue flickers incessantly over her smooth lips. Her monstrous fangs are always coated with the viscous essence of lost dreams.

Identifying Characteristics

Midnight-black scales cover her colossal hide and serve as the physical embodiment of the most terrifying nightmares she has swallowed. Her cavernous maw is large enough to swallow a giant, and her tongue can knock an armored man to the ground with a single flick. Beneath her tongue is a foul mire of greasy spittle and half-devoured bones—the corporeal manifestations of her dream diet’s remnants.

Social

Contacts & Relations

• To the ancient Rus, Dendar was known as Nidhogg, the serpent who gnaws at the roots of the world tree that connects all things. In Calimport, she is known (incorrectly) as the Mother of the Night Parade.
• In the Jungles of Chult, Dendar is known as the Eater of the World.
• Legends tell of how Ubtao, Creator of Chult, will battle the Night Serpent when she emerges through a gigantic iron door located beneath one of the Peaks of Flame and attempts to eat the sun. If Ubtao fails in his duty, the stories say Dendar will readily devour the sun and the doom of the world will finally arrive.

Mannerisms

Dendar lives in a vast cave near the oozing river that surrounds much of the Fugue Plane. Although she can slither across the Barrens of Doom and Despair or any of the lower planes at will, the Night Serpent is almost always found in her lair.
The hiss of the Night Serpent’s breathing echoes through the plane as she sleeps, contentedly gorged on the world’s unremembered nightmares. Anyone who approaches her cave finds her awake and awaiting them with anticipatory delight as she savors and relives their worst unremembered nightmares.

Speech

She speaks with a sibilant, malignant voice that drips with ancient horrors.

Divine Classification

Primordial

Alignment

Neutral Evil

Current Location

Fugue Plane

Realm

Fugue Plane

Honorary & Occupational Titles

• Nidhogg
• Mother of the Night Parade.
• Eater of the World
• The Night Serpent

Eyes

The Night Serpent’s slit-pupil eyes are the sickly yellow-black of rotten eggs.