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Halas's captive astral dreadnought

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This astral dreadnought was encountered by the Mighty Nein in the Astral Plane via the Folding Halls of Halas.

Description[]

This astral dreadnought was 20 to 25 feet on a side,[2] though its silvery tail seemed to curl off into an impossible distance. It was shaped like a bulbous, muscular serpent with two thick arms ending in pincers. Its body was covered in spiky armored plates and hardened, veiny, pale flesh plates. Its face had a single eye with a horned brow and a 12-foot-wide mouth edged with hundreds of two-foot-long teeth.[3] Halas Lutagran kept this astral dreadnought chained and blinded, with a lever controlling the opening and closing of its mouth, so that he could use the capacious demiplane within as a ritual chamber.[4]

Character information[]

  • Demiplanar Donjon: The Mighty Nein entered the dreadnought's mouth to find a demiplane that Halas had used.[5][6][1]
  • Given that Halas kept a large platinum plate bolted over the dreadnought's eye, this astral dreadnought likely has the same ability as in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes: creating an antimagic cone.[1]

Appearances and mentions[]

Trivia[]

  • Knowing that Vokodo had desperately fled from something in the Astral Sea, Fjord used Major Image to create an illusory, smaller-than-usual astral dreadnought to frighten Vokodo during their battle. Despite Fjord having to guess at what an active dreadnought sounds like, the illusion worked: Vokodo was chased around the lair.[7]

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 See D&D: Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, 5th ed., p. 117.
  2. ↑ See "Rumble at Rumblecusp" (2x105) at 3:42:53.
  3. ↑ See "The Beat of the Permaheart" (2x82) at 4:11:20.
  4. ↑ See "The Beat of the Permaheart" (2x82) from 4:17:15 through 4:18:08.
  5. ↑ See "The Beat of the Permaheart" (2x82) from 4:21:58 through 4:25:09.
  6. ↑ See "Dark Bargains" (2x83) at 1:42:45.
  7. ↑ See "Rumble at Rumblecusp" (2x105) at 3:42:04.  See 3:51:03 for Vokodo's initial freaked-out reaction.

Art:

  1. ↑ Fan art of Halas's chained dreadnought, by Nikki Dawes (source). Used with permission.
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