Unicorns are celestials that appear like a horse with a single horn.
Description[]
A unicorn is typically glimmering white in color, with a spiraling ivory horn protruding from its brow.[1]
Abilities[]
The following is all taken from the Monster Manual (2014), p. 294, but with citations where an ability has been demonstrated on-stream:
- Damage immunities: Poison
- Condition immunities: Charmed, paralyzed, poisoned
- Magic Resistance: Advantage on saving throws against spells and magic effects.
- Magic Weapons: Its weapon attacks are magical.
- Innate Spellcasting, requiring no components:
- At will: Detect Evil and Good, Druidcraft, Pass without Trace
- 1/day each: Calm Emotions, Dispel Evil and Good, Entangle
- Actions
- Healing Touch (3x/day): Magically heals hit points, removes diseases and poisons on one target.[4]
- Teleport (1x/day): Teleports itself and up to three willing creatures up to one mile to a location the unicorn knows.
- Horn: Deals piercing damage. If the unicorn moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target before hitting on the same turn, the target takes extra damage and must succeed at a Strength saving throw or fall prone.
- Hooves: Deals bludgeoning damage.
- Multiattack: One attack with horn and one with hooves.
- Legendary Actions (3/round)
- Hooves: One attack, as above.
- Shimmering Shield (costs 2 actions): Grants +2 AC to itself or another nearby creature until the end of the unicorn's next turn.
- Heal Self (costs 3 actions): Magically regains hit points.
History[]
The Calamity[]
On the eve of the Calamity, a bridled unicorn was in the vault of the Golden Scythe of Avalir.[5]
Fan art of Lumia and Nia, by tailor www.[art 2]
In the final days of the Calamity, a vast herd of unicorns soundly defeated an army of thousands of devils in the valley that would become the Mornset Countryside.[6] Among them was Lumia, a servant of the Arch Heart, and elves carrying the symbol of the Arch Heart fought alongside the unicorns. Griffons descended to help complete the rout, and the remaining devils retreated to the Nine Hells. Lumia was sad to know their deity would soon be leaving the Material Plane. After their victory, the herd of unicorns proceeded south.[7]
In the years following the Divergence a unicorn decided to become Nia's companion, since she had been an invaluable help for those wielding divine magic in Exandria.[8]
Era of Reclamation[]
Fan art of the unicorns of the Verdant Expanse, by Jackie Webber.[art 3]
After the Calamity shifted a number of ley lines so that the Verdant Expanse became saturated with magic, unicorns were among the magical creatures that flocked to the lush region.[9]
Around 839 PD, Caleb Widogast found a little girl in the Menagerie Coast crying because some bullies had broken her unicorn figurine. He comforted her and used True Polymorph to transform what remained of the figurine into an actual unicorn that left with the girl, apparently with the mission of protecting her.[10]
Trivia[]
- One suggestion for a way to break the stasis bubbles in the crashed city of Aeor is a ritual involving a powdered unicorn horn.[11]
- Grog Strongjaw introduced a unicorn as an enemy in a Dungeons & Dragons-type game he put on for his friends.[12]
- In "Critical Role Extra – The Return of Liam!" (Sx15), one item discovered during an attempted Clasp heist in Emon was a unicorn fetus preserved in a jar.[13]
- According to Beauregard Lionett, unicorns can be surprisingly aggressive.[14]
- "Unicorn Haven" is the name of one of the cabins in the Wildemount Wildlings summer camp.[15]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 See D&D: Monster Manual (2014), 5th ed., p. 294.
- ↑ See "Mirror and Key" (E4x03) at 3:51:32. Unicorns are described as "Sylvan beings".
- ↑ See "Mirror and Key" (E4x03) at 3:59:22.
- ↑ This was done with the unicorn's tears in one instance. See "Mirror and Key" (E4x03) at 3:57:16.
- ↑ See "Excelsior" (E3x01) at 1:09:23.
- ↑ See "Mirror and Key" (E4x03) at 3:49:38.
- ↑ See "Mirror and Key" (E4x03) from 3:50:57 through 3:59:39.
- ↑
CR Cooldown - CE4 E04 at 41:11 (subscription required) (Transcript).
- ↑ See Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, p. 121.
- ↑ See "Welcome, Campers!" (WWx01) at 0:30:22. It happened when Sky was around ten, and she is 15 in 844 PD.
- ↑ See Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, p. 124.
- ↑ See "Critical Role: Grog's One-Shot" (Sx26) at 2:48:25.
- ↑ See "Critical Role Extra – The Return of Liam!" (Sx15) at 2:30:29.
- ↑ See "Welcome, Campers!" (WWx01) at 0:33:28.
- ↑ See "Into the Wilde" (WWx02) at 0:49:41.
Art:
- ↑
Unicorn on D&D Beyond. This page contains unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
- ↑ Fan art of Lumia and Nia, by tailor www (source). Used with permission.
- ↑ Fan art of the unicorns of the Verdant Expanse, by Jackie Webber (source). Used with permission.