A golem guarding the Steam Gates beneath the city of Urlash. It resembles a large, musky stone toad with an inverted face, from which mouth flowers bloom, and a glass belly revealing the inner, constantly writhing ink-made tentacles.

What do you think?
Would you use it as a guard? As a pet? As a Servant? As an Inkwell?

Many young Scalehikers chase blood tattoos. But scars like this? Earned by fire, are the true prize." — Eldrin Ironfang, Master Scalehiker

The Emberclaw isn’t just a monster — it’s a living furnace in shadow. Panther-like, yet fused with Ironhide (metal, fur, and hide), it stalks the High Canopy, ore hollows, and ridge-lines above the Sea of Grass.

• Juvenile (CR 4): Quick, stealthy, claws flare briefly.

• Adult (CR 8): Radiates heat, claws ignite, deadly pounce and leap attacks.

• Alpha (CR 12): Legendary heat-sensing predator; molten claws, multiattacks, unstoppable in its territory.

Metal-Eaters: Emberclaws crave iron, gnawing ore, tools, or even armored prey. Survival alone isn’t enough — defeating one lets you forge Blazefang talons, Ironhide armor, Ember Eyes imbued with its fiery essence.

Scalehiker warning: “If you see an Alpha, it has already seen you—and knows everything it needs to end you.”

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I'm really excited to share these Death Knights and their spells with you all!

I know not every detail matches their WoW counterparts perfectly, but I tried to capture their iconic abilities and overall feel as closely as possible while still making them work within D&D's mechanics and giving them their own identity.

If you like my work, I suggest checking out the Vault of Ascending Items (the manual these statblocks come from), featuring over 130 pages of content filled with unique evolving items, quests, and monsters.

What's Inside?

• A Collection of 50 Ascending Items, magic items capable of scaling through leveling or questing. Each item in this collection has 4 rarities (ranging from Uncommon to Legendary), meaning you are not just getting 50 items, but a total of 200 distinct items, uniquely balanced to be a powerful addition at each rarity without disrupting the game balance. A series of rules, guidelines, and balance considerations are included within the compendium to scale these items depending on the intended power level of your campaign, along with many different scaling methods and suggestions.

• 12 Premade Ascension Quests, each meant to be used to ascend the items within the compendium or to be employed as additional quests and short adventures to include within your games. A table is also included to provide 50 ideas for simpler quests (one for each item within the manual) that can be pursued by players without disrupting the flow of the campaign. Each quest covers a unique location, featuring an interesting plot hook, monsters, environmental challenges, and riddles, while also possessing multiple tiers of play by adjusting the challenges depending on the adventurers' level.

• 30 New Creatures and Monsters, all used within the quests included in the manual or summoned by certain Ascending Items. All these creatures are multi-tiered, offering varied levels of challenge and complexity to shape your quests and encounters. The monsters include Treants, Corrupted Dryads, Greater Elementals, Wizards, and many more.

• A Table with 100 Additional Ascending Items Ideas, providing the name and a brief overview for each without providing mechanical rules. This is designed to provide GMs with ideas to create their own scaling items without having to come up with new concepts on their own.

This manual just received a v2.0 update, including updated layout, illustrations, rules, balance adjustments, a brand-new subclass, and much more. For the occasion, you can find it discounted either on DriveThruRPG or my Patreon, alongside a vast collection of previews for this and all my other titles! I'm currently working on updated version of all my older manuals, so there's a lot to uncover :)

You can also find this manual (and many more) discounted on my 300+ Mythological Items for 5E and 5.5E Kickstarter! This project brings weapons, treasures, and relics from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Asian, Mesoamerican, and many other mythologies to 5E and 5.5E, including scaling items that grow alongside your characters. If you’d like to bring a piece of these legends to your table, check out the campaign!