Fomorians | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.197

Will and Brian are bringing it home with another round of big guys in this Year of the Giant! This time it's the grotesque Fomorians. Find out what kind of evil they're capable of this week on The Dungeoncast!
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[@pricerowland]

The Shadowdark/Feydark thing makes perfect sense but I feel upset knowing about yet another area I'll never take my players to because they'll be sidetracked talking to a cheese merchant

[@spacewarsfight281]

I screamed like a little girl when I saw the thumbnail I love fomorians as villains

[@BrianWilly]

The evil eye ability is likely influenced by the myth of Balor One-Eye, who was the king of the Formorians in Irish mythology and had one eye "that wreaks destruction when opened." No information on if he had a ruby-quartz visor.

[@mwil2495]

Once had a Fomorian wearing a cloak of Elvenkind...as a loincloth. Oddly none of the party wanted that piece of loot. They later sold it to a Svirfneblin merchant who proceeded to clean it with Prestidigitation, and the Dwarf Wizard began to weep after realizing he could’ve done the same.

[@KodeeDentares]

TWO-uh-Deh-DAN-Uhn

[@DragonGunzDorian]

I have liked and commented! I continue to serve the grotesquely beautiful dungeoncast! There's little time for greetings milords, as I write this letter I am hiding in the underdark. After last week I decided to investigate for troglodytes, they were easy enough to slay, but it turns out they were merely slaves to fomorians living below our feet this whole time! These uglies ordered the troglodytes to come to the surface to bring back new slaves. There's an entire tribe of the damn things down here! I have to stop them before they take action against the city above now that the troglodytes are dead. I've managed to avoid the gazes of their over sized eyes so far, but they know something is down here. The time for combat comes, and soon I will have to leave the safety of the shadows. Until next week milords, have a good day. If I'm even able to write you then... Always love a good giant episode. I personally prefer them as more akin to giants than having them be fey creatures, but either way their awesome. They remind me a lot of clan nosferatu from vampire the masquerade, who are a clan of monstrous deformed vampires, who also get their own unique deformities. They also remind me of a character I've wrote up for my own fantasy setting, without getting far into details I have a demi god who's a patron to all things hideous, he himself is also responsible for making orcs in my setting. I finally have a new idea to share. Here's a concept for a bbeg, imagine a fomorian who acquires the eye of vecna and replaces his none magical eye with it. A powerful magic using fomorian could make for a great bbeg. Lastly just a thought. If a fomorian gets sad whenever he sees clothes, does that mean they'd take their slaves clothes? Nudist slave colony? Ok that's all my dumb thoughts this time, see you next week guys!

[@lukevorwald7727]

These guys have always given me Slow Mutant vibes. Brian knows what I'm talking about

[@Thedungeoncast]

Sure do

[@lukevorwald7727]

@@Thedungeoncast also was hoping for a Dark Tower reference to make its way into the ep. Wasn't disappointed

[@connor8276]

I love this channel. I get so many ideas and insights into the lore and mechanics of the game that help me when I'm world building for my campaigns. You guys are the best!

[@paulh3892]

These monsters are great! I love the flavor of a grotesque Fey giant. They would make for an absolutely perfect villain for a Fey themed one shot or campaign arc in the Fey Dark! So cool

[@ethanlohan7589]

everybody gangsta till the fomorian cries about a boulder

[@justwhatitis]

I'm at the end (ish) of a heavily Fomorian centered homebrew campaign. My GM tweaked some things and made them aberrant to fit the setting and the story he was going for, but they're definitely still nothing to sneeze at! When I saw that they were the focus of this video I got so excited.

[@17joren]

I am making a custom fomorian king encounter with enhancements to make things more interesting. Going to beef up his curse of evil eye with the sibriex’s flesh warp ability + table!

[@tgyk4048]

I forgot you guys were a thing for awhile, but now I’m back again. Might be attempting to create my own campaign, but I haven’t decided yet I do have plenty of settings to draw off of, just not sure if I want to turn any of them into campaigns

[@ComradeFirbolg]

I was just thinking yesterday that yall should make a Fomorians episode, wow!

[@whatcaniwriteinhere7407]

I was just looking at this thinking it would be awesome to threaten my even forest. Now I know how to properly use them. Thanks

[@DragonGunzDorian]

I got here so fast I didn't even have time to put on my makeup. I look as ugly as a fomorian.

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

Look like the people who come from a land down under(dark)

[@DragonGunzDorian]

@@mcswaggerduff8946 hi swagger, always good to see you. I wonder where ashen is, I need fo *more* ian puns.

[@ashenwuss1651]

Fee-fi-fo-Dorian, first again. If I don't one day be first, I may have less pun to make

[@DragonGunzDorian]

@@ashenwuss1651 what would my name be as a giant I wonder? Fodorian?

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@DragonGunzDorian Depends. If you are a hat-wearing giant, then I'd bet 'Fedorian'

[@binolombardi]

I love your shows and topics. That being said, I just realized how crazy it is that there’s 10 advertisement slots on this video, on top of segmented sponsorships in the video itself.

[@Thedungeoncast]

Thanks for the heads up. KZbin has been automatically placing ads like that on our recent uploads. We have gone in and scaled it back.

[@jtfspeirs1]

Folks gotta make a living, man 🤷‍♂️ it ain’t the most terrible thing in the world, just gotta skip. If anything blame the societal/economical gap between the rich and mid/lower class which then leads to content creators physically needing to have as many adds as possible just so they can make enough money to keep getting by, meanwhile the rich are taxed less (per capita) and are allowed far more leniency in an overall sense. My bad that kinda dragged on 🙃

[@HumanoidCableDreads]

For historic context, people used to see deformities as a sign of evil. They thought the mother had sinful thoughts or actions while pregnant which is why the baby is deformed. Many were left in the wilderness to die. Look up "Mooncalf" and "Maternal impression" for more info.

[@lawaern3474]

Huzzah! The Big ugly Guyz. Are the big handsome Guyz next? This is useful though. I need some fey stuff to throw into my STK campaign, what with the half-eladrin monk Angelo/Tharivol.

[@eddvultures40]

+3 stealth means the fomorian is proficient on stealth, and all thing he is proficient have +3, because his proficiency is 3.

[@TKnightcrawler]

Good episode. Fomorians are the main villains of my campaign since I figured out a really cool dastardly plan they could have. I've read a lot of stuff about them. There are some conflicting sources about whether they can still cast magic. Specifically, I think some sources say their evil eye is the only way they can express their magic now. I think I read - or maybe I just head-canoned - that their curse makes using magic incredibly painful to them, so in my mind only the strongest-willed or most masochistic fomorians might use magic. I don't think it's that unusual that some would enter the Underdark from the Feydark; there are fey crossings down there. Too bad there is like a single short paragraph of detail about the Feydark. I was really helped the other day by an AJ Pickett stream where he mentioned that Fraggle Rock could basically be the Feydark. I couldn't watch it as a kid, so I am gonna try to watch it soon. I've even been juggling the idea of making them somewhat cartoonishly-evil in the Feydark (like a Jim Henson villain that actually kills people while singing), and unemotionally-evil in the Underdark (closer to how they were depicted in older sources, like "The Lost Mythal" novels). The idea behind that is in their attempts to control the magic of the Feywild, they had to connect themselves to the plane (which they were originally immigrants to) on a fundamental level. They might not even realize that they change so drastically when leaving the Feywild.

[@MagaldiMateus]

All Hail The Crimson King!

[@heskiador2752]

That thing looks naasty

[@moonringXD]

Great video! Not that many video on the fomorians!👍 Also will you ever do a video on the feydark or Shadowdark? If so you should mention incunabulum! There one of my favorite monsters!

[@Thedungeoncast]

Eventually we will.

[@moonringXD]

@@Thedungeoncast Thanks dude!❤

[@derekvollans]

I also had to think of Dragonlance! :)

[@asaka616]

Mogwai!!!

[@lordhogwash8393]

They’re like a giant created by Guillermo Del Toro.

[@OlympusPublicAffairs]

You want to see one leg be threatening? Play Nioh 2 and fight an Ippon-Datara.

[@Cody-lc5ws]

I think the only other 'Evil Eye' reference is the Vistani.

[@darklightstudio]

Many Coffee

[@LawsonPhoenix89]

Gigantos

[@onisinn1]

Alan Scott

[@lukeerichsen7223]

Hel yea.

[@THELUBINTHEMORNING]

It's pronounced: two-ah deh-danen.

[@OutlawKing13MistaJ]

Lol "Too Day-Dannon" if the pronunciation is still relevant

[@darklightstudio]

Me wait Bigtrash

[@Undeadking42o]

1

[@JTheVisionaryVA]

I feel bad for ruining 999 views.

[@darklightstudio]

Jerk.

[@kappakiev9672]

Ah, Fomirians. A monster that can be a tyrant cave dwelling king, a hired muscle, or even a faction of hideous large creatures.