丹德尔Dendar

索引：【类神力】

索引：【荒神】／【上古邪物】／【上古不朽邪物】

索引：【失落七神】

## **简介**

**翻译：**子虚子

**出版时间：**1997/09；**国度时间：**1370 DR

　　**出现频率FREQUENCY：**独特Unique

　　**组织ORGANIZATION：**单独Solitary

　　**活动周期ACTIVITY CYCLE：**夜行性Nocturnal

　　**食性DIET：**无人记得的噩梦Unremembered nightmares

　　**智力INTELLIGENCE：**天才Genius（18）

　　**宝藏TREASURE：**无Nil

　　**阵营ALIGNMENT：**中立邪恶Neutral evil

　　**出现数量NO. APPEARING：**1

　　**防御等级ARMOR CLASS：**-2

　　**移动速度MOVEMENT：**12（或 跨位面across planes）

　　**生命骰HIT DICE：**28（224hp）

　　**零级命中值THAC0：**-9

　　**每轮攻击次数NO. OF ATTACKS：**1

　　**伤害/ 攻击DAMAGE/ATTACKS：**3d20+10 (啮咬)

　　**特殊攻击SPECIAL ATTACKS：**释放 *梦魇*Unleash *nightmares*，释放对特定受害者的*梦魇*unleash victim-specific *nightmares*，沉眠/噩梦毒sleep/nightmare venom，囫囵活吞swallows whole，类法术能力（*半幽影魔法demishadow magic*, *半幽影怪物demishadow monsters*, *梦中絮语Dreamspeak*\*，*恐惧术fear*, *梦魇nightmare* 或*托梦术dream*）

　　**特殊防御SPECIAL DEFENSES：**+5或更好魔法武器以造成伤害，再生 5hp每轮，释放 *梦魇*，免疫毒素、*定身* 、*恐惧* 或 *魅惑* 法术、幻术、灵能与即死魔法

　　**魔法抗力MAGIC RESISTANCE：**90%

　　**体型SIZE：**巨型G（体长300呎）

　　**士气MORALE：**无畏Fearless（20）

　　**经验回报XP VALUE：**35000

【\*译注：Dreamspeak-即德索的谵妄Detho's Delirium】

　　“暗夜巨蛇”丹德尔Dendar the Night Serpent 是在 艾伯尔-托瑞尔星球Abeir-Torirs 史前的黎明产生的古老、不朽的诸邪物之一。她紧跟着第一位在 国度天宇Realmspace 入眠者的噩梦诞生。据推测，她将成为世界、诸神与整个国度天宇晶壁系的末日之兆。

Dendar the Night Serpent is one of the elder, eternal evils of the Outer Planes created in the dawn of Abeir-Torirs prehistory. She came into existence shortly after the first being slept in Realmspace and had a nightmare. Supposedly, she will be the harbinger of the end of the world, the gods, and the entire crystal sphere of Realmspace.

　　暗夜巨蛇狭瞳的眼睛有着臭蛋的病态黄黑。分叉的舌头不停地在光滑的吻上闪动。怪物般的毒牙总是涂满了遗失之梦们粘稠的本质。她带有咝咝声的恶毒嗓音伴随着古老的恐怖一起淌下。她的皮上覆盖着如午夜般漆黑的鳞片，那是她所吞噬最可怕梦魇们的物理具现。

The Night Serpent's slit-pupilled eyes are the sickly yellow-black of rotten eggs. Her tongue is forked and flickers incessantly over her smooth lips. Her monstrous fangs are always coated with the viscous essence of lost dreams. She speaks with a sibilant, malignant voice that drips with ancient horrors. Her hide is covered in midnight-black scales, the physical embodiment of the most terrifying nightmares she has swallowed.

　　虽然她能随意滑行穿越 灰色荒野Gray Waste 或任何下层位面，但暗夜巨蛇几乎总是呆在巢穴之中。丹德尔生活在一座庞大的洞穴之中，近邻充当着 水晶塔Crystal Spire（或它的前身，希瑞克Cyric 的 白骨城堡Bone Castle）护城壕的软泥河。在她睡下心满意足地饕餮世上被忘却的噩梦时，暗夜巨蛇呼吸所发出的咝咝声将响彻整座城市。任何接近她洞穴的人将发现，她已经苏醒并在等待他们，期盼着能品尝和重温他们糟糕的被遗忘之梦。她的血盆巨口大到足以吞下山丘巨人，而她的舌头以轻弹便能击倒一位全副武装者。她的舌下是个由油腻的唾液和吃了一半的骨头组成的恶臭的泥潭，它们便是她梦境食物残余的有形显现。

Although she can slither across the Gray Waste or any of the lower planes at will, the Night Serpent is almost always found in her lair. Dendar lives in a vast cave near the oozing river that serves as the moat for the Crystal Spire (or its predecessor, Cyric's Bone Castle). The hiss of the Night Serpent's breathing echoes through the City of Strife as she sleeps, contentedly gorged on the worlds unremembered nightmares. Anyone who approaches her cave finds her awake and awaiting them with anticipatory delight as she savors and relives their worst un-remembered nightmares. Her cavernous maw is large enough to swallow a hill 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 the remnants of her dream diet.

　　在古罗斯Rus，丹德尔被称为 尼德霍格Nidhogg，啃食着 世界树Yggdrasil 树根的巨蛇。在 卡林港Calimport，她被（错误）地称为 夜巡之母the Mother of the Night Parade。（然而，那些在与 蜜尔曼·拉尔Myrmeen Lhal 和她的 竖琴手Harper 盟友们的战争中幸存下来的另一个世界的可怕居民，由于失去了联系他们与故乡世界的神器，已经开始崇敬丹德尔。）在 楚尔特丛林Jungles of Chult 中，但丹德尔被称作 世界的吞食者the Eater of the World，一些故事讲述了当她穿越一扇坐落在 火焰峰Peaks of Flame 下的巨大铁门，试图吞食太阳时，乌塔欧Ubtao 将如何与暗夜巨蛇交战。据传说，在世界的末日最终到来时，若乌塔欧在他的职责上失败了，丹德尔将成功打破这扇门并轻易地吞噬太阳。

To the ancient Rus, Dendar was known as Nidhogg, the serpent who gnaws on the roots of Yggdrasil. In Calimport, she is known (incorrectly) as the Mother of the Night Parade. (However, those horrid denizens of another world who survived their war with Myrmeen Lhal and her Harper allies have begun to venerate Dendar since their permanent loss of the artifact connecting them with their home world.) In the Jungles of Chult, Dendar is known as the Eater of the World, and stories tell of how Ubtao will battle the Night Serpent when she emerges through a gigantic iron door located beneath one of the Peaks of Flame to attempt to eat the sun. According to legend, Dendar will succeed in breaking down the door to readily devour the sun if Ubtao fails in his duty when the doom of the world finally arrives.

　　只有传奇宝刃 奥尔本·欧纳瑞Alban Onire（即 *泰坦杀手Titanslayer*），曾经真正伤害到过暗夜巨蛇。当 “迅捷者”格威迪翁Gwydion the Quick 在 纷争之城the City of Strife 反抗希瑞克期间勇敢地挑战暗夜巨蛇时，暗夜巨蛇用大量梦魇的幻象来与这位 托姆Torm 的仆人交战并且战败。丹德尔承认了失败，并对防守白骨城堡的居民们释放了夜惊，令革命者们能攻入这座堡垒。

Only the legendary blade of Alban Onire, *Titanslayer*, has ever truly injured the Night Serpent. When Gwydion the Quick dared to challenge the Night Serpent during the revolt against Cyric in the City of Strife, she battled the servant of Torm with a host of nightmare visions and lost. Dendar conceded defeat and unleashed the night-terrors that belonged to the denizens defending the Bone Castle, allowing the revolutionaries to storm the fortress.

#### **战斗Combat：**

　　尽管丹德尔可以用她那用魔法赋予毒性的啮咬进行攻击，但她更喜欢对任何莽撞到胆敢攻击她的人释放出无人记得的噩梦。她的尖牙能穿透铠甲，如同它根本不存在——任何敌对者的防御等级在计算时都只计入魔法奖励与敏捷奖励。任何被暗夜巨蛇咬中的人都必须通过一次成功的对死亡魔法的豁免检定，否则就会堕入永恒的睡眠，永远被一系列一次又一次重复的噩梦所追逐。结束这种折磨的唯一方式是使用一道 *有限许愿术limited wish* 或 *许愿术wish*，而后是一道 *医疗术heal*，以防止受害者永久处于 *弱智术feebleminded* 效果下。如果投出天然20，那么丹德尔就能囫囵吞下一个巨型或更小的敌人。在被以这种方式吞噬时，帮助受害者的唯一方式就是迫使丹德尔吐出噩梦，这样受害者就能在喷涌而出的洪流中脱离她的食道。在她的消化道中时，受害者每回合（10轮）受到1d6点强酸伤害。

Although Dendar can attack with her magically envenomed bite, she prefers to unleash unremembered nightmares on anyone so bold as to attack her. Her fangs cut through armor as if it does not exist—the Armor Class of any opponent is calculated using magical and Dexterity bonuses only. Anyone bitten by the Night Serpent must make a successful saving throw vs. death magic or fall into an eternal sleep, stalked by an endless stream of nightmares replayed over and over. The only way to end this tortured state is with a *limited wish* or *wish* spell followed by *heal* to prevent the victim from being permanently *feebleminded* . On an unmodified attack roll of 20, Dendar can swallow an opponent of huge size or smaller whole. When swallowed in this manner, victims can only be helped by forcing Dendar to disgorge nightmares and leaving her gullet in the outgoing flood. While in her gullet they take ld6 points of acid damage per turn.

　　一个敌人每对暗夜巨蛇造成1点伤害，就会有一片鳞片炸开，延伸成一个完整成型的噩梦，其效果与 *噩梦术nightmare*（如同5级法师法术 *托梦术dream* 的逆向版本）类同。尽管每一道噩梦实际上都是在一瞬间体验完毕的，但那令人惊惧不安的幻境看上去永无尽头。如果受害者在一次对法术的豁免检定中失败了，那么每一道 *噩梦* 都可以造成1d10点伤害，并使得受术者疲乏，且无法重获法术，为期一周。如果在第二次对法术的豁免检定中失败，那么受害者就永久处于 *恐惧术* 的效果下，直到一道 *移除诅咒remove fear* 成功直接施展在他们身上。

For every point of damage an opponent inflicts on the Night Serpent, one scale explodes and stretches into a fully formed nightmare, similar in effect to a *nightmare* spell (as the reverse of the 5th-level wizard spell *dream*). Although every nightmare is actually experienced instantaneously, each hideous and unsettling vision seems to go on forever. If the victim fails a saving throw vs. spell, each *nightmare* inflicts 1d10 points of damage and leaves the recipient fatigued and unable to regain spells for a week. If a second saving throw vs. spell is failed, the victim is under the effects of a permanent*fear* spell until *remove fear* is successfully cast upon them.

　　丹德尔也可以每轮对每一个攻击者吐出至多十个 *噩梦*，尽管她不愿意这么做——除非正面对着异常危险的敌人——因为虽然只是一点点，但每一道失去的 *噩梦* 都延迟了世界的终结和她胜利号角的奏响。

Dendar can also disgorge up to 10 *nightmares* per round against each attacker, although she is loath to do so unless confronted by a particularly dangerous opponent, since each lost *nightmare* delays the end of the world and her triumph just a little bit longer.

　　暗夜巨蛇也能吐出某个特定灵魂整个生命中最恐怖的 *噩梦*。这样的噩梦会飞去攻击其起源，不论此人身在何处（哪怕是另一个位面）。如果受害者已经面对过特定的攻击性幻境并克服了它们（以DM裁量为准），那么他们就不会受到影响，而暗夜巨蛇必须承认自己被这样的敌人打败了一次，从今以后她再也无法用梦魇中的恐怖去伤害他们。如果受害者之前从未面对并克服过特定的攻击性噩梦，且在一次-5不利的对抗法术豁免检定中失败，他们被一种毁灭性的疯狂所逼疯，而这种疯狂只能通过一个神明直接赐予的许愿术方可治疗。如果败了豁免的受害者正在与暗夜巨蛇直接交手的过程中，那么他就会被聚集起来的一大团恐怖之物所包裹，并拖入暗夜巨蛇的消化道中。这样的命运意味着这些受害者的永远绝灭，即使是一个高等神也无法把这个倒霉蛋带回生前或是死后。

The Night Serpent can vomit forth any specific spirit's worst *nightmare* from its entire life. Such *nightmares* fly forth to attack their originators, wherever they may be (even on another plane). If victims have already confronted particular attacking visions and laid them to rest (as adjudicated by the DM), they are unaffected, and the Night Serpent must concede defeat to such opponents and be henceforth unable to ever harm them through night terrors ever again. If victims have not confronted and defeated particular at tacking *nightmares* in the past and fail a saving throw vs. spell at -5, they become insane with a pernicious insanity curable only by a ulish granted directly from a deity. If victims who have failed this saving throw are in the process of physically attacking the Night Serpent, a gathered host of horrors envelop them and draw them into the gullet of the Night Serpent. Such a fate results in the permanent annihilation of these victims and not even a greater power can restore the unfortunate being to life or the afterlife.

　　丹德尔（作为一项能力），每轮1次，可以施展以下法术之一：*半幽影魔法*、*半幽影怪物*、*梦中絮语*（如同1级法师法术，也被称为德索的谵妄）、*恐惧术*、*噩梦术*（或是其反转版，*托梦术*）。暗夜巨蛇可以以无法描述的方式显现在国度的任意一点，施展以上的任何法术。

Dendar can cast one of the following spells at will (as an ability) once per round: *demishaow magic*, *demishaow monsters*, *dreamspeak* (as the 1st, level wizard spell, also known as *Detho's delirium*), *fear*, or *nightmare* (or its reverse, *dream*). The Night Serpent can intangibly manifest anywhere in the Realms and cast any of the above spells as well.

　　只有+5附魔或更强的武器可以伤到丹德尔。她每轮回复5点HP。她免疫毒素，定身、恐惧或魅惑法术。幻术，灵能，以及死亡魔法。

Dendar can only be hit by weapons of +5 enchantment or greater. She regenerates 5 hit points per round. She is immune to poison, hold, fear, or charm spells, illusions, psionics, and death magic.

　　只有满足了如同在一个半神的原属位面击杀之的条件，凡人或神祇才能真正杀死丹德尔。否则，她总是会在一天后，在灰色荒原重新成型。国度的所有住民，终其余生，都会永远记住，在那一夜，他们所做的每一个噩梦——以最精确的细节。

Dendar can only be truly slain by mortals or powers under conditions similar to those required to slay a demipower on its home plane. Othef-wise, she always reforms in the Gray Waste after one day has passed. All of the Realms' inhabitants remember every nightmare they have that night in excruciating detail for the rest of their lives.

#### **栖息地／社会HABITAT/SOCIETY：**

　　丹德尔是只驻扎于灰色荒野的独一无二生物，吞食费伦民众无人记得的噩梦。自黎明年代以来，暗夜巨蛇一直在狼吞虎咽的咽喉已吞没了不可计数的可怖梦境和糟糕幻景。她喜爱特别挑选的梦魇，喜爱国王和神祇们梦境的滋味。

Dendar is a unique being who resides in the Gray Waste, eating the unremembered nightmares of Faerûn's populace. The Night Serpent 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.

#### **生态学Ecology：**

　　万古以来，丹德尔消化着费伦被忘却的噩梦、缓慢地养肥自己，准备世界末日到来时，逃脱到诸国度去吞噬太阳。如果她贪得无厌的胃口没得到满足，任何生物，无论凡人还是神祇，都将极度痛苦地回忆起曾做过的每个噩梦和其中每个可能无力承受的细节。

Dendar has consumed the unremembered nightmares of Faerûn for uncounted eons, slowly fattening herself in preparation for the end of the world when she can escape to the Realms in order to devour the sun. If she did not feed her insatiable appetite, every being, mortal or deity, would remember every nightmare she or he ever dreamed in excruciating and possibly incapacitating detail.

　　在希瑞克上任前，暗夜巨蛇吃的唯有被遗忘的梦魇。然后，在希瑞克的疯狂中，谎言王子the Prince of Lies 将纷争之城的许多居民（祈并者和其它灵魂）喂给了她。她吞食了大量的 有信者the Faithful。由于这种新的饮食习惯，丹德尔迅速膨胀到了无法离开巢穴的地步，因而无法猎食最美味多汁的梦魇或是显现于诸国度。克兰沃Kelemvor，新任死亡之主the new Lord of the Dead，不再以市民或任何其它有信者喂养暗夜巨蛇，而丹德尔也缩水到了其正常的巨大体型，令她能够离开其巢穴。不过她已经培养出了对有信者的爱好，类似于 “混沌魔犬”柯兹夫Kezef the Chaos Hound，任何被暗夜巨蛇捕获并吞噬的有信者将被完全毁灭。自希瑞克的垮台以来，丹德尔小心翼翼地只吞食偶尔有的精神碎屑作为宴飨（而不敢主动猎食），她的饮食习惯已再次以世上被遗忘的梦魇为主。

Prior to Cyric's tenure, the Night Serpent are only unremembered nightmares. Then, in his madness, the Prince of Lies fed her numerous denizens of the City of Strife (petitioners and other spirits). She developed a taste for the Faithful. As a result of this new diet, Dendar quickly swelled up to the point where she could no longer leave her lair and hence could no longer hunt for the most succulent nightmares or manifest in the Realms. Kelemvor, the new Lord of the Dead, no longer feeds denizens or any other Faithful to the Night Serpent, and Dendar has shrunk back to her normal gargantuan size, allowing her to leave her cave. She has developed a taste for the Faithful, however, and, like Kezef the Chaos Hound, any of the Faithful the Night Serpent manages to catch and consume are utterly destroyed. Since Cyric's defeat, Dendar is careful to only consume the occasional spirit morsel as a treat, and her diet once again consists predominantly of the world's unremembered nightmares.