The most interesting re-imagining is that of the Deep Janeen, a species of deep Djinn with the opulent decadence of Arabian Nights magnified and turned up to Eleven. This is one of the more interesting takes. They seek to disrupt the boundaries between Dream and the Real. The depths of the Veins are dreamlike enough for them to exist in. After being blown away by the preceding section, I think it is up for debate whether or not re-introducing classic Underdark antagonists with a twist was the right way to go.ĭrow have been turned into refugees and invaders from the Land of Dreams, (The Aelf-Aedal) with an eternal hatred for mankind, to which they are symbolically linked. There’s some good stuff, but I was much less impressed by this section then the Monstrous Manual. Veins somewhat sensibly assumes you are already in possession of one if not several different versions of statts for the various stereotypical underdark cultures and instead just hits you with the re-interpretation, fluff only. We begin with something of a leftover from the previous post.

Veins of the earth character sheet