The writers of the Monster Manual sure know how to make things sound epic. "When evil threatens to overwhelm the mortal world, the gods may see fit to intervene... a Paladin astride a unicorn is a sign of the gods’ direct intervention in the affairs of the mortal realm. It is a holy alliance made to cleave the heads from Demons and banish devils back to the Nine Hells." Like, I just wanted a pretty unicorn mount, but now I'm the embodiment of pure Divine Retribution.
my paladin: so what your telling me is, its a horse WITH EXTRA RAMMING DAMAGE! the angel who is just trying to get him a mount: well its a bit more tha- paladin:EXTRA RAMMING DAMAGE!
*Angel:* "You know what? Here, have your Unicorn." **Angel produces a lame Mule with a poorly-crafted saddle and a blatantly fake horn affixed to it's head, and with the temper of an angry Red Dragon on the worst day of it's life** **Angel immediately teleports away**
@@gamester512 The Paladin: **sniff** all the tales of unicorn splendour were true. never in my life have my eyes caught as such a majestic sight... **violently drops his 200 pounds of loot upon his mount**
It makes sense that Unicorns spend all day looking at themselves. It sees itself anew each time. It notices a new, intricate, beautiful detail about itself every day.
I dont even play D&D but i like to listen to your videos about any lore, usually helps me sleep at night. Keep up the good work Rhexx, miss TES videos but happy to watch whatever you upload
- _"Well what can you tell me about me then?"_ *whispers gently onto your ear* _"some of your problems are your fault"_ - _"Ok wow you don't know me you jerk"_
More like: "Hey Unicorn, what times is it?" Unicorn: "There is no time like the present, the time to work on your shortcomings and fix your mistakes is now." "Ooookaaaay... I just wanted to know what time it is.." Unicorn: indignantly "time is irrelevant!"
swdfsdft If your first instinct upon witnessing a magical being of legendary majesty and purity is to check whether it has a cock, then you’re a pretty weird person.
What do you guys mean 'it would be rude' or 'you might not want to do that'? Have you ever seen a horse? If it is a male there is no way you'd not notice.
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so, fun fact: in Ye Olde Times, unicorns were considered very vicious creatures to fight, nearly impossible to take on there's a reason the unicorn is a representative of scotland
I once forgot about the whole "Only women can ride unicorns" piece of lore during a one off and a male elf player was given a ride. A player in character said. "wait can't only women ride you?" there was a *running theory in the party that the male elf wizard was a princess in disguise* and thinking on my feet i had the unicorn say: "Some of us are gay Jaren." This caused a few minutes of laughter etc. After the session the Elven wizard player came up to me and revealed that he was indeed playing a woman disguised as a man so it all worked out by chance.
In one game I had wild magic summon a unicorn while fighting an evil creature "boss". We were pretty low level so the unicorn just one shotthe evil creature lol.
Of course, the Fable Unicorn of great fantasy is a majestic creature of both Pure and beauty. However, in reality it is just a giant Prehistoric Rhinoceros from the Ice Age.
Kinda want to TPK an evil party with a Unicorn when the entire forest of fae comes out to help it in a badass early level boss battle just so I can say they shouldn't have tried it. Pixies hide in the trees and Polymorph the Unicorn one by one while a Dryad and some Satyrs join in. By CR it wouldn't look too bad, but man would it get rough after a few rounds dealing with the Unicorn not taking any damage in its base form.
If you can even kill a Unicorn you'll then have to deal with being hunted by a Solar/Angel/Archon from the Heavens. To kill a Unicorn is a death sentence. Unicorns are protected in DnD.
Jose Ssegovia I seriously wonder how all those new "progressive" playing groups deal with things like unicorns (I mean the kind of groups that have trans characters)
I would love to see your take on the Qilin/Ki-rin, sometimes misnamed as the Asian unicorn. It'd make an interesting comparison to the standard European unicorn.
The D&D Ki-Rin appeared in Oriental Adventures 3rd Ed Book, it was more powerful than the relatively weak 3rd Ed. Unicorn, with better stats and more powers, these creatures were so compassive that they always attack with a penalty in order to not cause lethal damage so their opponents don't die.
Loving the fey type creatures you have been covering in the last few videos. Tons of inspiration for fey inspired campaigns or in the very least encounters. Thanks again, keep up the good work and looking forward to your future videos!
@@Rincewind_The_Wizzard I suppose it is a celestial (thanks for pointing it out) but it still works wonderful in fey encounters. Think about it they come from the elvern stories, time works different for them, sees life as unique and new everytime, and runes are carved out read by sylvan creatures, makes friends with woodland creatures (elves and fairies as well). I completely missed it was a celestial due to all the flavoring that makes it perfect to throw into fey encounters. I do find it interesting being a celestial. I suppose it is a celestial designed to supplement fey? IDK I will have to think about this, but in any case it is a wonderful video with amazing lore to breath life into the world. I hope I can thrown them into my world correctly and properly portray them as they are magnificent creatures.
@@Rincewind_The_Wizzard it's only Celestial in the MM because 5E combined the traditional unicorn with the Celestial Charger. I believe in 4E the Unicorn was Fey, and before that it was a Magical Beast (since the Fey type hadn't yet been made) If you want to be truly faithful to the mythology of the Unicorn, it is absolutely a Fey creature.
This is really entertaining. Of course no doubt its helping GMs everywhere make more in dept games and stories. The possibilities open up so much with this knowledge.
Still can't believe that a horned horse with goat's hooves and a leonine tail is a myth while the leopard-moose-camel with a 12 foot neck is a real thing.
This will add to my roleplay techniques if and whenever I get to play my character who was transformed from a unicorn due to being struck by wild magic. So adding a lack of knowing how to kindle a fire to the list of such knowledge as knowing how to put on clothes or why it isn't appropriate to trot around naked in public
11:00 that right there is probably the BEST atribute Gods imbued into the Unicorns, something that long-lived needs a way to stay invested with the world, otherwise they grow bored, then mad and then...Quilby from Wakfu essentially.
I have two ideas about unicorns. The first is a location I thought up years ago of a mountain valley that has quite a few very magical residents, including quite a bit of Fae, a silver dragon lair on one side of the valley and at a later date a Ki-Rin moves in down the other side and a Storm Giant Quiescent (basically an old Storm Giant that has turned into a sentient storm) surrounding the valley, protecting it. I think in my early concept it did have a resident unicorn as well. This is roughly located somewhere in the Galena Mountains between Vaasa and Damara, in Faerûn. I will note, the Silver Dragon whose lair is in this valley got a revival after I listened to your Steel Dragon video MrRhexx. The story I formed for her is she joins an adventuring group in her Elven form and ends up finding out the team leader, a paladin of Bahamut, is a young Steel Dragon. The other idea is in a homebrew world concept, the Nightlands, that varies a fair way from D&D. Unicorns are one of four truly immortal races. Unicorns are forest guardians and are shy and avoiding conflict. Ki-Rin are their battle-ready cousins.
So, I've been thinking about this, and I've finally decided to just ask out right: Can unicorns willingly shed their horns? I feel like a unicorn doing so would be an event of great significance, like if it were to do so to reward a party of adventurers for saving it's life and/or domain from an evil force that was beyond what even the unicorn itself could defeat, like say, an invading force of demons, led by a Balor, for example. And if they CAN shed their horns, it only makes sense that they can also grow a new horn to replace the one they have shed, naturally. I also feel that the horn of a unicorn, shed of the unicorn's own free will, would either have an essentially inexhaustible, or ever replenishing reserve of healing magic within, still having a direct connection to the still living unicorn the horn originated from, similar to a wand of healing, but lacking the d20 roll check for whether or not it crumbles into dust, and is destroyed once it runs out of charges for it's magical healing properties. Whereas one taken by force, on the other hand, would only have a finite amount of magic within it before it runs out completely, and becomes nothing more than a fancy spiraling piece of ivory...
Hmm... -Tail of a Lion -Hoofs of a Deer -Chin of a Goat -Horn of a Narwhal(?) -The Head and Body of a Horse Ok, so it’s basically a Chimera, interesting🤔 -Double D
Awesome video, like always! I always look forward to these 😁 So its very close to the Kirin in that they are more chimera like and have deer qualities. With so many conflicting art pieces its great to know how they look in D&D lore!
Great vid as always mate. :D Really looking forward to future installments. I'd love to see some demon stuff, specifically about their influence on races other than men, elf and dwarf. And congrats on the sponsor btw :D
Yay! The first episode to mention my patreon support was for the Unicorn! Sweet!!! Can you start a series of videos or a long video on giants? I'd love to learn more about giants of Mountain, Hill, etc.
Why aren’t Unicorns fey? I don’t understand why wizards of the coast made them celestials. It makes sense for Pegasus to be celestials, but why are unicorns celestials?
It's really annoying because them being celestials effectively prevents them from being summoned by druids, since they don't really get celestial summoning spells.
I think it's because unicorns have origins more closley tied to christianity than to fairy tales, as they are known for having been mentioned in the bible. They also don't really fit in with the whole "trickster spirit" thing the fey have, so in terms of temperment, they make more sense as a celestial.
Stephen Blair I was mistaken in saying that they originated in christianity, however, unicorns did appear multiple in translations of the bible. Many medieval writers also wrote about the unicorn, comparing it to Christ. The idea was that a unicorn only being tamable by virgin maiden was an allegory for the relationship between Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Also dnd monsters are often taken out of real-world mythology and religion, ie angels and devils.
This is very interesting. I think I would like to try and use a unicorn in my campaign, and your explanation of unicorns ability to teleport and the difference in the way they experience time gave me an idea. What if a unicorn's ability to teleport was actually an inter-dimensional / time travel. To use this in a campaign, I would have the party encounter a unicorn around the time that something important happened that is adverse to the party. Perhaps the unicorn takes pitty on them or they have done something that the unicorn likes, and the unicorn offers to take them back in time to before that event happened. After doing this and the party sucessfully prevents the tragedy from taking place, the party continues on their business, only to realize that the unicorn didn't take them to their past, but an alternative dimension where some critical things are different. This would be such a great story driver!
Rhexx you are amazing and I continue to love your videos. I have been around since Chronicles of a Sad Story, Your Skyrim movie/story thing. I loved it and have been a faithful watcher since.
@Righteous Indignation. your completely wrong. The Lion of Judah isn't the representation of Rothschild whatsoever! It's representative of a Cultural Lineage out of Africa, & not a mere Family!
Right on time. My Tortle Kensei Monk had an encounter with Mielikki on the past session, and she showed herself as a unicorn. I love when i crit on Religion Checks.
Do Shadow, Radiant, Prismatic, Brainstealer dragons and dracoliches. Although you covered Brainstealers a bit on the other video I wonder if there's more to it.
I love how you cover the alternative angles to AD&D creatures. You should talk to AJ Picket (The Mighty Gluestick) about some joint videos. Those would be epic. It would even be more awesome if you joined his group in AD&D gaming, sessions he posts online. His gaming friends are great too. As for World of Warships, that sounds awesome. I'll keep that in mind. I am rather neglectful in other games I am already playing. World of Tanks is also on my to-play list... also not yet downloaded.
DangerX6 Angel9 someone romanticizes nature while knowing nothing about it. Nature is parasites eating you from the inside out and trying to screw before you die. Humans opted out.
DangerX6 Angel9, if you really believe that you can go to Brazil, Africa, or what have you, and join a nomadic or tribal people. And worry about disease. Face hunger. And loose some toes to frost bite. And face the reality of parasites being incredibly common in much of the world. And watch your kids die of illness you don’t understand. Go on, return to nature. Live life the right way! It’s right outside your door.
DangerX6 Angel9 fine, please describe for me a time and place where people lived in harmony with nature? I honestly can’t imagine it. What was it like, how was it different? No platitudes, please.
DangerX6 Angel9 you made it sound like your ancestors lived in peace with nature but now you have nothing to say about how their lifestyle was different from ours.
@@No-ms3hj How young would have Green dragon be to lose this? Like Wyrmling? XD? Unicorn would simply flee in fright or try to never cross dragon. I think that most very old green dragons could one shot unicorn with breath weapon XX
A riot in a forest because of a unicorn being born would be a really cool encounter, be a good way to introduce how crazy a fae party would be. I mean I'm seeing tumbling forest gnomes, wood nymph kissing booths, arm wrestling contests with earth elementals, its be like the craziest county fair ever lol.
5:54 "In fact it is mainly the only way to tell a male unicorn or a female, and that is whether they have the beard or not." I'm pretty sure there's ONE more way...
Can you please do a video diving a little further into the black unicorns? Running an evil campaign and I think it would be awesome to put one in there. Plus I love your videos
its vanity is to be expected. Remember there power to see wonders in things they have already experienced. If we saw something new and wondrous about ourselves every day we would be too.
Questions: -Does Unicorn blood do anything special? -If the Unicorn's rider is in peril or is captured, and the girl is part of a party, could the unicorn allow a male ride it if it helps the survival or aid of the female? -If the female stops being a "maiden" and starts a family, would the unicorn stop seeing her as a suitable rider? -Could a unicorn allow the children of their rider to become their next rider?
The blood of several unicorns make enchantments permanent, like it said in the video. It might do more, but you can't study it. No, it said in the video that when a unicorn forms a bond only that girl can ride it. Probably Not, only if she says that she's the master of the unicorn. She just has to be a "maiden" when the bond is formed. Maybe, but it would have to be after the original rider died.
If you you drink Unicorn blood you become a First (half Undead) dependent on the stuff like a Vampire but it can be refined by an Alchemist into a potion of longevity No, no male riders allowed and as a demi-god it really doesn't need any help rescuing its Rider......the Unicorn isn't obligated to bond with anyone once its Rider dies Losing status as a Rider is always possible by no longer being good or no longr a virgin
@@Xelitaz1 andahar is a summoned being from another dimension. There are questions concerning his behavior. There are always exceptions by world, region, plane, and unicorn.
My setting has unicorns as rare animals (It's kinda a Midsummer Dream Setting. Fey, Satyrs, elves, so on). They function Kinda like bears. You hear about them, but not many people have actually encountered one. and they do NOT fuck around. One of the PC's witnessed a unicorn picking up a person with telepathy, twisted their neck and limbs around 360'' with a *CRACK* , rip their tounge out and throw the rest away.
Love you videos. A video about d&d that I would love to watch would be about the Wild Shape of druid. I particularly don't understand why the Life Points came back to be what it was before the transformation.
good point, also, they should be able do normal horse like running since they have human level of intelligence. Well humans can hope around instead of our normal walking so if you ask your unicorn to run like a horse he should be able to do just that.
19:30 - So that's why Galarian Ponyta is Psychic and not Fairy. I guess it also explains Pastel Veil and why it prevents it and it's allies from suffering the poisoned condition.
I have an old 3.5 D&D magazine that introduces a monster called a bloodlance, which is a unicorn driven mad after having their horn cut off while alive. It's my favorite monster in D&D and I plan on revising it for 5e so I can use it in my campaign. :>
I imagine they force them to reproduce, but i am not so sure. I haven't really read that much into Thay-land. Cormyr also has unicorn riders but i would imagine they wouldnt be as many.
Based on what you're saying I'd say their intelligence is above what it should be since their Wisdom is where it's at and that's actually pretty fun to roleplay. An Alchemist Wizard having all the answers in science but lacking the meaning in it while a Unicorn having all the wisdom but none of the tools/intelligence to use them effectively to apply their wisdom. Unicorn gets the tools needed to support it's domain and an appreciation for the world outside. Alchemist finding spiritual meaning in their craft (You'll get all the inspiration die from me for this).
I wonder if there is any precedent in the lore for purifying a black unicorn of its corruption? That'd be a kickass way for a good-aligned paladin woman to find her first steed.
The writers of the Monster Manual sure know how to make things sound epic.
"When evil threatens to overwhelm the mortal world, the gods may see fit to intervene... a Paladin astride a unicorn is a sign of the gods’ direct intervention in the affairs of the mortal realm. It is a holy alliance made to cleave the heads from Demons and banish devils back to the Nine Hells."
Like, I just wanted a pretty unicorn mount, but now I'm the embodiment of pure Divine Retribution.
Yea when the gods decide to stop being all subtle about things.
my paladin: so what your telling me is, its a horse WITH EXTRA RAMMING DAMAGE!
the angel who is just trying to get him a mount: well its a bit more tha-
paladin:EXTRA RAMMING DAMAGE!
*Angel:* "You know what? Here, have your Unicorn." **Angel produces a lame Mule with a poorly-crafted saddle and a blatantly fake horn affixed to it's head, and with the temper of an angry Red Dragon on the worst day of it's life** **Angel immediately teleports away**
@@gamester512
The Paladin:
**sniff** all the tales of unicorn splendour were true. never in my life have my eyes caught as such a majestic sight...
**violently drops his 200 pounds of loot upon his mount**
It makes sense that Unicorns spend all day looking at themselves. It sees itself anew each time. It notices a new, intricate, beautiful detail about itself every day.
I dont even play D&D but i like to listen to your videos about any lore, usually helps me sleep at night. Keep up the good work Rhexx, miss TES videos but happy to watch whatever you upload
Play d&d, we need more dungeon masters in the world.
You'd be better at d&d than most player
Same, I've never even tried DND before but I'm addicted to these videos
@@davidponder1654 like it’s a drug😅 It is seriously addicting
You’re right, I never noticed how relaxing this vid is
Hey Unicorn : "What time is it?"
Unicorn reply: "I like oranges!"
🤣🤣🤣
- _"Well what can you tell me about me then?"_
*whispers gently onto your ear*
_"some of your problems are your fault"_
- _"Ok wow you don't know me you jerk"_
well 11 intleigent is nto a genius, but is not a negative socre either lol
More like: "Hey Unicorn, what times is it?"
Unicorn: "There is no time like the present, the time to work on your shortcomings and fix your mistakes is now."
"Ooookaaaay... I just wanted to know what time it is.."
Unicorn: indignantly "time is irrelevant!"
I have an insane kilorean that's the same way
13:00 "What do unicorns do when they are relaxing in the forest? Well first of all, they YEET."
Actually they play Wold of Warships- I bet you didn’t know that about unicorns...
i will never unhear this LOL
LOL
I'm just imagining a unicorn talking like a stoned surfer dude.
shaka brah 🦄🤙
Literally how I voiced it in my head. "Brah what.. is time ...eeven?
"The beard is the only way to tell a male unicorn from a female unicorn" uuuuuh... brother...
There is another way but.....might not wanna do that....
Some divine powers might take offense
Well, the other way would be pretty rude
swdfsdft If your first instinct upon witnessing a magical being of legendary majesty and purity is to check whether it has a cock, then you’re a pretty weird person.
What do you guys mean 'it would be rude' or 'you might not want to do that'? Have you ever seen a horse? If it is a male there is no way you'd not notice.
I’m chronically ill and disabled. These videos help me fall asleep and calm down when waiting for my meds to kick in, and they help me get through the day. Thank you!
so, fun fact: in Ye Olde Times, unicorns were considered very vicious creatures to fight, nearly impossible to take on
there's a reason the unicorn is a representative of scotland
But will it be their God someday since don't Muslims believe in magic 🦄🪽?
In the Brave Little Tailor tale the main character not only has to defeat a giant but he also has to fight a very aggressive unicorn.
I thought it was IRELAND! Who is right here? IRISH ROVERS Claimed the Unicorn as IRISH.
Dwarves on unicorns, that sounds epic.
So a unicorn isn't a horse or equine it's actually literally a goat. It makes hell of a much more sense. A horn, cloven hooves, male chin beard,
Not getting brain damage when headbutting something
More like a deer or an antelope. Goats don't go pronging.
Lion tail
Wouldn't they be classified as chimeras?
omg it's the original time-travelling goatfish
Please, Pegasus and Nightmares next.
Yessss
oooh nightmares would be awesome
Nightmare best mount.
What about Robot Unicorns? they have their own game too. 😁😁
Just every Equine like being ^^
I once forgot about the whole "Only women can ride unicorns" piece of lore during a one off and a male elf player was given a ride. A player in character said.
"wait can't only women ride you?" there was a *running theory in the party that the male elf wizard was a princess in disguise* and thinking on my feet i had the unicorn say:
"Some of us are gay Jaren." This caused a few minutes of laughter etc.
After the session the Elven wizard player came up to me and revealed that he was indeed playing a woman disguised as a man so it all worked out by chance.
I accept the head cannon that gay men can infact ride unicorns
@@ConstantChaos1 I think it was actually the unicorn being gay meant he would allow men to ride him.
@@Minecraftian2345432 i mean that sounds at least like 10% something a brony would say but maybe i just need to get my mind out of the gutter
@@ConstantChaos1 embrace the gutter
I am just gonna toss that rule in the trash
Unicorns are FAR more badass than I could have thought. Awesome work!!
If you have ever played oblivion you dont need to watch this to know that they are scary as fuck
And he didn't even cover the Celestial Charger
@@francez123456789 Ever read any Charles Stross? If not check out Equoid. You'll never see unicorns the same way again.
@@involuntaryanalysis wha
In one game I had wild magic summon a unicorn while fighting an evil creature "boss". We were pretty low level so the unicorn just one shotthe evil creature lol.
Of course, the Fable Unicorn of great fantasy is a majestic creature of both Pure and beauty. However, in reality it is just a giant Prehistoric Rhinoceros from the Ice Age.
Or a Narwhal
@@DT-yw4ob Yeah.
... Still sounds encounter worthy to me.
Good Marco Polo reference.
Who knows
How to defile a forest: Kill a unicorn and raise it as a zombie unicorn, sit back and watch the shitshow ensue.
Kinda want to TPK an evil party with a Unicorn when the entire forest of fae comes out to help it in a badass early level boss battle just so I can say they shouldn't have tried it. Pixies hide in the trees and Polymorph the Unicorn one by one while a Dryad and some Satyrs join in. By CR it wouldn't look too bad, but man would it get rough after a few rounds dealing with the Unicorn not taking any damage in its base form.
If you can even kill a Unicorn you'll then have to deal with being hunted by a Solar/Angel/Archon from the Heavens. To kill a Unicorn is a death sentence. Unicorns are protected in DnD.
From what I heard only male unicorns will show themselves to pure, virgin, maidens, but female unicorns will show themselves to pure, virgin, youths.
That is why SJWs would honestly think if then as horribly superficial and patriarchal hehe.
Jose Ssegovia I seriously wonder how all those new "progressive" playing groups deal with things like unicorns (I mean the kind of groups that have trans characters)
Unicorns can fuck eachother but you cant ride it if you r not virgin seems legit
@@feroxseneca8997 How about Paladins? Only female Paladins then.
I'm surprised no on has commented about the unicorn having, "Ulterior motives." for appearing to the maiden. After all, he is very lonely.
I would love to see your take on the Qilin/Ki-rin, sometimes misnamed as the Asian unicorn. It'd make an interesting comparison to the standard European unicorn.
gazelleguy yes absolutely
The D&D Ki-Rin appeared in Oriental Adventures 3rd Ed Book, it was more powerful than the relatively weak 3rd Ed. Unicorn, with better stats and more powers, these creatures were so compassive that they always attack with a penalty in order to not cause lethal damage so their opponents don't die.
Loving the fey type creatures you have been covering in the last few videos. Tons of inspiration for fey inspired campaigns or in the very least encounters. Thanks again, keep up the good work and looking forward to your future videos!
Idk if this is fey though. I think it's celestial.
@@Rincewind_The_Wizzard I suppose it is a celestial (thanks for pointing it out) but it still works wonderful in fey encounters. Think about it they come from the elvern stories, time works different for them, sees life as unique and new everytime, and runes are carved out read by sylvan creatures, makes friends with woodland creatures (elves and fairies as well). I completely missed it was a celestial due to all the flavoring that makes it perfect to throw into fey encounters. I do find it interesting being a celestial. I suppose it is a celestial designed to supplement fey? IDK I will have to think about this, but in any case it is a wonderful video with amazing lore to breath life into the world. I hope I can thrown them into my world correctly and properly portray them as they are magnificent creatures.
@@Rincewind_The_Wizzard it's only Celestial in the MM because 5E combined the traditional unicorn with the Celestial Charger.
I believe in 4E the Unicorn was Fey, and before that it was a Magical Beast (since the Fey type hadn't yet been made)
If you want to be truly faithful to the mythology of the Unicorn, it is absolutely a Fey creature.
I think i know what creature i will introduce my party today
Rhemoraz?
@@gerbill13 nah
Vampiric unicorns?
@@superspacebird1 Behir?
give us a clue.. is it bigger than a breadbox?
What creature?
8:30 - For a horse, yes, they are indeed geniuses.
This is really entertaining. Of course no doubt its helping GMs everywhere make more in dept games and stories. The possibilities open up so much with this knowledge.
Imagine being a unicorn and you were to play minecraft.
It will always be like a new game to you
Still can't believe that a horned horse with goat's hooves and a leonine tail is a myth while the leopard-moose-camel with a 12 foot neck is a real thing.
This will add to my roleplay techniques if and whenever I get to play my character who was transformed from a unicorn due to being struck by wild magic. So adding a lack of knowing how to kindle a fire to the list of such knowledge as knowing how to put on clothes or why it isn't appropriate to trot around naked in public
New mid/high level character concept. Female Aasimar Cavalier Fighter or Oath of Ancients Paladin.
How many levels of paladin?
@@biznessman5632 i think they were talking about one or the other, not both, though both could be cool.
@@Rincewind_The_Wizzard oh I completely missed that "or" thanks for pointing it out
you could use summon greater steed
11:00 that right there is probably the BEST atribute Gods imbued into the Unicorns, something that long-lived needs a way to stay invested with the world, otherwise they grow bored, then mad and then...Quilby from Wakfu essentially.
9:55 Looks like the female unicorn, from 'The last unicorn', one of my alltime favorite american fairytale cartoons :)
I'm pretty sure it is.
Great film.
My favorite 💜🦄
As always, thanks for this great resource for my game
I have two ideas about unicorns. The first is a location I thought up years ago of a mountain valley that has quite a few very magical residents, including quite a bit of Fae, a silver dragon lair on one side of the valley and at a later date a Ki-Rin moves in down the other side and a Storm Giant Quiescent (basically an old Storm Giant that has turned into a sentient storm) surrounding the valley, protecting it. I think in my early concept it did have a resident unicorn as well. This is roughly located somewhere in the Galena Mountains between Vaasa and Damara, in Faerûn. I will note, the Silver Dragon whose lair is in this valley got a revival after I listened to your Steel Dragon video MrRhexx. The story I formed for her is she joins an adventuring group in her Elven form and ends up finding out the team leader, a paladin of Bahamut, is a young Steel Dragon.
The other idea is in a homebrew world concept, the Nightlands, that varies a fair way from D&D. Unicorns are one of four truly immortal races. Unicorns are forest guardians and are shy and avoiding conflict. Ki-Rin are their battle-ready cousins.
they are wise, not intelligent.
Also, would be interesting to see a video on "Nightmares" to accompany this one. considering how they are created.
Nightmares are created from pegasus, not unicorns
So, I've been thinking about this, and I've finally decided to just ask out right: Can unicorns willingly shed their horns? I feel like a unicorn doing so would be an event of great significance, like if it were to do so to reward a party of adventurers for saving it's life and/or domain from an evil force that was beyond what even the unicorn itself could defeat, like say, an invading force of demons, led by a Balor, for example. And if they CAN shed their horns, it only makes sense that they can also grow a new horn to replace the one they have shed, naturally.
I also feel that the horn of a unicorn, shed of the unicorn's own free will, would either have an essentially inexhaustible, or ever replenishing reserve of healing magic within, still having a direct connection to the still living unicorn the horn originated from, similar to a wand of healing, but lacking the d20 roll check for whether or not it crumbles into dust, and is destroyed once it runs out of charges for it's magical healing properties. Whereas one taken by force, on the other hand, would only have a finite amount of magic within it before it runs out completely, and becomes nothing more than a fancy spiraling piece of ivory...
I don't think it has been stated anywhere so it depends on DM. Yours is a pretty great take though.
13:09 "Unicorns eat through their skin." - Hideo Kojima
I think videos on giants would be very interesting
I second this notion.
I also support this idea.
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I think videos of Epstein killing himself would be very interesting
I just watched the video on giants before thos one lol
What about the Unicorn Invasion of Dundee?
i get it, take my like
you see they used to be good but now they are forced to serve hell
Nice
@@blackbelt807 that's what Thay did
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Man I would love to see an episode about werewolfs and werewolf player characters
Bradley Stroeder Lycanthropy is supper cool! I agree, MrRexx work on this please!
Hmm...
-Tail of a Lion
-Hoofs of a Deer
-Chin of a Goat
-Horn of a Narwhal(?)
-The Head and Body of a Horse
Ok, so it’s basically a Chimera, interesting🤔
-Double D
6:32 - This type of movement is actually called "pronking."
Awesome video, like always! I always look forward to these 😁 So its very close to the Kirin in that they are more chimera like and have deer qualities. With so many conflicting art pieces its great to know how they look in D&D lore!
Great vid as always mate. :D Really looking forward to future installments. I'd love to see some demon stuff, specifically about their influence on races other than men, elf and dwarf.
And congrats on the sponsor btw :D
Yay! The first episode to mention my patreon support was for the Unicorn! Sweet!!!
Can you start a series of videos or a long video on giants? I'd love to learn more about giants of Mountain, Hill, etc.
Okay here's my big idea a warlock pact with a unicorn
Pact of the celestial mentions that. I plan to make a hexblade warlock that has a pact with the horn of a fallen unicorn.
YES.
Archfey pact with Lurue, the Unicorn Queen.
Only if your a good hearted female virgin or maybe just scrap that part.
@@chaotic4453 Evil unicorn Warlock? That's pretty cool.
Why aren’t Unicorns fey? I don’t understand why wizards of the coast made them celestials. It makes sense for Pegasus to be celestials, but why are unicorns celestials?
It's really annoying because them being celestials effectively prevents them from being summoned by druids, since they don't really get celestial summoning spells.
I think it's because unicorns have origins more closley tied to christianity than to fairy tales, as they are known for having been mentioned in the bible. They also don't really fit in with the whole "trickster spirit" thing the fey have, so in terms of temperment, they make more sense as a celestial.
@@MrRhexx i homebrew them as fey in my settings =p =] it's more fun that way
Either that or Elemental Nature Spirits
Stephen Blair I was mistaken in saying that they originated in christianity, however, unicorns did appear multiple in translations of the bible. Many medieval writers also wrote about the unicorn, comparing it to Christ. The idea was that a unicorn only being tamable by virgin maiden was an allegory for the relationship between Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Also dnd monsters are often taken out of real-world mythology and religion, ie angels and devils.
Ha! Perfect tyming. I just got my players involved in a conflict in the faywilds. This offers an awsome adition to my toolsett
My favorite thing about seeing one of your dnd videos in my recommended is that they all look like conspiracy videos from a modern fantasy dnd game.
That moment when a wild magic effect spawned a Unicorn in a battle against a Wraith and basically won it for us. =)
Please do the Griffin sometime soon, I'm trying to put together a short campaign about them and really need the info!
This is very interesting. I think I would like to try and use a unicorn in my campaign, and your explanation of unicorns ability to teleport and the difference in the way they experience time gave me an idea. What if a unicorn's ability to teleport was actually an inter-dimensional / time travel. To use this in a campaign, I would have the party encounter a unicorn around the time that something important happened that is adverse to the party. Perhaps the unicorn takes pitty on them or they have done something that the unicorn likes, and the unicorn offers to take them back in time to before that event happened. After doing this and the party sucessfully prevents the tragedy from taking place, the party continues on their business, only to realize that the unicorn didn't take them to their past, but an alternative dimension where some critical things are different. This would be such a great story driver!
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Rhexx you are amazing and I continue to love your videos. I have been around since Chronicles of a Sad Story, Your Skyrim movie/story thing. I loved it and have been a faithful watcher since.
Unicorns are majestic creatures indeed...
...until they come face-to-face with a lion. And then it's stabbing time
@Righteous Indignation. your completely wrong. The Lion of Judah isn't the representation of Rothschild whatsoever! It's representative of a Cultural Lineage out of Africa, & not a mere Family!
Right on time. My Tortle Kensei Monk had an encounter with Mielikki on the past session, and she showed herself as a unicorn.
I love when i crit on Religion Checks.
Do Shadow, Radiant, Prismatic, Brainstealer dragons and dracoliches. Although you covered Brainstealers a bit on the other video I wonder if there's more to it.
heck yes!
And dracoliches!
Just how many dragons there is?!
Vincere Romero in a game called “Dungeons and Dragons,” I would expect extreme amounts of dragons
Yyyyeeeaaahhhhhhh......
He should do dracoliches. Agreed.
Need a video on nightmares to finish your unicorn facts
Now I want to make a tiefling paladin of the woods and get her a unicorn
I love how you cover the alternative angles to AD&D creatures. You should talk to AJ Picket (The Mighty Gluestick) about some joint videos. Those would be epic. It would even be more awesome if you joined his group in AD&D gaming, sessions he posts online. His gaming friends are great too.
As for World of Warships, that sounds awesome. I'll keep that in mind. I am rather neglectful in other games I am already playing. World of Tanks is also on my to-play list... also not yet downloaded.
Oh can you do a Nightmare next!?
0:03 "No two people will see the same things." I see a sparky boy that can cart a whole party with the lightning rod on its head.
While they're no more book smart more than the average human, they're VERY insightful, and QUITE charming.
DangerX6 Angel9 someone romanticizes nature while knowing nothing about it. Nature is parasites eating you from the inside out and trying to screw before you die.
Humans opted out.
DangerX6 Angel9, if you really believe that you can go to Brazil, Africa, or what have you, and join a nomadic or tribal people. And worry about disease. Face hunger. And loose some toes to frost bite. And face the reality of parasites being incredibly common in much of the world. And watch your kids die of illness you don’t understand.
Go on, return to nature. Live life the right way!
It’s right outside your door.
DangerX6 Angel9 fine, please describe for me a time and place where people lived in harmony with nature?
I honestly can’t imagine it. What was it like, how was it different? No platitudes, please.
DangerX6 Angel9 you made it sound like your ancestors lived in peace with nature but now you have nothing to say about how their lifestyle was different from ours.
DangerX6 Angel9 do you have a Non-fictitious example? A real world example.
You’re the one who says we should do things differently. Explain
this guy is the best to listen to or watch when prepping campaigns, do giant types and some low level monsters too. :)
What if a unicorn were in a green dragon's forest. I want to know that answer, plz MrRheex make a video on this.
They’d probably fight to the death
Make it a quest.
they have lead fay resistance against them i recall
Stovie Weems good idea
@@No-ms3hj How young would have Green dragon be to lose this? Like Wyrmling? XD? Unicorn would simply flee in fright or try to never cross dragon. I think that most very old green dragons could one shot unicorn with breath weapon XX
Thanks for these videos, I hope the sponsorship treats you well. Looking forward to more campaign/encounter ideas from you in the future!
Damn, now I want my paladin to have a unicorn mount... Tyr, hear my prayer!! Unicorn friend plz!
Tfw no unicorn bestie to inspire the good and smite the wicked with.
A riot in a forest because of a unicorn being born would be a really cool encounter, be a good way to introduce how crazy a fae party would be. I mean I'm seeing tumbling forest gnomes, wood nymph kissing booths, arm wrestling contests with earth elementals, its be like the craziest county fair ever lol.
Ah. So unicorns are also breatharians. That explains a lot.
In some version of dungeons & dragons my father had a cleric. This cleric had a unicorn and the Unicorn having levels of Ranger hada Cat.
I looked at his channel earlier today and I was like “hmm mrrhexx’s last video was 2 weeks ago wonder when his next is”
Took a week off for my birthday! :D
MrRhexx Happy birthday, than!
My six year old son told me that " unicorns fart rainbows Daddy " , and I said " Well I don't think Leprechauns would enjoy that".
5:54 "In fact it is mainly the only way to tell a male unicorn or a female, and that is whether they have the beard or not." I'm pretty sure there's ONE more way...
SoulOfTheReaver yeah but they might teleport before you can look
Or they could kick you with their hind legs
Please cover vampires next! The succubus video glossed over it but would love to hear more details. Keep up the awesome work!
Can you please do a video diving a little further into the black unicorns? Running an evil campaign and I think it would be awesome to put one in there. Plus I love your videos
I had the same idea for my own Evil Campaign. They will definitely fight some though.
its vanity is to be expected. Remember there power to see wonders in things they have already experienced. If we saw something new and wondrous about ourselves every day we would be too.
Questions:
-Does Unicorn blood do anything special?
-If the Unicorn's rider is in peril or is captured, and the girl is part of a party, could the unicorn allow a male ride it if it helps the survival or aid of the female?
-If the female stops being a "maiden" and starts a family, would the unicorn stop seeing her as a suitable rider?
-Could a unicorn allow the children of their rider to become their next rider?
The blood of several unicorns make enchantments permanent, like it said in the video. It might do more, but you can't study it.
No, it said in the video that when a unicorn forms a bond only that girl can ride it.
Probably Not, only if she says that she's the master of the unicorn. She just has to be a "maiden" when the bond is formed.
Maybe, but it would have to be after the original rider died.
If you you drink Unicorn blood you become a First (half Undead) dependent on the stuff like a Vampire but it can be refined by an Alchemist into a potion of longevity
No, no male riders allowed and as a demi-god it really doesn't need any help rescuing its Rider......the Unicorn isn't obligated to bond with anyone once its Rider dies
Losing status as a Rider is always possible by no longer being good or no longr a virgin
Andahar allows Drizzt to ride him so there are exceptions
@@Xelitaz1 Drizzt is a poorly-written mary sue and a lot of things about him and his stories don't make sense
@@Xelitaz1 andahar is a summoned being from another dimension. There are questions concerning his behavior. There are always exceptions by world, region, plane, and unicorn.
I was just blown away by that intense intro and then just suddenly
"Hey guys this video is sponsored by world of warships-" and I died
Unicorns eat human flesh and are a weapon of destruct-
OH sorry, thats the Overlord one.
I don't know if dnd has manticores but id love to hear about them. Keep up the good work!
Obviously, next issue should be Pegasi.
And Nightmares, of course.
This was utterly fascinating. Thanks for posting this video!
I'd like to see a vid on pegasi next.
My setting has unicorns as rare animals (It's kinda a Midsummer Dream Setting. Fey, Satyrs, elves, so on). They function Kinda like bears. You hear about them, but not many people have actually encountered one. and they do NOT fuck around. One of the PC's witnessed a unicorn picking up a person with telepathy, twisted their neck and limbs around 360'' with a *CRACK* , rip their tounge out and throw the rest away.
I feel like Unicorns make more sense as a Fey creature
Just wanted to say that I love your work
Hey you missed out on how the nightmares are created by unicorns captured by demons
WoW interesting, what edition/book is this info from? I don't remember seeing it in 3.0, 3.5
@@magearamil8626 i think he's wrong... Pegasi become nightmares.
Tho I might be rusty
Nightmares are Pegasi who have been ritually tortured and had their wings ripped off.
@@nobodyimportant2470 oh shit I'm stupid sorry rhexxy
Shadow Unicorns also sound like a pretty good topic! Ever since I read about Addar, the Ravenloft darklord of the Phantasmal Forest! :)
Yayyyy! I was starting to miss your channel! Thank you for great work!
Can you do one on Centaurs? In the gaze of a playable race.
Love you videos. A video about d&d that I would love to watch would be about the Wild Shape of druid. I particularly don't understand why the Life Points came back to be what it was before the transformation.
An idea for the next video can be Sirens or Mermaids
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What type of creatures? It kinda sounds like elven but in cc it says Sylvan
I can't imagine a hopping mount would be comfortable, let alone practical to fight on top of
good point, also, they should be able do normal horse like running since they have human level of intelligence. Well humans can hope around instead of our normal walking so if you ask your unicorn to run like a horse he should be able to do just that.
"Ashitaka, you mean so much to me, but I can't forgive the humans for what they've done."
19:30 - So that's why Galarian Ponyta is Psychic and not Fairy. I guess it also explains Pastel Veil and why it prevents it and it's allies from suffering the poisoned condition.
how would you do a unicorn rider player character?
Celestial warlock, pact of the chain with permission from your DM to have a very under powered familiar.
Love your videos man! I've seen em all so far!
Could James Charles ride a unicorn??
So many questions
I have an old 3.5 D&D magazine that introduces a monster called a bloodlance, which is a unicorn driven mad after having their horn cut off while alive. It's my favorite monster in D&D and I plan on revising it for 5e so I can use it in my campaign. :>
how can fae armies have unicorn cavalry if the unicorn birthrate is so low? That is like claiming ancient china rode into battle atop pandas.
I imagine they force them to reproduce, but i am not so sure. I haven't really read that much into Thay-land. Cormyr also has unicorn riders but i would imagine they wouldnt be as many.
I would imagine unicorn breeders are a thing. Some creatures breed much faster in captivity. Worst case scenario, there's always mind control & drugs.
I have thought a unicorns tail looked like a donkeys tail.
First love your videos :D
Based on what you're saying I'd say their intelligence is above what it should be since their Wisdom is where it's at and that's actually pretty fun to roleplay. An Alchemist Wizard having all the answers in science but lacking the meaning in it while a Unicorn having all the wisdom but none of the tools/intelligence to use them effectively to apply their wisdom.
Unicorn gets the tools needed to support it's domain and an appreciation for the world outside.
Alchemist finding spiritual meaning in their craft (You'll get all the inspiration die from me for this).
The power of friendship!
I wonder if there is any precedent in the lore for purifying a black unicorn of its corruption? That'd be a kickass way for a good-aligned paladin woman to find her first steed.