Brother Uriah Macawber is a native of Ravenloft, born in the dread domain of Darkon under the iron rule of Azalin Rex. After a horrifying childhood encounter at the Carnival with the demonic entity known as The Caller, Uriah would embrace the worship of the goddess Ezra, Lady of the Mists, offering protection from the forces of darkness to all those in need. Upon joining with the other future members of The Black Dice Society at the infamous House of Lament, Uriah would go on to find true love with his teammate, the undead Aasimar, Nahara... and would eventually discover the dark truth of both the nature of his deity and his mysterious connection to his former liege, the lich-king Azalin Rex.

Brother Uriah is receiving a major update arriving at the start of the second week of Dragondown, on June 10th. Let's take a look at the new-and-improved Brother Uriah!

Brother Uriah

Abilities

Basic Attack

• Toll the Dead (magic) - Uriah points at a random enemy and deals damage, preferring enemies that are already damaged.

Formation Abilities

• Doomed in Darkon - Uriah increases the damage of all Champions in his column and the column behind him by 400%.
• Ezra's Embrace - Brother Uriah heals all Champions within two slots for 10 health per second. This effect is increased by 25% for each formation slot containing a dead or undead Champion or an escort, stacking additively and applying multiplicatively.
• Raven's Pact - Brother Uriah's Flock are Black Dice Society affiliation members. Brother Uriah increases the effect of Doomed in Darkon by 100% for each Flock member in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
• In the Grip of Azalin Rex - After 100 normal attacks by Champions in the formation, Azalin Rex takes over Brother Uriah for 20 seconds. While controlled by Azalin Rex, Brother Uriah increases the damage dealt by Champions who are part of his Flock by 1000%. Additionally, Brother Uriah turns evil while under the control of Azalin Rex.
• The Clutch of Evil - Every second that Brother Uriah is In The Grip of Azalin Rex, the effect of Doomed in Darkon is increased by 10%, stacking additively. These stacks persist between adventures.

Specializations

• Book of Exalted Deeds - Uriah reads from the Book of Exalted Deeds and gains the Hunter role, making Undead and Fiends his Favored Foes and all Champions deal 200% more damage to them. Additionally, Good Champions also count as members of Brother Uriah's Flock.
• Book of Vile Darkness - Azalin reads from the Book of Vile Darkness, increasing the effect of In the Grip of Azalin Rex by 100% and increasing its base duration by 20 seconds. Additionally, Evil Champions also count as members of Brother Uriah's Flock.

Ultimate Ability

• Blade Barrier (melee) - Brother Uriah creates a wall of whirling, razor-sharp blades of magical energy and sends them flying across the area. The blades come to a stop a short distance in front of the formation forming a barrier that lasts for 10 seconds. Each time an enemy passes through the barrier, they take ultimate damage.

Equipment

Feats

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It's the Summer Solstice in Faerûn, which means it is time for Dragondown and the Court of the Summer Queen Celebration!

While the City of Waterdeep celebrates Dragondown by burning dragon effigies to symbolize the city's victories over invading dragons, some smaller celebrations focus on ceremonial bonfires and charms, with mock-spells and chanted prayers performed as the sun sets.

But something has gone wrong in Luskan this year, where locals have drawn the ire of a Bronze Dragon and its kin...

Trixie the Pixie, a long-time antagonist to the Champions, often appearing astride a charmed creature and always up to some mischief, finally chooses the winning side and joins the Champions in today's Dragondown Event! Our second Featured Champion, Brother Uriah, will be receiving a significant update, with a new Champion Update blog coming on Friday, June 5th, before his launch next Wednesday, June 10th.

For details on Dragondown Year 9, and the Court of the Summer Queen Celebration, read on!

Featured Champions

Trixie

Learn more about Trixie in her Champion Spotlight.

Brother Uriah

Learn more about Brother Uriah when his Champion Spotlight comes out on June 5th!

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:

Court of the Summer Queen Celebration

You've been invited to the most exclusive event at the most extravagant palace across creation: a Summer Solstice Dinner with Titania, the Summer Queen, in the Seelie Court.

Guests are expected to present themselves before the Queen of Light, and to participate in all manner of activities, from a masquerade ball to displays of martial prowess. Take special care not to cause offense, as the Faerie Queen has been known to use Geas on those who cause her displeasure...

• Log in over the next week to claim free daily rewards during the Court of the Summer Queen Celebration! Collect any four of seven daily reward Chests to unlock Lazaapz (Seat 9), 3 Gold Lazaapz Chests, and two exclusives: her Summer Court Skin and a powerful Epic Feat!

Event Augments

• Golden Offers: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.
• Empowered Rewards: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards!
• Challenge Week: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation building skills and earn unique rewards.
• Supercharged Damage Boon: The Global Damage Boon is supercharged, granting 2,000,000% additional damage per level, instead of 200% (stacking multiplicatively).

You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

Feedback on Dragondown!

Trixie finally chooses the winning side. What do you think of our new mischief-making, animal-riding pixie? Let us know!

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Trixie the Pixie has been a forgettable nuisance for the Champions for a long time, often appearing astride some charmed creature and always up to some mischief. Ambitious and daring, Trixie desperately grasps at a life larger than she's been given, and blames the Champions for their constant meddling in her affairs. Driven to desperation by her many failed attempts at seizing power and influence, Trixie sets out to try a new scheme. She's seen firsthand that the Champions are always hiring. If she can't beat them, she'll join them!

Trixie the Pixie is a Support, Debuff, and Control Champion who provides new options for creating formations with small (fairy, gnome, goblin, halfling, kender, kobold, and plasmoid) Champions. She increases the damage of Champions next to her, and this buff grows as you increase the number of small Champions in your formation. To help with this, she reduces the size of any non-small Champions in the two formation slots behind her and any Champions who share a species with either of them. Once unlocked, you can find this fairy druid in Seat 8 (Delina).

To learn everything you need to know about this small Champion with serious swagger, read on!

Trixie

Abilities

Basic Attack

• Pixie Charge (melee) - A pixie subordinate dives in and stabs a random enemy for one hit.

Formation Abilities

• Dancing Lights - Trixie increases the damage of adjacent Champions by 100%.
• Small Pranks - Trixie increases the effect of Dancing Lights by 100% for each Small Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Small Champions are fairy, gnome, goblin, halfling, kender, kobold, and plasmoid Champions.
• Tricksy Pixie - Every time a Champion other than Trixie attacks, Trixie gains a Trick stack. When Trixie attacks, she expends all her Trick stacks to slow up to that number of random enemies by 50% for 10 seconds. If she has more Trick stacks than there are enemies, then she can use the extra stacks to stun that number of random enemies for 3 seconds. Additionally, one extra Pixie Subordinate attacks for every 5 Trick stacks expended. Trixie can not have more than 50 Trick stacks at once.
• Debilitating Dust - If Trixie still has Trick stacks left after stunning all enemies on the screen, she uses the extra stacks to increase the damage a random enemy takes by 100% for 5 seconds. These debuffs can apply to the same enemy multiple times and stack multiplicatively.
• Ultimate Undoing - Every time a Champion other than Trixie uses their ultimate ability, Trixie gains a Scheming stack, up to a maximum of 20 stacks. When Trixie uses her ultimate ability, she expends her Scheming stacks to increase the effect of Dancing Lights by 100% per stack, stacking multiplicatively. This buff lasts until the area is changed or until Trixie uses her ultimate again, whichever comes first.
• Shrinking Dust - Champions in the formation slots directly behind Trixie are sprinkled with Shrinking Dust, which reduces them in size by 50% and makes them count as Small for abilities and variant restrictions that care about size. Additionally, all Champions that share a species with any Champion affected by Shrinking Dust are also sprinkled with Shrinking Dust.

Specializations

• Faster, Friends - The damage of all Champions is increased by 100%. When a Familiar clicks on an enemy, it also reduces the Base Attack Cooldown of a random Champion other than Trixie by 0.2 seconds.
• Ultimate Friends - The ultimate damage of all Champions is increased by 400%. When a Familiar clicks on a boss enemy, it also reduces the current Ultimate Attack Cooldown of a random Champion other than Trixie whose ultimate is on cooldown by .2 seconds.

Ultimate Ability

• Call For Dev (melee) - Trixie flies off to get Dev the Devourer to consume the healthiest non-boss enemy, or otherwise deal an ultimate hit to a boss.

Equipment

Feats

Trixie Feedback

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We're back with the penultimate installment of Tales of the Champions!

On our next two Tales adventures, Birdsong travels to the haunted ruins of Mezro, while Tess leads the Fallbacks into Undermountain for a team-building adventure!

Completing the base adventures will unlock Birdsong (Seat 9) and Tess (Seat 8), while completing the new variants will unlock Feats, Corrupted Gems, Gold Champion Chests, and an exclusive Thayan Knight Skin for Tess!

Also included in today's update are Tier 5 Blessings for The Red Knight!

Are you ready to take on the challenge? Read on to learn more!

Kindred Spirits

Allies of Chult travel with Birdsong to investigate the haunted ruins of Mezro.

• Complete Area 250
• Rewards: Birdsong Champion Unlock

Making It Work

Tess leads the Fallbacks into Undermountain for a team-building adventure.

• Complete Area 250
• Rewards: Tess Champion Unlock

Variant 2: Role Models

Tess leads the Fallbacks into Undermountain for a diverse team-building adventure.

Requirement: Must have completed a Tier 2 Variant in an Event.

• Tess starts in the formation. She can be moved, but not removed.
• You may not add Champions to the formation if there are already two other Champions in the formation with the same role, not including the Support role.
• 1-2 Cakers attack with each wave because they are disappointed this variant has nothing to do with Cinnamon rolls. They don't drop gold nor count towards quest progress.
• Complete Area 1000
• Rewards: Tess' Cat Burglar Feat, which increase the effect of her Trap Expert ability by 80%, and 250 Corrupted Gems