Xvart

Xvart
Characteristics
Alignment	Evil
Type	Humanoid

A xvart /ˈzvɑːrt/ - also known as svart and xivort - is a small fictional humanoid creature found in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.

The svart as a monster for first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was created by Cricky Hitchcock, and first appeared in White Dwarf #9 (October 1978). The monster entry in White Dwarf says it was taken from The Weirdstone of Brisingamon [sic]. In White Dwarf #15 readers were asked to vote for their top ten "Fiend Factory" monsters. The top ten, including the svart, were later reprinted in Best of White Dwarf Articles (1980).

The xvart first appeared in the first edition in the original Fiend Folio (1981). The module The Sentinel (1983) details a xvart lair. In the article "Hey, Wanna Be a Kobold?" by Joseph Clay in Dragon #141 (January 1989), kobolds, xvarts, goblins, and orcs were presented as player character races along with two new character classes, the "Shaman" and the "Witch Doctor".

The xvart appeared in second edition in the Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix (1992).

The xvart appeared in third edition for the Greyhawk setting in Living Greyhawk Journal #1 (September 2000), in "Enchiridion of the Fiend Sage." The xvart appeared in Dragon #339 (January 2006), where it was also presented as a playable character race.

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