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Eberron is a premade Campaign Setting for Dungeons &

Dragons!

The appeal of a Campaign Setting is they are professionally-designed worlds to stage your adventures in.

Other popular Campaign Settings for Dungeons & Dragonsinclude: The Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, andPlanescape.

What is Eberron?

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Its fucking awesome.

Specifically, the setting was designed for the best kind of fun Pulp Adventures.

Pulp comes from Pulp Magazines/Fiction that specialized in the following genres:

Indiana Jones-Style Exploration

Noir-type Detective Mysteries

Cold War-esque Spy Thrillers

Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery

Crime/Heist/Gang Action

Horror/Occult

Railroad Adventures

Seafaring/Piratical Adventures Science Fiction

War

Westerns

Eberron is specifically made to be compatible with these kinds of stories and more!

Why Play in Eberron?

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Eberron is a small, cohesive, and carefully-designed world, unlike older Campaign Settings that were

stitched together on a need-to-retcon-basis over 30 years. (*cough* Forgotten Realms *cough*)

It lacks the universal were fucked-ness of Dark Sun or Ravenloft, but its not completely absent from thesetting. Moreover, Eberron is open to wild and fun adventures that would be awkward in other settings.

Eberron as a world has many completely unique features that set it apart from other high-fantasy settingsand makes it worth exploring over and over again.

Why PlayIn Eberron 2!

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Age of Dragons: At the beginning of time three great dragons appeared from the ether.

They were Siberys the Proud, Khyber the Dark, and Eberron the Vibrant.

Strive happened immediately, and Khyber slew Siberys.

Eberron encircled and bound Khyber to ensure Khyber would hurt no one else. The remains of Siberys became the glowing ring that encircles the world. The body of Eberron

formed the seas and continents. The bones of Khyber formed the dark passages inside Eberron thattwist away into Chaos.

Side note:

The magical Dragonshards are said to be the crystallized essence of the three dragons. Thesedragonshards can be used to create technology more advanced than in any other setting.

Yellow Siberys dragonshards come from the sky and enhance the power of Dragonmarks and are

used to create the magic items used by Dragonmarked Houses to dominate the economy. RedEberron shards are found throughout the land and enhance magic of all kinds; they are particularlygood at holding rituals like a spell book would. Bluish-purple Khyber shards are found deepunderground and are powerful binding agents used to secure elementals to magical machines. Thesupernatural properties of these dragonshards are more valuable than any gemstone.

Mythology of Eberron

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Age of Demons: The supposed first rulers of Eberron were fiends spawned from the dark depths of Khyber.

The only beings in Eberron capable of resisting the demons were the dragons.

The demons, incapable of invading Argonnessen, and the dragons, unable to establishholdings outside Argonnessen, were at a stalemate for millenia.

The first great shift came with the arrival of the couatls.

Many couatls sacrificed their pure souls to help the dragons overthrow the demons.

Today few couatls remain and the dragons have withdrawn to Argonnessen.

Mythology of Eberron

Pictured: an artistic interpretation of a Couatl fighting a Rakshasa demon in themythological Age of Demons.

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Age of Giants: The first civilization to leave behind signs of their existence

were the giants of Xendrik.

Using their great strength and powerful magic (and legions ofslaves) the giants shaped the continent into a vast empire. Eventually they came close to ruling the world. After tens of thousands of years, the civilization either

collapsed or was destroyed. Now, all that remains of their reign are the scattered ruins in

Xendrik.

History of Eberron

Notice the human-sized figures walkingup the smaller staircase

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The world of Eberron has five major landmasses and two polar ice caps. Easy as hell to remember!

Welcome to Eberron!

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Argonnessen

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Learn the secrets ofexistence from draconic

prophets!

Penetrate into the impregnable continent of dragons!

Discover whythe most

powerfulbeings inEberron have

hiddenthemselves

from theworld!

The stone dragon heads are

not the only thing that protectArgonnessens shores!

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Xen'drik

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Find lodging in Stormreach: theadventuring capital of the

world!

Explore theancient jungleruins of giants

and uncoverlong-lost secrets

of magic!

Fight wild drowand their

scorpion gods!

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Aerenal

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Enter a society soperfect it has

transcended death!

Probe themysteries of life

among elvenkind!

Beware the designs of theUndying Court!

Enter the Cityof the Dead!

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Sarlona

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First homeof Humans,now a land

of

Nightmares!

The quori have pierced the veil ofreality and seek to turn all sentient

beings into their mind slaves!

Their chaotic Plane of Dal Quor canonly become stable if no living thing

dreams!

They haveshaped the

continent intothe perfectdomain of

psychic power!

Using their specially-bred vessels (The

Inspired) quori hope tospread their influence

beyond Sarlona!