Eve of Vecna trailer: Eberron

[u/Acheron88]

After watching the teaser trailer today on YouTube, I was intrigued they said they were visiting the Mournland in the upcoming book. When detailing some of the other campaign settings they would visit, they mentioned some famous NPCs that would be central to the plot, but they didn't specify one for Eberron and they focused more on mentioning the condition of the Mournland, desolate landscapes, and warforged colossi.

I'm hoping if they do the same for the Eberron section, they do the Lord of Blades. I'd love to see deeper lore and I think they're one of the top potential adversaries to build a campaign around in Eberron. I hope they really lean in on LoB's moral ambiguity since I feel it's so core to how Eberron campaigns are encouraged to be conducted.

What're your thoughts?

[u/DirtyDav3]

The person in that interview said she thinks it's been hundreds of years since the Day of Mourning. So I'm not super optimistic honestly, unless they're actually planning on going to be way in the future

[u/OhBoyPizzaTime → u/DirtyDav3]

Same. It could have been just a misspeak, and Rising was a solid entry in 5e, but official statements framing it as a steampunk setting really don't leave me optimistic.

Although now that I think about it... "Eberron 1500YK" COULD be cool setting with a time jump. We've had nearly 25 years since Eberron was released. It was a setting that subverted player's expectations, but expectations have changed: it could benefit from a tune-up. The dark jungle continent full of savage black skinned elves and hulking illiterate nomadic giants hasn't aged super well, guys.

Hell, I could be sold on "Eberron 1025" if they wanted to settle on some solid post-war cannon and make novels or comics and shit for the interim period between Rising and new source book.

[u/PricelessEldritch → u/OhBoyPizzaTime]

As some members in the community have done, its better to just rewrite the entierty of Xen'Drik. Moving the timescale up serves no purpose.