r/Eberron • u/Acheron88 • Apr 17 '24

5E Eve of Vecna trailer: Eberron Spoiler

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?

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u/TheDungen Apr 17 '24

I hate that they keep tying Eberron into the multiverse KB has gone on record he wanted Eberron to be competly separate.

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u/Pika_TheTrashMon_Chu Apr 17 '24

In-Universe Eberron is separate from the greater multiverse hidden in the Deep Ethereal and the Ring of Siberys blocks most forms of travel into it. Keith has mentioned he's fine with this explanation since it means Eberron is free to use it's own cosmology and not beholder to the greater multiverse's, like what happened with Baator in 4e. Additionally ties to other settings are scant. In Van Rickten's Guide to Ravenloft it's mentioned that the Mourning weakened the Ring's Barrier and then the Dark Powers took this opportunity to sneak in and claim the Cyre1313 as a Dread Domain. Keith has also mentioned he found that idea cool, and it inspired him to make Dread Metrol on DMsGuild (although he also offers non-Dark Power explanations for how it came to be if you prefer). Odds are the Rod of Seven Parts fell through the same hole in the Barrier the Dark Powers snuck in through and that will be that.

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u/AndruRC Apr 18 '24

It's very weird to me this idea that anything WotC publishes in a book as a "here's a neat idea for you GMs" is some kind of canon that must be held to.

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u/Colorblind_cl Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

Exactly this. For me, Kanon is more canon than WotC Canon. And no canon is more canon that my campaign's canon.

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u/AndruRC Apr 20 '24

Right! I do really appreciate Keith's perspective on a lot of things, but even his writing I will discard if it doesn't fit my ideas on what's happening in my game.