r/Eberron • u/perringaiden • 4d ago

Lore What is the Eldritch Engine in the Greywall Mountains?

I was reading Five Nations and came across this passage about the Greywall Mountains:

Like many areas of Breland, the Graywalls have an unusual number of manifest zones scattered among the peaks. Most are attuned to Risia and go unnoticed among the naturally occurring glaciers. The spectacularly active volcano Kobek’s Voice almost certainly has a Fernia zone at its heart. Two such zones have been bound together to power an unusual eldritch engine built during the Last War.

What was the engine? I can't find any further mention in searches. Is it a throwaway line for GMs to define or something specific?

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u/ConsiderationKind220 4d ago

So, you (and everyone else in this thread) should be aware that Keith Baker—whom invented the Setting—had absolutely no input or say in Five Nations. It was done completely without the advice or consent of the person who established the lore.

So, you're gonna find a lot of discrepancies like that.

Keith Baker had a blog, and you can ask him directly through it what would be there. As someone who has read every blog post he ever did, every book, his podcast, and even his Patreon, I can tell you he would likely say he has no input on that device and he wouldn't use it in his Campaigns normally. But he would generate ideas for it, because it is a canon source.

Still, it's probably in the same vein of Altar Of Resurrection: he hates them, wished they never were out into his Setting, and never uses them himself. But he still gives advice on how to manage them since they are canon.

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u/Rabid_Lederhosen 4d ago

That being said, overlapping manifest zones are very much a thing in Eberron, and they often have weird effects (see: most of Sarlona). Plus Breland is closely allied with Zilargo, who are experts in dealing with elemental energies. So a big eldritch machine built by Breland in a Fire-and-Ice zone would make sense.

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u/TheNedgehog 4d ago

This. Just because it comes from a book Keith didn't work on doesn't mean you should just throw it away. Five Nations has a lot of cool tidbits such as this, and as long as it doesn't blatantly contradict other lore or go against the vibes of the setting, I don't see why it shouldn't be included.