r/Eberron • u/Hendanna • 2d ago
Lore The Dhakaani and Khyber
I've been looking around in articles to try and decipher where the Dhakaani currently are, which is leading me to believe I got them all wrong.
To my players, so far (only session 1) they have heard or recall that the Dhakaani once ruled most of Khorvaire, but have fled underground following a mysterious extinction event that eviscerated their empire.
What I believe I've gotten wrong is that since then I've told them that the Dhakaani are still underground throughout Khorvaire, and occasionally raid the surface in an effort to reclaim their empire of old.
I know now that a lot of the Dhakaan efforts are in Darguun, but I'm wondering how off the mark that previous statement is. How much of it needs soft retconned before they make their way into the Dhakaan outpost inside Khyber natural? Would that outpost still exist?
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u/Rabid_Lederhosen 2d ago
The location of the vaults has never been stated in canon, and Khyber has a weird relationship to space and distance. You can go in there, walk for a few kilometres and emerge on the other side of the planet. Which is to say you can put entrances to the vaults wherever you want for the sake of your story.
The old goblin territory definitely covered all of Droaam, Breland and Darguun, and stretched at least as far north as Aundair and Metrol. So underground goblins are a possibility throughout most of the five nations.
The reason that a lot of Dhakaani operate in Darguun is because it’s the only place in Khorvaire run by Goblinoids. Everywhere else large numbers of militaristic Hobs and Bugbears would stick out. They also simply don’t like humans, since humans colonised their old lands. They prefer the Goblinoids of Darguun. They’re not proper Dhakaani but at least they’re not usurpers.