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The Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost table
            provides a basic framework, but various factors      FAITHS OF KHORVAIRE
            could reduce time or cost. Eberron dragonshards      Religion plays an important role in Eberron.
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                                                                 While gods don’t physically manifest as they
            A remarkable dragonshard could reduce the
                                                                 do in other settings, people of faith believe that
            cost of creating an item by 10 percent. A planar
                                                                 divine forces play a role in everyday life. Beyond
            convergence could reduce the time or cost
                                                                 this, shared beliefs help to unite communities and
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                                                                 concrete details about the primary religions of
              Complications. These rules for magic item
                                                                 Eberron, including holy symbols and domains.
            creation are derived from the system presented
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            the idea that the creation of a magic item is a      devotion through your actions.
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                                                                   In creating a devout character, it can be
            arise. If you use this rule, there’s a 10 percent
                                                                 useful to think about the source of your faith.
            chance of a complication arising for every
                                                                 Were you brought up in your religion, or did
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                                                                 you come to it later in life? Are you primarily
            Xanathar’s Guide presents a number of possible
                                                                 devoted to the principles of your religion,
            complications. Here are few tied to Eberron.
                                                                 or have you had a personal, transcendental
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                       manifest zone.
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                       one of the conspiracies of Eberron—
                       such as the Chamber, the Aurum, the
                       Emerald Claw, or the Lords of Dust.
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