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DISTANT LANDS
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Khorvaire and the city of Sharn. But Khorvaire
is only one continent of many, and in time
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Here is an overview of the other regions of
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AERENAL
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• Consult an elven archmage who’s been
• There is a paradise within the world, a vale dead for twenty thousand years.
bathed in the light of the Inner Sun. Earn • Battle sinister forces that have crawled into
your passage with the blood of worthy foes. Eberron from a realm of eternal night.
• 7]Z M`Q[\MVKM Q[ I KPZa[ITQ[ [\I\M XZMXIZQVO • Learn secrets of arcane magic unknown on
us for transcendent immortality within the Khorvaire.
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The massive island of Aerenal is the ancient
• The Lord of Eyes sees all secrets. His kingdom of the elves. Its jungles are a source
gaze elevates the worthy and slays the of strange and valuable lumbers: the soarwood
unbeliever. Drive all doubt from your heart used for the hulls of airships, tough bronzewood,
and you will see reality through new eyes. even trees that remain alive after being felled.
The Cults of the Dragon Below are wildly Beyond this, the island is close to the planes of
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of three LQٺMZMV\ cults, and the image of the holy life and death to become blurred. This can be
[aUJWT Q[ WVM KWUUWV M`IUXTM¸I XQMKM WN dangerous, with dark forces creeping in from the
volcanic glass—not something shared by all plane known as the Endless Night. But it’s also
cults. There are warlocks who draw power from allowed the elves to perform feats of necromancy
demon overlords and daelkyr cultists who serve unmatched in Eberron. Among the Aereni elves,
UQVL ÆIaMZ[ IVL JMPWTLMZ[ 7\PMZ[ IZM [QUXTa the honored dead walk among the living. Heroes
driven by deep convictions that others see as who died in glorious battle return to serve the
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Dragon Below” as a blanket term to describe the deathless lords of the Undying Court study
all of these things, but the cultists themselves the shifting balance of the planes and the path of
don’t use this name or see themselves as part the Draconic Prophecy.
of a greater whole. New cults can spring up While necromancy is a pillar of Aereni
anywhere at any time, as a seed of madness takes society, it isn’t the dark force you’re used to.
root and spreads. The deathless undead of Aerenal are sustained
If your character is part of a cult, work with the by positive energy—the light of Irian and the
,5 \W LMÅVM aW]Z XMZ[WVIT JMTQMN[ ITWVO _Q\P devotion freely given by their descendants. The
the size and scope of your cult. Does your faith elves of Aerenal despise necromancy that draws
have wide support across the Shadow Marches? on the negative energy of Mabar, and agents of
Or are you and your family the only people who the Undying Court are charged to seek out and
share your particular beliefs? destroy vampires, liches, and other such undead.
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