Eberron: The Thirteens of Eberron

[Simplicity]

There seems to be a motif in Eberron, which I refer to as "13 minus 1".

There are thirteen dragonmarks, but one is never seen anymore.
There are thirteen planes of existence, but one is shielded from the Prime.
There are thirteen moons, but only twelve left in the sky...
The text seems to imply that there were thirteen towers in Sharn, but one (the Glass Tower) was destroyed.
There's a wizard group known as the Twelve (based around the dragonmarks... they live in a tower with 13 turrets).

Am I missing any?

I'm rather surprised that the major pantheon has 15 gods...
But then one of them is only the shadow of another...
Bringing the number down to 14...

Maybe there are really only 13 gods?
Maybe one of them is going to die?

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

There seems to be a motif in Eberron, which I refer to as "13 minus 1".

There are thirteen dragonmarks, but one is never seen anymore.
There are thirteen planes of existence, but one is shielded from the Prime.
There are thirteen moons, but only twelve left in the sky...
The text seems to imply that there were thirteen towers in Sharn, but one (the Glass Tower) was destroyed.
There's a wizard group known as the Twelve (based around the dragonmarks... they live in a tower with 13 turrets).

Am I missing any?

I'm rather surprised that the major pantheon has 15 gods...
But then one of them is only the shadow of another...
Bringing the number down to 14...

Maybe there are really only 13 gods?
Maybe one of them is going to die?

13 Great Dragons (10 constalations named after dragons, 3 progenitor dragons.)

But only 12 months in a year??

 

[diaglo]

i think you will find 13 of them... with one of them hidden.

 

[Simplicity]

i think you will find 13 of them... with one of them hidden.

As crazy as that sounds, I think you might actually be right...
The months are based around which of the twelve moons are visible (I think that's right... I haven't really figured out how the moons are supposed to orbit yet) in the sky... But there aren't 12 moons. There's 13. So what happens when the 13th moon is the visible one?

 

[Hand of Evil]

There are 13 answers to be given but I can only find 12...mmmmmmm.

Check the number 13 and how it relates to the United States.

 

[gcampoverde]

There were 13 clans of dwarves in the M'ror Holds, but one (Noldrun) vanished without trace. This can be found on page 55 of the Player's Guide to Eberron.

 

[Staffan]

Some Eberron fans have taken to calling the recurring motif "The Baker's Dozen."

 

[Anselyn]

Some Eberron fans have taken to calling the recurring motif "The Baker's Dozen."

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/Bakers-dozen.html

which is also a standard expression in English, of course.

 

[Staffan]

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/Bakers-dozen.html

which is also a standard expression in English, of course.

Indeed. But there's also the double meaning that comes from the setting's main designer being Keith Baker.

 

[Anselyn]

Yes, absolutely. It wasn't clear to me that both meanings were clear to all readers.