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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 8840268" data-attributes="member: 25818">While dragonshards are something of a universal magical component, the role they fulfill in the setting isn't as part of the Industrial Revolution -- it's the Gold Rush. Dragonshards are an extremely rare resource coveted by all.To my mind, the new thing fitting the "Industrial Revolution" niche is the Warforged Liberation. The Industrial Revolution was about something (in our case, technology) obsoleting a whole sector of a workforce, causing widespread Change (unemployment, unrest, etc.) in the pursuit of maximum Profit. In Eberron, when it was just House Cannith using the warforged slaves to produce their own products cheaply, it was fine. But now that they're free people, they have gotten jobs everywhere. Your neighborhood butcher fired your father, and "hired" a warforged to do the same work for coppers on the gold piece. They do the same work, for less wages, longer hours, fewer complaints, and fewer opinions. Multiply this across most manual occupations in Khorvaire, and it's a recipe for the same sort of unrest.</blockquote>