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<blockquote data-quote="enbee75" data-source="post: 7138028" data-attributes="member: 6882940">Hi,This is my first run of Eberron and have had some other really good advice here, so just wanted to run this one past you all!I started the campaign using The Mark of the Prophecy in the back of the 4e campaign guide. In the first session, the PCs rescued the two NPCs, and the mourning happened. The warlock in the party hadn't really worked on any backstory, so after a chat with her, we decided a good source of the warlock's powers might be that she was caught in the mourning and developed powers from there. So just before the mourning, I had a 'voice' in her head beckon her outside toward the blast area of the mourning before it went off. The rest of the party had shelter inside a tower. The blast then knocked her unconscious.The party were also delivered the prophecy as written in 4e Campaign Guide - 'five stand as one against the tempest's roar'.I was thinking of continuing to use The Mark of the phrophecy (though I could abandon it for something else), but know I should try to figure what was behind the mourning and who/what might be granting the PC warlock their powers, and for what in return? The villain in the mark of the prophecy could also be working for whatever had a hand in (helping) to cause the mourning.I understand that it needs to be something more than a single Lord of Dust/Rakshasa, but want to consider a few options, and any pointers would be mighty helpful! I would quite like to have the campaign BBEG as Vol, as I have other characters in the party who have connections to Blood of Vol, but is it possible that she could be behind this?Tl;dr the mourning grants warlock their powers, but what might be behind mourning?Thanks for any help!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="enbee75, post: 7138028, member: 6882940"] Hi, This is my first run of Eberron and have had some other really good advice here, so just wanted to run this one past you all! I started the campaign using The Mark of the Prophecy in the back of the 4e campaign guide. In the first session, the PCs rescued the two NPCs, and the mourning happened. The warlock in the party hadn't really worked on any backstory, so after a chat with her, we decided a good source of the warlock's powers might be that she was caught in the mourning and developed powers from there. So just before the mourning, I had a 'voice' in her head beckon her outside toward the blast area of the mourning before it went off. The rest of the party had shelter inside a tower. The blast then knocked her unconscious. The party were also delivered the prophecy as written in 4e Campaign Guide - 'five stand as one against the tempest's roar'. I was thinking of continuing to use The Mark of the phrophecy (though I could abandon it for something else), but know I should try to figure what was behind the mourning and who/what might be granting the PC warlock their powers, and for what in return? The villain in the mark of the prophecy could also be working for whatever had a hand in (helping) to cause the mourning. I understand that it needs to be something more than a single Lord of Dust/Rakshasa, but want to consider a few options, and any pointers would be mighty helpful! I would quite like to have the campaign BBEG as Vol, as I have other characters in the party who have connections to Blood of Vol, but is it possible that she could be behind this? Tl;dr the mourning grants warlock their powers, but what might be behind mourning? Thanks for any help! [/QUOTE]

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