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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7870801" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Pretty much, but it's still extremely important because it sets the stage for The Prophecy, The Age of Demons, why demons(all fiends) are so extremely different in eberron, so on & so forth. The romans kept pretty good records & we know a lot about that time period for much of the world because of that. The Giants of Xendriik & Dhakaani empire would both have kept records at least as good if not better than the romans so anything from that far back on in the <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Eberron_Timeline" target="_blank">timeline</a> has at least some written records supporting it but things are complicated by the fact that the roman empire simply crumbled & moved on while giant empire/Dakaani empire were destroyed or crumbled by war. The Cul'sir/Su'lat giant empire of Xendriik went through a thousand years of war where they were being invaded by the Quori before they may as well have been destroyed by the Vorlons when the Dragons toppled their empire & cursed the continent itself to make sure nobody tried it again. The dhakaani Empire went through 2000 years of war with the Daelkyr invasion & when the Gatekeepers imprisoned the Daelkyr it kept crumbling until humans came along & said "nice place, we will give you muut/atcha(honor/purpose)". In both cases all that war did bad things to records. With spellshards rather than paper/vellum as an information storage medium, you don't need conditions to be as pristine for documents to survive that many years so much as need to be lucky enough to find them.</p><p></p><p>Also a lot of races used to have much longer lifespans & in the case of Eberron they still may have longer lifespans. That says nothing about races like (half)orc/goblin/kobold that are listed with shortened lifespans due to their lifestyle in a FR type setting. </p><p></p><p>The Dragon's own records from the age of dragons/age of demons may or may not exist<span style="font-size: 9px"><em> (they were losing that war badly too)</em></span>, & the Dragons themselves almost certainly have <em>some</em> records that survived from both & likely even more from the age of giants(giant empire of xendriik)/age of monsters (dhakaani), but it's not like they are making any efforts to or showing interest in filling gaps on the shelves of groups like the <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Library_of_Korranberg" target="_blank">library of Korranberg</a>, <a href="https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Arcanix" target="_blank">Arcanix</a>, wayfinder society, etc. Those Draconic records are either lost till found or may as well be destroyed to most people who aren't dragons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7870801, member: 93670"] Pretty much, but it's still extremely important because it sets the stage for The Prophecy, The Age of Demons, why demons(all fiends) are so extremely different in eberron, so on & so forth. The romans kept pretty good records & we know a lot about that time period for much of the world because of that. The Giants of Xendriik & Dhakaani empire would both have kept records at least as good if not better than the romans so anything from that far back on in the [URL='https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Eberron_Timeline']timeline[/URL] has at least some written records supporting it but things are complicated by the fact that the roman empire simply crumbled & moved on while giant empire/Dakaani empire were destroyed or crumbled by war. The Cul'sir/Su'lat giant empire of Xendriik went through a thousand years of war where they were being invaded by the Quori before they may as well have been destroyed by the Vorlons when the Dragons toppled their empire & cursed the continent itself to make sure nobody tried it again. The dhakaani Empire went through 2000 years of war with the Daelkyr invasion & when the Gatekeepers imprisoned the Daelkyr it kept crumbling until humans came along & said "nice place, we will give you muut/atcha(honor/purpose)". In both cases all that war did bad things to records. With spellshards rather than paper/vellum as an information storage medium, you don't need conditions to be as pristine for documents to survive that many years so much as need to be lucky enough to find them. Also a lot of races used to have much longer lifespans & in the case of Eberron they still may have longer lifespans. That says nothing about races like (half)orc/goblin/kobold that are listed with shortened lifespans due to their lifestyle in a FR type setting. The Dragon's own records from the age of dragons/age of demons may or may not exist[SIZE=1][I] (they were losing that war badly too)[/I][/SIZE], & the Dragons themselves almost certainly have [I]some[/I] records that survived from both & likely even more from the age of giants(giant empire of xendriik)/age of monsters (dhakaani), but it's not like they are making any efforts to or showing interest in filling gaps on the shelves of groups like the [URL='https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Library_of_Korranberg']library of Korranberg[/URL], [URL='https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Arcanix']Arcanix[/URL], wayfinder society, etc. Those Draconic records are either lost till found or may as well be destroyed to most people who aren't dragons. [/QUOTE]
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