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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fafhrd" data-source="post: 2428588" data-attributes="member: 18517">Your level of incredulity seems a little extreme.  The Kalashtar are an insular people.  You need to be when you're being hunted by entities that no one believes exist.  If they did start teaching psionics on a mass scale, the Quori might mind seed the students and trace those schools back to the source, much to the detriment of the Kalashtar.  Regarding Sarlonan psions, perhaps there was a fledgling movement in the time between the arrival of the Kalashtar and the Quori(although hanging out in a monastery doesn't seem like the best way to get the message out).  The Quori are subtle.  I would expect them to wipe out or convert those psions first.  Just as they rubbed out religion and arcane practices, they saw that psionics(unless in the hands of their carefully molded hosts) is one of the few disciplines that actually poses a threat to them.  Keith has said that psionics are tied to Dal Quor and to Xoriat, not very nice places to associate with.  The Kalashtar have faced the worst Dal Quor had to throw at them, but ignorant humans might be something altogether different.   Even if people didn't find it unsavory, as you said, magic abounds.  It's known, measured and prevalent.  Do you find it ridiculous that Khorvairans don't use steam power?  Magic fills the role that psionics could.  There's no pressing need for its adoption.   The vast majority of Eberron remains to be written.  Perhaps, the Dragonmarked Houses saw the rise of psionics as a threat to their monopoly and sent Phiarlan assassins after them.  Perhaps psionics and the taint of Xoriat were behind the madness and aberrant marks of Lord Tarkanan(before the Kalashtar even arrived).Keith Baker is a big fan of psionics.  I think he did an admirable job of giving it a place without driving a wedge in a fanbase long divided on the issue.</blockquote>

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