How would you fit Red Wizards (FR) into Eberron?
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Cool. I got a "d00d!" for an idea!
Desdichado
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Nope, I haven't for sure. The game has started, but the details of that are a ways away from materializing.
Currently I'm leaning towards the last, though--the Red Wizards are a combination of a drow tribe that is particularly mage-centric (relative to some of the other drow; the "Thayan Knights" will be very similar to standard Eberron drow, though) and Cyre wizards and artificers that have kinda gone native and integrated themselves into drow society, but bringing some of their own culture with them. The emerging hybrid culture will be somewhat like Thay, with human, drow and half-drow as an emerging young racial component. For slave labor, there are other drow tribes and orcs, mostly. Currently their plots will be more along the lines of "let's build some big cities in this land we're taming" but they are already looking to gain power in Khorvaire, and take advantage of the continent. Part of that is revenge driven by the Cyran portion of the population, part of it is just plain ole greed; the drow are quick to realize that the "industrialized" and wealthy Khorvairans will make good victims in their attempt to expand their own wealth and power.
Anyway, that's where I'm leaning at the moment.
EDIT: D'oh! Some hasty typing made part of that response incomprehensible. Fixed now.
Currently I'm leaning towards the last, though--the Red Wizards are a combination of a drow tribe that is particularly mage-centric (relative to some of the other drow; the "Thayan Knights" will be very similar to standard Eberron drow, though) and Cyre wizards and artificers that have kinda gone native and integrated themselves into drow society, but bringing some of their own culture with them. The emerging hybrid culture will be somewhat like Thay, with human, drow and half-drow as an emerging young racial component. For slave labor, there are other drow tribes and orcs, mostly. Currently their plots will be more along the lines of "let's build some big cities in this land we're taming" but they are already looking to gain power in Khorvaire, and take advantage of the continent. Part of that is revenge driven by the Cyran portion of the population, part of it is just plain ole greed; the drow are quick to realize that the "industrialized" and wealthy Khorvairans will make good victims in their attempt to expand their own wealth and power.
Anyway, that's where I'm leaning at the moment.
EDIT: D'oh! Some hasty typing made part of that response incomprehensible. Fixed now.
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Joshua Dyal said:
I doubt this is what you had in mind, but I can't help but think of Kurtz's village in Apocalypse Now when I read this. I pity the party of PCs sent on Willard's mission in that case! I'm not sure what, if anything, you want to do with Warforged as they relate to your Red Wizard transplants. Did the Cyrans expats have the schema necessary to build a new Creation Forge? Scorpion chitin could become used in the 'forged creation process, with an optional Chitinous Body Feat (stats similar to Mithral Body, analagous to the Scorpion Breastplate armor in RoE). Perhaps the proximity to the large number of dragonshards in Xen'Drik have resulted in increased psionic potential in their newly created 'forged. As the organization expands, this sets up some intriguing possibilities as far as interacting with the Lord of Blades goes. The image of a wizard in a mismatch of Cyran and drow garb, bedecked with tribal scorpion tattoos, flanked by two Knights of Vulkoor (a drow fighter/warlock and a chitinous warforged soulknife) makes me giddy!
Desdichado
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Me too! Keep it up! 
As for warforged, yeah, I'd guess that these Red Wizards have finally established a Forge, but that numbers would be very small. These forges might be independently developed, and so the warforged may differ (mainly in cosmetic changes--I doubt I'd change the stats) from standard ones. And they'd be built for slavery, but as rumors of the details of the Thronehold Treaties and the Lord of Blades all start slowly drifting into their society, some of them might start to get a little "restless."
As for warforged, yeah, I'd guess that these Red Wizards have finally established a Forge, but that numbers would be very small. These forges might be independently developed, and so the warforged may differ (mainly in cosmetic changes--I doubt I'd change the stats) from standard ones. And they'd be built for slavery, but as rumors of the details of the Thronehold Treaties and the Lord of Blades all start slowly drifting into their society, some of them might start to get a little "restless."
