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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walker N. Waistz" data-source="post: 4901227" data-attributes="member: 5727">For any DM not setting the Campaign Saga on Eberron, it seems to me that there are two choices if you use Kalashtar in the default setting of the modules. (For any DM running WotBS set on Eberron, it seems like Primitive Screwhead and 8bitdeity have already figured out how to insert the trillith into Eberron's cosmology.) The two choices are:1) The Kalashtar are an old race, with a history roughly similar to that of the Eberron version.2) The Kalashtar are a young race, having only been in the world a few decades, and their history is bound up with the original of the Trillith.Either choice makes your take on the Kalashtar very different, but there is something that remains the same: In either version, the difference between the two races not only comes down to jealousy, but to choices made by both the trillith and the ancestors of the kalashtar. They are not related to, or divided from, each other by accident, but by their own decisions. As follows:[sblock] The Kalashtar were created when essentially trillith-like beings, sentient dream-creatures, chose to escape the dream realm by binding completely with humans, becoming one half of a new, unified soul (in Eberron, these humans were an order of monks). This is not a choice any published trillith has made: even the ones inhabiting mortal beings remain separate spirits, as evidenced by their descriptions and by the fact that you can perceive, when a trillith-bound sentient being dies, the essence of the trillith departing.This makes sense, because the goal of the main body of trillith is not some peaceful symbiosis with mortals. They want to destroy the physical world and turn it into a world of dreams. They do not want to sacrifice their current, powerful, versatile mode of existence-- the want to sacrifice the world to accomodate them. Obviously, this is extremely selfish and destructive, which is why most of the trillith are villains.The Kalashtar, by contrast, are born of dream-beings who chose to join the world of mortals as it was, seamlessly, without disrupting it in any way. This creates a cool tension between the two races, as two sides of the same coin-- one who appreciated the mortal world enough to sacrifice some of their power and immortal versatility to enter it on its own terms, and those who see the mortal world only as an impediment to their continued power. So, in a way, kalashtar are both siblings of the trillith, and also their natural enemies because their values are diametically opposed. If you want to simplify it, there are "good" dream beings who chose to live as mortals in a realm they wanted to be a part of, and "evil" dream beings seeking to annihilate that world and replace it with one they can rule. It goes far beyond a mere rivalry-- as written by their authors, without even having to invent anything new, these two races are, by definition, on opposite sides of a war for the destiny of all sentient beings.[/sblock] I have some thoughts on how to implement this with both a "young" race of Kalashtar, and an "old" race; I'll post those in a bit.</blockquote>

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