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<blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 7929440" data-attributes="member: 7015332">I have ERFTLW open right now reviewing the sections on the Dragonmarked Houses and I'm getting nowhere near the level of naked capitalist greed and paranoia that you are reading into them.Keith Baker has defaulted to presenting them as much more reasonable (most of the time); Eberron isn't Shadowrun yet. In general, I find his personal views equalto published canon, the high number of editing mistakes in ERFTLW only serving to reinforce that notion. <a href="http://keith-baker.com/qnadragonmarks/" target="_blank">Dragonmarks: The Dragonmarked Houses</a>If you're enciuntering a Dragonmarked person who isn't affiliated with one of the Houses or with the Twelve as a whole, they're usually either a Foundling or an Excoriate.Foundlings are eople with the Mark but born outside the House and with no exposure to its internal culture and training. The Houses do try to recruit Foundlings but (usually) don't resent them for refusing. As long as they aren't actively conspiring against the Houses, Foundlings are usually left alone. Excoriates are people who were part of a Dragonmarked House but were for some reason disowned, whether it be that they violated House regulations, they were caught on the wrong end of Hiuse politics, they committed a crime and their former House doesn't want to play defense for them in the courts, any reason really. Therr's nothing stopping an Excoriate from trying toset up an independent business related to their Dragonmark, but they won't have the licenses and seals of approcal that being in a Draginmarked House or a guild that they control provides, and they will be shunned by anybody part of any of the Dragonmarked Houses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PsyzhranV2, post: 7929440, member: 7015332"] I have ERFTLW open right now reviewing the sections on the Dragonmarked Houses and I'm getting nowhere near the level of naked capitalist greed and paranoia that you are reading into them. Keith Baker has defaulted to presenting them as much more reasonable (most of the time); Eberron isn't Shadowrun yet. In general, I find his personal views equalto published canon, the high number of editing mistakes in ERFTLW only serving to reinforce that notion. [URL="http://keith-baker.com/qnadragonmarks/"]Dragonmarks: The Dragonmarked Houses[/URL] If you're enciuntering a Dragonmarked person who isn't affiliated with one of the Houses or with the Twelve as a whole, they're usually either a Foundling or an Excoriate. Foundlings are eople with the Mark but born outside the House and with no exposure to its internal culture and training. The Houses do try to recruit Foundlings but (usually) don't resent them for refusing. As long as they aren't actively conspiring against the Houses, Foundlings are usually left alone. Excoriates are people who were part of a Dragonmarked House but were for some reason disowned, whether it be that they violated House regulations, they were caught on the wrong end of Hiuse politics, they committed a crime and their former House doesn't want to play defense for them in the courts, any reason really. Therr's nothing stopping an Excoriate from trying toset up an independent business related to their Dragonmark, but they won't have the licenses and seals of approcal that being in a Draginmarked House or a guild that they control provides, and they will be shunned by anybody part of any of the Dragonmarked Houses. [/QUOTE]

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