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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7529640" data-attributes="member: 5142">Spurred by this conversation, I revisited the Tal'Dorei Campaign Book. There is scarcely a Dawn War. The divine/primordial conflict a furtive murmur in the book. It's hardly as mythic as I was led to believe. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> But fleshing out a mythos in an adventure is far different than its marginal presence in a published setting book. Who are the dead gods of Exandria? These dead gods (e.g., Gorelik, Io, Lakal, etc.) get mentioned quite often. Nentir Vale has RuneQuest-like cults attempting to reassemble their fallen deities. Nentir Vale's Dawn War became a clusterfrak war between various factions: gods, primordials, primal spirits, demons, devils, etc. Exandria? It seems to follow neat stages. And the villain deities just get lumped together as the "Betrayer Gods" rather than the complexity of evil deities fighting for the side of the Astral Sea against the Primordials and Demons. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /> Most definitely. There was never any doubt how monsters or players could fit into the setting. It oozed with plothooks and insights for the world. That explains a lot. Depends. Some books provided FR, DS, and Eb-specific paragon paths and epic destinies. And also keep in mind that the implied setting lore did "infect" a lot of the other D&D settings. Others worked towards contributing to the overarching lore of the implied setting of Nentir Vale. The Raven Herald paragon path, for example, was meant for the Raven Queen, who was absent in Eberron and Dark Sun. (Don't know if she was forcibly inserted into FR or not.)</blockquote>

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