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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8848600" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>Despite common internet parlance, Eberron was not created <em>Sola Keith Baker</em>. Bill Slavicsek and James Wyatt were <em>extremely influential</em> on the lore development of Eberron, and they also incorporated elements they liked from other settings that were submitted, such as (supposedly) Rich Burlew's death-worshipping elves. This is important to keep in mind IMHO because Eberron was shaped based upon what WotC's staff wanted out of the setting. The core nugget was Keith Baker's but WotC had a LOT of their own input into the setting. The setting that Keith Baker pitched to WotC is not the setting as published.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, the Dawn War pantheon is far more mythic (if not nearly post-apocalyptic) in its scope. The pantheon seems to take cues from Greco-Roman gods, the then popular Scarred Lands RPG setting, and the Chaoskampf motif of ancient mythology. The Dawn War gods are not necessarily the "greatest hits" of gods but also the divine survivors of the aforementioned war. The setting is Points of Light all the way down.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The Dawn War gods represent the survivors of the Dawn War. (Many other lesser deities became Exarchs.) I think that an implicit assumption of 4e was that epic level PCs would achieve apotheosis to become the new gods in the setting and fill in the cracks left by the Dawn War.</p><p></p><p>I do have an <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/my-altered-dawn-war-pantheon.660918/" target="_blank">expanded/altered version of the Dawn War pantheon</a> that I often use for my Nentir Vale campaigns, which does incorporate Yondalla, for example, as a goddess of the hearth and regarded as the child of Pelor and Erathis, a child of the sun's warmth and civilization. And it also adds a god of the hunt and psychopomps with something of a gender-swapped Hades/Persephone story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8848600, member: 5142"] Despite common internet parlance, Eberron was not created [I]Sola Keith Baker[/I]. Bill Slavicsek and James Wyatt were [I]extremely influential[/I] on the lore development of Eberron, and they also incorporated elements they liked from other settings that were submitted, such as (supposedly) Rich Burlew's death-worshipping elves. This is important to keep in mind IMHO because Eberron was shaped based upon what WotC's staff wanted out of the setting. The core nugget was Keith Baker's but WotC had a LOT of their own input into the setting. The setting that Keith Baker pitched to WotC is not the setting as published. Yeah, the Dawn War pantheon is far more mythic (if not nearly post-apocalyptic) in its scope. The pantheon seems to take cues from Greco-Roman gods, the then popular Scarred Lands RPG setting, and the Chaoskampf motif of ancient mythology. The Dawn War gods are not necessarily the "greatest hits" of gods but also the divine survivors of the aforementioned war. The setting is Points of Light all the way down. The Dawn War gods represent the survivors of the Dawn War. (Many other lesser deities became Exarchs.) I think that an implicit assumption of 4e was that epic level PCs would achieve apotheosis to become the new gods in the setting and fill in the cracks left by the Dawn War. I do have an [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/my-altered-dawn-war-pantheon.660918/']expanded/altered version of the Dawn War pantheon[/URL] that I often use for my Nentir Vale campaigns, which does incorporate Yondalla, for example, as a goddess of the hearth and regarded as the child of Pelor and Erathis, a child of the sun's warmth and civilization. And it also adds a god of the hunt and psychopomps with something of a gender-swapped Hades/Persephone story. [/QUOTE]
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