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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 5152019" data-attributes="member: 15800">My apologies for the delayed response - I haven't been on ENWorld for a bit. This seems logical to me. However, to clarify, it's not specifically dragonmarks that I'd use... it's Prophecy marks, the symbols that appear on the world. Quoting Dragons of Eberron:Essentially, this precisely fills the concept of the runes in 4E - an all-but-forgotten "divine alphabet", whose symbols have power for those who understand them. A key point here is that a Runepriest does NOT necessarily have to be a student of the Prophecy itself; he could easily just be a student of the symbols of the Prophecy, understanding how this is the fundamental language of reality and learning how to tap its power as opposed to the big picture of what the particular inscriptions are saying. There's nothing wrong with a runepriest pursuing the Prophecy, I'm just saying that he doesn't HAVE to. With that said, the first 4E Eberron character I played was a cleric of the Prophecy itself. The idea was that he recognized that the PC group were people touched by the Prophecy with a vital role to play. He wasn't a scholar and wasn't a student of the Prophecy; he pursued it based on faith, confident that the path would unfold. His divine powers were based around that - healing word as "It's not your time to fall!". He went Divine Oracle as soon as possible, and specialized in divination rituals, again with the idea that he had an intuitive connection to the Prophecy. Were I to make that character now, I'd probably make him as a Runepriest.If I was running the character in my game, I'd ask the PC what rune feats and powers he hoped to get in the future and base some of the adventures around actually finding the Prophecy Marks tied to those... essentially saying that to gain some of his powers, he needs to learn more of the alphabet. In doing this, he could clash with agents of the Lords of Dust or the Chamber... or either force could seek to use him.</blockquote>

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