Setting Secrets to be Revealed

[Spatula]

What are Khyber marks? Do you mean aberrant marks? As for why aberrant marks are dangerous, look at what abilities you can get with an aberrant mark. IIRC, they're all destructive in nature.

 

[Stone Dog]

Green tea ice cream is one of the best things in the world.

 

[Alzrius]

What are Khyber marks?

IIRC, all the dragonmarks now are Siberys dragonmarks. There were also Khyber dragonmarks in the past, but they were wiped out in a war.

 

[RichGreen]

I mock anyone that believes green ice cream is tasty.

Cause it's not.

What about pistachio?


Richard

 

[Gez]

There were Khyber dragonmarks, there are Syberis dragonmarks, but will there be Eberron dragonmarks?

 

[Stone Dog]

Siberys marks are closely related in them, appearance and genetics to dragonmarks, but are a mystery even to those sages that study the marks for decades. From what I have gathered they are called that because their abilities may be enhanced by unattuned (pure?) Siberys shards. Certainly no intelligence is laying down the truth for anybody.

The only reference I have seen to Khyber marks comes from a passing comment from Keith Baker over on the WotC boards. Something about... wait.. here it is.

Suffice to say that there are legends that before the War of the Mark there were Heirs of Khyber, who possessed powers on the level of those of Heirs of Siberys but far darker and more dangerous. But that was 1,500 years ago, and the stories could simply be tall tales and myth, aberrant marks blown out of proportion.

So there may not have been Khyber marks, but if there were and they come back then I imagine the energies of Eberron will flare up after a while (centuries I bet. Normal dragons have a wonky time perception, let alone one of the First Three) to calm the conflict between Khyber and Siberys again.

 

[Geoff Watson]

There were Khyber dragonmarks, there are Syberis dragonmarks, but will there be Eberron dragonmarks?

The standard (Least, Lesser, Greater) Dragonmarks are effectively Eberron Marks.

Geoff.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

What about pistachio?

Wasn't that the main character in the movie Master of Disguise?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would be stunned speechless if there wasn't a book about the Dragon Marked Houses, and dragon marks, and oodles of new mark-related prestige classes and feats, on the schedule for 2005 or 2006. Beyond Xendrik, it's the biggest element of the setting that screams "more development coming for MEEEEEE" now that the Sharn book is (almost) here.

 

[Quickbeam]

Not to hijack this thread, but I'm just now starting to explore the Eberron setting. How does it rate in your respective minds?