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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 9466930" data-attributes="member: 15800">As a side note... I'm in an actual play series called Legacy of Worlds. The idea was to get a bunch of world creators together playing the character they're known for. So Ed Greenwood plays Elminster, Luke Gygax plays Melf. When it got to me, it was a Hmm, because we made a very intentional choice NOT to include powerful benevolent NPCs like Elminster in the setting. As others have said, the two most powerful benevolent spellcasters are the great druid Oalian and Jaela Daran, the Keeper of the Flame -- but Oalian's a tree and Jaela's a child who loses most of her power when she leaves Flamekeep. The protagonists in my novels—the Dark Lantern Thorn; Lei, Daine, Pierce, Jode—are both non-canonical and also not especially powerful -- in the 7-9th level range rather than being on par with Elminster. In the end, I decided to play the artificer Merrix d'Cannith. The thing is that canonically he's a 9th level artificer, so we had to bump him up significantly in power to be able to pal around with Melf and El. So I'm not CANON Merrix; I'm from an Eberron in which Merrix is a player character. The other character I considered playing was the Lord of Blades, since he's essentially Magneto or Doctor Doom — he's typically a villain, but I could have come up with a story as to why he'd work with some heroes for a while. Another option would have been King Boranel of Breland, who has a running gag about how tough he is. But yeah, Eberron doesn't really have DMPCs like Elminster. Vi exists in art, but as others have said, I've never seen a stat block and part of her whole thing is that she hangs out on Sigil; she's FROM Eberron, but she's not a hero of Eberron. I did create a party of iconic adventurers that appear throughout the art in my DM's Guild books—the artificer Dela d'Cannith, Kalashtar monk Gentle, warforged fighter Rev, dwarf warlock Rusty, goblin rogue Ban -- but even in those books, the only place they appear is the art. What we've always said about Eberron is that it's a world that NEEDS heroes.</blockquote>

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