Eberron's Geographic Challenge

Man I know it probably isn't in the plan, but talking about the Shadow Marches, the Eldeen Reaches, and the influence of the Dragonmarked houses would be a great 2nd video.

"Yes, hello, Dungeon Masterpiece? Can I get two units of geopolitical fundamentals delivered to my veins? "...why, yes, I am a Tremere Anarch. "...yes, I'll hold."

I am a massive Eberron fanboy and this was great, please if you can find it in your schedule to make more videos on the setting please do. It's so hard to find good content on this particular world setting.

See THIS is the stuff that I find deeply intriguing about Ebberon and why I would love to play in a campaign in the setting. Dealing with the possibility of another war, or trying to prevent it? It’s so intriguing. Hell for a bit I had a character lined up for this who wanted to invent a big ol’ mechanical dragon, wanting protect people from dragon attacks. Fighting fire with fire if you will. But watching this video I realized I effectively would have been playing the guy who invented rocket powered flight only to be met with the very real prospect of them being used for Nuclear missiles.

YES! This is our major campaign setting. So pumped to watch this after work.

Very interesting analysis. One thing to point out is that the Mournland incident would be the trigger point for the destabilization of the region. In our history, the Krakatoa eruption in the 500s was the trigger event that is considered the boundary between the ancient world and the modern world. After the massive eruption, the next few hundred years saw the beginning of the modern world as the ancient nations fell because of the effects of the eruption. In this world, having an event such as the coming of the fog would start to destabilize the region and would certainly trigger a change of the political landscape.

I've never used the setting, but this has got me very interested in taking a look.

Woohoo, Eberron! I don't know that Thrane actually has the power to expand like that, though they definitely have the imperative to. The Aundarians and Brelish would be united against them, and Droaam and the Eldeen Reaches would be very motivated to join them, considering the history of the Silver Flame in those nations. Add to this how dominant Breland is in Industry, and Aundair's magical prowess, and I don't think paladins are going to be able to do anything other than kick off the other nations fighting over what parts of Thrane they get to keep afterwards. Their opening might be if Aundair's extremist history with the church breaks the nation before the war, with religions/conservative separatists who undermine Aundair's ability to function before any conflict kicks off...in which case, I would see Aundair itself being the central instigator of conflict, but already joined with Thrane. That said, I would love some analysis of the non-Five Nation regions of Khorvaire, since they might end up as a very important factor in the coming conflicts.

Eberron is my favourite setting. I've been looking forward to a potential video on it since I found your channel!

Keith Baker actually published an article about this subject called "the Near Future". The queen of Aundair very much wants another war, but isn't going to start one unless she has some reason to believe that Aundair will win. Some suggestions that Keith threw out include developing some powerful superspell that nobody has, an unbeatable alliance with Empire of Riedra, etc.

I only have the 3ED version of Eberron, but I can easily see this. Nice overview of Khorvaire. Makes me want to reread my Eberron books.

Great overview and I love your intertation of Eberoen not being a cold war anolog but an between WW1 and WW2 one.

It's been a long time since I ran an Eberron campaign and I forgot that the setting isn't just detailed but that it's full of not just adventure hooks but campaign hooks each of which can easily spin off into all kinds of complex emergent story lines. Such a great setting, I wish it got more love.

Absolutely love the video, love Eberron. Though unlikely, I would love to see follow up videos on it.

Thrane’s situation has long struck me as that of Lothar I (grandson of Charlemagne, one of the three brothers who inherited the Carolingian empire after Charlemagne’s son passed)—and the fact that they’re either going to have to conquer or be conquered is something I ponder sometimes staring at the map. This video was fantastic - thank you!

“God Damn it not again” - every Warforged on the continent

Yesss! Khorvaire is such a geo political hot mess! Glad to see you cover this!

This was an amazing video. I'm running an Eberron campaign at the moment and this has given me a few ideas on how to bring other nations into the currently very Breland-focussed game. I know a lot of other people in the comments are echoing this, but more Eberron videos alongside your other planned projections would be great!

Dude... you've really outdone yourself with this one. I was never interested in Eberron until now. But also this really helped convey how to apply this stuff to my own setting.

Thank you for this video, I really enjoyed it and I gave me some fun ideas for a meta plot for a Eberron campaign I’ve been working up! I hope you’ll do more, I’d love to hear a bit more about Aundair which was my characters home in my longest running ebberon game and a nation I got strongly attached to. Also I’d love to hear more about the politics of the periphery states.