The Shattered Land_ The Dreaming Dark - Keith Baker [166]
Traveler, the: Loosely aligned with the Dark Six, this deity is the embodiment of intrigue and artifice.
Treaty of Thronehold: The treaty that ended the Last War.
Tribex: A large quadruped used as livestock and beasts of burden across much of Khorvaire.
Trolanport: The capital city of Zilargo.
Tsucora: The most common order of quori spirit. Tsucoras are said to feed off of the fear and terror of mortal dreamers.
Uul’she: A scorpion wraith of the Qaltiar drow.
Undersharn: The tunnels that run below the city of Sharn. In addition to the sewers, Undersharn includes the ruins of older cities built long before Sharn.
Valenar: 1) A nation in southeastern Khorvaire, founded by an army of warrior elves. 2) Common name for someone or something from the Valenar nation.
Vulk N’tash: See scorpion wraith.
Xen’drik: A large continent directly south of Khorvaire. Once home to an advanced civilization of giants, Xen’drik was devastated by a terrible cataclysm almost forty thousand years ago. The effects of this magical disaster still linger: space and time are often unpredictable in Xen’drik, and many strange creatures and cultures have appeared in this shattered land.
Xoriat: Another plane of existence, known as the Realm of Madness.
War of the Mark: Five hundred years before the creation of Galifar, the dragonmarked families joined forces to eliminate those who possessed aberrant marks. Ultimately the aberrants joined forces and formed an army of their own, under the leadership of Lord Halas Tarkanan and his lover, the Lady of the Plague. Despite Tarkanan’s skill and personal power, his troops were few in number and poorly organized, and he could not stand against the dragonmarked. In the aftermath of the war, the families formally established the first dragonmarked houses. See aberrant dragonmarks, dragonmarks, dragonmarked houses, House Tarkanan.
Warforged: A race of humanoid constructs crafted from wood, leather, metal, and stone, and given life and sentience through magic. The warforged were created by House Cannith, which sought to produce tireless, expendable soldiers capable of adapting to any tactical situation. Cannith developed a wide range of military automatons, but the spark of true sentience eluded them until 965 YK, when Aaren d’Cannith perfected the first of the modern warforged. A warforged soldier is roughly the same shape as an adult male human, though typically slightly taller and heavier. There are many different styles of warforged, each crafted for a specific military function—heavily-armored infantry troops, faster scouts and skirmishers, and many more. While warforged are brought into existence with the knowledge required to fulfill their function, they have the capacity to learn, and with the war coming to a close, many are searching their souls—and questioning whether they have souls—and wondering what place they might have in a world at peace.
Whitehearth: A House Cannith forgehold in Cyre. Presumed destroyed in the Mourning.
Xu’sasar: A scorpion wraith of the Qaltiar drow.
Xuxajor: A warrior of the Sulatar drow.
Yao: A Goblin affirmation. Usually combined with a name or title; “yao’lhesh” roughly translates to “Yes, sir!”
YK: Most of the nations of Khorvaire make use of the calendar of Galifar. The current date is reckoned from the birth of the Kingdom of Galifar, in the Year since the founding of the Kingdom, or more simply, YK.
Zil: Common name for someone or something from Zilargo.
Zilargo: A nation on the southern coast of Khorvaire. The homeland of the gnomes.
Zulaje: The war leader of the Sulatar drow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Keith Baker discovered DUNGEONS & DRAGONS® in elementary school, and this was the beginning of a lifelong interest in games of all sorts. In 2002, he quit his day job to become a full-time freelance writer. Much to his surprise, in 2003 his world EBERRON® was selected as the finalist in the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search. Keith currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with his lovely wife Ellen and