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Greetings, Patrons!

While my IRL situation is approaching a conclusion, it's still taking up most of my time. In April I want to do a general review of the type of content I'm creating and to do some polls to determine if there's more effective ways to utilize the time I have available—whether that's creating videos, more sneak peeks, or something else—but I don't have the time to tackle that this month, so we're going to proceed as we have in the past. However, as always, keep in mind that I will not be able to answer every question. To increase the odds of getting an answer, consider the guidelines below. 

  • Given the volume of questions I receive, I limit myself to answering one question per patron per month. You can ASK multiple questions, because it may be one is easier for me to answer than another—but if you ask seven questions, I'm only going to answer one of them.
  • If I can answer a question in 2-3 sentences, I will answer it here (as a reply to your comment). If I can answer a question in 2-3 paragraphs, it may be answered as an IFAQ article, but I only have time to post a few IFAQs per month. If it would take 2-3 pages to answer the question, that's a Dragonmark article, and I generally can only write one of those in a month. So in short, the longer and more complicated the question, the lower the chance that I'll have time to answer it.
  • If I would have to do significant research to answer a question, that increases its effective size. It may be that the question only takes a few sentences to answer—but if I'd have to do two hours of research and contemplation to answer it, it's going to get passed over. An example of this is "What can you tell us about labor movements in Khorvaire," which has come up a few times. It's a great question; the problem is that I, Keith, know nothing about the history of labor movements, and before I could come up with a logical answer as to how they'd develop in Eberron I'd need to understand how they develop in OUR world—and I don't have time to conduct that sort of research right now. 
  • Likewise, a question that is about clarifying existing lore is always going to be easier than one that requires me to create entirely new lore. 

If you asked a question in a previous month that didn't get an answer, you can always ask it again, but consider as to how these guidelines apply. I do my best, but time is always the enemy.

As always, thanks for your support!

Comments

Anonymous

In you book Exploring Eberron you describes the "Three Faces cults" who associate one of the Dark Six and two of the Sovereign Host: Coin/Keeper, Love/Fury, War/Mockery and Wild/Devourer. Is there any divine triumvirates that would include the Shadow and the Traveler?

Anonymous

I'll ask a mildly stupid question. How high do you envision the Ring of Siberys being above Eberron? Either numerically or otherwise. The only narrative constraint I've thought of is "higher than a Lyrandar airship can go."

keithbaker

Honestly, I've only ever considered it to be "higher than a Lyrandar airship can go." Much like the Moons, the Ring is the sort of thing that I personally don't want to rigidly define until I'm actually running a story where it matters—in part because there's a lot of interesting directions you could go with it, and I don't personally want to close the door on anything until I have to. Are the moons planetoids with exotic environments, or are they enormous planar gateways? Either one is interesting; the question is whether I want a space-race campaign with 1940s style alien world exploration, or if I want to establish active commerce with the planes. Likewise, with the Ring of Siberys, is it a distant airless ring of lifeless dragonshards? Or could it be that Argonnessen or some other species has outposts in the Ring, and that an improved airship COULD reach it? So it's a good question, but it's a question I don't personally want to answer until I HAVE to answer it -- until I know the best answer for the story I want to tell.

keithbaker

If you followed the standard pattern -- two Sovereigns, 1 Six -- I could see Three Faces of Magic with Aureon, the Shadow, and Onatar (representing artificer and arcane industry). But not every Sovereign sect has to have Three Faces. We've called out the Restful Watch—which reveres both Aureon and the Keeper—and Cannith has a hidden Traveler cult.

Anonymous

That makes sense to me. I'm coming from the "space travel" angle, so it probably shouldn't be within reach of conventional airships. Beyond that is just numbers.