#aerenal

[kythriscourierseberron]

Been Too Long

Hello everyone! It has been some time since we used this. Admittedly since then we have mostly been focused on rebuilding efforts and relaxing since we did in fact save Sharn from collapsing yet another time, but admittedly not having much to do is a great reason to keep up a blog like this. So I suppose we can answer things from past adventures as well as anything else. So I suppose ask away.

[cepheidelta]

Eberron Pokemon #8-9 - Aerenal

Continuing a bit of a “Beyond Khorvaire” theme, following Riedra. These were quite an easy pair to concept up. The typing choices are fairly obvious: Elves are fey-ish, and they preserve their ancestors as undead/deathless. The golden mask design is a direct reference to the symbol of the Undying Court.

[magpiegram]

Some characters for an Eberron DnD campaign I’m running. The lady is a guard captain and the dude is a cult member. :v

[kythriscourierseberron]

Oh God It's ALL FUCKED

Hello everyone! It's been a bit since we reached out to you! We've been a little busy with the END OF THE WORLD... Well... several. I will be prodding the others to use this again to speak out about what's going on and how they have been. I am currently holding back so much blind fury that I did actually see red for a little mostly because Aena is in immediate peril. So you know. Normal shit.

I am so fucking angry.

[kythriscourierseberron]

Elaen, has your grandpa ever told you any funny jokes? Dad jokes perhaps?

What is the silliest thing he’s ever relayed to you?

Oscar certainly chooses to believe he is funny. If you had asked me some time ago I think I would have said his funniest joke was leaving Aerenal to see the world, but here we are now. So who knows what is real anymore...

As for dad jokes, I don't think Oscar is privvy to that kind of humor? Most jokes in Aerenal are sort of overdone, since they are likely generations old. It ... it tends to make humor a little stale.

He has turned to newer, fresher methods of tormenting me. Like bullying.

What Mi Hijo is trying to say, is that I am very funny. He just has no sense of humor. Aerenal ripped the funny right out of his bones. Truly a tragedy. Anyway! Missy Mae! I have a joke for you. What do you call a gargoyle trying to be scary?! A Grrr-Goyle! HEHE. Also! What do you call sports players who don't stop the game after they die? The Undying Court >:D

Abuello.. please stop

[naturalistsguidetoeberron]

Baboon

“What battle did you fight in?” Fortunine asked, looking up from her work table as Ardiane walked in looking dishevelled. The little construct on her table feebly wiggled, trying to test its legs. The warforged idly shepherded the construct around the table, preventing it from.falling off.

The half-elf dumped a bag and closed the door, futilely trying to pull her torn shirt back down to cover her leather. “A damn death-faced Aereni and his damn dog-monkey ran into me and the beast tried to tear me to shreds because it wanted the food in my bag.” She tore the shirt off, leaving her in her armour alone. “Godsdamned elf should keep his pet on a leash.”

Unique to the islands of Aerenal, the baboon is a monkey with a long muzzle and a hardened rump. Carnivorous and social, the vast majority of the population have been domesticated by the Aereni elves. As such, they remain a popular elven pet among most elves of Khorvaire, who claim the baboon's long life and intelligence makes them superior to the more widespread dogs or cats.

A number of variations have been bred, at first by ancient Aereni, but newer ones by Houses Vadalis and Phiarlan. These pedigree baboons have brightly coloured muzzles and backsides, along with variations in fur colours. Each family line in Aerenal has a specific breed of baboon associated with it, but Vadalis has bred unusual colours for Phiarlan nobles.

Stupid Sovereignsdamned Aereni and their stupid Sovereignsdamned untrained dog-monkeys. - Ardiane

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Elven Clothing

This was a fun page to do! Living in the jungle and steppes would necessitate light and loose clothing such as skirts and wraps. I also decided that, based on info about Mayans and ancient Egyptians, clothes would be more class-based as opposed to gender-based. In addition, I defined some example patterns for clothing, using motifs established in the weapons as well as references.

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Eberron and religion: The Undying Court

The first of the non-Khorvaire religions we'll touch on is the Undying Court, which is based on the island/sub-continent of Aerenal. As explained in the Blood of Vol article, death is a very bleak affair in Eberron. The elves of Aerenal have discovered a method, presumably tied to various manifest zones on Aerenal, of using positive energy to sustain a body and soul after death. This is a process similar to undeath, but powered by positive rather than negative energy. The very greatest elves are chosen for this process, becoming Undying Councilors - highly powerful beings in their own right. However, the gestalt of all the Undying Councilors, the Undying Court, has powers approaching that of a deity - though their direct influence is mostly limited to Aerenal itself. Elves usually venerate their own ancestors and, to a lesser degree, the rest of the Court. This veneration can take many forms, but usually boils down to caring for family - as a form of ancestor worship, families are highly important. A minority of Aereni elves use various herbs to dessicate their bodies in order to attempt to reach higher spiritual enlightenment. A variant on this religion is the ancestor worship practiced by Tairnadal elves. Rather than revering ancestors preserved in deathless form, they form a spiritual bond with a great hero from the past, and try their best to emulate the personality, skills, and deeds of this hero. While this is a small minority among the Aereni, they are more common on Khorvaire due to their presence in Valenar, a portion of Cyre conquered by these elves.