Eberron Lore - Kalashtar & The Realm of Dreams (Dungeons & Dragons)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Episode 137! I talk about the Eberron race the Kalashtar. Their origins and unique place in the world of Eberron. Tied to the Realm of Dreams these humanoids are host to a spirit that guides them through life.
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"Let's hope for a fantastic 2020"
Ooooh big woof.
it hit us all so hard...
I had a mute khalashtar bard that used telepathy for vocals and verbal spell components. interesting guy
Ooh, that’s super cool! In my game, one of my players is a mute spellcaster (they’re doing a quirky thing where they’re trying out sidekick rules for their PC, they’re an experienced player so I’m letting them do it) who is mute, so I’m homebrewing a special “caster’s sign language” or CSL for short, which basically can allow any requirements for verbal components to be treated as somatic if the character knows CSL.
We have a Kalashtar in our home game right now, so fun to mess with him with his spirits...its so great to drag the party into his internal struggles!
A tiny bit of info on kalashtar you have not mentioned: the connection to certain of 66 remaining quori in kalashtar is inherited from father to son and from mother to daughter, but the gender of quori does not have to correspond to the sex of its lineage. Case in point, the lineage which femenine kalaraq Taratai was connected to was counting male heirs of a male Adaran monk. This lends to certain fluidity of kalashtar gender, as they gain spiritual empowerment and advice from a quori with worldview and perception different than the kalashtar looks like on outside.
*The Kalashtar in **_every_** encounter:*
DM: You reach the dragon's lair. It immediately notices you. Roll for initiative.
Kalashtar: I wanna mind like with it!
DM: It wants to kill you. Now roll.
Kalashtar: I ask it what its motivations are.
DM: What? Just fucking roll!
Kalashtar (mind linking) Hi
Dragon - Goodbye
@@ScorpionRegent - The worst part is, they never imposed an action economy. You can literally have an entire conversation in a split second. I would call it a broken feature, _if_ it were actually useful.
@@fleetcenturion It's worked really well for me. The game I'm playing is more intrigue than combat. In a hack and slash it allows a Kalashtar to have conversational combat with their opponent, like Wesley and Inigo in the princess bride. It's not necessarily a game changer, but certainly fun.
@@ScorpionRegent - You can literally just _say_ something as you're fighting. Last I looked, talking trash doesn't cost an action!
My biggest issue with new races (i.e., post-AD&D) is that everyone thinks that the way to make their character stand out, is to pick some new exotic race, when 99% of the time, they just end up playing humans with funny hats.
When I first started playing, the biggest edgelord was the "chaotic-evil halfling assassin." Nobody actually wanted to play a halfling; they just wanted the stealth bonuses, so they could backstab and rob random townsfolk, and basically be a serial killer.
Dungeons & Discourse has a great rant about elves, where she illustrates this perfectly.
This is the main reason that back in the day, D&D races other than humans were their own class. Blatant stereotypes? Maybe, but at least everyone knew that an elf shouting, "Kowabunga, dude!" before he attacked was completely out of character.
In short, if you want your character to stand out, pick something normal, and try role playing!
@@fleetcenturion I've been playing D&D since the Late 70's and been there and done that with "normal characters". I mentioned I'm in an intrigue game, it's all about role play. I don't know who you are talking to, but you might have mistaken me for someone else being strangers and all. We're not at the same table so how about you play your games and I'll play mine?
So can Quori be an imaginary friend? They can't communicate directly but that doesn't say not at all with their host. Could they manifest and point to something? Does each Kalashtar have their own Spirit or is a Spirit shared by a family?
It absolutely hurts when you hear the last line of the video and then notice that it was uploaded on the first of january. Now we are on a pandemic.
God help us.
Good news, March 2020!
It got worse!
This race is super fascinating, they have a cool origin, they share a dual mind with the quori and have unique abilities. This resource is helping me understand what Kalashtar truly embody. I am running a small game and one of my players chose to roleplay as a Kalashtar child, who plans to be a Circle of Dreams druid. We chose this before Eberron was released and all we had on the race was the UA insert on it! Happy to see it in a book today, and thank you for this video as well. Great summary!
I think the Kalashtar works well for the spirit folk of Kara-Tur. Just an easy reskin to fit in Forgotten Realms.
“Let’s hope for a fantastic 2020.” Boy did that not age well
Yeeep! 😬☹️
Jorphdan oh well. Hopefully it’ll get better, let’s not jinx it though.
Biteso too late
John Perkins goddammit it got worse didn’t it?
Thank you so much for the resurgence of Eberron videos. So happy. I love your channel
Jorphdan: Let's hope for a good 2020!
Narrator: It was not going to be a good 2020, nor the year or the decade.
yuuup
@@Jorphdan thanks for the reply, hope the past couple years hasn't been too rough. XD
I think there might have been a mix up the sequence of events, I believe that Keith Baker said in his podcast “Manifest Zone” that the Giants meddling with planes was the reason that Dal Quor entered its Age of Dark and the Dragons went to Xen’drik to attack the giants for messing with the natural order.
Actually, the dragons decimated the giant kingdom due to what the giants did AFTER they have severed the connection with Dal Quor: the giants' elf slaves rebelled against their weakened masters, and the giants tried to use the secrets they learned from the dragons to yet again be victorious. The dragons intervened and decided the best course of action would be to decimate Xen'drik.
So, you are correct that this isn't mentioned in here, but no one knows this other than the dragons.
You jinxed 2020
Thanks for the video tho, super good
Whats really cool about you doing this video is the fact that there's an upcoming D&D campaign I'm going to be in and I was contemplating playing as a Kalashtar Warlock with The Great Old One as my Patron. I had plans on using Dendar The Night Serpent because I thought it would be interesting parring a person who doubles as the incarnation of a spirit from the realm of dreams with a Patron who eats the nightmares of mortals and deity's alike. What do you think of the Kalashtar Warlock idea?
I'm in a long running play by post game that is focused in Adar (as part of the Summit Road) and fighting against the Inspired of Riedra.
It is honestly one of the more fascinating settings I've been in, dealing with a psychic force controlling the fates of this massive continent, while trying to hold out against the rising tide. And the more I learn about Sarlona, the Quori, The Dreaming Dark, and frankly everything, the more fascinating it becomes
Watching your videos makes me want to run a eberron campaign
Oof, that sign off at the end, ''have a great 2020'' that is a phrase that will go down in history
Jorphdan can you do a video of the Path of Light, philosophy of light and self-improvement?
This series is sooooo helpful
Excellent choices in artwork.
The Kalashtar are so cool! im playing one in my eberron party currently!
Loved this one! Man, Eberron is pretty amazing.
I have come to the conclusion that Kaladhtar are just regular humans on a shit ton of DMT
My first character was a kalashtar light cleric in a 4e one-shot.
Hey! I know this was 2 years ago but by any chance do you remember in which book you found more info (4e) you found more info about the kalashtar? ^^ I’m thinking of playing as a kalashtar cleric as well
@@Grrrr1997 I have no idea. It was on the Character Builder with D&D Insider.
@@Grrrr1997 Eberron Player's Guide would have the PC racial option. Eberron Campaign Guide probably had additional lore.
Jorphdan, great video! Enjoy your Wednesday!😍
I love dreaming, this may well be my favourite race to play, nice opportunity to get funky :3
Kinda wish there was a dream focused class or subclass maybe a dream cleric or something pulling inspiration from stuff like hollow knight the sandman series the fade in dragon age that kinda thing, maybe they channel dream spirits for different abilities or they can take on dream spirit like traits
Kalashtar can't dream.
Olimar92 I am aware, but they house a dream spirit and can relive the spirits memories in their sleep the connection is there regardless of whether they dream or not
@@llewtree3013 not a dream, but a reminder that you are a forced member of a war nobody knows of.
Love to run an Eberron game? Do it online and i'm in xP
I mean if volunteering and it’s not on Saturdays or Thursday...
Are you offering to run one or have one ran for you?
One ran by our Guru. (I'm already running 3, soon 4, can't have another xD)
Hey chief I'm looking for an eberron game is there room for your table
Great explanation! Thank you so much for doing this.
Hey so its me from late 2020, it wasn't fantastic.
Reporting from 2022, things are getting pretty weird
I’ve come back from the future in 2025 GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN
Reporting from 2023. Not much better
Status update: 2024 is pretty wacky
This may be on me for not fully understanding but, after the original set of spirits split of and fused with humans; do the offspring have their own spirits that turned to the light later or is it still the original rebels with all kalashtar?
Kriscross it’s the original spirits shared amongst their descendants. Eventually the spirit is so divided up that it fades in the background of the kalashtar’s mind
I got the okay for an aberrant dragon marked Kalashtar artillerist. This former acolyte of the light is going to be a HOOT
Can we get A video on the silver marches? my players want to go there and I don't know a thing!
Hey man, it's me again! Love the video, but really am missing more of the Forgotten Realms focus :/
Could you do a video on Drizzt and his party sometime? Maybe do a video on each of them to really do it justice?
Thanks for making these, they've really inspired me!
Sure! I'm planning on bouncing back and forth. But with the new book Eberron is the ticket item at the moment. I will get back to the Forgotten Realms, always more to cover :D
@@Jorphdan Awesome, thanks man! Looking forward to it :)
Wow this kinda sounds like a idea I had abit ago for the story I’m writing (I only started reading Eberron lore a month ago)
I love it!!! Thank You!!!
I really love these guys
They remind me of the Tok'ra from the Stargate. Humans who coexist with Goa-uld symbiotes
I love this comparison! I actually just finished watching SG-1 & SG:Atlantis for the first time. Really enjoyed them. I'll keep this idea in mind while playing.
I've never much cared for the Kalashtar (they're just people with Psionic abilities, and those weren't limited to a single race in previous DnD settings), but I do like the Path of Light. It's an even more radically different take on religion than the Silver Flame. Previously, Jorphdan said the Silver Flame wasn't a deity; I disagree with that. The Silver Flame certainly seems to function as a god. The Path of Light, however, is a religion that truly has no god, or if it does, its god is an evil one that should not be worshipped but resisted and hopefully someday redeemed. It's a fascinating take on a religion.
I also like the Inspired as bad guys; they're very creative and would make a truly dangerous foe.
Eh?! Morpheys now Eberron cannon, confirmed! 0:57
Do a video on the Mror Holds please!
I would love to play if you run. It be my first time playing Ebbrron.
P.s. this is K dub from the discord.
Kalashtar are like humanoids but their metaphysical self has a metaphysical equivalent of mitochondrion, hm
-Double D
Make a Phoenix Sorcery Kalashtar and name him Firestorm! 🔥🔥
so kalashtar’s are basically force sensitive and they seek to bring back balance to the force pulling it from the darkness... Nice!
So we need a bladesinger kalashtar?
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'let's have a great 2020.' Big oof.
Yeah. Doesn't age well.
Are ya gonna do the Shifters lore? 😁
I have a khalaster who's a druid that was raised by wolves to be exact dire wolves
Kalashtar’s Bizarre Adventure
Jorphdan, please do Numenera 9th World
A great look at the Kalashtar, one of my favorite aspects of Eberron, already my favorite setting. According to the dreaming dark trilogy of books (written by Keith Baker himself), the giants . . .
Shattered a symbolic moon and maybe the real moon it represented/the link to dal quor
This isn't, however, what actually caused the devastation to Xen'Drik, though they were weakened by their war with the Quori of that time (who were from a different quor tarai and thus not children of the dreaming dark). Instead, Xen'Drik was devastated when they planned to unleash the same worldshaking magic against Eberron itself in their war against the elves, prompting the Dragons to burn the continent and salt the earth. The 3.5 lore books on the subject offer contradictory accounts, but there are some really interesting Keith Baker articles on the subject that I can dig up and link if you're interested.
Will you do more campaign explained?
I will! I have a Descent into Avernus script mostly written. It's just difficult time wise because they take a lot more time than my average video. Working on it though! :)
I’m running an Eberron game and I’m a bit frustrated how lacking in-depth information the Rising From The Last War book is. Nevertheless, I like what is in the book and like the darker themes.
You can find a lot of 3.5 books on Eberron for Cheap on DM’s Guild, but I think Rising from the Last War is good enough because it establishes the really important details needed to run the world and leaves it to the DM to design their own version of Eberron, one of the core philosophies in designing Eberron is the fact that nobody’s version of the world is more canon than anyone else’s, not even Keith Baker.
Whats the art at 3:13?
I really hate how hyper specific the lore is to the setting of Eberron
You made a kalashtar video. You made a changleing video. Where is the shifter video?
Good point!
I best get writing
i wish i could find a eberon game...
How has the wishing for good 2020 working out? XD
not good... not.. good
So... Star wars with sprits?
In my personal headcanon, I'll probably run the Kalashtar more like the Trill from Deep Space Nine. Where the quori is passed from one host to another when the host is dying. Also, I like to think of the Dreamworld as it is described in the Wheel of Time series, but that's just because I love that series.
I just run them as psychic humans and let them dream. It doesn't change the power that much as very few things effect dreams.
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