Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

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CHAPTER 4 | BACKGROUND 93

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Every house has traditions, cabals, and
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  • Most Dragonmarked houses maintain
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    as hubs for house businesses and
    strongholds for the house families.
    A city may also have any number
    of businesses tied to the house—a
    Ghallanda inn, a Cannith smith, a Sivis
    message station—but these are simply
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    direct connection to house leadership.

  • Any heir of the house who develops
    a dragonmark is allowed to add the
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    houses are called Barons. Most houses
    are led by a matriarch or patriarch,
    though some are led by councils.

  • The Twelve is an organization
    that facilitates communication
    and cooperation between the
    Dragonmarked houses. Excoriates are
    dragonmarked heirs who have been cut
    off from their houses. Foundlings are
    people who develop a mark outside of
    a house and have no connection to it.

  • Dragonmarks manifest around
    adolescence. Each house puts its
    heirs through a trial called The Test
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    by house, but they place the heir in
    circumstances where they are likely to
    manifest the mark, if they have it. About
    half of the members of a bloodline
    manifest the mark.

  • The Korth Edicts prevent the houses
    from owning land, holding noble titles,
    or maintaining military forces (with an
    exception for Deneith). The Edicts were
    established long ago when the Five
    Nations were united. Today, many in
    the houses feel the Korth Edicts have
    become obsolete in the wake of the
    Last War.

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