The Overlords, also called the Na-Vakhti or Rakshasa Rajahs by the rakshasa, or the Elder Evils by the aboleth, are the most powerful of the fiends of Eberron. They ruled the world during the Age of Demons.[1][9][10]
History[]
The Overlords are the first true children of Khyber, spawned ten million years ago. These spirits, also called the rakshasa rajahs by the rakshasa who serve them, ruled over the lesser fiends during the Age of Demons. However, the children of Siberys and Eberron, the dragons and the couatls, joined forces to rid the world of the Overlords and their fiends. The couatls gave their lives to trap the thirty Overlords deep beneath Khyber, where they still sit today. Their former minions, the rakshasas and other fiends, have formed the Lords of Dust and seek to free the Overlords from their prisons.[1][9][10]
Notable Members[]
There are about thirty Overlords trapped across the world of Eberron, but only some of them are known:
- Bel Shalor, the Shadow in the Flame, is a fiend that almost escaped but was stopped by Tira Miron and was trapped within the Silver Flame. Some say that he is still trapped within the Flame in Flamekeep.[10][11]
- Eldrantulku the Oathbreaker is the spirit of discord, turning allies into enemies.[9]
- The Horned Prince or Horned King who is worshiped by minotaurs.[12][13]
- Katashka the Gatekeeper is the Overlord of life and death, and the creator of the first undead. Katashka's servants include the demigod Kyuss and the dracolich Mazyralyx.[9][10]
- The Overlord now known as Levistus was imprisoned deep beneath the ice of the Frostfell.[14]
- Masvirik the Cold Sun is an Overlord with domain over the things that slither in the night. Masvirik is trapped deep within Haka'torvhak, where his servants Rhashaak and the Blackscale and Poison Dusk lizardfolk await his freedom.[15][16]
- Rak Tulkhesh, the Rage of War, is the embodiment of rage, war, and hatred.[9][17]
- Ran Iishiv, the Unmaker is imprisoned in Korrandar in Adar, Sarlona.[18][19]
- Sakinnirot, the Scar that Abides claimed ownership of the continent of Xen'drik, and is now trapped beneath Stormreach.[2]
- Little is known about the Stalker in Darkness, but the rakshasa Zathasram is seeking to become his prakhutu.[20]
- Sul Khatesh, the Keeper of Secrets, is the master of arcane might and mystery. Unknown to most, Sul Khatesh is trapped beneath the Arcane Congress of Arcanix, whispering to them in their sleep.[9][21][22]
- An Overlord given the name "Syrkarn" is thought to be bound beneath the yuan-ti ruins of Sustrai Mor, Syrkarn, in Sarlona.[18][19][23][24][25][26]
- Tiamat, the Daughter of Khyber, is the truest child of Khyber, and holds dominion over dragonkind. She is trapped within the Pit of Five Sorrows, where the Talons of Tiamat hope to free her.[10][27]
- Tul Oreshka, the Truth in the Darkness, is the keeper of truths and of madness.[9]
- The two-headed rakshasa rajah Yad-Raghesh brought the fight to Argonnessen during the Age of Demons. This overlord was defeated by the dragons, and entombed in the Vale of the Fallen Rajah, under the watchful eye of the Light of Siberys.[28][29]
- An unnamed fiend is bound in the Krertok Peninsula, in the Tashana Tundra in Sarlona.[18]
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- the Dungeons & Dragons Online game.
- The Spinner of Shadows is a female overlord imprisoned deep within Khyber, near Tarath Marad. For ages she has waited for just one moment of freedom so that she may once again spin her web of treachery. She was attended by drow, reavers and hezrou demons.[30][31]
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- Dhavibashta is an Overlord imprisoned beneath the ruins of Mel-Aqat, along with the spirit of the couatl that bound it. Its rakshasa servant Shudra the Fleshrender attempted to escape and free its master by stealing the body of the wife of Janik Martell. It was thwarted by the efforts of his new lover, a priestess of the Silver Flame who was able to defeat the Fleshrender with a silver torc gifted to her by the spirit of a couatl.[32][33]
- Malathar, The Keeper of Secrets is a cat-like fiend that was imprisoned along with the couatl that had bound it beneath Aundair. Its essence, along with that of the couatl and the power of the Storm Dragon, could be harnessed to create the Dragon Forge, a weapon capable of devastating the Eldeen Reaches and the eastern Demon Wastes.[34]
- The Wild Heart is an Overlord associated with lycanthropes and savage beasts. It is unknown where he is bound, but his prakhutu is Drulkalatar Atesh, and he is implied to have been at least a partial cause of the events leading up to the Lycanthropic Purge.[35][36]
- An unnamed fiend is bound in Tempest's Isle in the Lhazaar Principalities.[34]
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- Keith Baker's commentary.
- Ashurak, the Slow Death, is the Overlord of Disease. They are bound within the Demon Wastes.[37]
- Dral Khatuur, the Heart of Winter, is a female elemental force that, upon release, would cause a new ice age. She has no love for the other Overlords and has no representative on the Bleak Council.[38][39]
- Val Gultesh, the Shaper of Nightmares, is the Overlord of Fear. It is bound within an unknown location in the country of Zilargo.[36]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek, & James Wyatt (2004). Eberron Campaign Setting. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 159–160. ISBN 0-7869-3274-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Keith Baker, Nicolas Logue, James Desborough, C.A. Suleiman (2008). City of Stormreach. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 156. ISBN 0-7869-4803-5.
- ↑ Keith Baker (2005/07/04). Lords of Madness. Eberron Expanded. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2016/11/01. Retrieved on 2021/08/15.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Jeremy Crawford, & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 302–304. ISBN 0786966890.
- ↑ James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
- ↑ Keith Baker (November 2005). “Eternal Evil: The Lords of Dust”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #337 (Paizo Publishing), p. ?.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Keith Baker, Jeremy Crawford, & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 303–304. ISBN 0786966890.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Jeremy Crawford, & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 302. ISBN 0786966890.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Keith Baker (November 2005). “Eternal Evil: The Lords of Dust”. In Erik Mona ed. Dragon #337 (Paizo Publishing), p. 70.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 28–31. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
- ↑ Keith Baker and Jason Bulmahn (June 2006). “Dreadhold: Eberron's Inescapable Island Prison”. Dragon #344 (Paizo Publishing), p. ?.
- ↑ James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 130. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
- ↑ Keith Baker (October 2008). “Dragonmarks: Backdrop: Graywall” (PDF). In Chris Youngs ed. Dragon #368 (Wizards of the Coast), p. 6.
- ↑ James Wyatt, Keith Baker, Luke Johnson, Steven Brown (2006). Player's Guide to Eberron. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 67. ISBN 0-7869-3912-5.
- ↑ Keith Baker (December 2010). “Poison Dusk, Black Sun: Explore Q'barra, Part 2” (PDF). Dungeon #185 (Wizards of the Coast) (185)., p. ?.
- ↑ James Wyatt (2021). Fizban's Treasury of Dragons. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 82, 168. ISBN 0786967293.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Jeremy Crawford, & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 303. ISBN 0786966890.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 91. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ James Wyatt (April 2010). “The Maze of Shattered Souls” (PDF). Dungeon #177 (Wizards of the Coast) (177)..
- ↑ James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 31. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Jeremy Crawford, & James Wyatt (2019). Eberron: Rising from the Last War. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 304. ISBN 0786966890.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 58. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Secrets of Sarlona. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Nicolas Logue, & Amber Scott (2007). Dragons of Eberron. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 9. ISBN 0-7869-4154-5.
- ↑ James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 181. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Nicolas Logue, & Amber Scott (2007). Dragons of Eberron. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 50–52. ISBN 0-7869-4154-5.
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- ↑ Keith Baker, Imogen Gingell, & KB Presents (November 2022). Chronicles of Eberron. (DMs Guild), p. 125.
- ↑ James Wyatt (2006). In the Claws of the Tiger. (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-4015-8.
- ↑ James Wyatt, Wolfgang Baur, Ari Marmell (2007). The Forge of War. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 127–128. ISBN 0-7869-4153-7.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 James Wyatt (2009). Dragon Forge. (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-5105-2.
- ↑ Keith Baker (November 2008). The Queen of Stone. (Wizards of the Coast), p. ?. ISBN 978-0-7869-5009-6.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Keith Baker, Imogen Gingell, & KB Presents (November 2022). Chronicles of Eberron. (DMs Guild), p. 126.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Imogen Gingell, & KB Presents (November 2022). Chronicles of Eberron. (DMs Guild), p. 123.
- ↑ Keith Baker (03/05/2013). Dragonmarks 3/4: The Lords of Dust.
- ↑ Keith Baker, Imogen Gingell, & KB Presents (November 2022). Chronicles of Eberron. (DMs Guild), p. 124.