The Age of Demons

Common Knowledge

Demon, Lords of Dust and Overlords

• Everyone know the Overlords were archfiends who dominated the world and the beginning of time, are now bound and would like to break free to destroy the world.
  • This has happened to Thrane mere centuries ago
• Most people know stories of the Overlords and know their titles. Knowing more would require a ability check.
• Very few people have heard of the Lords of Dust.
  • Most would know of troublesome shapeshifting demons and know they are a threat, but the idea of a massive fiendish conspiracy manipulating human civilization for thousands of years is as unbelievable as the idea of dragons doing the same thing.
  • If you had proof of someone who were actually a fiend or possessed by one, people would take it seriously.
• Most common fold wont differentiate between Devil Demon and Fiend. To them these are synonyms.
  • Nobody cares about your “party fact” that the “Demon Wastes” would be better named the “Fiend Wastes” even if it is more accurate, seriously George, stop reading those dusty books and get out more”

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Period: More than 100,000 years ago During the Age of Demons, myths tell us …

• Eberron was dominated by the overlords, thirty archfiends who shaped reality to their will.
• Champions, later known as the Sovereign Host, fought the overlords with an alliance of dragons and couatl.
• The sacrifice of the couatl bound the overlords with a force that formed the Silver Flame.

According to the Progenitor myth, Eberron became the world and all natural creatures are her children. But in the first days of the world, the children of Khyber—fiends, aberrations, and other monsters—rose up from the darkness and claimed dominion over the world. The greatest among these were the overlords, immortal archfiends embodying the evils that plague mortals. Each overlord shaped the world to match their whims, and no civilization could challenge them. It was a time of chaos that lasted for untold millennia.

The Age of Demons came to an end after an extended war between the overlords and a legendary group of champions— now known as the Sovereign Host. Believed by some to be dragons, by others, gods—or perhaps something else entirely— these rebels raised an army of dragons allied with the couatl, native celestials said to embody the last light of Siberys. As the immortal overlords couldn’t be destroyed, countless couatl sacrificed themselves, their spirits combining into a prison of pure celestial energy that could bind the overlords. Even today, the overlords remain bound and the world protected from immense evil by this force, now known as the The Silver Flame