and I'm just wondering, are the only deities in Eberron the ones mentioned in the ECS or does it also include the default ones in PHB?
just curious for if any of my group wants to make a cleric/favored soul or whatever.
one player wants 2 make a halfing healer (of the jorasco house of healing), and I was trying to find a description of the god/goddess for that character, and found nothing race related. as in 'halfings venerate this deity' or whatever.
so the whole, 'dark 6' and the counters on the good side of god-dom (i dont remember the names and i dont have the books w/me) have me a little confused.
i'm aware this degeneated into rambling but it's 3am lol.
thanks anyways
k cuz im kinda confused just a bit. new 2 Eberron not dnd.
one player wants 2 make a halfing healer (of the jorasco house of healing), and I was trying to find a description of the god/goddess for that character, and found nothing race related. as in 'halfings venerate this deity' or whatever.
so the whole, 'dark 6' and the counters on the good side of god-dom (i dont remember the names and i dont have the books w/me) have me a little confused.
i'm aware this degeneated into rambling but it's 3am lol.
thanks anyways
Please don't post like that. It makes it rather hard to follow what you are trying to say. Check the Code of Conduct and you'll see that leetspeak and such isn't allowed anyway.
The gods in the PHB are not used in the Eberron campaign setting (although I'm likely to be followed by a half dozen posts confusing the issue by saying that you can include them if you want to and another two dozen saying that since faith magic powers divine spells you can worship anything you want to).
Eberron has its own religions. Most of the religions are not racial in any way. There is no halfling god, no dwarf god, etc. People worship any gods they want.
To make this a little more confusing for you, the Sovereign Host is a pantheon is is usually worship as a whole. While one might give a prays to a specific god in a certain circumstance, and you might have a favorite amongst them, they're still viewed as one pantheon.
Many healers from House Jorasco focus on Boldrei, a goddess of the community. But she isn't a god of halfings nor the only god House Jorasco respects.
Eberron has its own religions. Most of the religions are not racial in any way. There is no halfling god, no dwarf god, etc. People worship any gods they want.
To expand (hopefully not confuse): The only religion mentioned in the book that is 'race-specific' is the Undying Court faith of the elves. They're not even happy with half-elves joining, for the most part (Half-Elves can't get the Right of Counsel, IIRC). Otherwise, racial religions are mostly put aside by Eberron if you play it straight from the book.
The dominant faith on Khorvaire is the Sovereign Host, whatever race you might have. It is so successful because it has assimilated the gods of many other cultures. Most of them were remarkably similar to those of the Host when the missionaries found them; they were swallowed up in a procedure known in our world too: namely syncretism (e.g. declaring that Athena and Minerva are the same deity, or the Greeks referring to Egyptian Toth as Hermes).
By now, many halflings are followers of the Host, others follow their own religion, which is partly animistic (see here), yet others may combine the two, be agnostic, atheist, follow the Silver Flame or the Blood of Vol, or simply don't care.
As Gurv indicated, there is nothing that prevents you from including Yondalla. The halflings did have gods which differed, however slightly, from those of the Host - because the latter, in its current form, originated in Sarlona, even if in many examples we got, the names of the other gods are remarkably similar. Thus the giants venerated nor Aureon, but Ouraleon (IIRC).
If you still want to bring in Yondalla: she might be venerated by a tribe clinging to old traditions. She might have been venerated, and is now assimilated with Boldrei. She might have been a couatl in Krezent whom the halflings mistook for a god, or a famous halfling hero subject of hero-worship. Of course, she may never have existed in the first place.
For your player, I support Gurv's suggestion of Boldrei, or (if he wants to stay close to halfling roots, which is something Jorasco has mostly abandonned), the Talentan druidic beliefs I linked to above. As a Healer with a twist, the Blood of Vol might be interesting... after all, they see death as the worst evil.
Also, note that a character does not need a patron deity. This is not Faerun; he won't end up in trouble if he has no patron deity (well, not more in trouble than everyone else). It's perfectly fine to be agnostic or atheist in Eberron, or to simply not care about religion; many seem to have abandoned their faith after the horrors of the war.
As a Healer with a twist, the Blood of Vol might be interesting... after all, they see death as the worst evil.
Generally speaking, I tend to play several of the Houses as having close ties to the Blood of Vol, either politically or philosophically.
The House with the strongest tie to the Blood of Vol is Jorasco.
The Blood of Vol is an invaluable ally in the study of disease, particularly diseases of the blood, and of diseases with a genetic component: the Blood of Vol, in addition to studying undeath, has a known interest in genetics and the characteristics of certain bloodlines. In particular, they have an excellent understanding of how certain magical characteristics are passed from generation.
Further, the Priests of the Blood of Vol are typically equipped with targath weapons, suggesting that they have either access to or a store of that most paradoxical of metals. The only known source of targath is in the mountains of northern Argonnessen, which suggests, in turn, that it is mined under the supervision of Seren or dragon overseers. The Seren tend to deal only with each other and with the dragonmarked Houses.
Now, targath is almost indispensible to the healer's art, forming the basis of objects capable of curing any disease; even without enhancement, simply having a mass of targath about provides additional resistance to disease or infection.
This suggests that most targath coming to Khorvaire does so under the auspices of House Jorasco, which, I personally suspect, pays the Blood of Vol in targath for access to their knowledge of blood, genetics, and blood- or bloodline-borne diseases.
There are other Houses with significant ties to the Blood of Vol, either philosophic or political, but I believe that Jorasco has by far the strongest working relationship with them.
Back on topic, I endorse the comments made by Gurv and Syltorian, above.
—Siran Dunmorgan
Note to derail the thread, but I wonder what Jorasco's opinion on undead is. Of course, even the Blood of Vol itself considers undeath as a curse of sorts, albeit one that will eventually make the world better for everyone else; but Jorasco as abilities that would be effectively anathema to the undead due to their manipulation of positive energy.