What if the Traveler isn't a god per se but an immortal being whose unique ability to navigate time and mad genius have woven his subtle and inexplicable influence throughout the tapestry of Eberron's history? So impossibly ubiquitous, so utterly ineffable, that his exploits have been elevated in the retelling to those of a deity. Perhaps this begs the question of whether or not he truly is a god.
People have already mused upon the combination of the Deva race with the Artificer class to bring the character into D&D, but perhaps the Traveler truly gives him a fitting role in Eberron:
What if the Traveler were Eberron's version of the Doctor?
Sounds right, but which events in Eberron's past and future will this Doctor/Travler and his TARDIS eldrich machine take the PCs to see?
Maybe back to the Dhakaani empire days, where a group of extraterrestrial mutants ('Daelkyr' or 'Dalek' in Dhakaani goblin) begin their invasion?
Maybe back to the Dhakaani empire days, where a group of extraterrestrial mutants ('Daelkyr' or 'Dalek' in Dhakaani goblin) begin their invasion?
Ah, the Genesis of the Dalekyr...
Got a Spare Parts moment for you - Quori-Giant war, primitive warforged lose access to their forge but still have a directive to continue the battle - so they start capturing organics and replacing their flesh with construct implants.
I would have actually used this adventure if my campaign had gone on long enough...
Amusingly, the big bad of my campaign arc is an 'eldritch thinking engine' that House Cannith discovered and has been employing for vast computations of demographics and other data. It's actually a remnant of the Daelkyr invasion, is sentient and free-willed, and manipulated its users in order to bring about the Day of Mourning (the party's job is to stop it from doing it again to the whole continent). I'd figured it'd be some kind of device, but it works so beautifully if it's an undying aberration within a seemingly-mechanical shell.