Editing Eberron (section)

===After The War===

The aftermath of the Day of Mourning proved just as horrific from another perspective: all of the Cyran refugees were refused to settle in almost any of the surrounding nations.  The Valenar elves - the mercenaries Cyre brought in to help them - actually murdered the shit out of the few refugees who showed up.  The other Five Nations mostly all felt that the Mourning was Cyre's own fault.  Only Breland eventually allowed them to form their own little refugee colony known as New Cyre.  Predictably, the Cyrans have become a little grimdark about this, and basically low-key hate everyone else for their treatement.  (Before anyone starts to chide them as emo, remember that the whole war started because three other nations refused to acknowledge Cyre's leader's legitimate claim to the throne.  They already hated the other nations pretty good; being treated like trash for the Day of Mourning has basically make Cyrans bitter and angry about everyone and everything.)

The terrible and unexplained event was enough to scare all the other nations into settling down for a diplomatic talk. These talks culminated in the drafting of the Treaty of Thronehold, a truce that effectively ended all the hostilities within Khorvaire.  There are a few very interesting points of the treaty that bear looking at.

* Nation Status: The treaty ended up recognizing all but a few of the existing nations as they are in the main Eberron book(s).  The very notable exceptions were Droaam (whom everyone saw as a pack of fucking monsters anyway; even the goblins of Darguun were better organized and in control of themselves), the Shadow Marches (but they weren't really an organized nation anyhow, which suited them just fine), and Cyre (which was simply declared non-existent as of the Day of Mourning).  Aundair squabbled about Eldeen being recognized, until Breland asked them about Old Breland (territory Aundair had seized from them first), and told Aundair to STFU or loose even more territory.

* The Dragonmarked Houses: While the various Houses already operated with some sanction in various capacities, the treaty certified some of it, specifically House Deneith being officially responsible for enforcing the terms of the treaty among various nations.  Cannith got split in three factions when their leader went poof in the Day of Mourning, but aside from the internal politics, they're still the go-to guys for making shit.  The other Houses made out more or less like bandits: their services were needed by everyone, and they suffered no real downside to being involved.  Shit, they still had their unofficial headquarters down in Stormreach in Xen'drik.  The war did little or nothing harmful to them as individual houses or a unified whole.

* Warforged: King Boranel's charisma at the negotiating table got emancipation for the warforged, something that stuck in the craw of Thrane and a few others who felt that they owned those guys (they did, after all, pay for them).