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Lore and Pantheon

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	==Lore and Pantheon==		==Lore and Pantheon==
	While Exandria does have its own flair, it doesn't massively set itself apart by carving a niche the way settings like [[Dragonlance]] or [[Eberron]] do, and in many ways it's just a typical kitchen sink setting. It mostly acts as a 'fresher' alternative to high fantasy settings like the Forgotten Realms. To the chagrin of some, it is also noteworthy for its progressive undertones (there are a few LGBT NPCs mentioned in the ''Explorer's Guide'' and the setting tends to shy away from generalizing races as evil).		While Exandria does have its own flair, it doesn't massively set itself apart by carving a niche the way settings like [[Dragonlance]] or [[Eberron]] do, and in many ways it's just a typical kitchen sink setting. It mostly acts as a 'fresher' alternative to high fantasy settings like the Forgotten Realms. To the chagrin of some, it is also noteworthy for its progressive undertones (there are a few LGBT NPCs mentioned in the ''Explorer's Guide'' and the setting tends to shy away from generalizing races as evil - though some races and societies still are described in very unflattering terms).

	Exandria's pantheon is the [[Dawn War]] pantheon from the [[Nentir Vale]], with the notable addition of [[Sarenrae]] from [[Golarion]]. In the ''Explorer's Guide'', due to obvious legal issues, Sarenrae has been replaced with an expy called [[Raei]]. This is because Exandria was originally a homebrew setting for [[Pathfinder]] but was ported to D&D 5e when ''Critical Role'' became a show, and one of Mercer's players (Ashley Johnson) played a cleric of Sarenrae. Many gods are also often referred to by secondary epithets unique to the Exandria setting (i.e. [[Corellon]] is called the Archeart), which were seemingly established for the ''Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting book'' to avoid legal issues before Exandria became an official setting.		Exandria's pantheon is the [[Dawn War]] pantheon from the [[Nentir Vale]], with the notable addition of [[Sarenrae]] from [[Golarion]]. In the ''Explorer's Guide'', due to obvious legal issues, Sarenrae has been replaced with an expy called [[Raei]]. This is because Exandria was originally a homebrew setting for [[Pathfinder]] but was ported to D&D 5e when ''Critical Role'' became a show, and one of Mercer's players (Ashley Johnson) played a cleric of Sarenrae. Many gods are also often referred to by secondary epithets unique to the Exandria setting (i.e. [[Corellon]] is called the Archeart), which were seemingly established for the ''Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting book'' to avoid legal issues before Exandria became an official setting.

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Books */

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Books

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	Mercer has published other content related to Exandria such as a 'Blood Hunter' class and a Gunslinger subclass for Fighter, but none of that was official either.		Mercer has published other content related to Exandria such as a 'Blood Hunter' class and a Gunslinger subclass for Fighter, but none of that was official either.

	''Call of the Netherdeep'' ~~will be~~ an adventure module set in Exandria that ~~will come out~~ in ~~2022~~.		''Call of the Netherdeep'' is an adventure module set in Exandria that takes the players from Xorhas to Ank'Harel in search of the Apotheon, a demi-god hero from the Calamity that was lost to time.

	==Races==		==Races==

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Marquet */

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Marquet

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	Your southern continent, with jungles, deserts and more, oh my. It used to be considered an 'Arabian Nights'-esque continent minus the unsavory elements, since one of the parties from the live show visited the very-Middle-Eastern city of Ank'harel. The third live campaign is set in Marquet and seems geared to prove that the continent isn't just Disney's Aladdin by showing more of the continent outside the Rumedan Desert.		Your southern continent, with jungles, deserts and more, oh my. It used to be considered an 'Arabian Nights'-esque continent minus the unsavory elements, since one of the parties from the live show visited the very-Middle-Eastern city of Ank'harel. The third live campaign is set in Marquet and seems geared to prove that the continent isn't just Disney's Aladdin by showing more of the continent outside the Rumedan Desert.

	We've seen the city of Jrusar, your typical fantasy city built into five rock spires with your living furniture, walls trying to eat people and an Ogre fry-cook named Pretty, which hangs over a large jungle that are sparsely travelled. Another region is the Hellcatch Valley, a Mad Max-inspired badlands setting where "crawler gangs" travel across the steps on mechanical, legged-and-wheeled death machines while trying to avoid the weird fauna and the giant fucking holes in the ground. The city of Bassorus is in the middle of it and wouldn't ~~like~~ out of place in [[Fallout]]; a scrapyard mixed with the worst [[Star Wars\|hive of scum and villainy]] that explicitly is described as being a place where nothing ever goes right.		We've seen the city of Jrusar, your typical fantasy city built into five rock spires with your living furniture, walls trying to eat people and an Ogre fry-cook named Pretty, which hangs over a large jungle that are sparsely travelled. Another region is the Hellcatch Valley, a Mad Max-inspired badlands setting where "crawler gangs" travel across the steps on mechanical, legged-and-wheeled death machines while trying to avoid the weird fauna and the giant fucking holes in the ground. The city of Bassorus is in the middle of it and wouldn't look out of place in [[Fallout]]; a scrapyard mixed with the worst [[Star Wars\|hive of scum and villainy]] that explicitly is described as being a place where nothing ever goes right.

	It's worth noting that Marquet does have a lot of the features of a standard Middle-eastern setting, being known for its spices and culinary arts, for large deserts and roving nomadic tribes, but as the setting evolves, it seems to be a take on many classically "exotic locales" without any specific culture attached to it. This makes Marquet the "Exotic Fantasy" counterpart to Tal'Dorei's "High Fantasy" and Wildemount's "Gritty Fantasy".		It's worth noting that Marquet does have a lot of the features of a standard Middle-eastern setting, being known for its spices and culinary arts, for large deserts and roving nomadic tribes, but as the setting evolves, it seems to be a take on many classically "exotic locales" without any specific culture attached to it. This makes Marquet the "Exotic Fantasy" counterpart to Tal'Dorei's "High Fantasy" and Wildemount's "Gritty Fantasy".

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* The Shattered Teeth */

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The Shattered Teeth

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	===The Shattered Teeth===		===The Shattered Teeth===
	Probably the most mysterious continent, its true shape is a vague guess at best and the players on Critical Role have never traveled to it. It's actually an archipelago that serves as an analogue for East and South Asia, and is hidden behind a fog bank called the Fool's Curtain. It is dominated by two nations: The Ossended Host is based on isolationist Japan and its society is based around the worship of dreams and nightmares, while the Wanderman Assembly is a capitalist society based on the British East India Trading Company.		Probably the most mysterious continent, its true shape is a vague guess at best and the players on Critical Role have never traveled to it. It's actually an archipelago that serves as an analogue for East and South Asia, and is hidden behind a fog bank called the Fool's Curtain. It is dominated by two nations: The Ossended Host is based on isolationist Japan and its society is based around the worship of dreams and nightmares, while the Wanderman Assembly is a capitalist society based on the British East India Trading Company.

			Also, it used to be a single continent, but it was destroyed by the Archdevil [[Asmodeus]] at the beginning of the Calamity. He wanted to, and I quote, ''"shatter the teeth of Exandria"''. [[Warriors of Chaos\|Metal]].

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Marquet */

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Marquet

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	===Marquet===		===Marquet===
	~~This is your~~ Arabian Nights continent minus the unsavory elements, ~~most notably containing~~ the city of Ank'harel ~~which is ruled over by an 'immortal' named J'mon Sa Ord who is actually an ancient brass dragon in disguise~~. ~~Most of what we know about Marquet comes from the~~ third campaign ~~which~~ is set in the ~~region~~. ~~Up until the writing of this paragraph, we~~'ve seen the city of ~~Jhrusar~~, your typical fantasy city built into five rock spires with your living furniture, walls trying to eat people and an Ogre fry-cook named Pretty.		Your southern continent, with jungles, deserts and more, oh my. It used to be considered an 'Arabian Nights'-esque continent minus the unsavory elements, since one of the parties from the live show visited the very-Middle-Eastern city of Ank'harel. The third live campaign is set in Marquet and seems geared to prove that the continent isn't just Disney's Aladdin by showing more of the continent outside the Rumedan Desert.

			We've seen the city of Jrusar, your typical fantasy city built into five rock spires with your living furniture, walls trying to eat people and an Ogre fry-cook named Pretty, which hangs over a large jungle that are sparsely travelled. Another region is the Hellcatch Valley, a Mad Max-inspired badlands setting where "crawler gangs" travel across the steps on mechanical, legged-and-wheeled death machines while trying to avoid the weird fauna and the giant fucking holes in the ground. The city of Bassorus is in the middle of it and wouldn't like out of place in [[Fallout]]; a scrapyard mixed with the worst [[Star Wars\|hive of scum and villainy]] that explicitly is described as being a place where nothing ever goes right.

			It's worth noting that Marquet does have a lot of the features of a standard Middle-eastern setting, being known for its spices and culinary arts, for large deserts and roving nomadic tribes, but as the setting evolves, it seems to be a take on many classically "exotic locales" without any specific culture attached to it. This makes Marquet the "Exotic Fantasy" counterpart to Tal'Dorei's "High Fantasy" and Wildemount's "Gritty Fantasy".

	===The Shattered Teeth===		===The Shattered Teeth===

1d4chan>TheWiseDane: /* Marquet */

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Marquet

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	===Marquet===		===Marquet===
	This is your Arabian Nights continent minus the unsavory elements, most notably containing the city of Ank'harel which is ruled over by an 'immortal' named J'mon Sa Ord who is actually an ancient brass dragon in disguise.		This is your Arabian Nights continent minus the unsavory elements, most notably containing the city of Ank'harel which is ruled over by an 'immortal' named J'mon Sa Ord who is actually an ancient brass dragon in disguise. Most of what we know about Marquet comes from the third campaign which is set in the region. Up until the writing of this paragraph, we've seen the city of Jhrusar, your typical fantasy city built into five rock spires with your living furniture, walls trying to eat people and an Ogre fry-cook named Pretty.

	===The Shattered Teeth===		===The Shattered Teeth===

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Races

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	Exandria houses all of the Player's Handbook Races, although Sea Elves exist here, as do the unique subraces of Pallid [[Elf]] and Lotusden [[Halfling]]. [[Dragonborn]] are divided into tailed Draconbloods and tailless Ravenite subraces. Additionally, it's also home to the three iconic [[Planetouched]] races ([[Aasimar]], [[Genasi]], [[Tiefling]]), [[Aarakocra]], [[Firbolg]]s, [[Goliath]]s, [[Kenku]], [[Tabaxi]] and [[Tortle]]s, as well as non-evil [[Orc]]s, [[Goblin]]s, [[Hobgoblin]]s and [[Bugbear]]s. It's also home to a unique "race" called the Hollow Ones, which are basically [[revenant]]s of any of the aforementioned races.		Exandria houses all of the Player's Handbook Races, although Sea Elves exist here, as do the unique subraces of Pallid [[Elf]] and Lotusden [[Halfling]]. [[Dragonborn]] are divided into tailed Draconbloods and tailless Ravenite subraces. Additionally, it's also home to the three iconic [[Planetouched]] races ([[Aasimar]], [[Genasi]], [[Tiefling]]), [[Aarakocra]], [[Firbolg]]s, [[Goliath]]s, [[Kenku]], [[Tabaxi]] and [[Tortle]]s, as well as non-evil [[Orc]]s, [[Goblin]]s, [[Hobgoblin]]s and [[Bugbear]]s. It's also home to a unique "race" called the Hollow Ones, which are basically [[revenant]]s of any of the aforementioned races.

	One weird thing about Exandria is that, if you read the lore, there's a ''lot'' of interspecies shagging going on. Elf/Dwarf couples are a prominent thing in the Diarchy of Uthodurn (although the kids are randomly either dwarves or elves, with some minor aesthetic traits from their other parent), whilst the Half-Elf lore notes that the statblock covers things like elf-minotaur hybrids and elf-bugbear hybrids as well as the traditional elf-human hybrid. Orcs and goblins, however, refuse to interbreed, for fear of what might be unleashed by creating a child bearing the divine curses of both [[Gruumsh]] and [[Bane]].		One weird thing about Exandria is that, if you read the lore, there's a ''lot'' of interspecies shagging going on. Elf/Dwarf couples are a prominent thing in the Diarchy of Uthodurn (although the kids are randomly either dwarves or elves, with some minor aesthetic traits from their other parent), whilst the Half-Elf lore notes that the statblock covers things like elf-minotaur hybrids and elf-bugbear hybrids as well as the traditional elf-human hybrid. Orcs and goblins, however, refuse to interbreed, for fear of what might be unleashed by creating a child bearing the divine curses of both [[Gruumsh]] and [[Bane]]. The Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn even dedicates a few paragraphs to describing the possibility of elf-dragonborn, orc-dwarf, and even goliath-gnome characters, though the last one is mentioned as an example of a coupling that would probably require having a costly magic-user with very specific skills on hand and therefore more rare.

	==Classes==		==Classes==

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Books

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	Mercer has published other content related to Exandria such as a 'Blood Hunter' class and a Gunslinger subclass for Fighter, but none of that was official either.		Mercer has published other content related to Exandria such as a 'Blood Hunter' class and a Gunslinger subclass for Fighter, but none of that was official either.

	''Call of the Netherdeep'' will be an adventure module set in Exandria that will come out in 2022		''Call of the Netherdeep'' will be an adventure module set in Exandria that will come out in 2022.

	==Races==		==Races==