Quori

The **quori** are immortal outsiders from Dal Quor, the Region of Dreams. The quori are part of the ecosystem of Dal Quor, where they move about the dreams of mortals, adding flavor as befits their nature, which in turn reflects the nature of il-Lashtavar.

## History

### Giant-Quori War

Forty thousand years ago, they succeeded in opening up the gates between Dal Quor and Eberron and nearly overran the world. It was only through the intervention of dragons who provided arcane technologies to the giants of Xen'drik that the plane of Dal Quor was shunted away from its rotation so that it could never again become coterminous with the material plane

### The Path of Light

Some time after Dal Quor was made permanently remote by the giants, the age of Dal Quor changed and the children of il-Lashtavar came into existence. Like all immortals, the quori did not immediately notice when the turning of the age occured; the newly-formed took joy in pursuing their role in Dal Quor, and the events on Eberron simply weren't their concern.

However, the hashalaq are the loremasters of Dal Quor, and they do catalogue dreams. Over the course of tens of thousands of years of cataloguing dreams, they would also learn something about reality. They learned that there was a Dal Quor before their earliest memories—that there must have been a Quor Tarai before il-Lashtavar, because the Cul'sir Dominion fought quori and yet they have no memories of the Cul'sir Dominion. That's the point at which curiosity arose. Why would their predecessors have interacted directly with the Material Plane? Most likely, the dominant theory was that the giants destroyed the previous Quor Tarai with the Moonbreaker... but further research would show that the timeline doesn't match, that the quori of the previous age survived for a time after that event.

It is also in this period, as the hashalaq try to glean the truth from dreams, that some quori had visions of il-Yannah—visions of a force of light, of a Dal Quor not defined by the Dreaming Dark... the first seeds of the Path of Light and Taratai's rebellion. It's these rebels who would have advanced the notion that il-Lashtavar wasn't eternal—that there must have been a previous Quor Tarai and that there would eventually be another. This was bitter heresy and most of the heretics would be consumed by il-Lashtavar, to be reborn in new compliant forms. But the thread would continue until eventually, Taratai rallied her followers and fled.

About 1,800 years ago (−802 YK), this rebel group of 67 quori escaped Dal Quor and merged with the bodies of willing human monks of the nation of Adar on the continent of Sarlona, a continent considered to be the cradle of humanity. These quori/human mergings became a true-breeding race known as the kalashtar. But even at that point, all of this was *theory*, because the quori only interacted with the material plane through dreams. It's only once they had a presence in the world itself that they could start searching for clues in Xen'drik, trying to find artifacts or records to tell them more about the conflict between the quori of the previous age and the Cul'sir Dominion.

### The Inspired

Three centuries later, other members of the quori who had darker plans began to invade Eberron through the dreams of its people. Finding humans far more susceptible to their powers, the quori assaulted the minds of the peoples of the twelve nations of Sarlona. The quori manipulated the humans to bring about wars and instability, and even directed their breeding, along with that of various other beings, in order to craft the perfect vessels to hold their spirits.

After another two hundred years, they had perfected their breeding methods and powers of psychic manipulation such that they could enter the world through these vessels, despite their home plane's remoteness. Predominantly human, with some elf and fiend ancestry blended in, these so-called "empty vessels" are inhabited and controlled at will by quori hosts. Becoming known as the Inspired, they strive to reopen the portals to Dal Quor under the auspices of an organization known as the Dreaming Dark. In order to pursue this goal, the Inspired are also searching for clues of their past in Xen'drik today.

While the Inspired were initially created to provide willing hosts who would temporarily accept the quori spirits, the building of hanbalani altas (ovoid monoliths) seems to have allowed quori to occupy any willing host.

## Types

 File:Quori 2.jpg  There are different types of quori and different Inspired bred to house them. The known quori types are as follows:

* Tsucora Quori - weakest and most numerous quori
* Tsoreva Quori - mind blades, enforcers of Dal Quor
* Dream Master Quori - inquistors and assassins
* Du'ulora Quori - blackfuries, spirits of rage
* Hashalaq Quori - dreamstealers; loremasters and judges
* Kalaraq Quori - eyebinders; the nobility of nightmare
* Quor Tarai - the spirit of the age in Dal Quor; there is only ever one Quor Tarai

## References

***Eberron Campaign Setting***.
Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek, and James Wyatt (2004). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3274-0.

***Magic of Eberron***.
Bruce R. Cordell, Stephen Schubert, and Chris Thomasson (2005). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-3696-7.

***Secrets of Sarlona***.
Keith Baker, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, Glenn McDonald, and Chris Sims (2007). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0-7869-4037-0.

***Dragon magazine #324***. Matthew Sernett (2004). Paizo Publishing.