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For anyone interested in the lore of Eberron, especially with the new 4E campaign guide not releasing until June, I have created a compilation of Eberron lore and history in the tradition of the Grand History of the Realms, entitled (what else) The Grand History of Eberron. It contains all known Eberron history and lore available in all the 3.5 Edition sourcebooks and Internet sources, and also includes some preparations for the eventual update of Eberron for 4E. Please take a look, feel free to download the document at your convenience, in both Word or PDF format (you need to sign up for the site below but its free and does not send spam) and let me know what you think. The Grand History has been revised to drastically reduce the number of footnotes and to include new material, including a much-needed Table of Contents, a Gazeteer of the Five Nations, new pictures and descriptions of all the dragonmarked houses, the unique races of Eberron, the religions of Eberron and a set of historical maps. At Keith Baker's request, the Grand History now also includes a full acknowledgement of both his work and the work of all the others who have created the wonderful lore of Eberron and a small Bibliography is also now attached at page 3. If we could make this a sticky I'd really appreciate it.

Enjoy!

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The Grand History is also available for free download here, no sign-up required. This is probably the easiest place to download the file:

 uploadingit.com/d/YKJASW2FL6IIEM7N

I went through the document. Have you written all of this? Or did you copy/paste historical text from the eberron book collection in this huge document?

The text is drawn from all known published Eberron sourcebooks and Internet material, but has been rewritten in some places so that it now forms a coherent whole. No source currently places all of Eberron's historical information together in one source like this, and this also provides access to some of the harder to track-down pieces of information, like the name of Eberron's lost thirteenth moon (I'm not telling you'll have to read it!). However, as you may notice on the title page, this is only an editing credit, not a writing one. The credit for the material rightly belongs to the authors who originally prepared it in the sourcebooks and Internet articles. However, this document places all of this information in one place for the first time and allows a user to actually understand the full scope of the lore and the myriad connections between Eberron's past and various plots of the present. It is an invaluable resource for DMs designing new campaigns or for people who simply enjoy the world and would like to know everything about it all in one place and with a storyline that is now continuous and fully-fleshed out with the end of Edition 3.5. The Guide is meant to be very similar to the original Grand History of the Realms, which started out simply as an Internet compilation, but unlike that document this is far more than just a chronology and provides the context and full explanations for every event. And also maps, gotta love the maps!