The Mark of Teeth (Lvl 5, Unique)

Black jagged tendrils of power seek out their target and suck the life out of him.

Lvl 5 +1 (1000 gp) Lvl 20 +4 (125k gp)

Lvl 10 +2 (5000 gp) Lvl 25 +5 (625k gp)

Lvl 15 +3 (25000 gp) Lvl 30 +6 (3,125k gp)

Alternative Reward.  You can use the Mark as an Implement,  granting an enhancement bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls with Implement powers.  To use the Mark, you cannot wear any item in the Hands slot.

Critical: +1d6 necrotic damage per plus.

Property

When you hit a bloodied enemy suffering your Warlock's Curse with this implement, you do +1 item damage per plus.

Power - Encounter (Minor Action)

You can make the Mark appear to be ordinary hand-wear (i.e. gloves or gauntlets).

This disguise lasts until you use the Mark as an Implement to make an attack.

Power - Daily (Free Action)

Trigger:  An attack using the Mark reduces a Cursed enemy to 0 HP.

Effect: Instead of your normal Warlock's Boon, receive the following benefit based on the triggering enemy's type.

Abberant: You gain a +1/ plus  power bonus to all defenses until the end of your next turn.

Immortal:  You gain resistance to all damage equal to your Con modifier + 1 / plus until the end of your next turn

Elemental:  You deal extra damage equal to your Con modifier +1 / plus with your first attack that hits before the end of your next turn.  This damage's type matches that of the triggering elemental, if it has one.  If it has multiple types, choose one.

Fey: Your next successful attack before the end of your next turn causes your target to become dazed until the end of your next turn in addition to any other effects.   At lvl 15 and 20, target is stunned until the end of your next turn.  At lvl 25 and 30, target is stunned (save ends).

Natural:  Regain hit points equal to your Con modifier +2 / plus.

Shadow: You become invisible until the end of your next turn.  At level 15 and 20, you  become invisible and phasing.  At level 25 and 20, you become invisible, phasing and insubstantial.

Eberron has what I'm looking for.  I have latched on to a few core ideas that I want to work with in a campaign, and Eberron has good representation of each of them.  Being D&D, it what I used to call "too busy" - there is too much of everything: races, classes, monsters, threats, sides, etc. etc.  I have accepted that as a given with any published and supported game-world.  I'll prune the world as needed, pushing what I don't need into the background.

Magic-as-technology:  Eberron embraces this concept with great gusto.  Warforged, airships, the lightning rail and elemental galleons, alchemy and through it all, the artificer class. 

The Magic Economy: D&D 4th ed. went most of the way here, with solid game-mechanics driving the value of items.  With rituals and their components, a society has real advantages in standard of living.   Eberron adds the dragonshards, which I'm going to run with and bring to prominence.   Speculators aren't gambling everything to find a vein of gold or iron, but instead for an untapped field of shards, which can be the foundation of economic and military power.

Racial Issues:  the elves-good, orcs-bad standards have always been my windmills to tilt at.  Eberron gray areas to spare here, with the goblins of Dargunn and the marginalized shifters and the hated changelings.  Human-vs-human conflict in the Last War is the great crime hanging over the world, as it should be. 

Disaster:  The Mourning, while not world-girdling, has big mysterious implications that can drive the campaign in whole or in part and give epic significance to the story (when needed).

Civilization:  I need there to be decent, hardworking people, safety, arts and culture in my world.  Unrelenting bleakness doesn't work with my story, I need the contrast.  The Five Nations, and others like Zilargo are stable nations with borders and differences.  

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(of the house Carridan, the fourth of that name)

Zeren is an Elven prince, second in line for the throne.  His father's kingdom is now mostly symbolic.  The only subjects left are scattered tribes and the palace was lost to invading orcs in his grandfather's day.  Zeren has not had the formal schooling expected of a prince, but he has seen his share of warfare.  He takes his nobility to heart, however, and proudly wears his family device.  He believes that he was born to protect his people and their allies.  Zeren worships Bahamut and practices a discipline rarely seen among elves, honing his blade and himself for the day when he must stem the tide of evil.  Zeren is Lawful Good.

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Zeren stands just under 6 ft tall and weighs 160 lbs.  His thin muscles stand out as if carved from wood. His complexion is a dark reddish-brown.  His electric blue eyes dominate his face.  Whenever he expects trouble, he brings his golden hair back in a long braid down to his shoulder blades.   He wears well-polished green scale armor and carries a tall, rounded shield emblazoned with the Carridan device: a shooting golden star on a dark blue field.

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• 17 Str (+3) (12 pts)
• 13 Con (+1) (3 pts)
• 15 Dex (+2) (3 pts + 2 race)
• 10 Int (+0) (2 pts)
• 14 Wis (+2) (2 pts + 2 race)
• 10 Cha (+0) (0 pts)

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Size: Med.  Speed: 6 sq (7-scale).  Vision: Low-light.  Languages: Common, Elven

Skill Bonuses: +2 Nature, +2 Perception.  Proficient: longbow, shortbow

Group Awareness: +1 Perception (race) to non-elf allies within 5 sq.

Wild Step: Ignore difficult terrain when you shift

Elven Accuracy: Encounter. Free Action.  Reroll an attack roll and use it.

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Weapon Proficiency: simple and military melee, simple and military ranged.

Bonus to Defense: +2 Fort.  Hit Points: 16.  10 surges of 4 each.

Trained Skills: +5 Athletics (Str-shield) +4 Endurance (Con-shield) +7 Heal (Wis)

Untrained Skills: +2 Dungeon, +2 Insight, +4 Nature, +4 Perception.+0 all others.

Combat Challenge: Every time you attack an enemy, whether you hit or miss, you can choose to mark that target.  The mark lasts until the EoynT. Marked enemies are -2 with any attack that does not include you as a target. If an adjacent creature marked by you makes such an attack or shifts, you can make a melee basic attack as an immediate interrupt.

Combat Superiority: +2 (Wis) with opportunity attacks.  A moving enemy struck by your opportunity attack loses the rest of the movement from that action.

Fighter Weapon Talent: +1 Atk with one-handed weapons.

Feat: Weapon Expertise: +1 Atk with any weapon power when you use a Heavy Blade (PHII)

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Sure Strike: At-will. +9 (2prof + 1talent +1feat +3Str +2) vs AC. 1d8 (1W) damage.

Tide of Iron: At-will. +7 (2prof +1talent +1feat + 3Str) vs AC.  1d8+3 (1W+ Str) damage and, if Med or smaller, push 1 sq.  can shift into the target's former square.

Passing Attack: 1st Encounter. +7 vs AC. 1d8+3 and you can shift 1 sq. and make a 2ndary attack (+9 vs AC. 1d8+3)

Villain's Menace: 1st Daily. +7 vs AC. 2d8 + 3 and gain +2 on attacks and +4 damage power bonus against the target until the end of the encounter.  On a miss: gain the bonus of +1/+2 until the end of the encounter.

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