Xen'drik

Xen'drik is a continent on the planet Eberron located primarily in the southern hemisphere south of the continent of Khorvaire.

Geography

The mysterious continent of Xen'drik is a massive landmass south of the continent of Khorvaire, beyond Shargon's Teeth and the Thunder Sea. Around the end of the Last War, agents of the Four Nations began to explore the land in hopes of making profit from the numerous relics found there among vast natural resources. South of Xen'drik is the land mass of Everice.

History

Giants built the first civilization on Eberron eighty thousand years ago on the continent of Xen'drik. At the height of these empires they covered much of the continent. The giants and their slaves, drow and elves, built sprawling cities and massive temples throughout the land.
After twenty thousand years of building their Empires in Xen’drik, Giant explorers left the continent and started exploring the world and the seas of Eberron. Crossing the Dark Sea these Giants encountered the ancient race of Dragons for the first time on the shores of their homeland Argonnessen. Fascinated by the much-younger race, eventually collections of Dragons traveled to Xen’drik and began sharing their knowledge of Magic and the Arcane with the Giants.
The Giants quickly mastered the lessons taught by the Dragons and began constructing hundreds if not thousands of artifacts and locations that sixty thousand years later have not been equaled. Growing conflict and intrigue in their homeland caused the Dragons that had settled in Xen’drik to return home, leaving the Giants and their slaves in peace.
The Giants began to teach their slaves, the Elves, this magic. This instruction at first was to help the smaller Elves overcome their diminutive stature in the eyes of the Giants. In time, this instruction evolved in teaching elves more and more of the arcane magic. For another twenty thousand years the Empires of the Giants flourished in Xen’drik.
Forty thousand years ago, living nightmares from Dal Quor, the plane of dreams, crossed the planes and entered in the primal plane of the Giants. For a thousand years the Giants and Elves battled the interdimensional foes throughout Xen’drik. A conclave of the greatest Arcanists in all of Xen’drik was assembled and a weapon of cataclysmic power was unleashed, severing the connection from Dal Quor to the primal plane. The power of the weapon was so devastating that the cataclysmic result nearly equaled the damage caused by the war itself.
Magical curses, maladies, blights and turmoil afflicted the lands and people of the Giant empires. For a thousand year the empires of the Giants sought to regain control of the land. Wars between the various empires erupted and the slaves saw an opportunity to throw off their yoke and rise up. The empires of the Giants were forced to unite against the common foe the elves, their former slaves.
In this war, the Giants again called upon their conclave of arcanists to use magic to put down the Elven Slave Revolt. With Giantish magic unleashed the Dragons of Argonnessen returned to Xen’drik. The Dragons were forced to call upon their greatest magics to stop the Giants from destroying the world. No one knows how close the Giants came to destroying the world or even how much power the Dragons exerted to stop the Giants.
In the aftermath of this war the empires of the Giants were no more. The great cities, temples and monuments of the Giants were left for ruin. Xen’drik was destroyed. For thirty-five thousand years the echoes of the conflict between the Dragons and Giants have distorted the lands of Xen’drik. The unleashed echoes of eldritch power have created bizarre monsters and twisted landscape in its path. Formerly enslaved elves fled to Aerenal. Giants devastated by the war were left shattered and hopeless. Their civilization lost, the Giants began degenerating into primitive and violent beasts. The wilds of Xen’drik returned and the glory of the continent's ancient culture was forgotten in myth and legend.
Two centuries ago adventurers and explorers from Riedra and Khorvaire began delving into Xen’drik; those that returned brought with them fantastic stories of unimaginable wealth and glory hidden deep within the heart of the land.

Type

Continent

Inhabiting Species

• Drow