Sharn

Frozen City of Towers

The following passage is taken from Minim E. Eivoll's bestseller, We Are All Skott: The Real Heroes of the Time of Levistus.

Before the Great Freezing, Sharn, the magnificent City of Towers, was the greatest city in all of Khorvaire and arguably all of Eberron. Today, it is an icy tomb, a frozen reminder of the evils that lurk just out of eyesight and a monument to the heroes willing to sacrifice everything to stop them.
The eldrich ice that cocoons so much of the city still to this day appears to have originated from, or, more accurately (since its origin is almost certainly the contiguous plane of Risia), had its epicenter within, the vaults of Morgrave University. This, of course, is the very same institution at which the archmage (and my adopted brother) Skott Eivoll studied and worked his minor miracles before the aptly-named adventuring party, the Troublemakers enlisted him for a suicide mission. Could Skott have stopped the tragedy at Sharn before it happened had he not been pulled from his vital duties at the heart of the disaster? Sadly, that question can never be definitively answered, but many of the Morgrave survivors that I interviewed indicated to me that it was, indeed, possible. "I really don't know how he would have," confided one colleague, apparently as mystified as I about the intricacies and workings of wizardry, "but anything's possible [when Skott is involved]."
Because the ice spread out from Morgrave, located in what is nearly the center of The Middle City, and because the spread was so wide, even though most of The Upper City was spared from the ice's grip, with such large swaths of The Middle City frozen in blocks of ice that neither melt nor break, nearly all residents living or working above the second tier suddenly found themselves cut off. It must be said that for several weeks this presented no great hardship for the wealthy denizens of The Upper City, but as time passed and it became more difficult (and thus more costly) to bring fresh supplies up, shops began to close and residents began to relocate. Twenty years on, the upper levels are abandoned (save the warforged guards quietly still protecting empty manors from looters), the middle levels are encased in ice, and the lower levels... Well, in the lower levels, the workers finally find themselves in charge of the factory. And they don't seem very keen to give it back...

Type

Metropolis

Owning Organization

Breland

Eberron Next Notes
Even with half of the city frozen or abandoned, Sharn is one of the largest cities on Khorvaire. The Cogs and Lower City were largely untouched by the Great Freezing, and life goes on much as it did before, just without all the "bouzie" folks. Sharn is a very steampunk city, although now it's a dirtier, Terry Gilliam kind of steampunk. The accents in the city run the gamut - people are from everywhere. The born-in-Sharn accents are east-coast US, especially New York. The Cogs and Lower City tend to be Brooklyn, Jersey Shore, and Boston Southie.