House Kundarak

If you want to keep something safe — jewels, secrets, prisoners — Kundarak is there to help. The Defenders Guild of House Kundarak trains locksmiths, security specialists, and more. It maintains the infamous prison of Dreadhold, along with a number of smaller prisons. As useful as these services are, it’s the Banking Guild that truly defines the house. Kundarak’s lands in the Mror Holds include deep veins of precious metals and stones, and the dwarves have used this wealth to establish the banking industry of Khorvaire. Anyone who makes a living from coin — from bankers to goldsmiths — likely learned their skills at House Kundarak. The security of Kundarak banks is legendary. The house also provides a special service to those who can afford it: a system of extradimensional vaults, allowing a client to store their goods in one location and retrieve them at any other Kundarak enclave. House Kundarak has a close alliance with House Sivis. Like the House of Scribing, Kundarak has worked to earn the trust of its clients and to establish a reputation for unshakable integrity. The house has no love of renegade dwarves using their marks to turn a profit, and such rogues will want to avoid the eye of Kundarak.

Dragonmarked Characters

Here are examples of characters with the Mark of Warding.
Artificer House Agent. Some people want to build a better mousetrap. Better isn’t enough for you — you want to build the best. Your basic job: go out in the world, find the finest and most unusual security systems, and see what you can learn from them. When you go into an ancient ruin, you’re hoping there are traps.
Criminal Rogue. It’s not that you’re a bad person. You’ve just never met a lock you didn’t want to open. It’s like they speak to you, whispering “Free me! Free me!” You’re not even in it for the gold; you’ve just fallen in with a bad crowd because most people who like opening locks are criminals. Perhaps it’s time to make some new friends.

Roleplaying a Kundarak Dwarf

The amount of trade between the various nations and dragonmarked houses is so great, merely shipping gold coins back and forth between all of the involved parties at any given time would require more ships than even House Lyrander could provide, and would slow the Lightning Rail to a crawl from the weight of treasure they would have to carry. Enter House Kundarak, who’s trustworthy name and impartiality at running the largest banking system Eberron has ever known. Through it’s issuance of letters of credit, and its ability to honor such letters of almost any size on demand has made modern living possible, and has made you quite rich in the process.
If you are an Artificer of House Kundarak, you are an expert at building security devices, from simple alarms that can be placed on doors, to the vast impenetrable vaults surrounded by the most lethal traps imaginable that hold hordes of gold, silver, and platinum beyond the dreams of even the most greedy of dragons. Most think of House Kundarak’s business as being money, but it isn’t true. Money is simply the focus of your business, providing protection for whatever valuables need securing. Whenever someone needs a large sum of cash, a powerful magic item, or even a lock of their loved one’s hair, your house and your wards make an impassable wall of protection that will keep those items safe.
As an adventuring Artificer, you are more likely than most to actively seek out trap filled dungeons and places that are said to be impossible to enter, and do your best to enter them. You aren’t motivated so much by the gold or treasures that can be found in those dungeons, or the secret knowledge held behind those high walls, for you, the treasure is in discovering new defensive means, and how to circumvent old ones. By knowing first hand how to bypass a trap, you are more likely to be able to build around those flaws in your own. While you know that no defense is ever perfect, getting as close as possible is your goal.
Places of Interest Kundarak Bank of Sharn - Largest bank in Sharn, in Korranath Sharn Kundarak Enclave - In Dragon Towers

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