- Keith Baker 's commentary.
Dral Khatuur , called the Heart of Winter and the Killing Cold , is one of the fiendish Overlords that ruled Eberron during the Age of Demons . She has dominion over cold and winter. [1] [5]
Description
She represents the relentless cold of winter and, more specifically, the innate fear mortals have of the unknown and untraversable frost. The supernatural horrors of the Frostfell are explained by some as the presence of this Overlord trapped beneath the ice or within the unnatural cold itself, but no mortal knows for sure. [2] Dral Khatuur embodies mortal fears of cold, winter, and darkness. [6]
Even the immortal Lords of Dust are said to fear her, as none in their ranks serve Dral Khatuur or work toward her release. [2] [3]
Dral Khatuur maintains no known followers among the Lords of Dust and seems to have no affinity for the rakshasa as many other known Overlords do. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Abilities
Dral Khatuur counts Death, Cold, and Winter as her domains. [6] [4]
Appendix
Background
Dral Khatuur was originally meant for content related to the continent of Frostfell. Ultimately, the Overlord never appeared in any published works from Wizards of the Coast , but Keith Baker has talked about her at some length on his blog . [1] [2] [3] [4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Keith Baker (01/20/2018). Manifest Zone: Changelings, Shifters and Lycanthropes . Archived from the original on 05/17/2018. Retrieved on 02/27/2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Keith Baker (03/15/2018). The Age of Demons and You . Archived from the original on 06/20/2018. Retrieved on 02/27/2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Keith Baker (03/05/2013). Dragonmarks 3/4: The Lords of Dust . Archived from the original on 01/24/2018. Retrieved on 02/27/2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Keith Baker (02/03/2017). Eberron Flashback: The Lords of Dust . Retrieved on 02/07/2019.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Keith Baker , Imogen Gingell, & KB Presents (November 2022). Chronicles of Eberron . (DMs Guild), p. 124.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Keith Baker (03/15/2018). The Age of Demons and You . "Dral Khatuur isn't an embodiment of the natural concept of cold. She embodies mortal fear of the cold and the darkness. She is the winter that steals the sun, the terror you feel when you hear the icy wind howling in the night. She can trap the spirits of those she kills; if that icy wind sounds like screaming, it may be the tortured cries of Dral Khatuur's victims. She can even craft simulacrums of her victims out of frost, and send them back to prey on their friends… so if a comrade of yours disappears for a time in the icy dark and then returns, are you sure that it's still your friend? In short it's the same as a lycanthrope; it resembles a natural phenomenon, but it is embodying mortal fears as opposed to an actual, natural concept. This comes back to the fact that Dral Khatuur was designed to drive a suspense/horror story arc as opposed to a long term campaign."