The Gates of Night by Keith Baker is an Eberron novel published in 2006. It is the third and final book in The Dreaming Dark trilogy, following The Shattered Land . The main plot takes place immediately before and after the events at the end of The Shattered Land, starting on Lharvion 22 and ending on Barrakas 5 of the same year, 997 YK .
A band of war-weary soldiers have uncovered a plot that may tear the very fabric of reality forever. To save their own lives and to prevent a long-banished race of monsters from unleashing an army of horrors upon the waking world, they must reach the very heart of Dal Quor . To stop the cataclysm in time, they must fight their way to...
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Notable Characters
- Daine , a Cyran soldier. He wields a longsword and an adamantine dagger.
- Pierce , a warforged scout and skirmisher. He wields a heavy flail and a longbow.
- Lei d'Cannith , a dragonmarked heir and artificer . She carries a darkwood staff she acquired in The City of Towers.
- Xu'sasar , a female scorpion wraith of the Qaltiar drow . She is knocked unconscious by Harmattan and forced to go with Daine, Pierce, and Lei into Dal Quor.
- Indigo , a female warforged assassin.
- Harmattan , a strange, charismatic, and powerful warforged.
- Lakashtai , an agent of the malevolent Dreaming Dark of Dal Quor.
- Aleisa d'Cannith , Lei's mother, an artificer who worked on the development of the warforged who presumably died on the Day of Mourning . She appears in flashbacks.
- Talin d'Cannith , Lei's father, also an artificer. Like Aleisa, he also appears in flashbacks and presumably died on the Day of Mourning.
- Jode Jorasco , a halfling healer who possessed the Mark of Healing and was a longtime companion of Daine, Pierce, and Lei. He was seemingly killed at the end of The City of Towers , but his spirit is preserved through a mix of Daine's memories and a vial of magical blue fluid.