Harry Potter and the Dragonshards
Prologue
By IKilledTheDevil
Come close dear reader, I have a story to tell. This one takes place on good old earth or as it was once know: Eberron. Now lets begin, it all... aah but I suppose I should give you a little background first. To start you need to know how the world came to be. Let's see it all started with the Three Progenitor Wyrms First was the golden Siberys: Source of all Magic, Second was the Gentle Eberron: The Fountain of Life, and lastly the Cruel Khyber: The Master of Secret Knowledge, and of the powers that lurk in the darkness. In the beginning the Three worked together crating all that is, they started with the thirteen planes, but as they molded reality, rifts began to form between themselves. Khyber grew greedy, and noble Siberys responded by becoming more forceful; each seeking a greater influence in the work. Siberys created the planes of Daanvi: The Perfect Order, Fernia: The Sea of Fire, Irian: The Eternal Day and Khyber made Kythri: The Churning Chaos, Mabar: The Endless Night, and Xoriat: The Realm of Madness. Eberron tried to mediate the two but could not bridge the gap.
When it came time to create the final, central plane, the tensions between Siberys and Khyber boiled over. The dark one tore into her sibling, mortally wounding the gold dragon and scattering his scales across the sky. Although not powerful enough to defeat her, Eberron knew that she could not allow her sister to benefit from her deeds. The gentle one refused to fight Khyber with her tooth and claw. Instead, she embraced Khyber, trapping her within her smothering coils. Eberron then called on her powers of life, giving birth to soil, tree, and ocean, and transforming herself into a living prison that Khyber could never escape. Thus Eberron became the world on which all life grew. To this day, she nurtures and sustains all. Siberys's remains became the ring around the world, his blood becoming the planets, and his scales became the stars at night. Kyhber-The Dragon Below, The Mother of Monsters, the source of all darkness-remains trapped within forever struggling to escape and bring an end to it all.
After so long though still before even the supercontinent Pangaea back when Eberron had five continent's and Siberys could still be seen, magic was everywhere and had a part in nearly every part of every aspic of life! From your Identification, to how one traveled, to even ones medicine. While the world was still recovering from The Last War a Gold Dragon by the name of Luminia using the Draconic Prophecy-a means of foreseeing the future-saw a horrifying fate: the Freedom of Kyhber. After consulting her peers she found that she wasn't the only one to come to this conclusion. After gathering a list of over 200 names she brought it before a meeting of the Head's and Counsels of the thirteen Dragonmarked House's only for nearly all there to laugh her out despite the list, all but a handful believing in the Draconic Prophecy. Leaving in a huff she left to tell the other dragons, they decided to pool their resources to determine how this will happen and-with hope-try and stop it, after ten years of toil they found the answer they where looking for, The Cult of the Dragon Below-mad worshipers of Kyhber-had constructed a device that gathered energy given by Kyhber herself to form an unstoppable beast called the Tarrasque and to make maters worse it was all most done.
Their plan was to unleash it on to Eberron to cause enough harm to kill Eberron herself and free Kyhber, now you mite be asking yourself "Why doesn't Eberron stop this herself?". Well you see holding back her sister takes lot of effort on its own let alone sustain us all at the same time. So in order to kill or stop the formation of the beast she would have to sacrifice the lives of all her children or free Kyhber nether was an option, if she where to do the first she would be giving Kyhber what she wanted, and if Eberron where to free her she would do the deed here self. Realizing this the dragons captured high ranking priests of the cult and interrogated them and found that the Tarrasque's invisibility rested in the fact that it feed off of Mana-the energy behind magic-produced by Siberys's body.
Seeing that the only way to kill it was to cut off the Mana they set to work on two projects one was to do just that while the other would become a library built by Warforged workers to house all knowledge of magic. A library that sadly never was competed for the Tarrasque was born before it was done and only held the basic, and a handful of the intermediate, and advance knowledge. However the ritual that would doom the beast was finished in time and preformed, hiding Siberys from sight, wiping the dragonmarks from the earth, and stoping the thirteen planes orbit of the Prime Material all at the same time, all they had to do now was keep the Tarrasque busy long enough for it to use what Mana was left and wait for it to die and die it did, however not before it cracked the earth, while the wound did not kill Eberron it caused the world's soil and stone to forever float on a endless sea of her boiling blood healing and breaking over and over leaving the land to drift. At the end of the battle Luminia now the last dragon recorded on a slab in the library the final hours of the Age of Magic, before succumbing to her wounds leaving the now inert Warforged to guard it.
However at the Tarrasque's last breath Khyber cast a spell that changed all the Lizardmen into what we now know as dinosaur's. Bereft of magic and the destruction of there tools, armor, and weapons by the Tarrasque the races of the Dragonmarked House's fled. The Dwarfs and Gnomes hid underground, the Elves, Half-Elves, and Halflings took to the forest's while the Humans and Half-Orc's made the caves there home. In time all evidence of the First Age of Magic rotted and eroded away and the land would become Pangaea and from there it's history.
Slowly over the ages the seal on Mana weakened letting it trickle out and eventually a young boy by the name of Merlin found an old book from the Age of Magic in a cave near his village, however as one mite guess a damp, rat infested cave is not the best place to store a book, as a result the the book had several pages missing and what was there was almost unreadable, that any of it survived at all was a miracle. Nevertheless Merlin studied the tome and in time cast the first spell in over 200 million years-magic had returned.
However Merlin completely misconstrued the information present, take a moment and imagine your in a room dear reader, you are standing in the middle of a triangle on the floor, a point is in front of you while the other two are behind you, on the point in front is a red sphere of energy, to your left is a white one to your right is a black one, and above is a duplicate triangle with one sphere connected to the it's twin by a beam of light of the appropriate color, these represent the three type's of arcane spellcaster's.
The red beam represents the Sorcerer's , White stands for Wizard's, and Black Warlock's or for the female member's of the class Witch's, let's start with the Sorcerer's, they are powerful spellcaster's that are born with their power, and are capable of casting spells on will alone though, they don't have the variate of spells that Wizard's do they are capable of casting them much faster however until they learn of and to control their power they have a habit of using it with out meaning to this is know as accidental magic. Wizard's as said have the largest selection of spell's however they are not born with there magic like Sorcerer's are and must earn it through long hard study, and some spells need materiel components and/or focuses to work. Warlock's on the other hand gain their power in one of two ways, they either make a pact with a Devil and trade part of their soul for a share of their infernal power or their ancestor did, now of course only someone evil would make such a pact, however their ancestor's could be good or evil. Warlock's don't actuality wild spells but instead harness there power to perform a small number of specific attacks and tricks called invocations. What Warlock's lack in versatility they make up for by being tougher and more resilient then Sorcerer's or Wizard's.
Remember that triangle? Good now Merlin was a Sorcerer but by some means unknown he bent that red beam to meet with the upper white sphere instead of the upper red one, twisting and distorting his power to that of a Wizard's. Now this had some rather negative side-affects namely a number of mental illnesses, paranoia, delusions of grander, and schizophrenia among others, a fact that modern "Pure-blood" Sorcerer family's in-breeding habit's don't help. The moment a Sorcerer pick's up "Wizard's" wand they are trapped in this destructive cycle, their descendent's may escape but only if they never clam a wand. Furthermore if after claiming a wand they will only be able to cast spells with one and will be unable to defend themselves with out one unless they learned more mundane ways of doing so.
Over the years this went on as the other race's resurfaced, with the Elves and Half-elves being the first to regain a Dragonmark namely the Mark of Detection and slowly relearned the art of magic. When they learned of what the human Sorcerer's did to their magic they tried to warn them, but it was much to late. The Human's scoffed at the idea, and continued to live as they had. The Elves and Half-elves kept themselves at a distance ever sense. The Dwarf's of clan Kundarak came bank up and returned to there old trade as bankers by founding and ran the bank chain know as Gringotts with the aide of their Mark of Warding,while the rest of the Dwarven and Gnome clans remain underground. Neither the Half-Orcs or the other Dragonmarks so far have yet to resurface.
Which Finally brings us to the story. In it we will be following a young human by the name of Harry James Potter. So dear reader, sit back and relax.
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Disclaimer: I do not own either Harry Potter or the Eberron setting.
Author's Note
Hello and thank you for reading my story I hope none of this was to confusing.
P.S.I am looking for a Beta.