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Deep Dive Q&A: House Tarkanan! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-07 23:27:14
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2026-06

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Tomorrow night—Wednesday, October 8th at 6 PM Pacific—I'll be doing a Deep Dive Q&A into House Tarkanan and Aberrant Dragonmarks. I'll start with a 20-30 minute discussion and then take questions from the audience. If you're a Threshold patron and you want to take part in the stream, it will be held on the #Threshold Stage channel of the Eberron Discord. Otherwise you can ask questions here and I'll see if I can address them in the discussion; the recording of the session will be published here later in the month. I hope to see some of you there!

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Ben

How does the Twelve at large feel about the gang claiming the title of “House” Tarkanan?

Micaerys

A while ago there was a talk about this in discord: we know that aberrant dragonmarks manifest unpredictably, that they can't be inherited in a normal way, and that mixing true dragonmarked bloodlines is a way of getting one. My question is: if two dragonmarked heirs (a Medani and a Lyrandar, for example) have a kid, but that kid never develops ANY mark (maybe it wasn't properly triggered, or it simply didn't happen), would that kid's offspring have the chance of manifesting an aberrant dragonmark, or would that next generation be free of that risk, since there never was an actual aberrant mark present in the first place?

Leann Davis

My campaign is currently in year 1004 YK. Given that passage of time from canon, do you feel it's within the realm of possibility for House Tarkanan to either make a play for legitimacy as a true dragonmarked house or wage a secret war against the houses?

Vixenlover42

House Tarkanan is primarily based in Sharn, a Brelish city, and have their roots in a Brelish black ops unit. They've been noted to have safe houses in cities in other nations, but are they trying to expand their scope to a more truly international scale like Daask? Is there tension between Brelish aberrants and other nationalities, despite their shared marks?

Dragonback Lancer

If House Tarkanan were to gain legitimacy among the dragonmarked houses somehow, what sort of services would it be offering?

Sergei Lakissov

If one were to change an episodic villain in some existing (possibly homebrewed) adventure into an Aberrant-marked villain (to add more spice), what kinds of things they would need to consider, and what could be related implications and potential further developments?

Patrick Reupert

How would you play a faction in house tarkanan, who claim their mark to be a new true mark? Aka them having gained similar abilities in their mark, proclaiming it is true and all. Like if they gained it at the same time or as a battle unit

Zuruve

It's established that magebreeding can affect true dragonmarks. Do you think it could also affect aberrant ones? For example, creating a bloodline whose members can reliably manifest aberrant marks and pass them on. Ideally even being resistant to their negative side effects. And if it is possible, would Thora Tavin be interested in such a project?

Benjamin Tucker Marcus

How difficult would it be for House Tarkanan to manufacture Aberrant Focus Items? I'd imagine they would need to be highly personalized, given the unpredictability of Aberrant Marks.

Carlton Anderson

In "The Son of Khyber", it's shown that several members of House Tarkanan, such as Brom and Whisper, have what appear to be "always on" versions of their powers. This differs significantly from how such powers have been represented mechanically in D&D. How would you approach including such abilities in your game if someone wanted to play an aberrant-marked character with such a power and you were onboard with it?