Pyramid Review
Five Nations (for Eberron)
Published by Wizards of the Coast
Designed by Bill Slavicsek, David Noonan, Christopher Perkins, Brian Campbell, Scott Gearin, & Kolja Raven Liquette
Edited by Bill Slavicsek & James Wyatt
Art, cartography by Wayne Reynolds, Daniel Hawkins, Scott Fischer, Tomas Giorello, Michael Frederick Lim, Roberto Marchesi, Lucio Parrillo, Steve Prescott, Richard Sardinha, Ryan Sook, Anne Stokes, Xi James Zhang, Dennis Kauth, & Rob Lazzaretti
160-page full-color hardback, $29.95
By degrees, Wizards of the Coast is mapping out the lands of their Eberron setting. They worked up a single city in heavy detail with Sharn: City of Towers, but doing one town at a time isn't going to get the job done. Five Nations is a good start to a broader perspective on these lands.
The title refers to the five core nations that long ago split over the issue of royal succession and continued discussing the problem with a vicious war that ravaged the continent. Now that the Treaty of Thronehold has -- if not returned everything to normal -- at least placed it in a tenuously peaceful holding pattern, the book catches readers up on what things are like in those prime locations. Each chapter covers details both little and big. We get a thumbnail of the country's disposition when it was part of the single nation of Galifar, an idea of the sorts of problems it suffered during the Last War, and a peek at its current outlook. This includes its relations . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: September 30, 2005
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