I'm unsure exactly how to phrase it, but I've got a character I'm working on that wasn't descended from the original 67 monks that fused with the renegade Quori all those years ago. I'll get to my main question in a second (or a paragraph) here, but first, a little backstory:
As I said before, my character isn't descended from other Kalashtar. Instead, he's the son of a powerful Human psionic (psionicist?. Mystic. Let's go with Mystic) who trained with a Kalashtar Monk, who he eventually ended up aiding in his fight against the Inspired and by extension the Dreaming Dark. One thing leads to another, they recruit a Shifter Druid, a Changeling Warlock, a Warforged Ranger, and a Half-Elf Warrior to aid them (party diversity and all that), basic campaign hijinks ensue, and they all become fast friends. The details aren't all that important, but hey, I might as well put a story in the Story & Lore section.
After a few months of fighting and investigating and all around having a D&D campaign, they find out that a powerful Quori is behind this cell of Inspired (a Quori in charge of Inspired, who'd've thunk). They track down where they think the boss man(spirit... aberration... thing) is gonna end up, and sure enough (because it wouldn't be much of a story if he didn't), he did! Big final fight happens, half the party is wiped out the rest are injured, but the BBEG is weakened and our Mystic pulls some next-level ex machinal crap (with a little help from his knowledge of Kalashtar history), and traps the Quori in his own body to stop it from doing any more naughty things. Only issue is that our Mystic and the Half-Elf did some of their own naughty things a month or two back and now our Warrior has a little itty bitty future adventurer inside of her.
TL,DR: Human Mystic traps evil Quori inside of him, Quori's transferred to his son, the character in question.
And that more or less brings me back to my main question; Is there any lore that says a Kalashtar can or can't be created this way? I plan on having this character for quite some time and I want to make sure I'm not breaking any Eberron lore. I like the concept because it's a step away from the norm and gives the character some literal inner demons to deal with.
My understanding was that quori didn't physically inhabit kalashtar, but rather their minds were bound across the space of dimensions. That said, I'm sure you can talk to your DM to fudge it. You could easily say "yes, I'm not technically kalashtar because I have a quori imprisoned within me, but I am for all intents and purposes a kalashtar because the end result is similar enough."
That way your character isn't lore-breaking, just unique
Yeah, that's kind of how it was seeing it as well. I know that the Kalashtar and the Quori are more of a symbiosis rather than two entities living inside a single body, and that's kind of where I wanted to deviate with this character.
My argument is that since this bond wasn't a willing one on the Quori's side, and it hasn't been cemented throughout the generations like the original 67 were, this one has been resisting becoming part my character's consciousness, and is thus much more communicative and hostile, even going so far as to access my character's telepathy to try and find someone to help it escape.
The fact that the character wasn't raised by Kalashtar to help his unique case is a big reason on why he's struggling to control it now.
In the book "Secrets of Sarlona" from 3.0/3.5 days, the Quori would need to punish another Quori who had committed crimes against their own. Per the sourcebook they would imprison the spirit into a human, and this created the Eberron version of an Elan. Unlike the "regular" elan, there is no council of applicants to create it, and it isn't something desired by the punished quori. The imprisoned quori would be powerless and unable to impact/affect/communicate with their host, but their spirit provided power to the human and provided the explanation for the Elan's powers.
So considering that a human prison for a quori IS canon (in 3.5 anyway), this aligns. Considering that the case of imprisoning the Quori into essentially, two people is similar to the story of the 67 spirits that have fled and then had children. This would fragment the power of the Quori and dilute it in subsequent generations.
But no matter what the case is...just do it. The story is cool. But yeah, IMHO you have a valid canonical basis for a case never covered by "the rules"
Maybe at some point a ritual had to be performed to transfer the quori from your character's ailing father to you, or else risk it escaping once he grew too weak to contain it. This could be done with or without your knowledge, for drama.
That way you don't need to have an explanation for how this one passes through the bloodline when it's not technically bonded to it, but it still has to be imprisoned within someone of your father's bloodline.
Well I've actually thought about this quite a bit; the father trained with many Kalashtar over the course of his life, as his psionic powers were very volatile as a child, so he was brought to the Kalashtar, a race with innate psionic abilities and monastery training, and was always told of the stories on how Taratai and her ilk were bonded to the original monks' bloodlines and subsequently cut off from Dal Quor.
My character's father knew more or less how to replicate the ritual, but because he was both rushed for time, and the ritual wasn't willing on both sides, the Quori was able to keep some of its connection to Dal Quor, but not all of it. (Think a one-way S.O.S to the Dreaming Dark) The spirit began drawing Inspired to its captor like an overused idiom involving moths and candles, and he eventually needed to go to the Kalashtar monasteries that he had trained in to seek help, eventually having a ritual done to complete the bond and cut the Quori off from the realm of dreams completely, warning him that his bloodline would be forever linked to it, which he agreed to, because at that point, he had no knowledge of a bloodline continuing and assumed the Quori would die with him... So, y'know... That worked out for him pretty well.
After that, the danger was thought to be over, the surviving party members split up, Momma Half-Elf returned Valenar to retire, only discover a little non-elf in her oven from that one-night bumping of the bits, and once the father died of death, as many who live their lives fighting the Inspired tend to do, our BBEG lived on in the strong little swimmer that would grow to become my character.
TL,DR: Make sure to keep in touch with former lovers just in case you ever have a malefic spirit haunting your bloodline "Uh yeah, Sandra? Turns out I've got Quori, you might wanna get yourself checked"
I'm unsure exactly how to phrase it, but I've got a character I'm working on that wasn't descended from the original 67 monks that fused with the renegade Quori all those years ago. I'll get to my main question in a second (or a paragraph) here, but first, a little backstory:
As I said before, my character isn't descended from other Kalashtar. Instead, he's the son of a powerful Human psionic (psionicist?. Mystic. Let's go with Mystic) who trained with a Kalashtar Monk, who he eventually ended up aiding in his fight against the Inspired and by extension the Dreaming Dark. One thing leads to another, they recruit a Shifter Druid, a Changeling Warlock, a Warforged Ranger, and a Half-Elf Warrior to aid them (party diversity and all that), basic campaign hijinks ensue, and they all become fast friends. The details aren't all that important, but hey, I might as well put a story in the Story & Lore section.
After a few months of fighting and investigating and all around having a D&D campaign, they find out that a powerful Quori is behind this cell of Inspired (a Quori in charge of Inspired, who'd've thunk). They track down where they think the boss man(spirit... aberration... thing) is gonna end up, and sure enough (because it wouldn't be much of a story if he didn't), he did! Big final fight happens, half the party is wiped out the rest are injured, but the BBEG is weakened and our Mystic pulls some next-level ex machinal crap (with a little help from his knowledge of Kalashtar history), and traps the Quori in his own body to stop it from doing any more naughty things. Only issue is that our Mystic and the Half-Elf did some of their own naughty things a month or two back and now our Warrior has a little itty bitty future adventurer inside of her.
TL,DR: Human Mystic traps evil Quori inside of him, Quori's transferred to his son, the character in question.
And that more or less brings me back to my main question;
Is there any lore that says a Kalashtar can or can't be created this way? I plan on having this character for quite some time and I want to make sure I'm not breaking any Eberron lore. I like the concept because it's a step away from the norm and gives the character some literal inner demons to deal with.
My understanding was that quori didn't physically inhabit kalashtar, but rather their minds were bound across the space of dimensions. That said, I'm sure you can talk to your DM to fudge it. You could easily say "yes, I'm not technically kalashtar because I have a quori imprisoned within me, but I am for all intents and purposes a kalashtar because the end result is similar enough."
That way your character isn't lore-breaking, just unique
Yeah, that's kind of how it was seeing it as well. I know that the Kalashtar and the Quori are more of a symbiosis rather than two entities living inside a single body, and that's kind of where I wanted to deviate with this character.
My argument is that since this bond wasn't a willing one on the Quori's side, and it hasn't been cemented throughout the generations like the original 67 were, this one has been resisting becoming part my character's consciousness, and is thus much more communicative and hostile, even going so far as to access my character's telepathy to try and find someone to help it escape.
The fact that the character wasn't raised by Kalashtar to help his unique case is a big reason on why he's struggling to control it now.
In the book "Secrets of Sarlona" from 3.0/3.5 days, the Quori would need to punish another Quori who had committed crimes against their own. Per the sourcebook they would imprison the spirit into a human, and this created the Eberron version of an Elan. Unlike the "regular" elan, there is no council of applicants to create it, and it isn't something desired by the punished quori. The imprisoned quori would be powerless and unable to impact/affect/communicate with their host, but their spirit provided power to the human and provided the explanation for the Elan's powers.
So considering that a human prison for a quori IS canon (in 3.5 anyway), this aligns. Considering that the case of imprisoning the Quori into essentially, two people is similar to the story of the 67 spirits that have fled and then had children. This would fragment the power of the Quori and dilute it in subsequent generations.
But no matter what the case is...just do it. The story is cool. But yeah, IMHO you have a valid canonical basis for a case never covered by "the rules"
Maybe at some point a ritual had to be performed to transfer the quori from your character's ailing father to you, or else risk it escaping once he grew too weak to contain it. This could be done with or without your knowledge, for drama.
That way you don't need to have an explanation for how this one passes through the bloodline when it's not technically bonded to it, but it still has to be imprisoned within someone of your father's bloodline.
All optional, just sounded cool in my head.
Well I've actually thought about this quite a bit; the father trained with many Kalashtar over the course of his life, as his psionic powers were very volatile as a child, so he was brought to the Kalashtar, a race with innate psionic abilities and monastery training, and was always told of the stories on how Taratai and her ilk were bonded to the original monks' bloodlines and subsequently cut off from Dal Quor.
My character's father knew more or less how to replicate the ritual, but because he was both rushed for time, and the ritual wasn't willing on both sides, the Quori was able to keep some of its connection to Dal Quor, but not all of it. (Think a one-way S.O.S to the Dreaming Dark) The spirit began drawing Inspired to its captor like an overused idiom involving moths and candles, and he eventually needed to go to the Kalashtar monasteries that he had trained in to seek help, eventually having a ritual done to complete the bond and cut the Quori off from the realm of dreams completely, warning him that his bloodline would be forever linked to it, which he agreed to, because at that point, he had no knowledge of a bloodline continuing and assumed the Quori would die with him... So, y'know... That worked out for him pretty well.
After that, the danger was thought to be over, the surviving party members split up, Momma Half-Elf returned Valenar to retire, only discover a little non-elf in her oven from that one-night bumping of the bits, and once the father died of death, as many who live their lives fighting the Inspired tend to do, our BBEG lived on in the strong little swimmer that would grow to become my character.
TL,DR: Make sure to keep in touch with former lovers just in case you ever have a malefic spirit haunting your bloodline
"Uh yeah, Sandra? Turns out I've got Quori, you might wanna get yourself checked"