Chapter 06: Morgrave Expeditions - Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Chapter 06: Morgrave Expeditions. Adventure Genre: Pulp-Action Adventure Pop Culture: Professor Challenger, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft An Armorer Explorer ventures into an ancient ruin in Xen'drik in search of magical secrets Morgrave University in Sharn, one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Khorvaire, has a mixed reputation. On the one hand, its founder-Lord Lareth ir'Morgrave-envisioned the university as "a beacon of knowledge shining from the tallest towers of the city, illuminating the forgotten secrets of the past." Generations of students and scholars have tried to help the university live up to that inspiring vision over the past two and a half centuries. On the other hand, ir'Morgrave had a reputation as a treasure hunter who built his fortune by selling artifacts and treasures stolen from archaeological digs in Darguun, Xen'drik, and other sites. And countless students, scholars, and adventurers over the centuries have contributed to the university's reputation as a cover for smuggling activities and plundering the past. Run a Morgrave expeditions campaign if you want to emulate the pulp-action adventures of Professor Challenger, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, and other explorer-scholars. Morgrave Characters A Morgrave expeditions campaign assumes that characters are connected to Morgrave University, which is a patron to the adventuring party. This arrangement allows the university to assign the characters to specific missions and reward them for achieving certain objectives without directing their every move. In return, the characters can draw on the resources of the university, and they gain other benefits from having a group patron. (If you use the group patron rules in Eberron: Rising from the Last War or Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, you can use the benefits listed here instead of the ones in those books; you can use the information on the University and Academy patrons to flesh out the characters' contacts, fields of study, and so on....