The Doom of Kings

Eberron: Legacy of Dhakaan, Book 1

By: Don Bassingthwaite

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

The return of the shifter Geth!In the wake of the Last War, a new king has risen and seeks to unite the newly formed goblin kingdom of Darguun under his rule. He seeks an ancient scepter, a symbol under which to unite his people and hires Geth, a shifter who owns one of the trio of artifacts to which the scepter once belonged, to find it. But will the artifact do what the Darguul king needs it to?

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Fun adventure!

This definitely worth the purchase. My only complaint was in the story was sometimes I found it difficult to know who were goblins and and who were humans.

The narrator was like an audio version of a nice steak house- hearty, good, and resonate.

Best D&D book and narrator for audiobook yet.

Gives a new perspective on goblinoids, rather than just making them monsters. Was very happy to see they keep the same narrator for the whole trilogy as he's the best I've heard. So many voices.

Couldn't stop listening.

Loved it, what a great book. Thoroughly enjoyed the hobgoblin politics. I can't wait to listen to the next two!

Good Fantasy; Missing "Magipunk"

I like this book. I really do. I knocked off a star though because it has Eberron on it without keeping me in the setting of Eberron. There is mention of sky ships, they do ride a lightning rail a little bit, we see two different kinds of dragonmarks used, and they use some names like Dhakaan in the book so you could be mistaken this as the pulpy magic as technology setting of Eberron, but unfortunately that's about it and it isn't part of the plot. Okay Deneith is pretty important so its not quite as bad as all that, but you really can forget this is an Eberron story. It often times felt to me like there is this about a Goblinoid country in Forgotten Realms. There is plenty of magic but it is usually a weapon, not something part of everyone's daily lives. We leave that back in Aundiar when Geth leaves the bar. It meets all the needs for high fantasy, but not the kind of Eberron.

I listened to this after after the Dreaming Dark series and it is just night and day on the feeling of the setting. They don't feel like the same Eberron even though all the names are the same. Where there is "magitek" they are incidental parts of the story with no relevance to the plot. Someone only thinks about a sky ship, they ride a lightning rail short time early on and it has as much impact as if they took a wagon train, and house Orien uses the mark off screen to deliver mail where a Sending spell (from Sivis or unrelated) could work. They don't matter. You can rip those pages out and you still have a full story about Geth, Ashi, and Ekhaas from the Dragon Below series having an adventure in a land of Goblinoids.

But you should still buy it unless those missing features bother you more than they do me. I thought Robin Sachs did a good job, nice range and proper pronunciations, and as a high fantasy story this book rocks! A+ and out of the park. Those two paragraphs above are important to me because I probably won't get the next book in the series because of it, but as a standalone this book promises more but you don't need it. Great Book!

Excellent

I’ve played in Eberron and DM’d it for about 4-5 years. This is the seventh Eberron book I’ve listened to and far and away the best. Robin Sachs’ gravelly voice is perfect for this and the Lore is deep.