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<blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3086214" data-attributes="member: 4441"><p>Kaodi - Glad you liked it. And in the case of the naming conventions, I shall have my gnome be Flummerfelt Turngastle Obershine. Because gnome names <em>rock!</em></p><p></p><p>For further fun, here's my artificer in individual form:</p><p></p><p>"My name is Roth d'Cannith, and I think I'm afraid. All right, I know, you're saying 'How can you <em>think</em> you're afraid? You're either afraid or your aren't.' Well, that's true enough. But what if you don't know if you should be afraid or not? That's the situation I find myself in. </p><p></p><p>"Sharn is, without a doubt, the finest city in all the world. I haven't even <em>been</em> to any other cities and I know this is true. How can you improve upon something as vast, interesting, and magical as the City of Towers? War never came here directly, though there was always the threat of sabotage. The Glass Tower came down well before I was born, and I never was sent to the front lines because the House felt we were safe here. </p><p></p><p>I grew up privilaged, working in the Cannith enclave in Sharn since I could toddle. I was sorting parts, holding things, and doing simple repairs on anything I could understand since forever. I fell into the artificer's role fairly easily, not that I was unhappy about it! I knew, mostly in the abstract, from what the House said and from the <em>Inquisitive</em> and the <em>Chronicle</em> wrote that the war was a horrible thing. But I also knew it kept the House moving forward. The first warforged were put out a few years before I was born, and I often scold my mother for letting me miss such a momentous event. Well... <em>she</em> thinks it's funny at least.</p><p></p><p>"They don't let young kids down into the creation forge, as much as I wanted to, so I spent a lot of time enchanting weapons and armor, and once, as a special birthday present, I was able to aid my older brother Davo do some permanent magical alternations to one of our warforged commanders. Fantastic beings, the warforged! I was up and eager to help make them from the minute I helped empower Shield (that was "his" name).</p><p></p><p>"I was a very lucky man, or so my father tells me. I was supposed to go to the creation forges in Cyre not two days before the Day of Mourning. I had been ecstatic, but nearly fainted when I realized I could have just be vaporized with the rest our House there. I tell you, the whole House wore black for a month, and I had never seen Baron Merrix so dejected. But in an odd way, it was also good for me. I know it sounds ghoulish, but with the Cyre branch of the family gone, they actually <em>needed</em> me in the creation forge.</p><p></p><p>"I spent what were probably the two happiest years of my life in the Forge. I never learned so much as I did then, though I perhaps learned the most important thing of all; I don't know nearly as much as I think I do. The sheer amount of <em>genius</em> it took to get the creation forges up and running, the creativity it took to tweak the individual warforged to what the customer specified, was amazing. I never got to run the forge, obviously, but I was able to help with maintenance and aid with their learning. The awesome responsibility of imprinting a new warforged with their morals and ethics still makes me shake a bit when I think about it.</p><p></p><p>"And you know, I thought I would be horrible disappointed when the Treaty of Thronehold happened and they told us to dismantle the forges. And I was, don't get me wrong, but I was happy to see the warforged free. They never did officially say whether or not the 'forged have souls, but I always thought they did. We could have two of them, built for the same purpose, given the same training by the same teachers, and they would still be shaped differently by their experiences. Those can't just be explained away by quirks in the creation process. I think we weren't just creating bodies, somehow we were creating souls, or causing them to be attracted to our warforged. That makes me shake when I think about it too hard.</p><p></p><p>"But why am I afraid? It's not because of the question of souls. It's not because I lost my position at the creation forge; all of us did. I just went back to the foundary and construct floors. I spend my days repairing constructs, weapons, and armor, while working on making my own. But I wanted more.</p><p></p><p>"I wanted to know what Baron Merrix knew about the creation forges. I wanted to make my own constructs. And I wanted the secret of warforged creation. The second I might get, the first and third might see me dead before enlightened. But then again, I wasn't the only one of us that thought that way! I'm afraid because a couple times I have tried to return to the creation forge. It's blocked up, the way it was when we sealed it. But there's something there.... I think it's working again. </p><p></p><p>"I do some work in the Cogs, and more than once I would spy warforged walking around with the blank curiosity of those engaged in their 'learning mode.' Now, there hasn't been a warforged in that mode since the creation forges were ordered destroyed. No warforged can activate that on their own; it disables itself once a pattern of behavior is established. Indeed, it's <em>only</em> used by new warforged and no other time! That's not all, more than once our wand adepts in the old forge area, and once I spotted the Baron around there. I fear and pray they've reactivated the forge. </p><p></p><p>"I think if they discover I know, one of two things might happen. I might be killed. That's the scary part, that's why I'm afraid. The other thing is, I might be brought in to help. And that's what I want. I don't know too much about my field yet, and I'm too weak in magic; that I know for sure. I'm hoping and praying if I can learn enough, I will be too valuable to kill and they'll <em>have</em> to bring me in. Die or thrive. <em>That's</em> why I think I'm afraid."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Isida Kep'Tukari, post: 3086214, member: 4441"] Kaodi - Glad you liked it. And in the case of the naming conventions, I shall have my gnome be Flummerfelt Turngastle Obershine. Because gnome names [i]rock![/i] For further fun, here's my artificer in individual form: "My name is Roth d'Cannith, and I think I'm afraid. All right, I know, you're saying 'How can you [i]think[/i] you're afraid? You're either afraid or your aren't.' Well, that's true enough. But what if you don't know if you should be afraid or not? That's the situation I find myself in. "Sharn is, without a doubt, the finest city in all the world. I haven't even [i]been[/i] to any other cities and I know this is true. How can you improve upon something as vast, interesting, and magical as the City of Towers? War never came here directly, though there was always the threat of sabotage. The Glass Tower came down well before I was born, and I never was sent to the front lines because the House felt we were safe here. I grew up privilaged, working in the Cannith enclave in Sharn since I could toddle. I was sorting parts, holding things, and doing simple repairs on anything I could understand since forever. I fell into the artificer's role fairly easily, not that I was unhappy about it! I knew, mostly in the abstract, from what the House said and from the [i]Inquisitive[/i] and the [i]Chronicle[/i] wrote that the war was a horrible thing. But I also knew it kept the House moving forward. The first warforged were put out a few years before I was born, and I often scold my mother for letting me miss such a momentous event. Well... [i]she[/i] thinks it's funny at least. "They don't let young kids down into the creation forge, as much as I wanted to, so I spent a lot of time enchanting weapons and armor, and once, as a special birthday present, I was able to aid my older brother Davo do some permanent magical alternations to one of our warforged commanders. Fantastic beings, the warforged! I was up and eager to help make them from the minute I helped empower Shield (that was "his" name). "I was a very lucky man, or so my father tells me. I was supposed to go to the creation forges in Cyre not two days before the Day of Mourning. I had been ecstatic, but nearly fainted when I realized I could have just be vaporized with the rest our House there. I tell you, the whole House wore black for a month, and I had never seen Baron Merrix so dejected. But in an odd way, it was also good for me. I know it sounds ghoulish, but with the Cyre branch of the family gone, they actually [i]needed[/i] me in the creation forge. "I spent what were probably the two happiest years of my life in the Forge. I never learned so much as I did then, though I perhaps learned the most important thing of all; I don't know nearly as much as I think I do. The sheer amount of [i]genius[/i] it took to get the creation forges up and running, the creativity it took to tweak the individual warforged to what the customer specified, was amazing. I never got to run the forge, obviously, but I was able to help with maintenance and aid with their learning. The awesome responsibility of imprinting a new warforged with their morals and ethics still makes me shake a bit when I think about it. "And you know, I thought I would be horrible disappointed when the Treaty of Thronehold happened and they told us to dismantle the forges. And I was, don't get me wrong, but I was happy to see the warforged free. They never did officially say whether or not the 'forged have souls, but I always thought they did. We could have two of them, built for the same purpose, given the same training by the same teachers, and they would still be shaped differently by their experiences. Those can't just be explained away by quirks in the creation process. I think we weren't just creating bodies, somehow we were creating souls, or causing them to be attracted to our warforged. That makes me shake when I think about it too hard. "But why am I afraid? It's not because of the question of souls. It's not because I lost my position at the creation forge; all of us did. I just went back to the foundary and construct floors. I spend my days repairing constructs, weapons, and armor, while working on making my own. But I wanted more. "I wanted to know what Baron Merrix knew about the creation forges. I wanted to make my own constructs. And I wanted the secret of warforged creation. The second I might get, the first and third might see me dead before enlightened. But then again, I wasn't the only one of us that thought that way! I'm afraid because a couple times I have tried to return to the creation forge. It's blocked up, the way it was when we sealed it. But there's something there.... I think it's working again. "I do some work in the Cogs, and more than once I would spy warforged walking around with the blank curiosity of those engaged in their 'learning mode.' Now, there hasn't been a warforged in that mode since the creation forges were ordered destroyed. No warforged can activate that on their own; it disables itself once a pattern of behavior is established. Indeed, it's [i]only[/i] used by new warforged and no other time! That's not all, more than once our wand adepts in the old forge area, and once I spotted the Baron around there. I fear and pray they've reactivated the forge. "I think if they discover I know, one of two things might happen. I might be killed. That's the scary part, that's why I'm afraid. The other thing is, I might be brought in to help. And that's what I want. I don't know too much about my field yet, and I'm too weak in magic; that I know for sure. I'm hoping and praying if I can learn enough, I will be too valuable to kill and they'll [i]have[/i] to bring me in. Die or thrive. [i]That's[/i] why I think I'm afraid." [/QUOTE]
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