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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1789786" data-attributes="member: 6530">Are you using much of the dragonstar background?  Can I talk you into it?  Because I think I came up with where my warforged is from.The Leftmost Shield served in the great dragon wars of ages past, when the metallics and chromatics battled for the right to rule the galaxy.  Leftmost was a shieldbearer for Captain-General d'Tartraz, a half-dragon regimental commander for the yellow dragons.  Theirs was a somewhat minor race of the species which took only small parts in the war, scouting and exploring for their more belligerent cousins.Leftmost and his counterpart, Rightmost, made up the solid shield of defense for their officer, keeping him safe to command the mixed company of ogres and men.  Several other warforged served in the company, and Leftmost considered them all his family.  They were the expensive and compentant core of the scouting regiment, passing through stargate and space to explore worlds for their lords.It was on one of these expeditions through the stargate that Leftmost's regiment met its end.  An overwhelming wave of fire concentrated on the troops as they reassembled for deployment to explore this world, one they had thought was not involved in the war.  Leftmost, standing dutifully beside his commander, never knew what hit him.The battle moved on, leaving Leftmost where he fell.Warforged do not bleed, nor age in any meaningful sense.  The adamant of his construction was treated with plastics to prevent corrosion.  So Leftmost stayed put, unaware and alone save for the degrading bodies which had fallen around him, while the galaxy changed.They homeworld of the yellow dragons was the last great casualty of the war, and even if d'Tartraz and the regiment made it back, they were probably destroyed with their homeworld.  The dragons, horrified by such a slaughter, made peace with each other and never realized their goal of completely subjugating the galaxy.Leftmost lay silent, unseeing eyes open, still clutching his sword and great emblazoned shield, waiting for someone to find him.</blockquote>

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