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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MavrickWeirdo" data-source="post: 2737821" data-attributes="member: 107">Here is a "crazy theory" I made back before the Eberron book came out, and all we had were hintsOne artificer had a theory that golems cannot handle large-scale combat, because they are too orderly. Everything to them is an ally or an enamy, attack or wait, black or white. They decided to create a special forge, which would act as an energy conduit to the plane of Kythri (The Churning Chaos). The hope was that using elemental chaos energy to fuel the spell would result in an automaton capable of creative problem solving. The plan succeeded beyond expectations. As a unintentional result, the Warforged are not just smarter than golems, they are alive and have souls.The artificer made many forges, so magewrites could use them to make Warforged. The method of making the forges (and why they work) was a closely held secret. For over two decades this continued without major problem.When the forges started releasing sentient chaos energy, without a body, few actually noticed. The early discharges were weak and uncommon. With time, the frequency and the power of the energy released increased and took on specific characteristics. It came to be called Living Spells.This was occurring because The Plane of Chaos was drawing closer to Eberron. The closer it came, the more unstable were the forges. When Kythri came into coterminous position with Eberron, the forges became open gates flooding chaos into the world, until the chaos destroyed the forges. This was the creation of the Mournlands.Even if someone were to rebuild or recreate a forge, If someone (who knew all the above) wanted to make more warforged their best chance would be using a "modified soul jar spell" to force a Living Spell into a Warforged body.</blockquote>

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