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<blockquote data-quote="TillForPie" data-source="post: 6307246" data-attributes="member: 6762758">&quot;The Treaty of Thronehold gave warforged their freedom, but only after great debate. House Cannith and Thrane argued ardently that warforged were not living creatures because they do not possess souls. Their evidence for this was that warforged cannot become undead by any known method, not even ghosts or shadows. They are immune to energy drain, and no one knows of a warforged soul in Dolurrh, the Realm of the Dead. Breland argued that because warforged can be raised and resurrected, they must have souls. Of course, House Cannith and Thrane countered that no warforged brought back from death told tales of any kind of afterlife. ... Today, many people continue to think of warforged as creatures without souls, and citizens of Thrane often refer to warforged as &quot;the soulless.&quot;&quot;While no particular bond exists between kalashtar and the warforged, kalashtar are fascinated by the construct race, especially the question of their souls. The mystics of the kalashtar are certain that House Cannith does not have the power to create souls, yet it is clear that the warforged possess unique souls.&quot;Races of EberronThe question of their having souls, especially in-setting, seems to be an open one. If they do have souls those souls don't behave in entirely the same way as the souls of other living creatures. In a world where others are likely to refer to it as soulless I think it's fine (and maybe even likely) for Mosier's character to identify in that way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="TillForPie, post: 6307246, member: 6762758"] "The Treaty of Thronehold gave warforged their freedom, but only after great debate. House Cannith and Thrane argued ardently that warforged were not living creatures because they do not possess souls. Their evidence for this was that warforged cannot become undead by any known method, not even ghosts or shadows. They are immune to energy drain, and no one knows of a warforged soul in Dolurrh, the Realm of the Dead. Breland argued that because warforged can be raised and resurrected, they must have souls. Of course, House Cannith and Thrane countered that no warforged brought back from death told tales of any kind of afterlife. ... Today, many people continue to think of warforged as creatures without souls, and citizens of Thrane often refer to warforged as "the soulless." "While no particular bond exists between kalashtar and the warforged, kalashtar are fascinated by the construct race, especially the question of their souls. The mystics of the kalashtar are certain that House Cannith does not have the power to create souls, yet it is clear that the warforged possess unique souls." [size=1]Races of Eberron[/size] The question of their having souls, especially in-setting, seems to be an open one. If they do have souls those souls don't behave in entirely the same way as the souls of other living creatures. In a world where others are likely to refer to it as soulless I think it's fine (and maybe even likely) for Mosier's character to identify in that way. :) [/QUOTE]

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