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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2492506" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>Well, the thing about the warforged is that there are no <strong>answers</strong> <em>per se</em>. Same with the Lord of Blades - the books present theories.</p><p></p><p>However, here are two theories:</p><p></p><p>Warforged [spoiler]appear to have first been developed by the ancient and long-dead giant civilisation on the wild continent of Xen'drik. Items have been found there which fit into or onto warforged bodies in modular fashion, and it's thought by some that House Cannith (who made the warforged alive in the world today) found the secrets of their construction there. As for the question of where their souls come from, it's not answered anywhere even in theory, but it <strong>is</strong> something with which many people in the setting would be and are concerned.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>The Lord of Blades, [spoiler]well, there's a theory in <em>Races of Eberron</em> that he might be a warforged known as Bulwark, onetime advisor to King Boranel of Breland and credited by many with having influenced Boranel's proclamation of warforged freedom and his insistence that universal warforged freedom be written into the Treaty of Thronehold that ended the Last War. After the treaty was signed, Bulwark left King Boranel's service and was never seen again - divination magic cast to learn about him fails, but also fails to prove that he is dead. Boranel <strong>very</strong> covertly encourages efforts to discover the true identity of the Lord of Blades.[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>Nothing is for certain - part of the Eberron design philosophy is that they'll never answer all the questions in the setting. It reminds me of AEG's approach to revealing the identity of the Kolat Masters in <em>Legend of the Five Rings</em> - they named all but one, Master Tiger, and explicitly said that Master Tiger should be whoever the GM needs him to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 2492506, member: 18832"] Well, the thing about the warforged is that there are no [b]answers[/b] [i]per se[/i]. Same with the Lord of Blades - the books present theories. However, here are two theories: Warforged [spoiler]appear to have first been developed by the ancient and long-dead giant civilisation on the wild continent of Xen'drik. Items have been found there which fit into or onto warforged bodies in modular fashion, and it's thought by some that House Cannith (who made the warforged alive in the world today) found the secrets of their construction there. As for the question of where their souls come from, it's not answered anywhere even in theory, but it [b]is[/b] something with which many people in the setting would be and are concerned.[/spoiler] The Lord of Blades, [spoiler]well, there's a theory in [i]Races of Eberron[/i] that he might be a warforged known as Bulwark, onetime advisor to King Boranel of Breland and credited by many with having influenced Boranel's proclamation of warforged freedom and his insistence that universal warforged freedom be written into the Treaty of Thronehold that ended the Last War. After the treaty was signed, Bulwark left King Boranel's service and was never seen again - divination magic cast to learn about him fails, but also fails to prove that he is dead. Boranel [b]very[/b] covertly encourages efforts to discover the true identity of the Lord of Blades.[/spoiler] Nothing is for certain - part of the Eberron design philosophy is that they'll never answer all the questions in the setting. It reminds me of AEG's approach to revealing the identity of the Kolat Masters in [i]Legend of the Five Rings[/i] - they named all but one, Master Tiger, and explicitly said that Master Tiger should be whoever the GM needs him to be. [/QUOTE]
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