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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werk" data-source="post: 2945340" data-attributes="member: 29663">Maybe the warforged made excellent hosts for the quori, so they were able to fight the giants without having to worry about rebellious slaves.  Lacking the quori, House Cannith had to find other ways to power the machines, and that's where it all went wrong.My character in the Eberron campaign that I play in has some of his own theories (He's from Cyre, now a refugee, and is a fairly intelligent cleric, LN).  He thinks that the Cannites were breathing life into their constructs using actual life energies, or souls.  Killing people to get their soul is really counterproductive to what they were trying to accomplish, so he also believes that the nature of the creation forge allowed them to basically acquire the souls on credit.  That is, souls from the past or future, times other than the current, but primarily from the future, and due to their limited knowledge...the near future.  Thirdly, he believes that a single warforged requires mutiple souls to animate, like 3 or 4.  So the day of mourning was just Eberron calling in it's debts and balancing the books.He loves warforged, though.  Any warforged on the street could be his dead mother, or father, or sister that all died on That Day.  He's just very opposed to trying to make new 'forged, and will do everything possible to prevent that mistake from happening again.</blockquote>