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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9350341" data-attributes="member: 6801228">The published books are going to call them Warforged, because that is the mechanical designation. If they even decide to officially add them into a new setting (which I don't think they will) then it will be under a heading like "Warforged across the Multiverse". And there, they MIGHT decide to call them something different, as in "warforged are called X in BLANK" but they just as likely won't. And part of that is simply because... they are called Warforged. Just like we generally talk about Dhampir, despite one of the canonical ways a character can become a Dhampir being that they are a failed Mindflayer, which has nothing to do with the half-Vampire origin of the name. Or like we talk about the Hexblood, even though you don't need to have hexed blood to be one. Or like how the Reborn can be also be pure constructs who never lived before, and therefore would not be "reborn" anything. Or like how we have Samurai who were never Medieval Japanese nobles. Yes, names matter, and in the setting you can decide that specific names need to change to make them make sense, but in the official published material, they need to make it clear what rules are being referenced when someone makes a Dhampir Samurai, even if the character in question is a Symbiotic Fungus growing inside a former bandit. The rules need to clearly point to the correct mechanics, any changes to names will be flavor added after the fact.</blockquote>

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