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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3402524" data-attributes="member: 29014">"Let's see...I figured at least one of you might have at least heard the name--Eliminator is one of the most notorious Warforged from the Last War, and it fought on the side of the Karrnathi.  The Karrnathi did not have too many Warforged in total, but they used the ones they had efficiently, training them for tasks that synergised well with their construct nature. Eliminator was trained as a commando, assassin, and cold-blooded killer.  It was without a doubt the best at those jobs of any Warforged in the Last War--It remorselessly slaughtered thousands of people, many of them defenseless women and children.  That was what it was built to do.  There may have been other Warforged that were better fighters in a straight-up battle of champions, but in reaping the weak and defenseless or plotting an assassination, Eliminator was the best.""But one day, as Eliminator was performing its task and exterminating a small village, with nary a thought for the people it was killing--their lives, their loves, their hopes, all dashed--it skewered a desperate woman who actually tried to fight back with an impotent rolling pin where the others had tried to flee and wondered--Why?""Eliminator found the answer--a little girl who was in hiding came crying out to hug the ended human--why show such a display for a worthless corpse?--and then, oddly and highly irrationally, considering Eliminator was just going to kill the girl too, the girl ran up to Eliminator and hugged its metal leg, gazing soulfully and sorrowfully into those heartless and calculating red eyes...until the gaze slackened and became dull as Eliminator pulled its blade from the girl's chest and wiped it on the mother's dress.""But slowly, as Eliminator continued in other tasks, it found itself haunted by those images, those thoughts, and with the picture of those soulful blue eyes full of fear, love, and sorrow glazing over unto death, the Warforged assassin began to second-guess itself and think about what it was doing...to realise that those it was killing were people with hopes, dreams, wishes, and love, not merely the next mission.""Shortly thereafter, after thousands of successful missions, Eliminator was lost on a routine scouting mission, apparently eliminated itself by the enemy...or perhaps having engineered its own apparent demise to escape from a life that it could no longer bear.""If a Warforged assassin built and ingrained from its very birth with nothing but instinct to kill and obey could come to this realisation, well then, can you see why, after learning of that story, I feel that no living creature should ever be killed, including Warforged?"</blockquote>

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