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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 3968386" data-attributes="member: 1154">Disclaimer: I know you don't like Warforged. That's totally cool. This thread isn't for debating the merits or flaws of Warforged, though, so please don't.Okay, that out of the way... Warforged are unlike most other races in that they're not quite so easy to just drag and drop into a homebrew setting. They couldn't just evolve into their current form, and since they can't breed it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to say that they were created by a god when the world was still new... because then every warforged would know the entire history of the world.So this thread is a place to put ideas on how to integrate the Warforged into your setting! Here are two of my own ideas, one I used before and one I plan on using in the future.Built by an ancient empire: The warforged of the Tainted Lands were built by an ancient, and advanced, empire known as the Alakari. The Alakari programmed all the Warforged to have a 30-year revolving memory, to prevent them from becoming too powerful and overthrowing their masters. Thus, even though every Warforged is thousands of years old, none can remember anything beyond 30 years ago.The warforged in this setting are also based on an ontological paradox; one of them traveled back in time to stop a disaster, went too far, was discovered inert by the Alakari, and they used it to design the warforged.--------------------Mad inspiration: In the far realms beyond the stars, there is an entity known as Unicron. Unicron devours entire planes of reality, and its MO is to visit the dreams of artificers on a plane and teach them to create Warforged. The warforged then work in secret to summon Unicron.On this particular plane, one of the artificers managed to retain some semblance of sanity and figured out what Unicron was plotting; he created good warforged to fight against the evil, and the first of these warforged was known as Primus.The good warforged worshipped Bahamut as their patron and led the battle against their evil brethren. In their darkest hour, Bahamut empowered Primus as his personal avatar, and Primus fought against Unicron, barely managing to banish the elemental evil back to the far realms. Primus was then elevated to the status of a god.Now, most warforged worship Primus, but there are still some who work to bring Unicron. It is the duty of the paladins of Primus to hunt these heretics down and destroy them.--------------------So there's my two stories... How about yours?</blockquote>

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