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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Donovan Morningfire" data-source="post: 3968456" data-attributes="member: 39532">So, do the followers of Primus have "'Til all are One" as their mantra?  Or the leader of the church bearing an ancient talisman said to hold the power of their god, able to light their darkest hour? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Then there's inevitiable cross-over with the army of specially chosen warriors that battle against the depredations of the yuan-ti <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Sorry, just couldn't help myself.Not much on world-building in regards to D&D (more of a Star Wars/sci-fi guy myself when it comes to GMing), so not a whole lot I can add to the discussion.As far as origin stories, who's to say that the Eberron approach of the Warforged being a fairly recent creation can't hold weight?  If using a "Points of Light" approach, perhaps part of the reason for the last big empire going down the tubes was one faction found a means to create sentient constructs (Warforged) to serve in their armies.  During the final battles, the creation forge/factory used to pump out the Warforged forces was the target of a sabotoge mission.  Only the sabotuers didn't quite grasp the implications of what they were messing with, causing the equivalent of a mystical holocaust that set civilization back to the 'dark ages.'  Could be a few decades to a few centuries after said holocaust, and the Warforged are walking, talking reminders of the Big War That Ended Civilization As We Knew It.  Some keep to their old patterns of attacking "threats" while others try to make amends and get the world back on track.</blockquote>

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