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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 1825971" data-attributes="member: 7006">I completely understand where you are coming from, and I agree about the whole &quot;chosen one&quot; kind of thing, which indeed can get very sticky.&nbsp; Quite frankly since I cut and pasted most of it over from my UnCon entry, I didn't do anything to edit out that kind of stuff, which I have no problem doing if you think it might need it.Although to be honest... the whole reason I created the history the way I did was because of the very compressed timetable the ECS seems to give us.&nbsp; In the ECS it mentions that it's only rumored that the LoB has a working Creation Forge, and if those rumors are true, it's one that he's had to jury-rig and thus won't be able to churn out new ones at the same exponential rate that House Cannix used to be able to.&nbsp; So quite frankly, as far as &quot;new&quot; warforged are concerned (i.e. the ones that have been created following the ban from the Treaty of Thronehold), there probably ONLY ARE a few of them (from both X d'Cannith's secret forge and LoB's secret forge).&nbsp; So yeah, my warforge would be &quot;special&quot; inasmuch that he's probably only one of a dozen that the LoB has probably been able to create in the last two years.What does that mean?&nbsp; Realistically and game-wise... not much.&nbsp; There's no difference between my warforged and any other warforged that is out there... except that because I wanted to figure out a logical reason why a warforged would have the Favored Soul class (since Favored Souls are BORN with a hint of the divine rather than praying for it).&nbsp; The only way that seeemed to make the most sense was if the LoB built him that way (as opposed to a warforge suddenly &quot;discovering&quot; the hint of divinity within them).Quite frankly, I can have Bronze be a Favored Soul for ANY of the gods... but it seemed liked worshipping the LoB made the most sense.&nbsp; And there really isn't anything &quot;special&quot; the character gets for being a Favored Soul of the LoB because all he's doing is going out and &quot;preaching quietly&quot; to other warforged he runs into any saying &quot;you know, the LoB has some good ideas that you may want to go listen to...&quot;&nbsp; And as that is a very dicey proposition, the character can't make any hay off his supposed Favored Soul status.&nbsp; Cause if he did... and people discovered that not only has the LoB a working creation forge but that he's also creating an army (slowly creating it granted), that most of the surrounding countries would come down on the LoB like a ton of bricks.&nbsp; So the history I created and his supposed &quot;chosen one&quot; status, are basically things that will never, ever get mentioned because Bronze knows that to reveal himself is to cause a whole mess of headaches for the LoB.So that's my hopefully intelligent counter-argument.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />&nbsp; Which basically just says that I'm not expecting (nor desire) any special treatment for the character, but rather am just trying to make &quot;warforged race&quot; plus &quot;favored soul class&quot; equal something that makes logical sense.&nbsp; But like I said above... I have no problems whatsoever editing things and/or recreating things to make a character concept that doesn't make you tetchy.&nbsp; I just want to play a favored soul, and the warforged was an interesting race to play it as.&nbsp; Thanx Eluvan!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 1825971, member: 7006"] I completely understand where you are coming from, and I agree about the whole "chosen one" kind of thing, which indeed can get very sticky. Quite frankly since I cut and pasted most of it over from my UnCon entry, I didn't do anything to edit out that kind of stuff, which I have no problem doing if you think it might need it. Although to be honest... the whole reason I created the history the way I did was because of the very compressed timetable the ECS seems to give us. In the ECS it mentions that it's only rumored that the LoB has a working Creation Forge, and if those rumors are true, it's one that he's had to jury-rig and thus won't be able to churn out new ones at the same exponential rate that House Cannix used to be able to. So quite frankly, as far as "new" warforged are concerned (i.e. the ones that have been created following the ban from the Treaty of Thronehold), there probably ONLY ARE a few of them (from both X d'Cannith's secret forge and LoB's secret forge). So yeah, my warforge would be "special" inasmuch that he's probably only one of a dozen that the LoB has probably been able to create in the last two years. What does that mean? Realistically and game-wise... not much. There's no difference between my warforged and any other warforged that is out there... except that because I wanted to figure out a logical reason why a warforged would have the Favored Soul class (since Favored Souls are BORN with a hint of the divine rather than praying for it). The only way that seeemed to make the most sense was if the LoB [B][I]built[/I][/B] him that way (as opposed to a warforge suddenly "discovering" the hint of divinity within them). Quite frankly, I can have Bronze be a Favored Soul for ANY of the gods... but it seemed liked worshipping the LoB made the most sense. And there really isn't anything "special" the character gets for being a Favored Soul of the LoB because all he's doing is going out and "preaching quietly" to other warforged he runs into any saying "you know, the LoB has some good ideas that you may want to go listen to..." And as that is a very dicey proposition, the character can't make any hay off his supposed Favored Soul status. Cause if he did... and people [I]discovered[/I] that not only has the LoB a working creation forge but that he's also creating an army (slowly creating it granted), that most of the surrounding countries would come down on the LoB like a ton of bricks. So the history I created and his supposed "chosen one" status, are basically things that will never, ever get mentioned because Bronze knows that to reveal himself is to cause a whole mess of headaches for the LoB. So that's my hopefully intelligent counter-argument. :-) Which basically just says that I'm not expecting (nor desire) any special treatment for the character, but rather am just trying to make "warforged race" plus "favored soul class" equal something that makes logical sense. But like I said above... I have no problems whatsoever editing things and/or recreating things to make a character concept that doesn't make you tetchy. I just want to play a favored soul, and the warforged was an interesting race to play it as. Thanx Eluvan! [/QUOTE]

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