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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pathfinderq1" data-source="post: 3821993" data-attributes="member: 48394">Basic background, very much "in progress"- will update tomorrow when I have more time free.  This is just the central concept, using the "feat rogue" variant from UA/srd- at this point I could go for either a ranged/magic focus, with some warlock levels, or a melee combat focus, with fighter levels (aiming towards Dervish PrC from CWar).Concept sketch: Zara the dancerBackground: Tyrell D'Cannith was an unquestionably brilliant man, though even his most ardent allies had to concede he was far beyond "eccentric".  He had a large number of children- nearly a dozen, all daughters, that he loved very much, and he was deeply (perhaps too deeply) involved in cutting edge research and development of the warforged.  For years, as the Last War drove an incredible demand for those construct soldiers, Tyrrell worked on new ideas- some of them tiny changes, some drastic departures.  One of his more personal projects involved alternative design strategies- he built a number of experimental warforged over the years, of several different types, many of which didn't work out (and were subsequently destroyed).The crowning project of his career involved a series of experimental 'forged- built far more lightly than most of their brethren, these constructs were powered by Khyber dragonshards, and each one was designed as a personal bodyguard and companion for one of his children.  These 'forged were built almost more as works of art, named after the moons that dotted the sky, and each had design individualities to match them with their chosen wards- Zarantyr 6, for example, was graceful and programmed with Tyrrell's daughter Jeva's love of dance, while Barrakas was built of Darkwood and enlaid with twining vines that reflected Katri's love of the beauty of nature.  This project was incredibly expensive and complicated, and many of Tyrrell's rivals in House Cannith grumbled about the amount of resources he was allotted- but ideas that he generated in his work were able to be put to very profitable use elsewhere.  In strictest fact, he never managed to actually complete the project- while his designs were finished, only a few of the special warforged were actually built (six, in fact), and only two of those actually met the children that  had been made for.  For, in the dying days near the war's end, tragedy seemed to stalk Tyrrell's family mercilessly- all of his daughters, as well as Tyrrell himself and his wife, were slain or perished.  At first it seemed like a series of tragic accidents- but at the last, it had some agency tying up the "loose ends", one of Tyrrell's rival who saw a long-awaited opportunity...Jeva was one of the last to die, and when she perished in a lightning rail crash, her warforged companion was with her.  As Jeva's life faded, and her soul left her body, Zarantyr cradled the girl in her mithril arms- and perhaps that soul was drawn into the Khyber shards that formed her warforged heart (or maybe some other darker spirit hovered close at the crucial moment and was bound instead).  Either way, something sparked within Zarantyr- something unique.  She wandered away from the crash site, unable to deal with the overwhelming feelings that blossomed within her.  She felt what she thought were emotions, and singing voices lingered in her mind, a music that no one else could hear.She came to believe that she had been granted a soul, and she began to explore the consequences of such a unique occurrence, both good and bad.  The music that she heard was always there in her head- sometimes as the dance tunes that Jeva had loved, sometimes as almost understandable voices singing or whispering just for her.  She came to love that music, to live for it.  Perhaps it was the soul of Jeva, anchored in those Khyber shards and sustained by the music that she had loved- or perhaps it was some agent or minion of the Fury, and that music was the passionate beat at the core of madness...MORE TO COME...</blockquote>

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