Warforged in Forgotten Realms?

[italianranma]

Hi! I just bought the FR player's guide, and after skimming through it I found no mention of Warforged anywhere in there. I know that they weren't part of FR in 3.5...but with the rules update and spell plague...I was wondering if they've been mentioned anywhere.

...because I've got this great idea for a warforged paladin, and I'm not sure the DM's gonna go for it unless there's some really good way (flavor wise) to have one.

 

[Rechan]

There was an article a few months back in Dragon about a WF in Toril, but all the options boiled down to:

Wizard did it (Some Wizard, the country of Lantan, the Red Wizards), or "You fell out of Sigil", making the Warforged an exclusive one-of-a-kind thing. If you wanted to expand on the "Wizard did it", you could easily be a Netherise artifact.

My suggestion would be the Gold Dwarves designing the WF as soldiers and miners to assist their dwindling numbers.

 

[Garthanos]

That is a hoot on my game world Dwarves are themselves constructed miners and soldiers.(and you build one as a reskinned WF).

 

[Derulbaskul]

Another option is to have the warforged as legacies of the ancient empire of Raumauthar. Raumauthar was known for its use of constructs as it fought the fiend-summoning empire of Narfell.

You can still see Narfell on the map; Raumauthar's lands are not so apparent but included what is now Rashemen. The Great Dale and Thesk were definitely sites of battles and likely "storage sites" of constructs waiting for use. You could have the warforged coming from one of these storage sites.

These empires pre-dated Netheril by many centuries. If you go with this origin story then it becomes easier to insert a warforged replacement character: just have the dungeon/underground site that the part is exploring have a storeroom of dormant warforged.

 

[cdrcjsn]

Yeah. Raumathor was known for their blood forges that helped them create automatons to fight the fiend binders of Narfell.

Bloodforged just sounds cool to me.

The Living Forgotten Realms campaign also introduced the term Gondsmen to define automatons created by Lantanan worshipers of Gond (whose priests were also called Gondsmen to add to the confusion).