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<blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 3759911" data-attributes="member: 12386">Hmm, a few comments:(1) Warforged do not suffer from the &quot;who am I?&quot; quandry of data and other robots.&nbsp; They know who and what they are, but they don't know their place in society.&nbsp; Think less Data and more Jason Bourne(2) Actually, I lied.&nbsp; Warforged don't really know what they are because, frankly, no one does.&nbsp; The backstory of the rediscovery of the Warforged is fairly murky, and what little we know is deeply sinister and somewhat disturbing.&nbsp; We know they were &quot;manufactured&quot; using Cannith Creation Forges, but even house Cannith doesn't know how Warforged gain sentience.&nbsp; We then find out where House Cannith got the original idea- they very likely discovered schema for creation of the warforged on the continent of Xen'Drik, the home of Giant civilization eons ago, laid low by armies of creatures from beyond space and time (Xoriat, the plane of madness- think of Lovecraft's Far Realms and you've got the idea).&nbsp; Then we find out why the schema were there- it turns out that the Lords of Xoriat, the Great Old On.... excuse me... the Daelkyr....&nbsp; created the original Warforged to fight for them.So you have creations of ancient and unfathomable evil being replicated today and being allowed to walk the land freely.&nbsp; It's really creepy and potentially brilliant stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Puggins, post: 3759911, member: 12386"] Hmm, a few comments: (1) Warforged do not suffer from the "who am I?" quandry of data and other robots. They know who and what they are, but they don't know their place in society. Think less [i]Data[/i] and more [i]Jason Bourne[/i] (2) Actually, I lied. Warforged don't really know [i]what[/i] they are because, frankly, no one does. The backstory of the rediscovery of the Warforged is fairly murky, and what little we know is deeply sinister and somewhat disturbing. We know they were "manufactured" using Cannith Creation Forges, but even house Cannith doesn't know how Warforged gain sentience. We then find out where House Cannith got the original idea- they very likely discovered schema for creation of the warforged on the continent of Xen'Drik, the home of Giant civilization eons ago, laid low by armies of creatures from beyond space and time (Xoriat, the plane of madness- think of Lovecraft's Far Realms and you've got the idea). [i]Then[/i] we find out why the schema were there- it turns out that the Lords of Xoriat, the Great Old On.... excuse me... the [i]Daelkyr[/i].... created the original Warforged to fight for them. So you have creations of ancient and unfathomable evil being replicated today and being allowed to walk the land freely. It's really creepy and potentially brilliant stuff. [/QUOTE]

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