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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 3762320" data-attributes="member: 17363">It's also not the case in Eberron. People know exactly how to make warforged. People are, in fact, still making warforged (Merrix d'Cannith, the Lord of Blades). Creating warforged requires the use of certain artifact-level items which were impounded or destroyed at the end of the war. How to make them isn't a mystery. There are mysteries about them, such as the question of souls, why they can feel pain or have emotions, and things like that. As Hellcow said earlier, it's not like I, Robot where their brains are built. But that's because the techniques used ARE in fact based on techniques that are thousands of years old, which have been partially reverse-engineered by modern artificers. People know exactly how to make the tools used to create warforged. It's simply against the law to do so, and it's the case that they don't understand exactly how those tools work - because they never did. They know how to make the warforged. They haven't forgotten anything about the warforged. There are just certain things about them that they never knew. Which is one of the things that ties to the fact that we're dealing with magic instead of technology; it's easier to have your robot mysteriously have a soul when you're messing around with ancient magic that to accidentally program one into a circuit board (with apologies to Short Circuit). Disliking Eberron? That's fine. The flavor isn't for everyone. There is chocolate in the peanut butter. But it's posts like this that disappoint me, because you're jumping to the conclusion that it's annoying hogwash when it at least appears that you simply don't understand the setting.  Saying "It's been two years and we forgot how to make warforged already" would be utterly moronic, and violates one of the basic principles of the setting - the idea that magic is a science and that sciences evolve over time. Saying "We developed the a weapon during a time of war and have now banned the continued development of that weapon during this time of peace" is a perfectly logical thing with obvious precedent in the real world.</blockquote>

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