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<blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 3767372" data-attributes="member: 17363">Funny you should ask...Per the setting, what most troubles the kalashtar is that the warforged have souls, and that no mortal agency should be able to create a soul... hence their belief that the souls aren't being created, but are rather coming from someone else. One of the common theories that's been advanced is that they are vessels for the souls of the dead; Dolurrh wipes away the memories of the dead, so they don't remember their past... at least, not yet. From this point, you simply take the principle of magical correspondence: the reason the warforged that looks like a human has a soul and the one that looks like a seige engine doesn't is because the humanoid vessel is the only mystically suitable host for the humanoid soul. It's easy to look at a picture you don't like and assume &quot;That's a dumb copout&quot;. But there's more depth to the setting than people assume. Warforged aren't simply mass-produced mechanical men. People haven't forgotten how to build them. They have a role in the world that stretches out across thousands of years and multiple planes. Their current situation has both moral and political ramifications. It's not just &quot;Hey, we want to let players be k3wl killer robots.&quot;&nbsp; The warforged are integral to many of the core themes of Eberron: magic used for war; the impact of war on civilization; problems that don't always have good solutions.Again: don't like sentient golems as a race? It's your chocolate and your peanut butter. No one should force you to do anything you don't want to do, any more than they'll make me use whisper gnomes in my game. But it seems to me that many of the negative reactions are based on superficial knowledge, as opposed to understanding the role they actually play in the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hamburger Mary, post: 3767372, member: 17363"] Funny you should ask... Per the setting, what most troubles the kalashtar is that the warforged have souls, and that no mortal agency should be able to create a soul... hence their belief that the souls aren't being created, but are rather coming from someone else. One of the common theories that's been advanced is that they are vessels for the souls of the dead; Dolurrh wipes away the memories of the dead, so they don't remember their past... at least, not yet. From this point, you simply take the principle of magical correspondence: the reason the warforged that looks like a human has a soul and the one that looks like a seige engine doesn't is because the humanoid vessel is the only mystically suitable host for the humanoid soul. It's easy to look at a picture you don't like and assume "That's a dumb copout". But there's more depth to the setting than people assume. Warforged aren't simply mass-produced mechanical men. People haven't forgotten how to build them. They have a role in the world that stretches out across thousands of years and multiple planes. Their current situation has both moral and political ramifications. It's not just "Hey, we want to let players be k3wl killer robots." The warforged are integral to many of the core themes of Eberron: magic used for war; the impact of war on civilization; problems that don't always have good solutions. Again: don't like sentient golems as a race? It's your chocolate and your peanut butter. No one should force you to do anything you don't want to do, any more than they'll make me use whisper gnomes in my game. But it seems to me that many of the negative reactions are based on superficial knowledge, as opposed to understanding the role they actually play in the world. [/QUOTE]

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