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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 3786409" data-attributes="member: 17363">What about it? I'm not talking about reincarnation or golems. I'm talking specifically about warforged. One of the key principles of the warforged is that unlike golems, even the people who are creating them don't really understand how they work. They aren't choosing to make the warforged in humanoid shape; humanoid shape is the only form they've been able to produce.I'm not talking about some sort of universal principle of magic; I'm talking about a fundamental aspect of the warforged. They can only be made in humanoid shape. They appear to have souls. Which has led the kalashtar to conclude that they have humanoid souls. I acknowledge this as a valid answer to the OP's question: "People think that they are robots because we're conditioned as a culture to think 'robot' when we see a humanoid figure made of metal." However, for the reasons given above, I'd argue that once you have a deeper understanding of the setting, their humanoid appearance is once of the things that distinguishes them from robots (in my eyes). IMO, one of the key attributes of a robot is that it is a being designed for a purpose... designed to serve the needs of the creator. If it would be more useful for my robot to have treads, he'll have treads. I certainly wouldn't give him a sense of taste or the ability to feel pain - how would either of these things prove useful? The warforged have a sense of taste and can feel pain, and cannot be designed with tracks - because their shape isn't a function of the designer's intent. It's the only shape that they can be made it. So I see them as more "artificial humanoid vessels for souls of the dead" than "robots" - though that's certainly an opinion requiring insight into the setting, and not one anyone would get on first glance.</blockquote>

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