Adjuvant

Adjuvant, Envoy of Blades

When word reached the Lord of Blades that a feyspire had been discovered in the forests of the Lhazaar mainland, he dispatched agents to learn more about it. Upon hearing that it was a place of fleshbound nightmares, he wasted no time in sending one of his most trusted servants: Adjuvant, warrior envoy, who often spoke for the Lord of Blades when the warforged tyrant sought allies against the Five Nations. Adjuvant was tasked with making contact with the Lord of the Fading Dream on behalf of his lord. It took a very long time to find Taer Lian Doresh, but at last he succeeded. Upon entering the Fortress, Adjuvant extended a diplomatic, three-fingered hand in greeting— and was promptly refused exit. There were no discussions or exchange of court protocols. He’d become a prisoner.
  The warforged are of great interest to Shan Doresh; they are a young race even by human standards, artificial yet living, and they do not sleep or dream. The eladrin lord allows Adjuvant to wander the halls of Taer Lian Doresh freely— that he might study him when he so chooses-but he does not allow the warforged to find the way out. Shan Doresh ’s subjects have been instructed not to harm Adjuvant except in self-defense.
 

Hook: Prison Break

Adjuvant is a deeply frustrated warforged. He has been ordered by the Lord of Blades to maintain dip- lomatic relations, but he is a warrior at heart and he has been made a captive. Should he fight his way out— he is sorely outmatched by the numerous and powerful fey— or is finding the labyrinth’s exit merely a test? The predicament is an elaborate puzzle box he must solve; therefore he spends his time studying the feyspire and searching for clues. If he meets visitors such as the player characters, he seeks an alliance. But in Adjuvant the player characters find a dan- gerous ally. As a Blade, he is contemptuous of all “breathers” but he realizes he might need assistance to escape. Other warforged could discover that he is recruiting for the Lord of Blades. If the player char- acters refuse to assist him. Adjuvant almost certainly attacks. Even if they succeed in helping him escape Taer Lian Doresh, the warforged envoy likely turns on them when the Fortress is safely behind. If they do not serve the interest of the Lord of Blades, they are a liability.
 

Adjuvant in Combat

Adjuvant travels and fights alone, but he has a few tricks up his composite sleeve when the odds are stacked against him. Although he relies on his axe in the heat of battle, the haft at the other end serves as a short-ranged wand of fire. With the authority given him by the Lord of Blades, Adjuvant can temporarily immobilize his foes using halting words and will do so early in a fight; he is brutally effective at cutting down those who balk before him. When the tide of battle turns against him, his ruthless retaliation tends to even the score.