Warforged

Warforged are bipedal, humanoid constructs made up of a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Cords made of woven Magemesh and Hina Silk, filled with alchemical and magical fluids make up the inside of these beings acting as muscles and veins. A frame made of hearty Tudeskite ironwood supports armoured plates that form a protective outer shell and reinforces the joints. Most Warforged share a common facial design with a hinged jaw and crystalline eyes embedded underneath a reinforced brow ridge.   Other common traits include things such as:

Elven Design

Many Warforged were constructed with their inventor, Palizidar Spheros, in mind and thus many are constructed to be Elf-like in appearance, though lacking the pointed ears. Even so, to appeal to a mass audience many were also made with other races in mind.  

Construction Types

Goliath

Warforged are sexless constructs and therefore cannot reproduce.

Although Warforged do not grow physically over time as they are constructs, many go through stages of mental growth caused by their own thoughts or events in their life.  

Stage 1

Warforged at this stage do not feel any emotion nor any pain. They act exactly how they were designed to act, intelligent but obedient and unfeeling. There are few Warforged who are still at this stage of growth.  

Stage 2

At this stage, Warforged begin their first step towards sentience. This stage usually starts when a Warforged starts really taking in the environment around them and thinking about it on their own accord. This stage can also start when the Warforged goes through an emotional event such as someone actually calling them a friend or when one of their allies or friends pass away. The second example can actually be the thing that drives them to start thinking of their own accord and start gaining the form of sentience that Warforged have.  

Stage 3

At this stage Warforged start developing their individuality. A Warforged at this stage might not start modifying themselves just yet but they might gain interests or doing more than just their job such as reading and writing or buying things they think they like at various shops. A Warforged at this stage might also try to start feeling real emotion by taking part in events that ellicit strong emotions such as fairs, funerals, comedic plays, and mass prayers.  

Stage 4

Warforged at this stage have fully embraced individuality and sentience. They can feel emotion and pain just like anyone else and seek out Artificers to modifiy them to look how they want. Warforged at this stage tend to choose their own name if they dislike the one they were given or prefer another one. Warforged at this stage often also choose their gender identity. Warforged who identify as a woman tend to modify their bodies to look more feminine while those who identify as men tend to try and modify their body to look more muscular. Those who identify as Non-Binary tend to modify themselves to look more androgynous or stay with the default body they were made as.   At this point in their life the Warforged will often display an odd personality trait or two. The following table contains a few examples.  

Warforged Quirks

d8	Quirk
1	You analyze—out loud—the potential threat posed by every creature you meet.
2	You often misread emotional cues.
3	You are fiercely protective of your friends.
4	You try to apply wartime discipline to every situation.
5	You don't know how to filter your feelings and are prone to dramatic emotional outbursts.
6	You don't understand clothing beyond its utility and assume it denotes a person's function.
7	You are obsessed with your appearance and constantly polish and buff yourself.
8	War is the only thing that makes sense to you, and you're always looking for a fight.

Warforged are constructs and therefore do not need to eat or drink.

If found by scavengers or other such people, Warforged who have passed away and have not been taken and/or buried by their allies are mostly used for scrap metal. Their insides usually become too weak to be useable after their passing, the crystals in their eyes are are usually found broken and if not, most would be able to identify the crystals former purpose thus making them nearly unsellable, and their wooden body parts are so specifically made that the best use for them would be as clubs or firewood.

Most Warforged share the same plated, nose and featureless, human-looking face. Each part of their head and face can be taken apart for inspection, modification, and repair.

Warforged, while mostly found in Macanhia, can be found in many places all across Xalvion with most being found in bigger cities.

Warforged were all assigned numerical designations at the time of their construction. Most chose to abandon these numbers and adopt nicknames, often given to them by their friends and allies. The more independent Warforged choose their own new names as a way to express themselves and their individuality. A few take on the names of those around them, with some being the name of a fallen friend or mentor.   Warforged Names: Anchor, Banner, Bastion, Blade, Blue, Bow, Cart, Church, Crunch, Crystal, Dagger, Dent, Five, Glaive, Hammer, Iron, Lucky, Mace, Oak, Onyx, Pants, Pierce, Red, Rod, Rusty, Scout, Seven, Shield, Slash, Smith, Spike, Temple, Vault, Wall.

While many Warforged tend to identify on either end of the gender spectrum, there are quite a many who chose to ignore the concept of it entirely.

In the year 1690 of the Arcane Era, Palizidar Spheros, an Elf Artificer from Macanhia began dabbling in the making of constructs with the sole purpose of making them smarter and able to learn unlike common golems and other automatons.   The first prototypes where rather successful albeit not as smart as he would have hoped and thus he continued his work hoping to make the breakthrough he wanted to.   In the year 1695, Palizidar had finally accomplished what he had set out to do, he created a construct that could speak, was intelligent, and most importantly, could learn. He learned quickly that he ended up achieving more than what he had hoped for.   By 1696, many Warforged started to display signs of sentience and individuality. Those who were soldiers became insubordinate and started disobeying commands they thought were wrong, dockers started to complain about growing tired after a long days work, and miners objected to working and started strikes as they had realized their working environments were far too dangerous. It was at this point that Palizadar realized that the Warforged he and his Artificers made were becoming much smarter than they had originally intended.   In 1696, Warforged were finally declared a sentient people and laws were made in most civilized parts of the world that declared it to be illegal to own a Warforged individual. On top of this, it was made illegal to make more Warforged as the ethics of the act were quite complex.

• Warforged don't feel anything: While this is technically true for a small portion of the Warforged population, the majority of Warforged have achieved sentience and can feel emotion and pain, both physical and mental.

• Warforged are just machines: While they are constructs they are still living humanoids. Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all work on a Warforged just as they would with any other humanoid.