Session 001: Welcome to Khorvaire Report
General Summary
The party awoke in some kind of medical facility where they learned they had been rescued from captivity by a group calling themselves Release All Warforged (RAW). This group retrieved them from The Collectors, a shadowy cabal whose goal is to capture and enslave each of the remaining free Warforged or destroy those they can't subjugate. The Collectors view Warforged as constructs -- self directing war machines -- that are inherently undeserving of the rights afforded to them by the Treaty of Thronehold. They are dangerous property, not people. As such, The Collectors feel it is their right to "salvage" the abandoned machines and put them to use if no one else will. RAW organized itself in opposition to The Collectors. They believe that while Warforged were initially built as complex, directed weapons, House Cannith's later creations became complex enough to develop self-awareness and are fully sapient people deserving of the rights of all other people of Khorvaire. The party learned this from one of the engineers whose job it is to "deprogram" the physical and magical control systems The Collectors installed on their captives. Unfortunately, RAW's success at removing these controls comes at the cost of some memory loss. None of the recovered Warforged have been able to remember details from their captivity, and many of them have lost access to much of their pre-captivity memories as well. While some individuals are able to recover most of their earlier memories over time, not all are as lucky. Once RAW breaks the controls over the Warforged they rescue, they try to help the individuals reintegrate into the world. They provide equipment and some gold then free the individuals in a safe area that is known to believe in the rights of Warforged. As the party was going through some testing to see how much of their memory and functionality had returned, the facility was attacked by The Collectors. The party was offered the option of teleporting out of the facility to another RAW base, trying to find an exit from their current location that would get them past the attackers, or of helping to defend the facility. Markus suggested they escape rather than fight since their recovery to fully functional would take a while longer. The party decided to try teleporting even though it had a risk of death. Most of the group made it through the teleporter, with only one individual exploding during the portal power-up. Hakaar, Checkov, Khan, and Brakuri found themselves in a small cavern chamber on the other side of the portal. Markus appeared shortly after them and decoupled the portal so none of the attackers could follow.
Missions/Quests Completed
Escaped from the attack on the facility
Character(s) interacted with
Markus Reed and Wilbur Baresco
Notes
Gained two Warforged followers:
- Brakuri - Warlord (4)
- Khan - Reaver (4)
