Forgeborn

With the destruction and scattering of the Drossbeard clan long ago, the secrets of creating living constructs began to proliferate throughout Adragal. In the Tradelands of Chromia especially, it is no longer an uncommon sight to see these constructed beings. Artificers hold their design specifications as their prized possessions, and take extreme precautions to keep the secrets of their craft. In most cultures forgeborn are seen as servants, slaves, and commodities, but some forgeborn are granted freedom, or find themselves free after their master dies. In the harsh lands of Cyrne, no forgeborn are free, they find themselves pressed into service to whomever has the power to lay claim in the region.

Physical Description

A forgeborn’s physical appearance varies widely, depending wholly on the artificer who created them. Goliath clans for example often require their forgeborn to have the clan insignia embossed on their body, while the Church of Talia requires theirs to be painted with the colors of their faith. The base shape of the forgeborn is usually modeled after the people of the region, whether they be goliath, elves, or any other humanoid creature of appropriate size.

Occasionally forgeborn, or their masters, will attach things to their body, such as welding on permanent weapons, additional limbs, or other such non-standard accoutrements. Although the minds of forgeborn do not deteriorate over time, they eventually will die without constant maintenance. The number of artificers capable of maintaining a forgeborn are relatively low, and the fees are high, meaning that most forgeborn will die by their 150th year. It is possible for a forgeborn to live near infinitely, but it is a challenging, complex, expensive, and arduous task.

Personalities

Most forgeborn have fairly subdued personalities, purposefully polite and reserved. Forging a mind is no easy task however, and every forgeborn is at least a little bit different. Occasionally customers will request more personable forgeborn to serve in less traditional ways, such as being a rich child’s playmate, or a wealthy playwright's permanent backup actor.

In the World

Forgeborn are often traded as commodities, and can be found throughout the world. They are especially prevalent in dwarven societies, as well as in eastern Chromia. It is uncommon to see groups of more than three or four forgeborn together, as they are extremely expensive, and few are released to freedom. Cyrne however, prides itself in its forgeborn, and use them as tireless workers for their broken lands. Forgeborn use less of the crucial resources such as food and potable water, and more of the resources that are abundant on Cyrne such as magical metals, and so the dragonborn amass forgeborn, especially warforged.

Racial Traits

• Ability Score Modifiers: All forgeborn gain a +2 Constitution, but -2 Wisdom and -2 Charisma.
• Size: Forgeborn are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Base Speed: Forgeborn have a base speed of 30 feet.
• Type: Forgeborn are Humanoids with the subtype of Living Construct.

Defense Racial Traits

• Construct Mind: Forgeborn gain a +2 racial bonus to resist mind-affecting and stunning effects and are immune to paralysis and sleep effects.
• Construct Resistance: Forgeborn gain a +2 racial bonus to resist disease, death effects, energy drain, exhaustion, fatigue, nausea, poison and sicken effects as well as stabilization checks and checks to remove negative levels.

Other Racial Traits

• Construct Metabolism: Forgeborn do not need to eat, breathe or sleep, but do need to rest for 8 hours to regain spells or similar abilities. Forgeborn do not heal hit points or attribute damage naturally, but can be repaired with use of the Craft skill or with effects that repair constructs. Repairs made with the Craft skill take 8 hours and a forgeborn repair kit. The amount of hit point damage repaired per check is the result of the Craft check -15.

  Repairing a point of attribute damage requires 8 hours and a Craft check, DC 25. Repairing both hit point damage and one point of ability damage can done during the same 8 hour period, but still requires two different checks. Appropriate Craft skills include armorsmithing, blacksmithing, gem cutting and sculpting. A conscious forgeborn can repair itself. All applications of the Heal skill while used on a forgeborn are replaced with an appropriate Craft skill. Spells and spell-like abilities from the conjuration (healing) subschool or supernatural abilities that duplicate them are only half as effective, rounded down.

  Forgeborn are not capable of procreation, new forgeborn are created using a combination of mundane crafting and magical rituals. Forgeborn do not change size or appearance naturally over time, nor do they gain the normal penalties and bonuses from aging.

• Construct Body: Forgeborn can be targeted by spells, powers and effects that affect objects made from metal, stone and wood, and are vulnerable to acid and sonic damage.

Warforged

The secrets of creating Warforged are locked away, only known by a select few in the depths of the jungles of Darkrock. Forged in the unique and fantastic Life Forge of Erodan, the Warforged are seen as a rare commodity, tireless warriors that can be made and bought. Warforged look similar to other forgeborn, but have permanently affixed armor, and instilled combat training. Every warforged in created uniquely, having slightly varying sizes, armor types, and personalities. Warforged are commonly bought by the wealthy elites of Ruberia and Azurti as bodyguards.

Additional Racial Traits

• Slam: Warforged have a natural attack that deals 1d4 damage.
• Natural Plating: Warforged have a metal plating that provides them with a +2 natural armor bonus to AC. Warforged can still wear normal armor as can other races, however this plating also counts as metal for the purposes of a druid's armor limitation.
• Combat Analysis: Warforged gain a +2 bonus to all Knowledge(Martial) skill checks, and can make Knowledge skill checks untrained to identify creatures and combat hazards.

Peacebound

Making up the vast majority of the forgeborn of Adragal, the peacebound are the first to come to mind when mentioning constructs. They are designed for non combat roles, usually for jobs that can take advantage of the forgeborn’s ability to ignore sleep, food, and breath, such as mining, running mail, or underwater repairs. Most peacebound are given the ability to repair themselves to some degree.

Additional Racial Traits

• Peacebound Training: A peacebound forgeborn gains a +4 bonus on all Profession skill checks they make.
• Construct Assembly: A peacebound forgeborn gains a +4 bonus to any Craft or Spellcraft skill check made to repair or create constructs.
• Pack Mule: A peacebound forgeborn’s movement speed is not lowered by wearing medium or heavy armor or carrying heavy loads.

Psiforged

Few know where the psiforged are created, those same Life Forges that are used to construct the psiforged’s kin, the warforged. Most psiforged are created in secret by the Odesseiron Magi to hunt down other psionic beings and dispel psionic threats in Ruberia. The existence of this classification of forgeborn is withheld from the public, although several criminal organizations have managed to create, buy, or liberate a small amount of the psiforged.

Additional Racial Traits

• Psionically Gifted: Psiforged gain the Wild Talent feat.
• Embedded Crystals: Psiforged can use their body as a cognizance crystal, allowing them to store 1 psionic power point within them at 1st level. Every odd level thereafter, they can store 1 additional power point into the crystals of their body. These crystals cannot be targeted separately from them and cannot be disenchanted or suppressed. In all other ways, these crystals act as a single cognizance crystal.
• Natural Psionics: A psiforged with 10 or more charisma can cast Detect Psionics once per day. The DC for this ability is 10 + the power level + Intelligence modifier, and the manifester level is equal to the psiforged’s number of hit dice. If the psiforged gains levels in a manifesting class, they may add Detect Psionics to their list of power’s known.