Warforged
The warforged were built to fight in the Primal War . The first warforged were mindless automatons, but Nobles devoted vast resources to improving these steel soldiers. An unexpected breakthrough produced fully sentient soldiers, blending organic and inorganic materials. Warforged are made from wood and metal, but they can feel pain and emotion. Built as weapons, they must now find a purpose beyond the war. A warforged can be a steadfast ally, a cold-hearted killing machine, or a visionary in search of purpose and meaning.
Living Steel and Stone
Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as their muscles, wrapped around a framework of steel, darkwood, or stone. Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforce joints. Warforged share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced brow ridge. Beyond these common elements of warforged design, the precise materials and build of a warforged vary based on the purpose for which it was designed.
Although they were manufactured, warforged are living humanoids. Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to warforged that they do to other humanoids.
Warforged Personality
The warforged were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The Treaty of Thronehold gave them freedom, but many still struggle both to find a place in the post-war world and to relate to the creatures who created them.
The typical warforged shows little emotion. Many warforged embrace a concrete purpose — such as protecting allies, completing a contract, or exploring a land — and embrace this task as they once did war. However, there are warforged who delight in exploring their feelings, their freedom, and their relationships with others. Most warforged have no interest in religion, but some embrace faith and mysticism, seeking higher purpose and deeper meaning.
The typical warforged has a sexless body shape. Some warforged ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity.
The more a warforged develops its individuality, the more likely it is to modify its body, seeking out an artificer to customize the look of its face, limbs, and plating.
Quirks
Warforged often display an odd personality trait or two, given how new they are to the world. The Warforged Quirks table contains example quirks.
| Warforged Quirks | |
|---|---|
| d8 | Quirks |
| 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. |
- Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.
- Age. A typical warforged is between two and thirty years old. The maximum lifespan of the warforged remains a mystery; so far, warforged have shown no signs of deterioration due to age. You are immune to magical aging effects.
- Alignment. Most warforged take comfort in order and discipline, tending toward law and neutrality. But some have absorbed the morality – or lack thereof – of the beings with which they served.
- Size. Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier.
- Size modifier = 2d6
- Height = 5 feet + 10 inches + your size modifier in inches
- Weight in pounds = 270 + (4 x your size modifier)
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Constructed Resilience. You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:
- You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
- You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
- You are immune to disease.
- You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep.
- Sentry's Rest. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.
- Integrated Protection. Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor.
- You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
- You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor, you must incorporate it into your body over the course of 1 hour, during which you must remain in contact with the armor. To doff armor, you must spend 1 hour removing it. You can rest while donning or doffing armor in this way.
- While you live, your armor can't be removed from your body against your will.
- Specialized Design. You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.
- Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
History
The warforged were created just before the Primal War, and were refined during said conflict. Originally starting out as brainless constructs, many realized that artificial soldiers that can think and react tend to be better troops. Created through ancient diagrams about Sagicae, the Autognomes, and with the emergence of Hextech, the Warforged were born.
Now many have to wonder the planes in search of a new purpose or to find themselves and what they stand for. Usually openly welcomed in most societies as guardians or protectors, it is not hard for them to find areas for them to call home. While the creation of new Warforged it rare, it still does occasionally happen. Usually right before a large conflict is inevitable.
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