Ancient Giant Ruins - Docents

A Docent is a small metallic sphere studded with dragonshards that can be attuned to by a warforged. House Cannith first discovered the devices in Xen’drik, and has since produced their own limited versions. A Docent appears to have no properties until attuned to by a warforged, at which point its purpose becomes very clear; each is an isolated intelligence that can talk to the one it is attuned to, providing knowledge, languages, and even magical abilities.

A Xen’drik Docent is ancient, intricate, and highly valuable; their knowledge dates back from before the Shattering, and can include lost secrets of the quori. The reason for this is devastatingly simple. If the docent Shira is to be believed, the intelligence of an ancient Docent is the quori trapped inside it. Shira’s existence suggests that the Docents were developed as containers for the quori of the previous age.

Their design was meant to protect them from being pulled into Dal Quor during the Turning, while allowing them to control artificial bodies - the constructs now known as the ‘Quorforged’. If their voices can be trusted, they may well have succeeded. 40,000 years later, the Warforged of House Cannith are capable of attuning to a Docent,