The Forged
The first Forged were Dwarves who found themselves crippled from injuries sustained from mining in environments so extreme that any other race would have stopped long beforehand. Rather than give up and retire a method was developed by their brightest Artificers to allow these crippled individuals a new lease on life. The Soul and Memory imprint of a living being could be painstakingly transferred into an artificial vessel that would become the core of a construct resembling the form the being had previously inhabited. With one major difference, these constructed bodies were made from metal, stone and wood.
Equipped with these far more resilient bodies the newly made Forged could return to their work without worry of sustaining injuries that word have previously left them crippled or dead. Soon enough races other than Dwarves began to undergo the process. A very, very expensive process. Demand was high and resources were low without additional funding. And so a compromise was made. Those who needed/wanted to undergo the Conversion but could not afford to were not turned away, instead they were given a new option. Indentured servitude. Why die or remain crippled when a meager 200 years of service was the cost and after that, who knows how long you could live in a practically immortal body.
To keep costs down these Indentured Forged were given Base models with little to no distinguishing aspects with all of them roughly the same shape and size. In order to prevent “defaulting” on the service time indentured Forged had their memories sealed until the period of repayment was completed. Both the base forms and the memory sealing left the Indentured docile and obedient and led to the slang Blank Slate and “Blanks” or the more derogatory term “Echo Heads”.
As such there is no such thing as a Forged culture because they conform to whatever culture they are currently working in. The wealthy retain their memories and as such continue the lives they had lived prior and those who finish their service time rarely have friends or family that have survived them. A great deal of classism based racism is directed at the “Blanks” while the Wealthy Forged, or as the lower class calls them “Silver Sprockets”, live lives of luxury. Very few Blanks survive to the end of their 200 years and those who have found that the return of their memories has some less than desirable side effects.
These long lived Blanks are called “Graven” since they have their memories inscribed back into their minds however their questionable level of sanity has led to a twisting of the name, the “Craven”.
Naming Traditions
Feminine names
First Names are usually assigned by a Forged's Master.
Masculine names
First Names are usually assigned by a Forged's Master.
Family names
An Indentured Forged takes the Surename of their Master.
Other names
If a Forged never had their Memory removed they usually decide to retain whatever set of names they went by before the Conversion.
A "Craven" may use whatever name they prefer be it one they used in their indentureship, their pre-conversion names or take new names.
Major organizations
Capitalist Trade Union
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