Tahu
Tahu was the creation of Joshua Harmon.
Tahu was a warforged created by the Eternal spy Archmage Stormchapel. He survived the destruction of Val'ul unlike his master, but was cursed by the fires of the sinful lieutenant Resentment, giving the warforged demonic fire magics. He was the sole survivor of Stormchapel's creations. For years after Val'ul disappeared, Tahu was in stasis beneath the waves of the Ulian sea, only awakening once a signal of an Eternal ship landed nearby.
Tahu, using the remnants of his scrambled code, followed this signal to Capitol, the mothership of the Stallion division. He followed the signal until he met with the party that visited the Ulian sea earlier, and found it was an movie production looking for more actors. Tahu then got a job in the movie "Bedrich" where he played the role of Frillith. Like a baby duck, he latched onto the acting party of Urg, Stone, and Farrus. He was confused, a robot lost in time, growing more and more angry at his displacement every day. He was calmed temporarily by the appearance of who he assumed was his creator Stormchapel, but it was only the actor playing the part of Stormchapel so the calm was temporary. In the back of his programming, the taint of resentment was spreading.
As his only friends on the ship were the three ambassadors made actors, he was roped into a trip to Arman to test a weird substance that they bought with their acting paychecks called "omega" on a vampire there. The operation went as well as you'd expect for these actors, with them returning by a teleportation spell with a resurrected beholder, missing limbs, and Tahu nothing but a head. They brought him to a mechanic to get him a new body, and in his damaged state, Tahu opened a door for Resentment. He emerged from the shop with a new body, but nothing else did.
After the movie was finished, Tahu, Urg and Stone (Farrus vanished during one of the scenes) had gotten an audience with the main A.I. of the Eternal Empire's Fourth Fleet, Cotas. Tahu wasn't completely unaware of Urg's anti-mechanic sentiment, and Resentment within him clouded his loyalties, so when battle broke out in the audience chamber, Tahu was quick to violence. The last semblance of Tahu's original design died in this battle, fully becoming an avatar for the dragon Resentment.
This avatar would eventually start the Spreading Flame in the Western Fey Wilds, a threat that would plague the Veritian Leaf for years to come.
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