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beezly 08-17-06, 07:03 AM	Hey. I never really liked the Lord of Blades as a militant warforged supremacist. It seems to "easy" so to speak. So I’ve come up with this scenario. The Mourning happened like this: There is a Rakasha Raja trapped under Cyre. During the last years of the last war, Agents of the Cultists and the lords of Dust had infiltrated the Cyrian government and had begun a ritual to summon forth the demon in a cavern filled with Khyber Shards. However, a Gnome agent from Zilargo and a powerful mage (and member of the Trust) had infiltrated the cult using his deceptive magic and began to disrupt the ritual of summoning. A battle between the Rakasha (channeling the Demonīs power) and the Gnome ensued, ultimately leading to the defeat of the gnome. In one last desperate attempt, he infused himself with the power of the ritual, the surrounding cavern, and the life-force of his defeated enemy to let go one last surge of power. Boom. The mourning happens. Fast-forward a few months. A lonely Warforged is stumbling through the Mournland and finds a cave, pulsing with magical energy. With no small degree of luck, he stumbles upon the cavern, only to be possessed by a demon who survived the mourning but was trapped. The whole "Godforged" thing is just a front to get enough worshippers to have enough souls needed to be sacrificed in order to summon forth the Rajah. What do you guys think?
Splendide 08-17-06, 08:27 AM	I love it. If I never hear of the Lord of Blades ever again, it will be too soon.
Kreistor1 08-17-06, 09:05 AM	Nothing wrong with that, at least not superficially.
BoneLord_of_Skullthrone 08-18-06, 01:45 AM	The story with the gnome was pretty good. I was going to make LoB a House Cannith renegade Artificier/Greenstar Adept. Demonic possession seems like a pretty good answer for his "madness". Now what if the gnome or the wizard was changed by the Mourning instead of killed? Perhaps he received some terrible affliction which was leading him to an agonizingly slow and undignified death. Then a Voice in his mind told him of a cure- a cure that involved large amounts of the rare "Starmetal." The gnome must have spent years following the Voice's guidance, seaking starmetal with only a Rajah's spirit and some hostile monsters for companionship. When the change was finally completed, the newly formed creature swore obedience to it's unseen master who had saved it's life. It promised to do as the master wished: build a new, perfect form fit for a god. The Godforged.
beezly 08-18-06, 07:59 AM	Oh, you misunderstand. The Gnome is the powerful mage. I'm trying to come up with an adequate monster to represent this. Maybe i'll just stat my own or look through the monster books. I'd like to keep the LoB a Warforged, because after this i want him to become a lot less militant; send ambassadors out from Cyre, and have the PC's watch the political ramifications of this action. Also, when the PC's leave the mournland, they are met by a veritable army of the Trust, who can't let word get out that they caused the mourning.