Warforged

Warforged are constructions, human-sized puppets built at their core with Wizardwood and covered in a framework of steel and protected by armor. The use of wizardwood in their creation grants them a unique feature in that they can develop sentience over time, potentially becoming self-aware beings.

History

Ancient Warforged

Warforged are an incredibly rare creation, largely due to the fact that dragons, the source of the Wizardwood used in their construction, are rumored to be extinct. Additionally, the secrets of warforged construction have been lost over the ages, and only a few of these human-sized puppets have been discovered and awakened in ancient ruins.
It is said that the process of turning a simple puppet made of wizardwood into a self-aware being is a complex and gradual one that can take several generations to complete. This process requires not only the use of wizardwood, but also the blood of a living being, which serves as the catalyst for the transformation.
Without these key components, a warforged will remain a lifeless puppet and never attain sentience. However, once the process is completed, the warforged will regard the family, faction, or group that the blood used to belong to as its master, due to the strong connection established through the transformation process.

Recent attempts

Nowadays, Gnomes are fascinated by the warforged and strive to replicate their creation. They purchase Wizardwood from the Kingdom Reza Flames, home of the Dragonborn, in an attempt to imbue their constructions with sentience or even transfer their own consciousness into them. These modern creations are referred to as autognomes. Despite the meticulous craftsmanship that goes into their creation, which can take years, the end result is often unsuccessful and fails to attain true sentience.

Wechselkind

A mother hears a sound in the night and worriedly checks on her sleeping toddler. Nothing appears amiss, but weeks later the glamour fades and the true horror is revealed: the child has been stolen by the faerie, and a wechselkind is left in its place. The faerie are callous and unchanging beings, so nothing sparks their fascination (and their envy) more than the malleable, bright spark of a young child.
A wechselkind is a construct crafted of wood, clay, and ceramic in the form of a small child, animated by faerie magic imbuing a wizardwood core and concealed in a glamour that makes them appear identical to a stolen mortal babe. Once the glamour fades and the lie is revealed, the wechselkind is often cast out by its foster family, if not destroyed.
Occasionally, though, a family takes pity on the poor creature and attempts to raise it as they would a child, only to find that while their mind develops normally, a wechselkind is forever bound in the unchanging form of a childlike doll.
Whether nurtured or shunned, the wechselkind eventually finds itself an outcast in the world and must fend for itself as best it can. With few physical needs, the wechselkind often wanders from place to place, watching the people it encounters with envious eyes, hoping for a place to finally fit in.
The residual magic of its faerie glamour allows it to conceal itself in the guise of a human child, and a lone wechselkind often takes to begging by the side of the road or doing odd jobs around an isolated farmhouse, searching for some scraps of acceptance or a small trinket or two to take with it when it must inevitably move on.

General Information

Scientific name
Homo machina vivus
Geographic Distribution
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Languages
Common, Gnomish

Physiologie

Average Lifespan
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Size
Medium
Average Height
1.8‒2.1 m
Average Weight
120‒144 kg

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