Through The Ages

Where they came from is unknown, but in the birth of the Second Age, came beings of unparalleled magical prowess and strength. These seven individuals would one day come to be known as the Lords of Catastrophe, for everywhere their footfalls were heard, pain and suffering was soon to follow. Over the centuries of the Second Age, the Lords would create ferocious aberrations, and monstrosities to terrorize the peoples of Xinithia. This would ultimately lead to the destruction of PearlCoast and the creation of the Obsidian Spears, (large black towers meant to siphon the magical power from the Soul Tree). But their plans were thwarted when, with all of their strength, the Gods uprooted the Soul Tree and placed it within Thessia. To protect the tree, the Gods tore the earth asunder creating mountain ranges that would surround the tree, this new landmark would come to be known as the Titans Ridge. With that, the towers siphoned the lands of Cordillum, leaving the majority of the land, a wasteland of dead trees, and the earth split open releasing its magma across the once lush fields in the form of massive volcanoes. The Lords rallied for a last-ditch effort to strike at the Gods, but they sorely underestimated the strength of Atia, Umos, and Yton. Together the gods smote the land on which they stood, and with that, they were defeated, but they were not dead, for they had grown too powerful. So with this knowledge in hand, the gods enlisted their chosen champions to keep watch over the Lords, wherever they would banish them to. And after great consideration, it was decided that they would be cast away across the different Planes, which Planes, in particular, is unknown, and there they remain to this day.

On this day, Dazden Palefinger would create the first Warforge, who would go on to make everyone wonder, if constructs were capable of higher understanding? Of feeling emotion? The answer was a unanimous no. But in the eyes of a Warforged it was different they could feel emotions, pain, etc.. This gave the world something new to consider, what was life? Was it merely experienced by those of organic means, or is consciousness life? The ability to think and form memories and bonds. These lines of thinking led the King of Voniel at the time to declare them as their own species and demanded that they be seen and treated no differently than any other man, woman, or child. In later years this would be revoked by another, King Deidrik Geldarak, who sought to use the Warforged as soldiers for a war against the Valero-Lok against their will. But after his dethroning, and creation of the Exalted Council, the following Sovereign, Uhlia Reinhardt reinstated that Warforged were not slaves to anyone. And with the aid of the Council, she ensured that their freedom would never be questioned again.   Within the lands of Dobro, the lines are muddled but as long as a Warforged doesn't make any trouble, there will be no action taken against them. That said, there is nothing stopping the guards, or even ordinary people from "dismantling" the "human-shaped-husks" that blindly, and ignorantly wander Dobro, unknowing of the danger.