Planescape Warforged Origins

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Planescape Warforged Origins

While I think the recent article on Warforged & Genasi Origins in FR & Eberron sucked as they were generally not that original or too heavy-handed in someway.

But it got me thinking what could the origins of Warforged in Planescape be beyond, "you came from Eberron".

So I came up with a few ideas, and I generally don't want them limited to one plane or any particular alignment either.

Mechanus In the gears of Mechanus you were crafted by the Modrons as a being built for interactions with non-Modrons where they could study more of the nature of other such strange beings.   While a creation of the Modrons you are by no means bound to the hive mind of Primus.

Alternatively the Parai created you wanting to make a perfect creation, or perhaps you come from a civilization of Warforged that live in Mechanus.

Acheron War is eternal, and as armies fought on and on, they started to create soldiers of their own to replace their diminishing numbers. Thus warforged soldiers started to appear all over Acheron, on many battlefields nothing is left of some armies but Warforged.

Outlands Deep in the Outlands away from the Gatetowns a small civilization of warforged exists, trying to discover their true natures away from the influence of any outside forces.  In their findings it seems that across the planes lie many schema of Warforged, while all of them have differences theres elements that are common to all.  Thus leading to a theory that there were progenitors to the Warforged race in the distant past, their secret somehow spread through the planes.  But are they truly gone?

Arborea In the sands of pelion buried in time for an untold eternity, lies the ruins of many past civilizations and secrets.  You were one day awakened in the sands of Pelion left to wander alone, until you were discovered.  But what really happened in the ancient past, and what do you remember of it.

Elysium You were awakened in the wasteland of Belierin, part of an ancient project from the celestials to make construct soldiers.  Soldiers that you know would eventually become the Quasar, being of radiant energy the celestials used in an ancient war.  But were you part of the template for the Quasar, or had something to do with their creation?

Sigil Some spellslinger with a small factory hidden away in  the  Lower Ward creates warforged,  homunculi and golems for anyone who asks for the right price.  You were sold to shortly after your creation, but never was delivered to your destination and left to wander the streets of Sigil.  As to what happened and what you make yourself to be, it's a question you need to know.

Limbo Githzerai scientists after the creation of weapons such as the psi-bomb they unleased on Athas, for centuries experimented on creating warriors who would  be resistant to the effects of the psi-bomb's energies.  Your body was chaos-shaped by the Anarch's guild and mind awakened by them.  You're one of many of this secretive Githzerai project which they hope to unleash against their Githyanki enemies.

Elemental Plane of Earth The Dao in their dismal delves found that many of their slaves were too fragile in their mines.  After working many of them to death, and dealing with too many rebellions they decided to create their own warforged slaves.

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Nice. Thus far I had only

Nice. Thus far I had only thugt of " 'forged are what happens when Modrins need someone with PC classes"

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