So for there to be just one, or a handful, of warforged in Faerûn is quite plausible. In comments, nitsua60 mentions that the new Dragon Heist adventure includes new constructs, and in his answer, Matt Vincent mentions the techsmiths of Gond and their Gondsmen, which are much of the way to warforged already. And given Faerûn’s propensity for mages who sit in towers doing research without ever interacting with the rest of the world, for one of those to have pursued the idea of imbuing an artificial construct with real life, succeed, and then not tell anybody about it, is entirely in keeping with the campaign setting as a whole. Faerûn could reasonably produce warforged tooįaerûn is just chock-full of preposterously-powerful mages, and things like golems are already things there. Merrix d’Cannith has already known to have performed several experiments on eldritch machines, so this is no great stretch. I prefer that over an awkward trek through Eberron’s moon–lenses to get to the Great Wheel and then somehow get to Toril, because that’s a rather-unlikely journey for a 1st-level character. And if he knew about connections to Faerûn? It would be weird if he didn’t send some through.Īs for how, Eberron’s always got eldritch machines, which are literally just “plot hook” in industrial form. He is known (to players and DMs, if not to any of the Eberron public) to continue producing warforged for the sake of various experiments. That leads us to an easy explanation: the only person known to still be creating (normal, functional, playable) warforged is Merrix d’Cannith, operating out of an illegal creation forge buried deep within Cannith South’s holdings in Sharn. Because knowing all the secrets and darkest lore about the metaphysics of his world is pretty much Merrix d’Cannith’s raison d’être. The Aereni Undying Court, perhaps.īut if anyone knows it, then we can be damn sure that Merrix d’Cannith knows it. Tira Miron, at least if she’s everything she’s purported to be, probably would, and so would Oalian. Outsiders native to them could have restrictions on their behavior that prevents them from explaining the situation or allowing Eberron’s peoples out-or the wider planes’ peoples in.Īnd then the limited ways out of Eberron would be known to extremely few. The “lensing” effect that produces Eberron’s moons can also make those sections of the planes difficult to leave for the wider Great Wheel. We’d hear about it, and by-and-large we do not.īut those connections could be rare and difficult to use. If people did, they’d almost-certainly seek them out rather than the fairly-extreme approaches to avoiding Dolurrh that some in Eberron take-like joining the Blood of Vol or a cult to the Keeper. Those connections, if they exist, are rarely used, but we have MerrixĮven if those connections exist, they are rarely used Toril doesn’t know about Eberron and Eberron certainly doesn’t know about Toril or the rest of the planes.
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