Talk:Warforged

is there information regarding their livespan?--94.221.211.212 15:03, October 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Though there are warforged in the Realms, I think most of the material on them would be located in the Eberron sourcebooks, and therefore I'm not entirely sure. However, given that they are constructs and (from what I have read) can have new/repaired limbs attached, I imagine that they'll live indefinitely, unless:
 * a) They are physically destroyed
 * b) The magic binding their spirit to their body is banished in some way
 * c) The materials their body is made of decompose


 * Of course, this is all speculation on my part. Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 16:02, October 29, 2012 (UTC)

This is on page 27 of the Eberron Campaign Setting for 3.5 edition. They hit middle-aged at 150 years old (theoretically, for the setting), but suffer no further aging effects and have no maximum age (i.e., they're immortal, barring accidents). — BadCatMan (talk) 11:16, October 30, 2012 (UTC)

thanks. i appreciate the fast reply. --94.221.214.63 12:16, October 30, 2012 (UTC)

Not in the Realms?
I'm pretty sure warforged don't actually exist in the Realms. They of course originated in Eberron. The 3e Monster Manual III 3e, the 4e Monster Manual, only cover them for generic settings, and Dragon #364 "Playing Warforged" only covers them for a generic setting and Nerath. Only Dragon magazine 371, "Origin Stories" discusses them in relation to FR, and there it is expressly a set of optional backstories for incorporating them in home games, with nothing intended to be canon. It says "For instance, in our published games and novels, you might never see a warforged character in the FORGOTTEN REALMS setting" and "However, in a vacuum of official support for a race not described in a campaign setting, you might wonder how your nonstandard race came to exist in the campaign." and "For all the extremes of the FORGOTTEN REALMS, it is a world not known for its warforged... But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen in your game." OTOH, it does have art of a warforged cleric of Torm.

The only warforged in relation to the Realms is Warden (warforged), and there it is specifically an interloper from the Eberron setting, and only in Idle Champions. I think that may be too tenuous a connection to warrant detailing warforged.

On that basis, I would propose tagging it with Non-canon or canon (adap), or even exporting to the Eberron Wiki, with just a cross-wiki link for Warden.

But Look-a-troopa just told me they appear in some 4e LFR modules, so now I don't know. — BadCatMan (talk) 13:43, May 22, 2020 (UTC)


 * My opinion based on that description is to add canon (adap). Material from another campaign setting, but adapted by the official source of the Dragon magazine seems to apply. Daranios (talk) 17:09, May 22, 2020 (UTC)

Okay, User:Look-a-troopa mentioned that some 4e LFR modules included warforged, who I'll just quote here: "WATE3-1 Moon Rising has an adventuring party including a warforged named Bente appear in the Feywild, not far from a crossing in Ardeep Forest. at a glance it doesn't look like his origins are explored in depth. LURU2-4 Need to Know and NETH4-1 Containing Shadow have a "warforged" called Coura working as the head archivist of Silverymoon's Vault of the Sages, though her description doesn't exactly match the usual warforged model, and kinda falls in the much-maligned (by Eberron fans) pitfall of "warforged = robot" in a number of ways. ADAP3-1 The Gauntlgrym Gambit calls for one of the PCs to be an heir of Delzoun, a descriptor which allows for dwarves, former dwarf revenants, and "dwarven crafted warforged". That's it for the modules i have access to, save for some reskinned warforged statblocks and some references to what to do if one of the PCs is a warforged (mostly relating to them not needing to eat or sleep)." I don't know if those are canon or not, we don't have articles on them yet.

And User:Ir'revrykal said "Dungeons & Dragons Online has playable and NPC Warforged, and has several expansions set in the Realms (as opposed to Eberron, the game's original setting)."

If they are canon, I'd say these appearances have more canon relevance and primacy over "Origin Stories", which is still expressly non-canon or at best an adaptation. — BadCatMan (talk) 01:36, May 23, 2020 (UTC)