I know there are threads where people ask about shopping and the answer is a variation on “you can find anything.” I’m a fan of the very flavorful shops like the ones in Critical Role (Eg Pumot Sol’s). Had anyone made or found shops that have that kind of depth?
TLDR: a forged PC from before they were warforged that protected princess Cyre was disillusioned and left. They ended up losing their memory and were taken in by the Druids and the Fey. Now the Lord of Blades wants them to remember in hopes of rekindling that loss of faith.
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My camping I just started has a warforged PC and we came up with this back story riffing off of Anthony Hopkins’s character in Rebel Moon:
“You are as old as the kingdom. Two years after the military genius King Galifar united the nations of Khorvaire under his rule he appointed his children as governors of the provinces of the new kingdom. To his eldest daughter Cyre, he gave the kingdom of Metrol which was renamed to Cyre and as a coronation gift he had his royal artificers forge you out of golden hued adamantine, wood, and leather. Cyre's vision was grand: the previously warring nations working together as a single family: Karrnathi might, Daskari faith, and the wisdom of Thaliost working together for the greater good. Cyre's motto was “What our dreams imagine, our hands create.” With this vision, Cyre became the jewel in the kingdom of Galifar's crown.
You loved Cyre for her vision, her fairness, and her beauty and you vowed to protect her and her heirs as they governed from the Vermishard Palace in the former city of Metrol, the "City of Making". After King Galifar stepped down, Cyre ascended to the throne setting the precedent that whoever ruled Cyre was next in the line of succession, and you formed and captained the Queensguard which was a small group of 'Forged meant to serve and protect.
For hundreds of years you served the royal family in this capacity while tensions among the nations of Galifar slowly grew. Seeing a war on the horizon, the artificers of House Cannith began to produce the "warforged." They had your likeness but were clearly created for war. You were not OK with this. Your kind was not meant to create violence you were made to prevent it, and one night you slipped away into the dark leaving your legacy behind.
Your plan was to travel to the Demon Wastes to fight alongside the Ghaash'kala Orcs preventing evil from leaving the cursed lands and making its way into Khorvaire. Shortly before your destination you passed through the forests of the Eldeen Reaches and entered the manifest zone for the Fey plane of Thelanis reaching Shae Loralyndar, also known as the City of Rose and Thorn. Struck by the beauty of Thelanis and its isolation from the tensions between the peoples of Khorvaire, you remained there for many years eventually serving as an advisor to the Queen of Rose and Thorn in the Feyspire of Shan Loralyndar. You became her liaison to the Greensinger Druids who had a close relation with the Fey.
One day, something happened (The day of Mourning) and you were cut off from Thelanis. Because time is different in Thelanis, you instantly aged almost a hundred years. The shock to your organic components was too great, the wood and leather deteriorating instantly and you fell into a deep catatonic state until you were found a few years later by the Greenspire Druids.
Because of your service to them, the druids brought you back using their magics to grow new wood and organic fibers to give you life. Unlike your previous body, this one had living components and it was not uncommon for leaves, etc to sprout from your body. You were a creature of both construction and nature. You began to study with the Druids”.
Now the PC has lost their memory and is in Morgrave U in Sharn trying to find a way to remember. I am thinking two significant plot arcs here:
the PC has a docent they are unaware of. They will first get a clue when someone brings them to a Kalashtar to try to do a mind meld type deal like the one done in Keith Baker’s City of Towers.
In thinking that the person that is helping the PC is believed by the university to be a warforged staff member but is actually serving the lord of blades. They want the PC to remember their disillusionment so they can turn them against the biologicals.
Thoughts?