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Adapting APs for Eberron - Part 2
Yakman wrote:
GreatKhanArtist wrote:
I don't recall the warforged ever having Quori in them. The warforged are a unique species, given sentience when they are formed. The Inspired have a Quori spirit in them, they are Vessels.

in Eberron it was hinted at that the warforged were inhabited by Quori spirits, which animated their bodies. That's why House Cannith couldn't get them to work until they got SOMETHING from Xen'drik (which is where the Quori had tried to take over in the distant past).

for some reason, the Quori sentience is erased when it enters the body of the warforged (maybe). which is why they aren't all complete psychopaths.
at least, that was my reading of the material.
GreatKhanArtist wrote:
I'm curious where you read that. It's an interesting concept, that's for sure.

Quori Outpost; Secrets of Xen'drik, page 44:
During their invasion of Xen'drik, the quori set up bases to marshal their forces and conduct complex magical research... Though rumors abound, few know that House Cannith's discovery of such an outpost led to the creation of the modern warforged soldiers used in the last war. Fewer still suspect that the original design for the warforged did not originate with the giants, but with the quori.

Warforged, Quorcraft (template); Secrets of Xen'drik, page 84-85:
The secrets behind the creation of the warforged go back nearly forty thousand years to the war between the giants and the quori. During that conflict, the quori created prototypical warforged, crafting a host of constructs that bear a resemblance to modern warforged but are distinctly different. (Note that these warforged possessed the construct type which overrode the typical warforged's living construct traits. As a construct, a quorcraft warforged has no Intelligence or Constitution scores, and possesses a Charisma of 1.)

Shira (Docent Component); Secrets of Xen'drik, page 154-155:
Docents (ECS 269) are intelligent magic items designed to advise and aid the warforged who utilize them. However, the docent that calls itself Shira claims that these items originally had a different purpose - designed to hold quori spirits, providing a refuge from the spiritual change that destroyed the quori of the last age and paved the way for the coming of the Dreaming Dark. Shira claims to be the sole success of the docent program and the last survivor of the previous age of Dal Quor. Is she telling the truth, or playing a game of her own?

The implication in Secrets of Xen'drik (and I believe in some of Keith Baker's WotC Dragonshards and/or postings on his website) was that the quori of the last age created the quorcraft warforged and docents such as Shira to serve as host bodies on Eberron in order to survive the pending end of their age of Dal Quor (referred to as the Dreaming Heart). However, the source(s) of the souls of modern-age, living construct warforged is still up for debate (i.e., TBD by individual DMs). Quori spirits are one possibility.