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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 06 Jul 2021 : 02:54:54
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Bear in mind, Alias WAS mass produced. We don't know how many were made. That being said, it was nowhere near the scale of the warforged. Just mentioning it, because she's "not unique" per se.
I know, her sisters. But, as you said, her mass production was limited. I don't think there are even 100 Alias out there, and I'm being optimist. While warforged are mass produced at industrial levels, and there are thousands of them, even after the losses of the Last War.
And Alias' mass production was "expensive". As in, you need a lot of "unique stuff" to make an Alias. Like, even a god (Moander) was involved in the creation of Alias and her sisters. While the warforged don't need a god blessing, just the ingenuity of a bunch of wizards and artificers.
There were thirteen of them. Alias was crafted by the entire group working together, and Phalse made 12 copies of the original.
From my notes, references scattered across the trilogy list the copies as:
a Mulhorandi warrior
one from the far north
a Waterdhavian courtesan (who is likely the one later described as a "lady of some power in Waterdeep")
a Moonshae druid
an eastern warrior
a cleric of Tymora (assumably, but not necessarily, Zhara)
a sage in Candlekeep
Cat of Ordulin, the mage in Immersea
Jade More, the murdered thief
That leaves three that were never described.
I ran with the Waterdhavian one, making her a psionicist and marrying her to my psionic Lord of Waterdeep. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 06 Jul 2021 : 14:42:54
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Bear in mind, Alias WAS mass produced. We don't know how many were made. That being said, it was nowhere near the scale of the warforged. Just mentioning it, because she's "not unique" per se.
I know, her sisters. But, as you said, her mass production was limited. I don't think there are even 100 Alias out there, and I'm being optimist. While warforged are mass produced at industrial levels, and there are thousands of them, even after the losses of the Last War.
And Alias' mass production was "expensive". As in, you need a lot of "unique stuff" to make an Alias. Like, even a god (Moander) was involved in the creation of Alias and her sisters. While the warforged don't need a god blessing, just the ingenuity of a bunch of wizards and artificers.
Also, aren't magen "non-living" magical constructs?
the ones I (homebrew for DM's Guild) recently made aren't, but they're a special PC race I created. That being said, the ones I created are essentially a "recycled" soul in a new shell (which for all we know is what a warforged is btw). Getting myself crossed back and forth in these discussions as people bring things up, as I've done a lot of work personally on intelligent items, free willed constructs, etc...
Dark thought for just a moment.... could the "big blast" of the mourning have been a harvesting of new souls for warforged? |
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