Sample file Not for resale. Permission granted to print or photocopy this document for personal use only. The Xorforged 1 The Xorforged Notes on the Primogenitors of the Khorvaire Warforged by Griffin Fredette and Cameron Day DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, Wizards of the Coast, Forgotten Realms, the dragon ampersand, Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, Dungeon Master’s Guide, D&D Adventurers League, all other Wizards of the Coast product names, and their respective logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast in the USA and other countries. All characters and their distinctive likenesses are property of Wizards of the Coast. This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast. ©2020 Daylight Publications and Wizards of the Coast LLC, PO Box 707, Renton, WA 98057-0707, USA. Manufactured by Hasbro SA, Rue Emile-Boéchat 31, 2800 Delémont, CH. Represented by Hasbro Europe,Sample 4 The Square, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1ET, UK. file Not for resale. Permission granted to print or photocopy this document for personal use only. The Xorforged 2 Credits Writing: Griffin Fredette have ever returned. We have lost many brave Editing and Layout: Cameron Day and intrepid fighters – Doc grows more and Warforged Logo: LordSinclair more frustrated as we get further and Internal Icons: Cameron Day further from the truth. But hopefully this Page Background Art and Cover Art: small treatise can be an aid to future Eden Sanders generations. Cover Layout and Design: Steve Fidler Title Page Divider: DMs Guild Stock Art The Xorforged “Viruses have no morality, no sense of good Parasites from and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... Beyond It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.” ― Chris “But if they're so successful, why haven't Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill- parasites taken over the world? The answer Advised Autobiography is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill The xorforged are lost relics of a bygone us; they become part of us, making us war between the giants and drow of perform all the work to keep them alive and Xen’Drik and Quori of Dal Quor, a war that help them reproduce.” ― Daniel raged in the physical and planar worlds. Suarez, Daemon Records recovered from lost Xor vaults deep within the bowels of Xen’Drik – close Ignys Record to the Dragon Below – and stored in the From the Record of Ignys Byr, Leader of the Halls of Ion by the Arbiters are all that Arbiters: remain of these creatures. Little is known of the Xorforged, beyond Rumored to have been mutant hybrids of what small records we have collected. The daelkyr, Quori parasites, drow and giant Principle has spent endless eons building our magic, the xorforged are believed to have great archive within the Hall of Icon in Sharn, either been entirely eradicated or locked but anything related to the Xorforged elude within colossal tombs, hidden from all. Yet, us. They are rumored to be connected Arbiter expeditions have gone searching for somehow to our kin the feyforged – and even these tombs, but none have returned… that connection is murky. The Hedet All that I know is this – the xorforged are Said to be warforged that were corrupted monsters; Xoriat parasites pulled from that by drow in the battle against the Quori, maddening place to possess and power these mechanized shells contained strange mechanical bodies to fight in the war parasites that would pilot the deformed between drow and the Quori. But eventually bodies of these altered warforged. With even the drow could not control the darkness shields crudely attached to every limb and they had unleashed. their backs, the Hedet scarcely resemble Sampletheir original form. Thesefile creatures are Many Arbiter expeditions have been thought to be mostly gone, but a select few dispatched to Xen’Drik to see what remains live in hiding, no longer needing their of these lost xorforged workshops, but none organic aspects and laying dormant. Not for resale. Permission granted to print or photocopy this document for personal use only. The Xorforged 3 these creatures can distribute said parasites The Shtahka and are far more intelligent and evil than their counterparts. A variant of the warforged created from the remains of Quori constructs and the bones These creatures want nothing more than to of elves, these scrappy constructs began to see the world possessed entirely by their pop up after the fall of the Giant society, spawn, for they see all other living as drow living among the ruins created creatures as filth that need to be cleansed. these abominations to protect their homes. These creatures appear as tall spiny warforged with spiked spines and The Jashelat skeletal pieces. They roam the jungles Often seen as mindless tinkering toys of Xen’Drik in packs brought to life alongside the warforged, The Jashelat appear as large spiders made from the face plates of warforged but with only 4 legs. They normally act in service to larger The Lata creatures but when left to their own devices Much like the Hedet, the Lata are parasites they act violently and attack any organic inhabiting the former shells of warforged. creatures they see. The Lata differ from the Hedet however, not only in their form but what’s inside. Xorforged The Lata are more humanoid, and lanky, they bodies appear unique and don’t quite Characters resemble any other warforged. The Lata “A virus can change the fate of the world; also retain their parasitic origins, and the power has nothing to do with being tiny or parasites are the real living organisms in giant! Power is something related to the the Lata, while the Hedet exist on their power hidden within you!” ― Mehmet Murat own. ildan The Lata come in different varieties with While it is uncommon for most xorforged to different powers, all fueled by the magic have the same mental capacities as a staffs they carry, and have minor warforged, some find themselves with a differences in appearances. greater consciousness much like their modern cousins. You may choose to play as The Shati one such xorforged, typically setting aside their heritage to enter civilized society, but Perhaps the most fearsome of the creatures not always. Most rogue xorforged reject of steel found in Xen’Drik are the Shati. their siblings in Xen’Drik but some leave These creatures use altered shells of their life behind to bring their reckless warforged left behind by the Quori by come tendencies to the broader world. from another realm entirely. These creatures act as variants of the While many of the other creatures found in warforged from Eberron: Rising From The thisSample bestiary are inhabited by parasites, Last War but with the exceptionfile of the Shati Not for resale. Permission granted to print or photocopy this document for personal use only. The Xorforged 4 – these creatures only inhabit the shells of your body, and as such you cannot integrate warforged, the creature itself is the parasite armor into your body. You may wear armor within. you are proficient in as normal. In addition, your skeleton provides different benefits. Hedet Characters Any creature who attacks you with an Unlike other warforged you stand stouter unarmed strike takes 2 piercing damage and have less fancy specialized technology. and your spine can absorb a hit of up to 10 You’ve been outfitted for one purpose, damage, destroying it in the process and defense, and your body is designed with preventing damage done to you. Once this that in mind. has been done you must replace your spine Ability Score Increase: This feature replaces with that of a medium sized humanoid or your normal warforged ability score this feature has no affect. increase. You gain +2 to Constitution and +1 to Strength. Lata Characters You inhabit the shell of a primal warforged, Shield Shell: This feature replaces skinnier and more spindly than modern your Integrated Protection feature. You warforged. You are one of many different have shields on your limbs and back that varieties of Lata and your color and abilities give you a natural armor class. You cannot wear armor and instead have a 17 Ability Score Improvement: This replaces AC naturally. your normal Warforged Ability Score Defense Curl: This feature replaces Improvement. You gain +2 Wisdom and +1 your Specialized Design Feature. As an Dexterity. action, you may recede behind your shields Elemental Affinity: This replaces and curl into a ball. Until the end of your your Constructed Resilience Ability. You turn, you cannot move, and your AC select a type of Lata that you embody, and increases by +3. gain features connected to it: Shtaka Characters -Fear: You are immune to being made afraid You have been outfitted with biological with magical effects and have advantage on components unlike other warforged. You Wisdom saving throws against being have an organic spine and claws and are charmed. spindlier than the average warforged. -Disintegration: You are immune to disease and have advantage on saving throws made Ability Score Increase: This feature replaces against magical effects that deal damage. your normal Warforged Ability Score Improvement. You gain +2 to Strength and -Poison: You are immune to poison damage +1 Constitution. and the poison condition. Organic Hybrid: This feature replaces your Integrated Protection feature. You -Fragmentation: You are resistant to haveSample an organic skeleton on the outside of bludgeoning, piercing, andfile slashing damage Not for resale.