Background

The Lord of Blades is a warforged warlord who has broken all ties with his former masters. He has established a nation for his people deep in the Mournland, centered in a great fortress where warforged from all over Khorvaire can come and feel a sense of belonging. No one knows what the Lord of Blades plans for his followers, but many fear that he intends to build a legion of warforged zealots, primed to march from the Mournland to unleash destruction on their former masters.

Some tales assert that the Lord of Blades led the warforged armies of Cyre in the Last War. Others cast him as a newer warforged, perhaps the last to come out of the Cannith creation forges before the Thronehold Accords led to their dismantling. One story claims the Lord of Blades caused the destruction of Cyre and warns that he plans to repeat the Day of Mourning in each of the remaining Five Nations. Whatever the truth, he has become a beacon for warforged everywhere.

Personality

While all can agree the Lord of Blades must be a powerful and charismatic leader of the warforged,there opinions differed. Some speak of him as a teacher and philosopher, even a visionary or messiah, while many more others perceive him to be a power-mad tyrannical warlord, self-proclaimed prophet, and racist psychopathic abomination bent on founding a warforged empire and challenging other nations for control of all of Khorvaire.

His sermons, however, as faithfully recorded by his followers, leave little doubt as to his feelings[1][2] and his words are meant only for warforged.[1] He preached of the superiority of the warforged,[11] called for their return to the Mournland and building an empire there on the ruins of Cyre,[1][2][12] and advocated for their supremacy over other races and Khorvaire, calling for a world where his followers rebelled against, conquered, destroyed, and enslaved the puny, so-called "weak-fleshed" or "flesh-bound" races.[1][2][6][12] In particular, he desires revenge against those who created the warforged to serve as slaves and weapons,[9] and so he incites the warforged to take violent revenge against those oppressed them.[6] He speaks of a coming Promised Time, when those created slaves will rule over their old masters.[1] Thus he is hostile to adventurers and scavengers looting the ruins of the Mournland and is especially merciless to agents of Prince Oargev, for he rages at the idea of Cyrans reclaiming the land that now belongs to the warforged.[9] However, while the Lord of Blades' desires are deadly and destructive, they are borne from rage at the injustices endured by the warforged, both in the Last War and ongoing, and in a genuine quest to guarantee the future of the warforged as a race.[6]

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