However, it is important to know that the freedom granted all warforged since the end of the war has not escaped the mind of the warforged. Living children are often referred as cadets shop owners and employers are referred to as commanders and what should be friendly competitions can easily be seen as enemy engagements if warforged are not specifically told it is a training exercise. Given their youth and lack of common social norms, it is typical for a warforged to refer to things, people and ideas with military equivalents rather than regular expressions. Raised from the moment of their creation to follow orders and perfect military tactics, warforged fit better, culturally, in a wartime barracks than in a peacetime tavern. Warforged were made for the Last War and were, first and foremost, soldiers. Given that a ghulra is always located on the forehead, it is very rare for a warforged to cover this and instantly a sign among other warforged that something is very wrong with that individual.

Each one is unique and thus can be used to identify one warforged from another. While warforged often show dents, dings and other signs of battle on their frame, the only universal sign of identification is their ghulra, or mark of life. As time goes on, this artificial emotional imprint may wear off, but for the foreseeable future, all warforged refer themselves as either 'himself' or 'herself', never 'itself'. It is important to note that while warforged do not truly have a gender, their Cannith creators do and thus all warforged are crafted under the guise of either a male or female persona. Likewise, the mechanisms within a warforged do rely on some form of slightly viscous liquid to power these strands and massive damage can cause 'fluid loss', which is just as dangerous as blood loss to living beings. The muscular structure that lies underneath their metal plates is made of thousands of tightly woven fibrous strands that flex and stretch, much in the same way organic muscle tissue does.

It is only at their joints that one can find evidence of their true nature. When standing still, warforged can easily pass for metal statues or some of the smaller sized golems. Likewise, their feet end in only two toes. Their solid, reinforced arms end in hands with only two fingers and a thumb. Their eyes are usually faceted gemstones of any number of colors and while there is a mouth joint, providing warforged the capability of speech, there is no visible nose or ears (although warforged can smell, taste and hear just fine). Physically, warforged are humanoids, with a plates of steel covering most of the surfaces of their bodies. Designed to either stand a little taller than humans or a little shorter than halflings, warforged were made for a number of covert or overt missions, specially tailored by their Cannith creators to the needs of perspective clients. Originally created by House Cannith during the last three decades of the war, the oldest warforged is no more than 35 years old (in most campaign timelines). Warforged are living constructs, made from a special combination of magic, steel, stone and fibrous materials woven from certain trees, given life and made to serve in the Last War as soldiers.

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