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LORD OF BLADES C A M P A I G N TH M E S
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THE VOICE OF The Lord of Blades s a charismatic leader seeking to
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J M � N ( incite the warforged to violence and thereby to take ven­
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geance against their former oppressors. Although low­
level characters might not be prepared to face the Lord
D O T H EY K N OW of Blades himself, they can easily encounter a squad of
his followers anywhere on Khorvaire.
While the Lord of Blades and his minions can be a
T H E WAR I S OVER? straightforward foe, it's also possible to add more depth
to the conflict. Perhaps a squad of warforged attacks a
foundry in Sham. After repelling the attack, the adven­
Against all logic and reason, people in Breland continue turers realize that the owners are mistreating the war­
to argue that the warforged-creations of House forged who work the forges. What do they do?
Cannith, lest we forget-are living people with souls, Another way to explore the facets of this issue is to
deserving of the same rights as the rest of us. And yet, introduce a warforged supporter of the Lord of Blades
while philosophical debates rage and street protests who doesn't engage in violence personally, such as a
grow heated, warforged who inhabit the dead land bard who moves among the warforged of a major city
of Cyre continue to fight as if the war had not ended,
launching raids out of the "dead-gray mist" to the neigh­ while speaking about the many abuses leveled against
boring lands-including, of course, Thrane. Proclaiming warforged. Especially if one of them is a warforged, how
allegiance to something called the "Lord of Blades," would the characters react to this individual?
these warforged don't seem to recognize the people The Lord of Blades can serve as a long-term op­
ofThrane as living people with souls, so it's hard to ponent, as he continue to escalate his attacks over
appreciate why we should treat them that way. the course of the campaign. While he builds up his
stronghold in the Mournland, he is also gathering the
components to construct eldritch machines and other
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LORD F BL D E S N P C s weapons. What would happen if the Lord of Blades were
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to discover the power that caused the Mourning and un­
The Lord f Blades highlights the issues surrounding leashed that power across Khorvaire?
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the creation of the warforged. He and his followers are
ready antagonists, employing deadly methods in pursuit LORD OF BLADES
of their aims, but their ire isn't born from evil. The Lord
of Blades' greatest desire is to ensure that his people ADVENTURE HOOKS
have a future, but his methods are colored by his anger The Lord of Blades Adventure Hooks table sets out
at the injustices the warforged have suffered, and in some reasons how the characters could come in contact
some cases are still being subjected to. Examples of vil­ with the Lord of Blades.
lains linked to the Lord of Blades appear in the Lord of
Blades NPCs table. LO D O F B L A D E S AD E N T U R E H O O K S
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LOR D O F B L A D E S N P Cs
A newly awakened docent (see chapter 5) tells its new
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owner that the Lord of Blades is the only hope for
A House Cannith apprentice warforged becomes ob­ averting a coming catastrophe.
sessed with the Lord of Blades' message, disrupting 2 A military officer hires the characters to retrace the
house operations in the hope of becoming a warrior steps of a lost scouting party into the Mourn land and
in the Mourn land. rescue the commander, who is the officer's son.
2 A warforged druid devises diseases and poisons that 3 Warforged go missing over the course of several
have no effect on warforged, and starts to unleash
weeks; then one resurfaces, badly damaged and
them on the general populace.
raving about the Lord of Blades.
3 A warforged ranger relentlessly u n ts creatures of
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4 Characters strike out into a ruin held by the Lord of
flesh in the wilderness near the Mournland. Blades and recover a lost relic that has resurfaced i n
4 A warforged assassin poses as a simple workshop the possession f warforged soldiers.
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assistant while exterminating those who speak out
5 A warforged accused of murdering several members
against the rights of the warforged. of their mercenary co m p any claims to have no mem­
5 A mad artificer is trying to reactivate a destroyed war­ ory of the i ght in question.
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forged colossus. 6 The characters are met by a warforged who delivers a
6 A band of warforged attacks a lightning rail, n tent on written summons from the Lord of Blades himself.
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stealing something in one of the cargo carriages.

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