Bhilgen

"You think you only get things from friends? You get the best things from enemies, because they're scared of you."

- Bhilgen

At a Glance
Building on his successes as an engineer, Bhilgen of Orikan began on the development of a mechanized automaton to serve as his servant. Successful in developing the form, Bhilgen had considerably more difficulty with the programming of an artificial intelligence and its related hardware. Deliverance in this endeavour would not come without its own degree of tragedy. During a series of secessionist wars, Bhilgen lost his sister Zoera in a suicide attack in Orikan and, when going through her possessions, Bhilgen discovered that his sister had been working on her own engineering project in secret. Collecting all of her personal information such as psychological evaluations, synaptic records, test results, handwriting, typewriting skills, letters and correspondence, Zoera had turned raw data into a personality and memory database. Transcribing this "avatar" into his machine, Bhilgen created the first sentient warforged, beginning a complicated relationship with his "reborn" sister with whom he sought revenge on her original killers.

When King Sargen the Silent declared war on his nation's Dwarven neighbours, it temporarily ended the secessionist war, but as the conflict with the neighbours turned south a second series of secessionist suicide attacks rose up. Seeing a way to forcibly end both the neighbouring conflict and end the longstanding separatist threat, Bhilgen offered Sargen the means to achieve unity, immortality, and victory over his enemies: the transferring of his people's minds into living metal bodies. Hastily accepting, Sargen realized too late that the process would consume his people's memories and souls, instead transferring an "avatar" reflection and not the true individual. As the new Warforged marched out of the transformation factories and created new versions of themselves with new personalities, Bhilgen manically pushed his creations to turn their unimaginable powers on their neighbours, annihilating them with unrivalled power. It was only when Sargen intervened, overwrought with guilt over what he had done, that Bhilgen could be stopped. The final blow, however, would not come from Sargen himself, but Zoera.

Age of Adventure
TBD