Adama
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History
This is the story of Adama, the warforged, the living construct.
He, like countless others had been created in one of the great forges before the end of the last war. While many others were created trained and sent into a battle only to kill or be killed, a small group of a dozen warforged had been created with a special purpose in mind. They were one of a few special groups made in an attempt to creat a well rounded group that could be given a broad command and seek out the means to accomplish this command of their own accord. All the members of this unit were ment to play on eachothers strengths and cover eachothers weakness. Nothing left to chance, given an edge over other warforged these ones would be able to look,listen,and adapt far quicker to a situation then another out on the battle field.
There was no chain of command, the members of this unit designed to be telepathicly linked to change a plan mid mission to gain the same end result. There never was a singluar member no one warforged that shone above all others in any missions. It was a success or a failure for all reguardless of whom killed the target in question. It was all for the next mission. They had been given special gear, special materials woven into their very bodies, every edge they could be given to make it possible to adapt to any situation or combat any target to the best of their abilities. As such in their basic construction changes had been made. Cold Iron had been implanted as a near complete skeletal form throughout their bodies, making those of magic weak to such hurt to even touch them or the weapons bound to them. Next was the base woods. Durable, resistant, enchanted to gain added buffering against elements and a help to resist magics that may directly effect the materials the warforged was made of. Next came the silver tracery, edging and wraping over much of the warforgeds body the material gave added bonus when fighting against shifters to over come natural resistances. Many downed warforged whom had this were top listed for repair due to the high need to combat a powerful shifter or the like, as they also had stronger metal armor.
Now, some might wonder why make a group of twelve seperate from the other warforged, give them special training, harder training, different matterials and an embedded ability to communicate telepathicly even to the the point of allowing another to see through their eyes. Simple really if you think about it. An army is only as good as those leading it, why slowly whittle away a persons armor if you can simply behead them and be done with things as a whole. This is where the unit of twelve comes in. Designed, built and trained as a group as a unit at all times to build up a comradari among them quickly. An ability to trust and rely on one another in any situation, while each member plays their part.
There was many parts to play in this unit. Brunts, They were like Adama designed to simply slam their way into the middle of a fight or simply trample through be it a door, weak wall or people and to cause as much chaos and carnage as possible in the shortest amount of time. They were anything but subtle in their approach to any tactic, always prefering to use the armblade as opposed to the bow never ones to use range well, there was always four brunts to a group.When matched with the three spotters who could provide detailed scrying information as well as ranged combat. Expert shots they held modified armbows to allow them to fire more arrows without having to cost themselves life energy. They all had the second strongest armor setting of the four sets within the twelve. Next in armor was the Taskers, they were the ones who held the magic items and other gear to cover various situations. from healing and protection to combat and demolitions. They carried a number of magic items that doubled as Area of Effect traps when placed in a location. This group was always the most defended. Last but not least came the Agiles. Weakest in armor their bodies were composed of bronzewood to lighten their mass while giving strong defence. they used items based for stealth and deception from items to silence themselves or objects around, to invisiblity cloaks. They were the assassins and rogues of a group and usualy responseable for the death of a prime target.
The Unit had accomplished many missions during the wars. Spending nearly twice as long in combat then any other group, one trait that had become clear to their Commanders was the fact while each unit acted as a group and developed differently, no other unit was so set for combat and so determined to be in more then this particular unit. Soon to be called by the commanders The "Drop'em" Unit. They had developed a quickly growing reputation among the nations as a force of their own to be reckoned with. Most importantly was for the fact while they may take down a primary target quickly. they will continue a fight at a location long after such an event to further ruin the enemies abilities. Known to be percise leaving anyone not bearing a weapon alone, many had taken to dropping arms when they discovered their leaders dead if only to stave off being attacked by the warforged unit.
Most notably is the battle of D'rath Castle. Where it had been discovered the ruler there was son of the head of one of the major houses, and in turn was working to develop a powerfull magic weapon to easily destroy the enemies and end the war. While he had managed to fend off several other units which cost him the secret that his castle was protected by a small army of warforged. It was during this battle did the Unit do something unseen before...they switched roles. They had managed to obtain extra items used by their other roles and trained in their use quickly, and came up with the tactic "Silent Spitting Bull" as their commanders called it.This entailed the entire unit to use the stealth bands. items made to dampen any noise they make, all came ready holding hand fulls of Blast Stones and then in the dead of night -as time wasn't a main factor- the unit striked. They rushed the gates of the castle, the spotters using their aim to launch their stones into the pulpits and blind the forged there on guard. The brunts used their moment of the bull charge they were in, mixed with timed throws of alchemist fires at the main door to weak the wood there to smash their way through. It was the only time an entire unit moved in such a fashion as to simply rush a fortified base and begin to immediately lay waste to anything and everything that moved. The battle lasted for a day and a half before the son called a surrender. The Unit had managed to chase him to a bunker only to be sealed out only to fortify their position on his front door while fending off the waves of his men attempting to fear him. mixed with the constent slams of the agiles and taskers attempting to break through the barriers the son could not take the strain of combat going on constently and gave up. It was after this battle many assumed the unit was truely bloodthirsty to have done such a reckless thing, but such could never be proven.
While each warforged within any unit held no individual name it came as a large shock to the creators and commanders when one group spoke upon each having a name and had taken to using it to be said before his position in the unit.
Adama,Male Brunt
Tine,Female Brunt
Trace,Female Brunt
Col,Male Brunt
Cros,Male Spotter
Lon,Male Spotter
Es,Female Spotter
Pop,Male Tasker
Tas,Female Tasker
Hal,Male Tasker
BW,Female Agile
Sin,Female Agile
This was an unpresidented and remarkable event to be sure, As most during the war gave little heed or thought to an actual name or to point out their designation.
There would be countless more battles to be fought for all the warforged special units. Right untill the end of the war, when everything they knew changed quickly.
Specializations
This is to cover in more detail what the warforged units were trained and naturally capable of doing in part due to how they were designed.
Cold Iron Form
This is a material set in and woven into their body. any Fae or Magical creatures with a weakness to such material will have a hard time using magic against them and can cause harm and pain to them directly overcoming most of their natural resistances
Silver Tracery
This silver lines and encases the warforged body. attacks against them from shifters come at the shifters cost of protection against being hit by the forged laced with this material. and any other creature weak to silver, this also adds a small buffer to his magical defences.
Hive Mentality
Many times during combat Spotters have been known to use the link of their unit to view targets beyond wars or barriers to lob their shots over head to assist without worry of harming their comrades in battle. This has also been shown in intsense situations where the brunts will begin to move and bend and slash around eachother in near misses to assault foes at an unexpected angle or time. working at a single point with multiple faces and angles of attack and defence.
Lone Wolf/ Pack Hunter
At any time needed the unit can disperse and silence the link cutting of mental abilities to track them. at which time they can also fan out and still keep to the mission without communication of the others working as they would regardless of a link or not. It has also been seen that at any given moment the group will quickly shift back into a group mind set and work to immediately aid another be it by directly going to them, or causing enough of a problem themselves their comrade appears to be a far less threat then they really are.
Fae Slayer
This is training used to over come illusions and compulsion magics the link giving added buffers to ward off such things. Should one of the unit fall prey to such things the others can cut them from the link and focus on assault the caster to break such a bond.
Shifters Bane
This is training to identify a shifter type and if they are an enemy attack in a quick and profient manner. They have been trained to ignore the pausing effect most surcome to when a shifter begins to take on an animal form, and assault the shifter far more vigorusly and violently then they had as many times a shifter mid turn is far more vulnerable then unshifted or in animal form.
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