-- Here's Celeste's bio for her Warforged Fighter. Personally, I think he's just darling. --

Tiny’s Character Background

Warforged Fighter, Male

Tiny was constructed in the small town of Bastion in Karrnath 4 years ago.  He was originally constructed for use in heavy industry (mainly in arms construction) although, as with all warforged constructed for Karrnath by House Cannith,  he was designed with combat as his secondary function.  As Karrnath’s armies dwindled towards the end of the war, they turned to their warforged workforce as well as the undead to replenish their ranks, and Tiny was one of those chosen to fight.  He and his fellow warforged recruits were accompanied to the front by the chief engineer of the Bastion Arms Works, a dwarf named Goldsmelter, whose task was to ready them for war and to keep them repaired and maintained whilst they were required for combat.  It was Goldsmelter who, taking a liking to him when he showed an aptitude for fighting, gave Tiny his nickname, distinguishing him from his nameless fellow workers and unknowingly sowing the seeds of his individuality. 

Tiny performed as well as a soldier as he had as an industrial worker, and he was often chosen for special missions which were deemed too dangerous for a ’living’ soldier.  He obeyed Goldsmelter unquestioningly, but he was considered remarkable among the warforged soldiers for his initiative and his battleground intuition, often surviving potentially fatal missions through quick thinking and independent actions not contained in his original orders. 

This quality made him valuable, but it also caused his superiors to view him with suspicion and fear.  When Goldsmelter was killed by a stray cannon shot whilst repairing a vehicle on the border of Cyre, they were afraid that without his original handler, Tiny would go rogue, or at the very least become unreliable as a fighter.  Thus, they decided to have him ‘decommissioned’ (a common fate for warforged deemed unsuitable for combat), and despatched a human soldier to destroy him.  When the soldier appeared before him and he realised what was intended, Tiny discovered that, despite his inclination to obey without question, he was not willing to give up his life, and after easily defeating the soldier sent to kill him, he ran.

After wandering through the forests of Karrnwood for several months, hiding and attempting to avoid the detachments of soldiers everywhere, he heard rumours of the disaster that had befallen the country of Cyre, and the creation of that desolation now known as the Mournland.  Assuming that the horrors described by the credulous peasants would not affect a warforged such as himself, he saw this as an opportunity to escape Karrnath, where he would be recognised as a deserter by his model and markings, and make a new life for himself in one of the other lands of Khorvaire. 

Keeping to the shadows of the Nightwood, he entered the Mournland at Dollen on the River, and stepped out of the dead gray mist three weeks later just outside Vathirond in Breland.  What he saw and experienced in the Mournland in those weeks, he has not yet told anyone.  The only thing he has revealed is that at some point in his journey, he encountered the undead corpse of his former master, Goldsmelter, who had been raised by the Karrnathi and sent into Cyre with an invasion force just before the entire country was destroyed.  What Goldsmelter said to him in the blasted lands, no one knows, but when he left the Mournland and entered Breland, it was with a new sense of purpose and identity. 

Tiny travelled the trading roads of Breland to Sharn, City of Spires, where he had heard that all questions can be answered, and all things can be found, if you only know who to ask.  He is not sure what he is looking for yet, but he hopes that he can find it here.  In the meantime, he wanders the streets of the city, searching for those who might have need of him, for he has not yet lost his inbuilt need to labour in the service of others.  He has also realised that he must earn money to supply his few needs, and to protect himself from those who would seek to enslave him again.  At first he took any work that was offered, without questioning its legality or its morality, but as he came to learn more about the society and the people of the city, he began to turn down the tasks which seemed harmful to others, and he is beginning to get a reputation in Sharn as a steady and reliable, if somewhat uncommunicative employee. 

Tiny is fascinated by the mechanical and alchemical processes which created and continue to animate him, and he has a small collection of clockwork toys, bought on his travels through Breland, which he will occasionally wind up and observe for hours at a time.  The clockwork mouse is his favourite.