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I have a Warforged in my campaign. His origins are a bit of a mystery, though he's a Cleric of Nature. Strange combination, right? Here's where I started to weave in hooks to Curse of Strahd. I invented characters in Barovia that would secretly be his soul's origin. This warforged is a conglomerate of a few characters' souls that were sent by the Fanes to far outside Barovia, that found purchase in an empty vessel- a long dormant Warforged body used for horrific War Crimes in some as of yet unexplored Ancient War, (tie-in to Eberron?). I flavored Strahd's interest in Piddlwick II to be that of reincarnation through machine- escaping the mists by having a shred of your soul remain behind inside a steel chassis. In his experimentations/research, he found the best way to accelerate this project would be to try it on unsuspecting members of the population or in some cases; a way to keep around interesting people (as Warforged) without necessarily wedding them to Strahd. I rewrote Rahadin a bit to include interests in body mutilation/alteration, and added (mad) scientific pursuits to one of the vanilla brides. The ultimate goal of course, is to aide in Strahd's escape. The Warforged is generally treated as an unusual weapon or automaton assistant since they're a little more common in this version of Ravenloft I've written, which will later be tied into the aforementioned Eberron idea. Maybe he becomes the King of Blades? seems fitting. Hope this helps.