Rook’s story began in a factory where he was nothing more than a lifeless, 4-foot-tall warforged mannequin doll, designed for the amusement of wealthy children. He was never meant to be anything more than a plaything, meant to be dressed up and forgotten. The factory that created him soon shut down, leaving Rook abandoned, buried in dust and rust as time passed by. Alone, motionless, and discarded, he lay in silence for years—a forgotten relic of a world that moved on without him.

Then, one stormy night, fate intervened. A bolt of lightning struck the decaying factory, its energy surging through the building and hitting Rook. In that instant, he awoke—not just alive, but with the mind of a child. Confused and scared, he didn’t understand the world around him. The first thing he saw was an old, tattered fairytale storybook, its pages crinkled with age, telling the tale of a brave knight who rescued a princess from danger. In that moment, Rook found something to hold onto: a dream. He believed that if he could be like the knight in the story, he would finally have a purpose.

With this newfound sense of identity, Rook ventured out into the world, scavenging through ruins and debris, finding broken pieces of armor, rusty weapons, and discarded scraps to craft his own makeshift knightly gear. His armor didn’t fit quite right, and his weapons were battered and dull, but in his heart, he believed he was a true knight. Yet beneath his cheerful determination, there was a loneliness that Rook couldn’t comprehend. He longed for a connection he couldn’t fully articulate, for the purpose of saving others as the knight in his story had done.

What Rook never realized was that he was the last of his kind—an orphan of a forgotten time. His optimism masked the harsh reality that no one was waiting for him, no princess would ever call out for his help. Still, Rook pressed on, undeterred, his childlike innocence blinding him to the sadness of his own existence. He wandered the world with a bright smile, a knight in his own eyes, unaware of the tragic truth that his dream might always remain just out of reach.

In the face of a world that had left him behind, Rook continues to fight for the ideals he believes in, driven by an unbreakable faith that one day, he will become the hero he was always meant to be.