F1nn1ck Cr0ss

Warforged / Paladin

Submitted character story

finnick Cross, he was one of those foolish adventurers who believed the title of a hero was calling to him. For awhile it was, he didn’t fear the darkness that was spreading, he would slaughter monsters, bards would sing of his tales in taverns, family’s and neighbors would beg for his help and finnick would happily agree. For a price. Until one day Finnick step into the darkness and didn’t come out. His lifeless corpse would lay in the dirt, where time would decay his body, nature would take over at as nature does. until a mad artificer stumbles upon his body. With his wicked use of the arcane he believed Finnick was the perfect test subject for his new model of Warforge robots. Where the fragile shell of mortal would be carved and plucked out and replace with metal, and with the help of the arcane to revive the brain, removing emotion, thought, memory’s or consciousness, but keeping the strategy and skill of a fighter. The brain would be placed in the chest wrapped and plugged in by ancient wires. Finnick would be placed in the hundred year war, and be used like a thing, a toy, a weapon, until the war ended and Finnick was no longer useful or needed. Finnick would rest in a broken battlefield, where nature once again would wrap its weeds around him and where creatures would nest. Until the god of hope and beginnings lathander would grant Finnick with the gift of domain of life and get a second chance (third technically) Finnick would awake, disgusted by his true form, haunted by gruesome memory’s he relives of becoming this metal beast, remembering the lives he’s slaughter in the war; innocent and guilty, remembering how cruel and metallic he already was before his transformation, when he scammed his village for gold to slaughter a monster. He returns back to his village, wearing tightly fitting human clothing and fake hair made out of fur to hide his robotic appearance. Seeing how his neighbors, family and friends are now ancient history and how the town has suffered more due to the spreading darkness, that he could’ve stopped if it wasn’t for in his pride. But now With the help of his new blessing he would.