Khorvaire is a continent of conflict. Stories set here are set against the backdrop of the Last War, a terrible conflict thematically similar to World War I—a war so horrific that it was thought no living being would ever dream to make war again. In this conflict, terrible machines were animated by magic for a single purpose: to destroy. These beings were the warforged, living constructs now freed of their warlike imperative, and they are the first of four new races introduced in Eberron. Warforged explore modern themes of soldiers returning from war, the oppression of the “other,” and even some existential questions usually reserved for science fiction.