Background and lore

Kenre was a great artificer, and one of the original warforged of house D'Cannith. Kenre was created as a warforged prototype, before house D'Cannith had perfected a way to keep living constructs running without external sources of energy, and as such, Kenre had to stay near potential power sources out of fear of shutting down permanently. With his inability to venture far from home, Kenre ended up as an Artificer's assistant, and without the need to eat or sleep, he spent all of his time either helping his artificer master, or reading of a variety of magics. With Kenre's help, house D'Cannith developed a way for newly created Warforged to be able to sustain their own life forces, and be independent. However, this new method could not be applied to already created Warforged such as Kenre.

Kenre became extremely jealous of his newly created brethren. He wanted to leave and travel to study more magics in person instead of just reading about them in books. He began obsessively spending all his time attempting to work out a new method to create an easily renewable source of energy for himself. After years of reading and prototyping, he finally realized a different approach. Instead of attempting to create energy, he could steal energy from the resources around him. Stealing energy from the world around him worked, but it was unstable, causing magical effects he couldn't predict. Though stealing energy from magical anomalies seemed to both cure the anomaly and give himself a stable source of magical essence. But there just wasn't enough magical effects just sitting around waiting to be absorbed on a daily basis to sustain his life force. Finally, Kenre realized there was one more way to get stable source of essence; living creatures. He found draining the life force of others to be stable, and there was always a plethora of living creatures around.

With his new discovery, Kenre integrated this ability into his hands and set off from house D'Cannith to study the world. At first, sightings of Kenre coincided simply with a decrease in wildlife, but as time went on, strange magical effects could be heard and seen coming from surrounding wilderness, and people began to disappear as well. The next day, villagers would go to investigate the source of the commotion always to find a number of bodies, looking almost like skeletons as if completely drained, and what looked like some sort of used weapons testing field. It makes you wonder how much energy a weapon of this magnitude could need.....