Warforged characters

Warforged are the one race here with no skin or hair to work with, so everything comes from materials and wear. Dark iron plates scratched from use, burnished bronze and polished steel, obsidian marbled with silver veins on a rogue, weathered wood and tarnished steel on a cleric. Rust-red streaks run like veins on one barbarian.

The ones that feel alive have small mechanical habits. A sorcerer whose chest plate clicks like a lock when he breathes in, a paladin with oak struts bolted through his ribs and a jaw hinge that squeaks when he prays, glowing runes on a warlock's brass frame. Fighters lead, then barbarians, warlocks, paladins and sorcerers. Most are drawn as men, though a paladin with gentle curved plating shows another way to go. If you're making one, decide how old the body is and how well it has been looked after.