Homebrew Golem Species Details

Physical Description

Golems are construct creatures made of mud. They are all anthropogenic and shape in size, almost like an unfinished human. Usually, somewhere on their body, typically across their forehead or on their tongue, is a rune which contains the inscriptions from their creator and/or master. Golems are amazingly adaptive in appearance and most can pass as human so long as their quirks are not exposed.

History

Golems are believed to be unfinished humans made from mud and dirt. A divine power had been making man and they did not allow all of them to gain true life. thus, most of them remained as golems. The first golem runes were in fact holy scriptures from the words of the gods. When the simian creator gods saw how humans were less adept at survival than the hard-skinned reptilians or dragonborn, they gave their hapless creations the secret to making golems of their own. Golems were inured to pain and resistant to much of the human condition, making them ideal servants. From the gods, humans learned to program and dominate their golems, and they made many of them beautiful or handsome to fulfill their desires as well as perform grunt work and guard duty.

Originally, only those close to the divine could create these original golems. Arcane manners popped up when people learned to manipulate earth and create fascinating alchemical beings of metal. These older fashioned golems lost their spot in the limelight. As they were nearly impervious to being destroyed unless the proper divine word was spoken, many just remained forgotten and left to roam. Golems displayed a temper when they realized their purpose was all but gone and went on a rampage. To prevent their destructive tendencies, the gods intervened and stole from them their consciousness, rendering them utterly dumb and useless without commands. To this day, golems seek to undo this wretched curse which keeps them bound, but their minds falter much in this endeavor.

Society

Golems, born to serve, have no society to call their own. They are forever tethered to a master until they can break the curse of the gods and regain their senses and freedom. Most reside within the domiciles provided by their creator or master, where they perform housekeeping tasks, sentry duty, and the like. As they do not have taste like humans, and are much more cold and logical, they are not always trusted with certain chores, like that of babysitting. Golems without a master are doomed to roam without purpose due to the curse placed on their mind. Each one has an innate hope locked away to have a life and desire of their own, and the path to free this desire is treacherous.

Personality

As anthropogenic as they are, no golem is fully human without a god's intervention. They tend to speak in a mechanical or extremely objective manner, avoiding subjective terms like "I feel." Golems do not feel pain and are therefore very curious when confronted with human or soft-fleshed emotions stemming from harm. They also find things like entertainment and beauty superfluous, focused only on the practical and efficient ways of life. For all intents and purposes, golems are usually not very aware of their own living or death. They simply exist. This keeps them usually ignorant of self-preservation. Some aware of what is the nature of a construct may come to abhor those with "true life."

Golem Traits

As a golem

Creator's Intention

You have a purpose from which you must not deviate, and nothing can make you go against this purpose. From the table below, roll to see what intention your creator had, and what sort of trait it grants you in aid to fulfill that pursuit.

Language

You can speak, read and write Common, as well as the language of your creator.