Homebrew OotD* - Thylean Marble Golem Species Details

Marble golems are usually sculpted to resemble beautiful heroes and rulers from ages past. The wizards who build them require the services of great artisans, because the golem's features must be extremely lifelike for the animating magic to take hold. There are rumors that evil wizards resort to petrifying beautiful youths to get the materials they need for construction.

Aesthetic Guardians

Marble golems are usually set to guard areas where aesthetic beauty is desired—temples, palaces, libraries, or estates. Marble golems can be disguised as normal statues, but they come alive under certain conditions. For example, it might attack trespassers who enter a room without speaking the proper password. They can also activate on a command word from their designated master.

Narcissistic Spirits

Marble golems are animated by spirits plucked from the elemental planes and forcibly bound into artificial bodies. The spirits unwittingly attracted to these particular constructs are always vain, and golem builders take advantage of their conceited natures when weaving the necessary binding spells. As long as the spirit finds its new form and surroundings suitably beautiful, it is much less likely to break free from its master’s control. Great care is therefore given to ensuring that marble golems are displayed in such a way that their beauty is emphasized and respected.

Marble Golem Names

Marble golems tend to be given the names of the person they are based on, or at least follow the same naming scheme as the race it is of or the race of its creator. Some instead are given names similar to other art pieces, which the golem then shortens to a nickname.

Art Piece Names: Adonis the Dragonlord (Adonis), Farmer with Crops (Farmer), Likeness of Vallus (Vallus), Mytrosian Hoplite (Hoplite), The Autumn Snow (Snow), The First Settler (Settler), The Newlywed

OotD* - Thylean Marble Golem Traits

Thylean Marble Golems have the following traits.

Age

Marble golems can be created at any time and awakened any time after that. They can still die in a similar fashion to old age, where they erode, crack, and chip away until nothing holds them together.

Alignment

Marble golems can be of any alignment due to the spirits that inhabit them. Though, being a construct tends to lean towards lawful and neutral.

Size

You are made in the likeness of another humanoid race. Your size is Medium or Small (your choice).

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Constructed Nature

Your type is construct in addition to humanoid. Additionally, you have vulnerability to thunder damage.

Constructed Resilience

You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Sentry's Rest

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Stone's Endurance

When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Languages

You can read, speak, and write Common.