Everwound Springs: These magical springs provide energy over long periods, effectively acting as the power sources for most of the gearforged’s moving parts. A broken everwound spring results in the loss of function in that digit or limb.                         

Soul Gem: The mind of a gearforged creature is as sharp as that of any flesh-and-blood soul, but it is more portable. The animating, vital principle of a gearforged-its will, its personality, its mind-are retained in a soul gem. Its destruction means the death of that gearforged.                              

Memory Gears: These delicate constructions are scroll-like ribbons pierced with thousands of pin holes and wound about with tiny enchantments of great complexity. The memory of a gearforged for all the days after its creation lives in the memory gears. Older gearforged have many such gears, and the material component for the magic to create them requires one new gear for every 10 years of life. Installing one requires one day’s work and 2,000 gp.

Other gearforged can read memory gears salvaged from a dead gearforged, but it’s a complex, time-consuming process. It’s also viewed with some alarm by most gearforged, since it is akin to peering into the most private details of a creature’s life. Installing a used memory gear into a new or existing gearforged requires a new soulforging and at least one week before the recipient can interpret and understand the memories.

Increases 2 ability scores by 1

• Your consciousness and soul reside within a soul gem to animate your mechanical body. As such, you are a living creature with some of the benefits and drawbacks of a construct.

1. You cannot eat, drink, or breathe. You can’t drink potions or gain benefits that come from drinking, eating, or inhaling vapors.
2. You cannot swim and instead sink.
3. You do not naturally sleep.
4. During a rest, you must perform maintenance on your gears, springs, and joints, following the normal rules governing rest and activity. While performing this maintenance, you are aware of your surroundings but you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks. If you go longer than 24 hours without performing maintenance (you don’t take a long rest), you gain one level of exhaustion. All exhaustion gained this way disappears after your next long rest.
5. You can’t be stabilized when dying with a Wisdom (Medicine) check or spare the dying. Instead, a successful DC 10 Intelligence check or a mending cantrip is needed.
6. If a spell or ability other than your own would cause you to gain Hit Points, you gain those hit points as if you were a humanoid. However you can be targeted by spells that target constructs such as Shatter. Spells that target humanoids can also target you.

You are immune to disease, poison damage, and the poisoned condition.

If you are killed but your soul gem and memory gears are still intact, you can be restored to life if your body is repaired and soulforging is cast on it again. Because the body already exists, the cost of the ritual is just 500 gp, plus the cost of repairing the body (GM’s discretion, typically 1d4 x 50 gp). If your body was destroyed but your soul gem and memory tapes are intact, they can be implanted into a new body at the standard cost (10,000 gp). The only other magic capable of bringing you back from the dead is a wish spell, which restores you fully.

Your body has been upgraded with new parts. You choose one upgrade now and one at 5th level. You can not choose an upgrade that adds movement if your chassis is size large. 

1. Always Armed. Choose a weapon you are proficient with that does not have the two handed property. You integrate this weapon in one of your arms. The weapon is hidden in your arm and can be drawn and stowed as per normal, you cannot be disarmed or drop this weapon. While the weapon is drawn this way your hands remain free. You can remove this weapon and replace it during a short or long rest. Your offhand may have a weapon integrated as well if the weapon has the light property. You have advantage on Slight of Hand checks to conceal this weapon.
2. Quick Fix. As a bonus action you can roll one hit die and gain that many temporary hitpoints plus your Constitution modifier.
3. Water Jets. You gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. You no longer sink while in water.
4. Climbing Claws. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
5. Claw Arm. You gain a third arm with a claw at the end. You can grasp things with your claw arm. It has a reach of 5 feet, and it can lift a number of pounds equal to five times your Strength score. You can use it to do the following simple tasks: lift, drop, hold, push, or pull an object or a creature; open or close a door or a container; grapple someone; or make an unarmed strike. Your DM might allow other simple tasks to be added to that list of options. It can't wield weapons without the light property or shields. 
6. Enhanced Optics. You gain a darkvision of 120 ft. 
7. Integrated Armor. You may spend a long rest integrating a suit of armor into your construct body. It cannot be removed unless you spend a long rest removing it or replacing it.
8. Jet Pack (5th Level). Once per long rest you may power your jet pack as a bonus action. For the next minute you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.
9. Reinforced Chassis (5th Level). Your chassis in places is covered by a thick armor. You gain a +1 to your AC when not wearing heavy armor.
10. Claw Arm Laser (5th Level and Claw Arm). As an action, you can shoot a laser from your claw arm, targeting one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. The target takes 2d10 radiant damage if they fail. The damage increases to 3d10 at 11th level and 4d10 at 17th level. You can use this up to your Constitution modifier's worth of times per long rest.
11. Fortified Memory Tapes (5th Level). Choose Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. You have advantage on saving throws made with that ability score against magic.

• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Machine Speech and Common.
• Chassis. Choose one chassis.