Golems
An effigy of a man built in our image, sustained through Miracle and birthed by Gnosis. That is a golem, a human soul housing a body of surpassing physical tenacity. Break them apart, put them back together, extract the core of them and place it into another body. They are the ideal servant, soldier, and tool, depending on the structure used to make them. Indeed, any civilized land can boast at least a few, though places which have them so common as to render certain professions obsolete is a rare and wondrous sight. A golem's body is distinct from a mass of inanimate matter given life. Any magus can bid rocks to move or water to flow upwards if they wish, or rotting corpses to shamble about. Granted a pseudo-soul in a form unfitting for stable perpetuation, they rise to accomplish a task and then fall apart as worldly law asserts itself. A golem is more complex. For the soul to reliably puppet it it must be articulated or plastic in some way. It must be capable of standing and wal...