Musings on Monstrousness

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...

I'm going to get this out of the way first. One whole human is 50 rations worth of meat if entirely processed. This will be important for conceptualizing what follows. These classes are an attempt at 2 things. First a generic "platform" class by which one can easily create superhuman individuals aping the arbitrarily large men of Berserk and Dark Souls and probably many ancient myths but I am not above pop culture as shorthand. Not demigods, not mortals, more the gradient between them. The second class is an attempt at a prestige class, unlocked by filling out the first one. Both of these classes are built to be diagetically obtained over long-form play, possibly to the extent that filling out both templates is realistically impossible, or at least impossible without a lot of timeskips and hard work. Primeval Sinner You are a human who has indulged in the Primeval Sin , the consumption of one's own kind for power. You ate fresh, untainted meat, with a clear presence o...