Artificer Conclave
Near the end of the Jistka Imperium, a group of artificers, mages, scholars, and soldiers founded the Artificer Conclave for the purpose of saving the failing empire and returning it to its former glory. Their technological developments resulted in the creation of automatons: construct bodies that could contain their minds and life energy, allowing them to serve Jistka after the death of their mortal bodies. Most Conclave members wasted no time in transferring their minds.1
The automatons were capable of planar travel, and most quickly left Jistka to search the planes for help against the hostile ascendant kingdom of Osirion. However, many of them became distracted by their new ageless bodies and the planes' infinite potential, and came back too late, only after a "casual" century. Those that returned in time deemed Jistka beyond saving and continued travelling the planes, leaving their country to its fate. Those that stayed behind either led anti-Osirion resistance forces and were destroyed or scattered, or shepherded Jistkan survivors to hidden sanctuaries, where they either died or renounced their citizenship. Ultimately, the Artificer Conclave dissolved.12
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 . “Constructs” in Construct Handbook, 20–21. Paizo Inc., 2018
- ↑ . “5: The Rotating Gear” in Guns & Gears, 215. Paizo Inc., 2021