Golem
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Golem
(Creature)
- This article is about the construct type. Golems, like robots and clockworks, have been generically described as "automatons" but are otherwise dissimilar from the specific automaton construct subtype.
A golem is a magically created construct most often animated by infusing a lifeless form with an elemental spirit, generally an earth elemental. A golem is mindless and serves at its creator's command;1 creators of golems are known as golemwrights.2
Varieties
A hammer that has been magically enhanced to particularly damage golems.
There are many types of golem that can be created by skilled golemwrights, including the following selected examples.
- Brass golem: these gigantic constructs are found on the Plane of Fire's Medina Mudii'a.3
- Cannon golem: these jagged metal constructs feature a large, animated mechanical firearm.4
- Carrion golem: using inferior body parts from numerous bodies, these reeking golems spread foul diseases.5
- Mask golem: built by the followers of Razmir, these creatures are made of hundreds of interlocking masks.6
- Palanquin golem: believed to be made only in Osirion, these modified clay golems are used to carry their masters about on gigantic howdahs.7
- Panthereon golem: a clay golem variant8
- Ro Ap Han, the Portal Golem: created millennia ago by the four Pharaohs of Ascension in Osirion, this unique golem acts as a gateway into and through their Pact Stone Pyramid.9
- Shield guardian: these constructs are built as bodyguards by wizards and other spell casters.1
- Soul-fed golem: animated by the powers of soul gems, these constructs are animated corpses that feed on the souls of mortals.10
- Tallow golem: made of the melted wax of funerary candles, these golems are animated by powerful magic.11
References
Paizo published a sourcebook about constructs, including golems, titled Construct Handbook.
For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary, 158. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . “Constructed Companions” in Cohorts and Companions, 12. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in The Final Wish, 84–85. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 3, 135. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Edge of Anarchy, 78–79. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . Masks of the Living God, 30–31. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . The Pact Stone Pyramid, 9. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Secrets of the Sphinx, 88. Paizo Inc., 2014
- ↑ . The Pact Stone Pyramid, 11–13. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . Beyond the Vault of Souls, 14–15. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . Hungry Are the Dead, 22–23. Paizo Inc., 2008