children of adoyne,



- Golem Ideas

- Created by a woman (first name Ardora?) so devoted to Adoyne that she tries to create creatures in the goddess’ image to serve her, care for the shrines/temples, created mostly to be protectors of nature as well as those seeking sanctuary or those in need. Called - “Adoyne’s Children” They are designed to serve and protect sacred and divine life etc and therefore cannot kill other creatures or they will go mad and have to be destroyed. They would be mostly female in appearance (males rare) because Adoyne was feminine.

- Humanoid creatures created by imbuing a “soul” or an entity’s “life-force” energy w/e into certain elements (clay, wood, stone, water, ice, metal, even gems, jewels). Considering the idea that the soul has to be given willingly, or else the golem can get corrupted and the Golem can go mad. Unsure about this “soul” thing though, thinking maybe they are animated entirely from magic/made in some way that people might view them as actually being “without soul” or something cruel like that, especially in a world where everything has a soul rite?? Maybe the idea that trapping a soul into an alien form is seen as “corrupting” or convoluting it and making them be seen as something monstrous?

Their physical forms are mostly humanoid and vary in size, from large (maybe almost giant-like) to small (like a small animal-size or something), but reflect whatever element the soul is imbued in (e.g. a golem made from a tree could have bark for skin, roots growing from their arms/limbs, leaf hair etc ). If magic is imbued into the bones of an animal, the golem will be humanoid but with anthropomorphic traits of whatever animal the bone is from.

- When created, they are magically tattooed or marked with a trio of symbols of creation, called Writs,  on their forehead that is invisible except when the right word or command is spoken; this is basically how they are brought to “life”, commanded to do something and then put to “death.” Writ of Life/Breath, Writ of Devotion -> Writ of Servitude, Writ of Ash/Dust/ T H E V O I D.

Death might be actually a freeing of the golem from its physical form. The Writs for life and death are the same for all of them, but their “devout” Writ (the one that makes them follow a command) is unique to each golem upon animation. Thinking it is usually their name or something. hard to workaround, but they cannot speak their own name ?

- Essentially the plot behind them is they were created to be spiritual and divine beings of purity and protection and love. Some scheming person (calling them Usurper for now) comes along and earns the trust of the Creator, eventually betrays and imprisons her and forces her to teach him/her the process of animation/creation of Golems. Essentially the Usurper perverts the purity of the Creator’s intention and uses the golems as slaves, selling them to highest bidders to be used as servants, workers, prostitutes fighters (like making money by taking bets/fighting them against others), warriors, what have you ‘cause they’re the perfect slaves, e.g. Most can’t speak by design, if you know the right blessing they can’t disobey you, you can kill them if they get out of hand and they know it so they live in fear. Perfect if someone wants to amass an army or use them as hired killers or enforcers etc. Thinking that death is actually the only true freedom for a golem but the Usurper probably created lies about it so that the golems are actually afraid of being deactivated or w/e

- Only reason there are male golems is that the Usurper wanted to make them seem more useful for different tasks like farming, mining, thugs, warriors, etc.

- they are deformed in that they can get pregnant/get a lady preggo but the child will always be stillborn? That’s even more traumatic alksmdf

- [1:10:24 AM] Mo Money: also for names, to help with the idea of being "soulless" and looked down upon/seen as inhuman/lesser they should generally have one name (since the norm is 4) and it should mostly be monosyllabic. Some names can reflect the golem's designed purpose or perhaps tool/object names they would frequently use e.g. Dig, Axe, Grub.

- their lifespan is like other alcrystan human things (generally shorter if their masters are cruel) but was hoping that they don't show signs of aging outwardly (although maybe depending on the element they can get cracks and stuff) but inwardly they age and you can tell the older they are by how faded the blessings are on their foreheads

- tbh I’m not even sure I have a character idea anymore but I had a vague plan for one where the Creator is kinda insane at the end ‘cause she’s been imprisoned and so she makes one final golem (my char I guess) to be some sort of “Savior” for the rest of the golems and fight the usurper … and then proceeds to order my golem to kill her so she can be free of the Usurper and having to make any more Golems just to have her creations enslaved and misused. So ya my golem proceeds to go mad ‘cause they’re not supposed to kill any living things but she is kinda at the same time free ‘cause no one except the Creator knows her blessing so she’s just running around without a path or direction scared and alone while trying to dodge the Usurper and his minions (I imagine by this time the dude is hella rich and powerful gangster mafia type bro or something) because maybe the Creator gave her some special ability to … idk speak the blessings to other golems and she knows the truth about “death” which is just freeing them but at the same time I dont want her to actually be /special/ and all “it’s your destiny” so maybe the Usurper just thinks she has the ability and it accidentally becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy ?? idk man. haha