You figure a deer is good enough for now, lifting the corpse and laying it over your shoulders, you head back to the trail, proceeding up the mountain into town. You're confident that you did well in your hunt, and when you arrive in the town you see your master waiting in front of his workshop. You approach him. "Good job on that deer, how's the golem holding up?"
"It didn't fall apart."
"Good enough, now, you can just leave the deer here, I told the butcher you'd be coming back with game soon. Come with me inside." You follow him as he enters the old wooden doorway in his workshop. Inside is as familiar as it always is, the tables with carved parts of vessels and imperfect sigils of various materials lining them.
"I don't have anything else I have to teach you at this time, I believe that you might want to make a golem as a gift to the ambassador. Being that he simply would love another guard on his journeys. Really, it's a peace offering to prove that we are still on the side of the kingdom, and not any of its rivals."
You contemplate placing the skull of that deer on this next golem, it seems simple enough to do.
"Master, a question. What would happen if I attempted to make a golem out of bone, or with clay and bone parts within?"
"Well, that's a fairly simple answer. I recently told you of Faestal, what you should know is that Golem, is part of that language. It translates to Gol- False, and Em- Body, meaning False Body. Therefore, nothing that has been recently alive, as in, the past several years, can be created as part of a sigil or vessel, for some of the true body, or Palem, and true spirit of the creature rests within its parts, which only dissipates after years. The false body cannot take over the true body, and the magic simply has no effect. The reason you usually would not use bone for a golem's vessel is because the vessel can only use one material, and bones are several that need to be connected. As well as the fact that only a skilled golem smith could create a golem that does not need to be attached to its parts, requiring large amounts of wax and chalk for drawing the correct runes on the ground for holding the golem until the creation is complete. You could however, place the skull on top of the golem's head after creation for purely ceremonial purposes."
Now, you have a choice on what to do here, you could make a medium, or small golem. Your current golem is of the size tiny, and thus requires no large time. A small golem takes half the time that a medium golem takes to create, large takes double, huge, triple, and so on. Your current skills only allow you to make a medium sized golem at most. Different materials require different times as well, clay being the fastest of all of them. Now, crazy statistics and such shall be listed in the next post. They are a doozy.
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