Origins or histories of certain constructs

[tecnowraith]

I have a question about certain official published 3.5 and possibly 4e constructs. Has it been said in any D&D sourcebook who created the inevitables or how they were created or planar? Are there any constructs in 4e base campaign?

 

[BriarMonkey]

Are you talking about any constructs (IE: Golems), or only those that are of a planar nature?

With regards to the Inevitables, I can't say for sure, but I don't recall any creation mythos for them.

And as for 4E, I am pretty sure that the standard Golems are listed in the Monster Manul - so that would make them base campaign creatures (at least as base as one can consider anything in the core books).

 

[tecnowraith]

Mostly the planar ones.

 

[Sammael]

According to 2e (Planescape Monstrous Compendium Vol. I), Maruts were created by Hindu god Rudra to punish a noble who had escaped Rudra's plague by hiding in a sealed castle.

Dragon #341 has an Ecology article on the Inevitables.

 

[Shemeska]

Per the Ecology article in Dragon, they (aside from the Marut) were created by a now vanished, militantly expansionist LN race known as the Aphanct.

Some folks online have speculated that the Aphanct had some relationship to either the extinct LN/LE natives of Acheron known as the Hassitor, or as remnants of the LN race that Asmodeus and the baatezu were part of prior to their fall to LE.

Also, back to canon, another planar golem, the blade golem, was created by the bladelings of Acheron.


FWIW, in Pathfinder the Inevitables were created by the LN Axiomites as construct armies for their wars against the Proteans of the Maelstrom.

 

[howandwhy99]

Has it been said in any D&D sourcebook who created the inevitables or how they were created or planar?

My first introduction to them was as 3E foes. However, I believe they were converted from 2E. I'm fairly positive there were no such creatures before 1990.

You might want to check out Planescape, perhaps the 2E monster manual insert? The Inevitables purview is primarily outer planar constructs dealing justice on the prime plane. Because it's the prime material plane they travel to though, they might be 2E generics.

 

[Wycen]

According to 2e (Planescape Monstrous Compendium Vol. I), Maruts were created by Hindu god Rudra to punish a noble who had escaped Rudra's plague by hiding in a sealed castle.

I like this explanation though this link provides alternative Hindu origins: Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic - Google Books