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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9343570" data-attributes="member: 19675">Some thoughts:1) not a copper golem, a coral golem.  The sharp roughness of the coral plus the stinging tentacles of the polyps might make for a nasty foe.2) I wouldn’t have giant oysters, but having the clergy & workers within the temple cultivating pearl oysters within the temple pool could be both a source of wealth and symbols of status.  Some special pearls might also carry enchantments, such as having an aura that marks the bearer as “authorized personnel”.2a) other cultivated sea-life within “Beshel’s Garden” (the temple pool) could be shrimp, crab, edible kelps, murex snails (historical source of royal purple dye), and so forth.3) not magic per se, but temple priests might collect the various powerful toxins produced by various sea life.  Those could be distributed to temple guardians and/or the black market- especially if the temple actually has a “dark side”.4) Beshel could take a page from Dagon & Lolth by creating magically altered believers to patrol the aquatic sections of her temple grounds, especially the deepest waters.  Instead of Drow/Spider fusion driders, she could fuse her followers with crabs, or- in keeping with her own visage- octopi.</blockquote>