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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catastrophic" data-source="post: 5520608" data-attributes="member: 81381">*The old golems might have been used to massacre civlians, in one of the neevolent  wizard's secret evil actions. Nobody talks about it anymore, and the golems were redesigned to look like statues and be very different looking in general. The old ones sit in a warehouse, their riveted metal skin still splattered in old brown blood- no other evidence of the atrocity might remain, but when the pcs let them loose in the city, the people there could completly freak out- they might even be under a geas that made them forget the event, which could break once they see the old golems. *The old golems might have been too good- too well designed to protect and not opress. The wizard might have made them in conjunction with a well meaning artificer he later did away with, orhe himself may have become less benevolent over time, retiring his original golems because they were unable to protect the people of the city 'from themselves' in the way the wizard later required. These golems would be a good candidate for later sentience, also. Building on the above idea and some other posts, they might have been better than the wizard at protecting the city- particularly since they worked well in conjuction with the citizens, and became very popular with them. They might have been built to learn from the public while holding to key ethical standards, which means they could rapidly eclipse the wizard's own abiity to rule- especially if they were learning from a variety of human partners of great merit (rivals and foils of the wizard no doubt).  Again, this could lead to interesting plotlines later, but I like the idea of the wizard shutting them down (and even becoming bitter and turning down the path to tyranny) because they were making him obselete- and again it would be a good twist if they were not replacing him as a 'better tyrant' but enabling the populace to better govern itself with their selfless aid. *The old golems could indeed be skeletons or other undead, albeit well concealed in suits of heavy armor. This could have an interesting historical angle, too- imagine if the wizard turned out to be a necromancer who's skeletal army vanished decades ago.</blockquote>

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