Artificially created beings
_Witches and ioun mages know how to craft a speaking crystal. Its primary use is as a debating companion and ally—but many turn to treachery and hatred. These are the emerald eyes._ **Servants of Logic.** A mystic or psion will debate logic with...
_A hoard golem is a pile of gold, jewelry, and weapons that can rise on its own like a tidal wave of riches, with a cold and determined face. A hoard golem can crash down with the weight of a fortune, flattening everything in its path._ **Dragon...
_This mechanical being’s body is composed of brass and iron and bedecked in a loose uniform of the city watch. Its movements are slow but steady._ **Lightly Armored Servants.** Clockwork watchmen are more solidly built versions of the more commo...
_This hulking brass and iron creature resembles a giant suit of plate armor; a constant growl issues from its midsection. It stands 9 feet tall and its squat head wears an angry expression. A clockwork myrmidon always moves with moves with a power...
_This black, mechanical hunting dog keeps its nose to the ground sniffing and whuffling. Gleaming teeth fill its metal mouth._ **Ticking Bloodhounds.** Partners to the clockwork huntsmen, these black hounds follow the trails of criminals, escape...
_Light glints off the moving parts of almost a thousand clockwork beetles in a biting cloud._ **Freed But Foolish.** Clockwork beetle swarms form when several of the creatures break free of their creators and bond together in a noisy mass of cla...
_A gnarljak looks like a bear trap springs sprung to clacking life and ready to tear flesh apart._ **Hopping Motion.** All steel and springs, a gnarljak is easily mistaken for a simple bear trap when lying dormant. But once it starts hopping in ...
_Gleaming metal and whirring gears make up the form of this elaborate mechanical insect the size of a housecat._ **Bejeweled Familiars.** Forged by talented jewelers and sold to gear-mages and aristocrats, clockwork beetles are highly prized as ...
_At rest, a clockwork abomination resembles a pile of debris and scrap on the ground, but in motion it reveals a large insectoid form with smoke rising between the plates of its hide. Its many orange‑yellow eyes shine like dim lanterns and reveal ...
_Tiny and built like a caricature of a person, this creature’s enlarged head is filled with pointed teeth._ **Bodily Children.** Broodikens are crude servants created by humanoid spellcasters willing to grow them within their own bodies. They re...
_A clockwork huntsman is mechanical soldier clad in flat-black armor, and beneath its breastplate, gears tick and whir._ **Slave Hunters.** These metal huntsmen were once the province of corrupt aristocrats, running down escaped slaves and track...