Characters as Flesh Golems

 Bones

The first component of any functional golem is its skeletal structure. The bones of a golem can be gathered from different places. The represent high level details of a character, how they see themselves and how they are generally characterized. Usually can just be summarized as adjective noun pair, a good flesh golem has three. Lets begin by through some out there.

•  Reckless Youngster 
•  Careful Hunter
•  Emotional Wreck

When a using a golem, find times to make their bones pop out of them. Either they could be used for mechanical benefit, before being exhausted for a day, or become agitated upon failure, becoming overly pronounced for a time and taking away from agency.

 

Flesh

Bones alone do not a golem make. One must add flesh that ties it together, moves it, makes it one thing. Take your bones and tie them together by adding making somethings past, present, future. Some can be partial secrets, some open truths. I usually give my golem a name at this point, helps with not mixing up the many creations I have!

Cleiwyn is a young man who is often too impassioned for his own good sense. He works as a hunter in a local village, renowned for a good knowledge of the local wilderlands and the sensibility of a hunter. His pride and self assuredness has only been increase from it in recent years. The boy is repressed and unstable, when he is taken away from his pride, he has been known to outlandish outbursts of tears, anger and joy at the wildness of the human soul.

Organs

No life on this phenomenal plane is complete without its organs. Our stomach is hunger, our lungs grasp air. Golems must be given an impulse to move, a general motive and drive that keeps them going, coded into their very bodies. There are three that are critical.

• Stomach: What does the golem desire like hunger? 
• Lungs: What goals does the golem not even think about yet want, like breathing air? Better still if this connects to the stomach of the golem
• Heart: What drives the golem forward, everyday, and if it was lost the golem would be essentially destroyed 

Stomach of Cleiwyn: Glory, Glory beyond recognition or reason. The young fool leaps at chances to prove himself the hunter, tacking himself to any group that promises a death fitting of such a young man.

Lungs of Cleiwyn: The glory seeking child wants nothing more that to stay alive and find the happiness he has so lacked. His recklessness is sublimated suffering, seeking to make something of a nothing life with a glorious death. If he got a taste, he would be hardly able to stop himself from gasping it, everything else be dammed.

Heart of Cleiwyn: Cleiwyns essential thread in life remains his village, always. It is his village that he feels sadness to have never lived up too, and his glory only matters if his precious village hears of it. If it were burned, he would be destroyed from the inside out.

Bile 

The body is filled with pockets that disobey and attract filth, these pockets of bubbling fluid in the body are the little rebellions under the surface that occasionally burst in cysts, bulbs and boils. The bile of a golem is that which you apprentice golemancers must keep an eye on since they are where your creations will defy your designs. If not drained regularly the golems may be human once again...

Cleiwyn finds his unusual moments of peace out in the wild, studying the beasts not as prey, but as a part of a great design. He thinks from a fawns eyes, and wonders how the hare dashes through the underbrush. A good push to document these things could see the hunter change his ways.