Golemancy
Golemancy is a practice written extensively, yet very few have ever learned to master. Combining the knowledge of arcane and mechanics, the practice has both risen and died since the start of ages, evolved and changed its form repeatedly according to sensibilities and knowledge of the time and cultures it has been practised in.
The art of golemancy is about giving an inanimate construct an animate form where the construct gains a complete or limited awareness of its surroundings to complete several tasks and to reason the best course of action to accomplish them. The research is highly controversial, yet keeps resurfacing ever so often.
Utility
The main focus of golemancy has historically been in creating servants that require from no to little sustenance while having some capability of independent thought required to complicated tasks. Most common described utilities for a golem are described to be ones for protecting, making domestic or dangerous work and doing things in circumstances that would be dangerous for a person made of flesh.
Some also see golemancy as a possibility to extend one's life span or creating a creature for simple desire for companionship.
Manufacturing
Currently, there is no foolproof method to produce a golem, but there are several methods through time that have produced working specimens for the usage of their creators. Most known practice include creations of a Pseudo-soul, not that differently from necromancers when creating Animated undead creatures. Some wildest examples also claim the possibility of putting a living soul from its original vessel or Spirit without a body to the golem body. A similar practice is sometimes used when creating sentient magical items.
Body of the golem can be made into a form of a doll or a statue, though mechanical bodies have been claimed to be easier to animate.
Success of creating a golem is slim, but this does not prevent the talented from experimenting.
Servants of the blue folk
In the folklore of Jubarian humans, there are stories of "blue folk" that came across the sea to trade wonders unimaginable. These mysterious "blue folk" would have servants made of stone, metal and wood, that would talk and think and serve their blue masters. Similar stories have been found on other corners of the world, yet no one seems to know who these people were.
None have seen these "blue folk" or can tell where they exactly where they came from and how long ago they existed, but if the stories have any weight, they might have been the first creators of golemancy and the most advanced golemancers world has ever seen. It is also quite possible that the "blue folk" is simply a story without any significant weight.
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