Clockwork Beast

With the development of more advanced weaponry, including advances in canonry, automatic rifles and so on, came a new problem. How to transport said weapons to the frontline. Draft animals such as horses where sometimes used, but there were limits to what they could be expected to pull. Eventually, the solution to create a automaton to carry the heavy weapons came up. The clockwork beast of burden, or clockwork beast for short, was a quadrupedal weapon platform. Initial designs were plain, but based on the name, clockworkers  began adding animal flairs, eventually adding claws and teeth, features that also enabled the clockwork beast to fight back in engaged in close combat. Some even became outfitted with the engraved disks that enabled tehm to attain full consciousness.
Many of the sapient clockwork beasts continued to serve in the military, where they could not just carry heavy weaponry, but also operate it, thought doing so requires connecting the weapon to their overclocking system and thus carried the same limitations. Created for army use, clockwork beasts often views the world in battlefield terms and some had trouble adjusting to life outside those parametres.
In combat, they engage from afar with their powerful heavy weaponry, the most common one being howitzers. Up close, they savage with their claws and teeth, using their overclock capability to defeat stubborn foes. Being military creatures, they have a good sense of tactics and can be expected to fight analytically and intelligently.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Clockwork beasts can vary a lot in looks. In general, they are quadrupeds and have very broad, bulky backs, the better to carry cargo or equipment with. Like others of their kind, they require rest to restore the magic that keeps their clockwork innards wound.

Genetics and Reproduction

While incapable of reproducing, clockwork beasts can be equipped with mechanisms that allows them to engage in intercourse and receive positive feedback from the experience. Like other clockwork beings, if sometimes becomes interested in the construction of progeny.

Growth Rate & Stages

Newly created clockwork beasts tends toward dutiful personalities, befitting their work as haulers of heavy equipment. Their personalities develop from there, many taken one certain animalistic traits often inspired by their own designs.

Ecology and Habitats

Clockwork beings are artificial beings and have no role in the environment. They are usually found in urban areas.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Clockwork beasts do not eat.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Clockwork beasts tends to be group oriented and work well in teams, as their kind were originally created to operate with others. Their often obedient nature also means they work well in hierarchies.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

One of the most common clockwork beings and thus the most widespread. Has been created in several spheres.

Average Intelligence

Like most clockwork beings, in certain areas more intelligent than your average person, in others less so. Tend to excel at calculating, especially weight, and operating with coordinates.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

The clockwork beast's artificial eyes are very fine-tuned ad capable of seeing through darkness.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Clockwork beasts tend to take on the naming tradition of their surrounding culture.

Average Technological Level

Products of advanced construction and magic, clockwork beasts are more than capable of reproducing and utilizing this technology.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Clickwise: A common clockwork being language that they are usually activate with.

Scientific Name

Ferinae Calces Viventem

Origin/Ancestry

Clockwork Being

Lifespan

Does not age

Average Height

3.8 - 4.3 meters

Average Weight

54 - 55 thousand kilos

Average Length

5.0 - 5.3 meters