Golem, Book

ECOLOGY

Environment any
Organization solitary
Treasure none

A book golem is a construct with no free will of its own, designed and made for a specific purpose, only able to follow the orders given to it at the time of its creation (outside of a few simple commands from the person it has been bonded to obey). It has no possessions and no weapons. Book golems cannot speak, although they can emit an unsettling whisper with their pages; they move stiffly, as if not in complete control of their bodies.

Although most book golems are mindless there are persistent rumors of some that gain the collected knowledge printed upon the many pages comprising their body. Certainly most who construct book golems prefer mindless slaves over free-willed creations, and as a result intelligent book golems are a barely explored concept, treated as fanciful stories from old wizards.

A book golem stands 8 feet tall and weighs 500 pounds.

CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS

Comprised of various tomes stacked into the shape of a humanoid, the book golem requires no less than four tomes per limb (along with unguents and bindings worth 500 gp).

Any book can be used, although several wizards have found that crafting tomes of knowledge and learning seems to grant the golem a sense of cunning and personality (and just as many have discredited that as wishful thinking).

Several attempts to create a book golem with access to the spells contained within tomes bound into its body have thus far proved unsuccessful.

Feats Craft Construct, animate dead, bull’s strength, geas/quest, limited wish; Special creator must be caster level 8th; Skill Check(s) Craft (leather) or Heal DC 18; Cost 10,500 gp