Golems

Connections

• Master Artificer Dusk wove the mighty fabric of spells that created the great golem battalions; he also led the golem assault on Asgard
• In the battle between the elves and Asgard, the Asgardians won and took the golems as spoils of war, making them do the menial labor of the city; secret golem fight clubs cropped up within the next ten thousand years; among the greatest golem fighters was Kor, who took a hammer given as an anonymous gift (from Sentinel) and joined the Grand Tournament
• Xull challenged Kor for leadership of the Golem Underground

Context

The word golem is of Hebrew origin, meaning "shapeless mass," or "raw material." It appears once in the Old Testament of the Bible, in Psalms 139:16. Depending on the version you are reading, golem could be translated into "unformed" or "unperfect," or something similar. The idea is that the material is unrefined, unfinished, until God's hands begin to shape it. The first stories of golems as creatures or living constructs also comes from early Judaism. The most famous of these stories is that of the Golem of Prague.

Now, golems have become a common staple in fantasy adventures, and in this context the word has come to mean any living construct made of inorganic materials...usually. You have your standard clay, stone, and metal golems, but there are also flesh and bone golems. In any case, golems—as we now understand them—are made of raw or dead materials and kept together by magic. In Brawlhalla, Dusk and his elvish assistants used magic to combine rocks and bits of earth into humanoid forms that somehow gained sentience, which is actually not normal for golems. Usually golems are like robots, only acting according to their master or creator and having no mind of their own. The lore in Brawlhalla makes it clear that the golems of Asgard have formed their own society and sense of identity.