Golem

A golem is a crafted body brought to life to obey the magic user who shaped it. Different practitioners build them for different ends, from silent guardians that bar intruders to enchanted straw figures meant only for training. What they share is durability, since most simply pull themselves back together after being wrecked and must be undone by unraveling the spell rather than by brute strength.

Flora forms her guardians from water and earth to watch over the Mansion of the Spirit Tree, powering each one with a small core in the chest that serves as both heart and mind. While that core survives, the body reknits itself after every hit. Its weak point is a sigil marked on the form, and breaking it, as Farnese discovers, cancels the regeneration outright. In Elfhelm the craft takes another shape, since long ago its people bound the weapons of seafaring warriors called veykins into straw dolls, spelled so they can neither wound nor kill and able to reattach any severed piece.

Flora's constructs press Guts and his companions to leave her house, slow and clumsy yet dangerous in their numbers, until Farnese exposes their sigils. On Skellig the witch Molda and her coven send far deadlier golems after the party, and when Schierke strips away the enchantment Molda answers with a towering wicker man, a mesh of metal stuffed with the souls of people burned alive. Gentler versions appear as summons inside Casca's Corridor of Dreams, and after her mind is healed she trains against the harmless veykin dolls beside Isidro.