because you don't need enchantement mana in order to make golem, only sculptor studio, maybe marble.
I would know, I'm playing currently a luirchip game.
The Luchuirp start with Enchantment mana.
and what is a "clockwork golem" ??? clockwork means mechanisms...
Yes, but the clockwork mechanisms necessary to simulate a living being would require an unbelievably large contraption - city-sized - or else microscopic mechanisms which are beyond RL cutting-edge to design on that scale. Steampunk ignores this, because clockwork is cool, so you get things like steam rifles and clockwork soldiers that were never invented because science doesn't really work that way. It's about fun, not realism.
and, in the end, how would you know?
Clear author intent? The original FfH team was very verbose, you can check out their Lore section, it's massive.
Furthermore, Mine was a JOKE. You take it too seriously.
When people tell me they're joking, I only believe them unless their entire post is something like "Dude, it was a joke". Taking the time and effort to form a rebuttal and work out the groundings of a theory suggests a certain level of serious interest.
Any fantasy where everything can only be explained by "a wizard done it" is generaly boring.
Agreed.
You seem to be of the kind that can't find logic in a fantasy world.
Disagreed. I simply favor in-world logic rather then analysis attempts from an RL viewpoint. In FfH, the presence of active and visible gods directly responsible for the creation of Erebus necessitates certain adjustments of perspective. Specifically, natural laws are no longer immutable - they are the
opinions of these beings, kept in operation by
divine will. Magic allows a mere mortal to throw his will against the gods and, locally, win the contest - flight is not a complex mass-inertia-energy equation being balanced against gravity (as it is on Earth), it is a mage's decision that he'd rather fly vs. Dagda's decision that people can't fly.
When you have Hyborem following Order, do you say "a wizard done it" or maybe you don't care at all... or maybe you are trying to find an explanation, a story, just for you. If you can do that, why can't you bend a little your mind and forget that "just because it's fantasy it can't have logic".
Because the socio-political movements of the demon empire and its leader's personality are things I can look at and try to understand without the interference of magic. Mind magic could be at work, but if mind magic is not at work, then Hyborem's motives conform to Oghma's ideas of thought and emotion, which conform to our scientific understanding.
Basically, because I can look at that as a simple character study or political analysis. Golems are, by default, soaked in magic which precludes the will of the gods (which is relatively close to RL's natural laws) from defining their behavior. So conventional logic can't be applied.
With stories of city ruins being here "because a wizard done it"... you (well maybe you don't exactly said it, but someone did) are really like those young earth creationist : there are dinosaurs bones... because 1) conspiracy ; 2) God put them here so that we would think there was something older than 5000y.
Well, a conspiracy/divine intervention or a wizard actually did do it by leveling an entire civilization with overwhelming arcane power. It happens.
You're stretching my argument way past it's tolerance point, which is almost certainly a logical fallacy; I'm not saying that logic cannot apply to fantasy, I'm saying that fantasy contains unique elements which often thwart the assumptions logic is build on - logic
itself, let alone logical extrapolation from understanding of the RL universe.
To clarify, logic cannot
always be applied to fantasy, and Erebus has a high ratio of disconnects due to fantasy elements.
but that is still not sentience!)
