A metal man
Minor arcanum #51
A bronze statue, but not really a statue, more like bits of armor cleverly joined around a skeleton of interlocking pipes. And the “chest” is less a breastplate than a little potbelly stove. Intricate runes are barely visible under the thing’s patina. It’s dented, cracked, and torn apart, but a careful search will turn up all the pieces.
This is clearly no mere statue, but to unlock its mysteries you need to…
Requirements
- ☐ …repair the body, taking a full season for an exceptional smith (Value 3).
- ☐ …spend a few weeks repairing the runes, risking a mistake that makes them ineffective or unstable.
- ☐ …convince your own hearth’s spirit to inhabit the stove and animate the construct.
The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.
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