Description

Personality

Personality: Brutally honest (can't grasp the concept of lying), unemotional (just beginning to feel them for the first time in its existence)

Equipment

Weapons: It's own fists, and six 16' long, 6" in diameter at the base, plated tentacles with serrated edges, and a spear-like tip. When inactive they are housed inside the chest. When active they slide out of four holes on its back and two in the palms of its hands. The tips of the tentacles are extremely sharp, and harder than diamonds. The holes are normally sealed with a thin plate that is broken when they emerge. First is also capable of wielding anything it can get its hands on as a weapon, though it has no finesse with such things.

Abilities/Spells: First is capable of regrowing damaged or lost body parts. Strangely, any part separated from the core grows extremely brittle in moments and disintegrates at the slightest touch. As a being of magic First has no true spells as such, though it can drain the magical essence of both living and inanimate objects, as well as part of the magic of any spell directed at it. This magic drain is necessary because First's regeneration, and general activity, is powered by magic, but First generates no mana of its own. It can remain silent and inanimate forever, but even the slightest activity drains its magic reserves. Therefore, First must consume magic, like a person consumes food and drink.

History

First may in fact be the first golem ever created. Its original form, still encased in its current, is a roughly humanoid shape, made of a dark gray clay. Standing nearly 9 ft. tall with shoulders nearly 5 ft. wide, first was an intimidating sight from its very beginning. When it was deemed a success it was modified with an enchanted suit of armor. (When damaged the inner clay regenerates much faster than the armor plates, allowing for a glimpse of its original form.) It was made as part of a series of fifty guardians built to protect the most holy temple of an ancient civilization; a society now only an echo in the oldest myths. At some point in its history a great cataclysm befell the civilization, burying it in an earthquake that split the continent in half.

The golems survived the cataclysm, and continued to guard their dead masters, without free will or desire. As millennium after millennium passed the golems began to falter and disintegrate due to slight imperfections in their Core. As each passed away its inherent magic went into the remaining guardians. Eventually only one remained, First. Its Core was the only one without fault, and a few centuries after the last of the other guardian's power was transferred to First a curious thing happened.

First began to think, and wonder. At first the thoughts were simple, it would be distracted by passing creatures, like an infant. The thoughts slowly gained complexity, and it began to wonder what befell its creators. Then one day the greatest thought of all came to it. First wondered what it was, and for the first time it desired something; it desired to know what it was. It abandoned its post and walked into a world it had not seen for thousands of years.

After a century of observing the goings on of a small mountain community, First finally revealed itself when the community was attacked by raiders. It didn't want the village to be lost, because it had not yet figured out what it was. The bloodshed that day was immense. The villagers ran in fear of the carnage First wrought upon the bandits, not understanding their fear, yet not desiring to upset them further, First set out to find some being that could explain what it was, and why it wondered these things.