Species: Steel Guard


    Family: Automaton


    Risk level: Medium


    Weaknesses: Electricity, Overheating


    Description: This automatons once served a basic purpose, mainly guarding and defending from threats. It changed after criminals found a way to redirect its wiring to disidentify attackers and assume everything moving around it can threaten the one thing or person they were supposed to protect.


    It was suprisingly a very easy method, expecially so because their complex structure and careful design should be almost risk free from those malfunctions. It could be done by hitting it exactly on the right eye, causing it to momentarily rewire its internal signals which leads to sensory malfunction and drastic, unsuccessful attempt to fix the issue.


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    It looks like a knight covered from head to toe with iron plates, holding in hand a weapon it was designed to wield, usually a sword or a spear, bit that could also extend to maces, bows and rarely whips. The thing that differed it from normal humans was the fact that it never moved a single digit without any exterior disturption, unnaturally so.


    Expect their one weak points, like eyes, they are as durable as steel wall and with strenght expected from human sized, metal statue. Now the only remnants of their presence can be found deep inside fallen castles and treasuries. It is illy advised to engage them in any way, due to their tendency to form small groups of patroling units in their vicinity, and the best course of action is to stay at least one hundreds meters from them, and if spotted to slowly back off into safe distances.


    Personal notes: "I always doubted that the flaw in its design wasn''t intentional. No self respecting artificer would allow that. But why would they intentionally leave it? Were they threatened, stupid, brain dead? Or maybe they just wanted to cause as many deaths as possible with as little effort as possible? Shame we will never know. The creatar of those machines smells flowers from down under. " Fredric Maln, member of Cogs'' Ordeal