Talos was a giant man made of bronze, powered by molten metal. He was created by Zeus to guard a princess Zeus had kidnapped and trapped on an island. Talos flew circles around the island, threw giant bolders, shot fire from his chest, and had a super-heated-grappling special attack. Talos was defeated by a nymph who tricked it into removing a plug from it's foot, which let all the molten metal drain out.

Pygmalion was a king in exile who became a simple artisan. One day he created a statue so beautiful he fell in love with it and named it Galatea. The gods were so moved by his love that they brought the statue to life.

Pygmalion returned to the thrown with the animated statue as his queen. Together he and Galatea had many children and established a kingdom which thrived long after they were gone.

Pinocchio was an irresponsible and mischievous magic log who liked to trip people and stub toes. When a poor wood carver carved him into a puppet, he suddenly found himself with a loving father. And the wood carver found himself with a mischievous and irresponsible son.

Through many mishaps and almost being murdered, Pinnocchio learned to appreciate his father. Through even more adventures, he learned how to be a good responsible son. He even got a mom (the blue fairy)!

Victor Frankenstein sewed together the best parts of several corpses and reanimated them. The results were so gruesome that he tried to destroy it. But the creature escaped. It wandered alone, shunned by all, growing bitter and angry.

When it met Victor again it demanded Victor make more creatures so it wouldn't be lonely. When Victor refused it attacked his family, and vanished. Victor hunted it to the ends of the Earth, but died without finding it again.

IMO Talos is a good name for any automaton type monster, and Galateans is a great name for a fantasy-race of artificial humanoids. Also the terms automaton and construct are descriptive while being fairly neutral.

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild called their rock monsters talos. If Zelda can do it, so can you!

Dolls and puppets are also good words for "animated artificial humanoid monsters."

@bunnyjane Minor point of order: Pinocchio is from a novel written in the late 19th century, decades after Frankenstein.

@bunnyjane Here's something in a similar vein: a guy was cursed to never have a human wife, so folks made a woman out of flowers for him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodeuwedd

@bunnyjane Promethean (the new World of Darkness splatbook) uses the term Galatean for the Obligatory Sexy Class

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I remember this boss from Dark Souls. really brutal

@bunnyjane Also would love to show my partner, @DialMforMara this thread

@Canageek @bunnyjane is this where The Talos Principle got its name?

@Canageek they should be boostable already. I didn't make them private.

@bunnyjane You ar right, must be a bug in subway tooter that a lock appeared next to them!

@bunnyjane Hey, there's more! https://www.greeklegendsandmyths.com/automatons.html