If clay golems are the saviors of priests, stone golems are
the servants of priest-kings and templars. If flesh golems are stitched together by wizards, stone
golems are sculpted by archmages, mage-killers, and thief-takers. When your party approaches every statue
with the caution of a bomb disposal squad, you know you’ve used stone golems
well.
Carmine Nassarene
wants to loot the vault of the wizard Chiron the Black. He claims to have the tin flute to
quiet the belkers, the heron flag to offer the commander of the shrunken ship
in a bottle, and the wand of flesh to
stone to bypass the stone golem’s magic resistance. That he does…but the wand has only two
charges left.
The stone giants of
Mount Harpy have a particularly hardy ally: a stone golem shield guardian
whose control amulet they lifted from a slain baron. The stone giants disguise the golem within their ranks under
clothing and war paint, and use it to beat meddling mages to a pulp.
As an upstart
conqueror from across the Sable Sea, Pharaoh Quintus has no illusions about
the loyalty of his khopesh-wielding subjects. He supplements his handpicked guards with two stone golems
carved to look like falcon-headed hieracosphinxes. Rather than walking, they trundle around on stone wheels,
slamming into intruders.
—Pathfinder Bestiary
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