Category:Dread Golemcrafting

This section contains canon info from officially published sources

Dread Golemcrafting is the crafting of a golem that receives the dread golem template. Dread golemcrafting is constructcrafting and golemcrafting that achieves its result through dark desire and the assistance of the Dark Powers. One need not be even a novice at magic to create a dread golem. Equally, one can be the most gifted scientific mind in the Land of Mists but the golem will not animate save by the fiat of the Dark Powers. Crafting a dread golem is will to the creation of life and as such is hubris and transgression. Dread golemcrafting is Powers Check worthy, but such a check may be unnecessary as the dread golem itself is "reward" enough.

Knowledge of the particulars of dread golemcrafting is Ravenloft Lore and Knowledge (Ravenloft). Arcane Lore and Knowledge (arcane) are useful, but afford no information about the ways in which dread golemcrafting differs from golemcrafting, and so may even offer information that is, in certain points, dangerously inaccurate. Crafting a dread golem is not, for example, crafting a mindless creature that is destined to remain firmly under control.

Dread Golemcrafting is a bit like riding a bike. The cyclist knows how to ride it. But he or she cannot explain the physics that makes it possible. The crushing majority of dread golemcrafters do not truly know the "how" of "what" they are doing. They do not recognise the hand of the Dark Powers in the animation of their golem and they do not understand the role of dark desire in its creation. Niether Emil Bollenbach nor Dr. Victor Mordenheim constitute exceptions. Individuals such as Azalin Rex or members of the Fraternity of Shadows who have a firm understanding of the process consequently have no intention of engaging in it.