Iron Legionary

These fearsome war machines represent the apex of imperial engineering. Made out of a specialized lightweight admantine, its plates can only be pierced by magical or adamantine weapons and they can withstand the force of a dragon while still being light enough to grant the golem surprising agility.

An Iron Legionary does not rust and all of its components are remarkably enduring, such a golem could conceivably remain operational for close to a thousand years before it would start experiencing any form of degradation.

Iron Legionaries were often tasked with accompanying a cohort of the Imperial Legion and carrying out dangerous tasks like clearing out monster dens. As golems follow their instructions to the letter, one can often find them roaming the halls of long forgotten dungeons, still looking for vermin to exterminate and awaiting new orders.

These golems are exceptionally prized among wizards and inventors, even badly damaged ones as they contain an extremely valuable power source, a soul core. These are essentially arcane batteries drawing power from a bound soul, but unlike the crude soul crystals used by wizards and devils these can provide such power over an extraordinarily long time. The knowledge to make more of these cores has been lost with the fall of the Imperium.