Guide on Novels and Games - FANTASY - MONSTERS - MATERIAL

APPEARANCE:

Material monsters are monsters made from one or more materials that can have various shapes and the classical example of them are the golems.

BIOLOGY:

This type of monster is more a machine than a living being and for this reason don't have a biology.

LIFESPAN:

The concept of lifespan can't be applied for this type of monster because they mainly are not living being so it's more right say that they "live" until someone or something destroy them.

REPRODUCTION:

This type of monster is most of the time an artificial one but is possible that they can born naturally.

An example I can make about golems that born naturally is that a mineral/material's small formation in the time change into a core and then start to manipulate the materials around it for make a body to use.

Another example of material monsters is something like the possession of a spirit into something like a statue or similar but contrary to the classical possession the spirit "fuse" with the material changing from a spirit monster to a material monster.

VARIATION:


 * Core Monster, in this case the	core is a monster on itself that "wear" the materials	around it for obtain a strenght that normally don't have.
 * Golem, the classical example of	material monster.
 * Gargoyle, a type of statue that	move.
 * Regenerative, a general	sub-species where the core is able to convert energy into material	and regenerate any damages, for example a Regenerative material	monster lost an arm and in the time it can regrow it without the	need to use external material as replacement.
 * Single material, another	sub-species, normally material monsters are things that are mainly	composed by material but that have others too, for example a stone	golem can have plants too or different type of rocks but a Single	Material is composed by a single type of material
 * Mechanical, they are basically	robots but golems too can be mechanicals fall in this variation