Earthbounds

The last remnant of arthropoid civilization, the Earthbounds are essentially golem or, better to say, magical-powered robots with a soul.

They were made for the first time about 100,000 years ago, at the dawn of the First Age of Reason, by the Artropoids, fresh from the discovery of the archeological site where they will build the Steliatar Tower, to overcome their inability to manipulate the magical powers of the Flames. For the production of an Earthbound one or more souls (called Energy E+) are allways needed, inserted into special mechanisms inside artificial bodies in whose veins liquid mercury flows instead of blood.

Used as weapons or slaves inevitably these new beings with intelligence and individuality (though almost completely devoied of memories of previous lives) revolt against their creators beginning a war involving the whole planet, forcing Arthropoids to destroy all the Earthbounds, replacing them with monofunctional magic artifacts not equipped with consciousness created using Not Enriched Energy E (at best artifacts can possess a very simplified version of intelligence, which can almost be defined as a functional instinct).

A second generation of Earthbounds is eventually created during the Minor Ice Age, prior to the Second Age of Reason: this time the new Earthbounds, still possessing personality and individualism, are strictly bound to the purposes and functions for which they have been built and so they can not rebel to them.

This new generation is realized in order to build, inside the underground of the planet remained hollow after the death of the entity known as the First Abomination, an artificial terrestrial core (the Machina Mundi) and to keep it permanently active and powered; to achieve this inside the lower mantle of Genea, new types of Earthbound are builded, called the Torion class, unable to walk as one with the ground and so large that they are at the same time factories and cities for the other smaller Earthbounds which are now being produced in series with the aim of making them laborers in maintaining the new center of the earth for eternity.

At the same time, other Earthbounds on the surface continue to be created inside arthropoid temples with an increased variety of shapes and function and in limited series (if not even unique specimens): it is with this philosophy that Earthbounds of great power are created, capable of modifying and erasing the memories of other beings by remote or even able to predict part or all possible futures.

To these Vyw is added, the only Earthbound ever made built from the fossilized body of an ancient Aeonic Golem.

The unexpected event known as the First Opening of the Steliatar Tower sucks up almost all the magic from the earth's surface, saving only the hidden Earthbounds or the ones who were living in the underground and the sudden extinction of the arthropoids leaves them without any purpose but still forced to live forever continuing their installed functions.

In the present, 15,000 years after the extinction of the arthropoids, the Earthbounds continue to exist in the underground, even in a significantly lower number, ignoring the surface's events beings too busy in performing their eternal function or fighting internal wars while awaiting for the end of the planet, yet some show a strong interest in the new peoples who they call sarcastically "the inhabitants of the dead planet", so that throughout the course of history they have sporadically shown themselves to the Anthros who exchanged them as deities or demons.

With the development of archeology, several non-active Earthbound bodies have been found, being mistaken for complicated and imposing idols of an advanced civilization of the past.

The average size of the Earthbound is about 33 foots, with mostly anthropomorphic bodies (proof that the the arthropoids were inspired by Anthro's anatomy for the Earthbounds design) and with a humanoid intelligence if not even higher; they are gifted with a variety of magical powers, often more powerful than the living mages, plus they are immortal, yet their biggest limit is the inability to change themselves or acquire new abilities as they are fundamentally objects and also they can not access to the Dreamscape, unable to sleep or dream.

In the past Earthbound inspired the first pantheons of the post-meltdown pantheon (New Anthropomorphic Age, 3000 pd - 5500 dd), now completely forgotten by the humanity who ignores their existence and the influences that they bring to the world.