As of late, I’ve been considering the many benefits of being the proud owner and friend of a Unicorn. I could master the art of riding on horseback, cure disease with shavings from it’s horn, which it would grow back rather quickly, and overall just be a bad-A. Of course, soon enough it hit me that I could not truly travel anywhere with the mighty stallion, so the solution was simple: a UniPegasus.
The name explains itself. It’s a winged, magical Unicorn, capable of travel to virtually anywhere, carrying with it the benefits of both a Unicorn and A Pegasus. So the idea just about stopped there for a while.
But then I started studying Greek Myths for school, and I found a Greek myth on how man was created. The idea was that the G-ds, at one time or another, began experimenting with metals, making life with them, starting with a Golden Race. They were men who lived without toil, sorrow, and although mortal, lived as though they were G-ds. They eventually died of age, leaving behind them their spirits, as protectors of Man.
The G-ds then continued to experiment with metals, working from the best (gold) to the worst (iron, ourselves)*. Eventually, sometime after the Brass race, there came a race of great splendor**, somewhere in between Brass and Iron, that fought great wars and were renown throughout history.
At one point or another, I made the connection between metal races of splendor and glory and immortal golems. Put the two together, and you get an immortal race of men, an engineering feat so great it creates life itself, and all under the control of their creator.
This is truly a man’s dream, isn’t it? To be master of an immortal, unstoppable army that can succeed in whatever feat or challenge is given to them? I thought, and after considering the UniPegasus, I realized it wasn’t.
And so, I came to the conclusion that it would be both. And hence, a UniPegasus Golem Race.
The benefits are endless: transportation to anywhere on earth, a resource of potentially endless knowledge due to their ability to go just about anywhere to obtain information, and unstoppable military to conquer or defend with, even labor to build entire cities with in a mere week’s time. If you can think of something you want them to do, they’ll do it.
Now I just need means of obtaining said Golem Race.
*The order of the races were; Gold, Silver, Brass, ?, Iron.
**From Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology”, pg. 72; “They (the brass men) were terrible men, immensely strong, and such lovers of war and violence that they were completely destroyed by their own hands. This, however, was all to the good, for they were followed by a splendid race of godlike heroes who fought glorious wars and went on great adventures which men have talked and sung of through all the ages since.”
