Living Constructs
With a few exceptions for those deeply connected to nature itself, living constructs were the favored companions and assistants of many of the Divine Six's archangels, a technological blessing they shared with the mortal plane in the heyday of their religion.
The technology fell into disuse, the secret of the 'breath of life' key to the process was lost as existing examples slipped out of the grasp of the world after the loss of the Six and the angels departure from the material plane.
Living Constructs were capable, loyal creatures, with minds and hearts of their own. Unique personalities set them apart from each other is unmistakable ways. While many of them were designed as direct recreations of beasts and other creatures more bold inventors expanded out into the realms of improvements, multiple heads, extra senses, transplanted and enhanced abilities, they're machines upgrades are their equivalent of natural evolution.
Modern day warforged are the closest anyone has come to truly reviving the technology on a new chassis but they are only a copy of a copy, a best attempt.
Utility
Living constructs filled many roles: familiar, pet, companion, guardian, friend and more. Any roles society would traditionally tame animals for could be done by living constructs without asking living being to suffer those burdens.
Access & Availability
The technology is completely lost in the modern era, facsimile constructs are all that exist now in normal society. Though if you know where to look, and have the prowess to rebuild, repair, and refurbish some of the ancient examples can be excavated and revived.
Complexity
The complexity of these constructs relative to those most people are accustomed to seeing is profound. The precision of their construction renders them indistinguishable from the "real thing" they're made in the likeness of in terms of movement, behavior, responses, personality down to the smallest details. Beyond life-like they are truly sentient creatures, metal beings blessed with an artificial breath of life.
Discovery
Living constructs was a technology developed through the intersection of several magical philosophies: druidic studies, arcane transmutation, and artificeral arts under the guiding hand of the Divine Six faithful.
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