noctumsolis:

jewishdragon:

riftwitch:

So, since ‘Golem’ refers to a very specific creature within Jewish folklore, and tha a lot of us feel it should be given back to its original owner, we are naturally going to need a new name for good old fashioned magically animated mineral-men. Here are a few of my suggestions.

Sentinel

Gorignak

Forged

Creig wight(”wight” can mean “body” or “person” so it can make a suffix depending on the material in use)

Felsbrock

Hollow Knight

One that people are familiar with is homunculus,

this Rabbi described golems in terms of a specific type of homunculus made of clay and invoking names and obviously golems are specific to judaism. 

earth based homunculi in general aren’t specific to judaism. Just as all squares are rectangles, all golems are a kind of homunculi, but not all rectangles are squares, not all homunculi are golems

That’s a brilliant point!

I’m going to relabel all of mine as homunculi. It works especially well for me since I already had one homunculus in the setting and now it gets a whole extra significance that happens to fit well.