Carnalrot

In the world of fantasy, there's a high correlation between mages and the nerds of modern society. Think about it, they spend all their time locked away in stuffy towers in favor of academic pursuit above all else, pouring over ancient tomes and carrying out experiments to gain esoteric knowledge... nerds, right? Well sometimes nerds get lonely, only magicians and wizards have the capacity to do something about it.


Meet Carnalrot, nicknames include Carns or Carnage or Stitches or Patches or Patchy or just 'Rot (she hates the latter). A young flesh golem crafted by an equally young wizard, she served as his companion for approximately a month, after which point he got sick of having to deal with her endless curiosity and enthusiasm... too many shredded books and robes, and not enough 'meaningful' conversation with a creature that possesses the mindframe of a teenage girl. So she ran away!


Okay she was actually kicked out. But the important thing is that she is free, and excited about it, so many possibilities and hopefully the fact that her skin is held together by stitches and her teeth sharp as knives won't stop her from making friends!


So what exactly is she? Well, she's about 5' 6" when she's standing upright but she rarely does that. She's approximately 114 pounds, and almost all of that is dead meat with a few pounds of necessary magical components. Yes on the face of it, the idea of a flesh golem is pretty disgusting. Take pieces of other bodies, sew them together, enchant with necromantic magic and voila! Who would ever do such a thing? Well it's surprisingly cheap (though perhaps less easy) to do, the end result is a servant that doesn't feel pain or need to eat or even be paid, and it's actually good practice for an apprentice mage and so is actually encouraged- at least in one-on-one conversation if not publicly. For Carnalrot, the redeeming factor is that at least she isn't overly gross. The magic that keeps her together doesn't allow her to decay (further) so at least she doesn't smell like dying flesh or feel slimy. In fact, the arcane energy infusing her kills other organisms, so she has no parasites at all and literally zero bacteria in her body... Yes that's right, folks: Ironically enough, a creature made of dead meat is cleaner and safer than a living person. At least medically. Ethically, there's still a lot of disgust and horror when people find out what she is, but she can't exactly help that, now can she?