Automaton

Automatons are constructs designed to move on their own.

Some of the earliest automatons were golems and elementals created by mages, followed by the machinery created by Dwarves in small amounts. Automatons were rare in those days, but at one point it was suspected that an empire had produced an army of terracotta warrior automatons that were sealed when the kingdom sank into the Desert of Dunes.

Said automatons were highly sought after.

2,000 years after, during the Great War, automatons were created and used far more often, and some factions may have used them in the place of regular infantry. Despite this, most factions found that they could not produce enough automatons with the faculties and equipment to act effectively enough to replace most sentient combatants and personnel.