Howling Golem

When the wind blows in the right direction, travelers wandering the moors and fields near ancient ruins may hear a shrill wail drifting over the plains. These screams, howled in broken and fragmented voices, are the cries of golems powered by the souls lost in the wreck of the ruins.   Ill-Fated Treasure Hunt The fallen ruins of ancient and forgotten civilizations have always served as a tempting lure for money-hungry treasure hunters and brave archeologists. Inside these once-magnificent halls sit long-lost treasures, trinkets of the ancients that rival the most powerful artifacts of today.   But searching these crumbling structures can be exceedingly dangerous, filled with unseen traps and pitfalls, and serving as the home for any number of deadly monsters. Explorers that lose their lives to these threats do not always stay dead-instead, their souls may rise once more from the moss-covered stones of the ruins, living again as a howling golem.   Spirits of the Lost Wandering without purpose, a howling golem is a magical construct, fueled by the remnant souls of dead treasure seekers. When an adventurer dies inside of a magical ruin, and their body is never recovered, their soul may be barred from passing by the strong magical aura of the ruins around them. With nowhere else to go, it will slowly find its way in the floor and walls around them, imbuing them with a strangled fraction of the life they once had, and giving birth to a howling golem.   Lacking the intelligence they had before death, a howling golem knows only that it shouldn't exist, and because of this lashes out at anything it sees. Because the howling golem is already home to a soul, then over time, as other treasure-seekers suffer the same fate, their souls may also be drawn into the howling golem's body. There, each soul fights the other for control of a body that can never truly be its own, filling the golem with dozens of disparate voices. As time passes, it may eventually find its way out of the ruins where it had once died, and into the world at large, still intent on seeking something it will never find.