Terracoton

Little figurines made out of clay have been accompanying humanity for as long as it was alive. Some suspects we were making these little dolls long before we even knew the concept of civilisation. Throghout the centuries little figurines were used as dolls, decorations, or places to house divine spirits. With more and more pompous roxal funerals, clay figurines were also made to represent servants that would accompany the monarch beyond eternity and serve him in governing over the realm from heavens. More and more grandious statues of all sorts of people were produced until only one question remained - why should not we make clay figurines to also serve us in this current life? Didn't the gods also breathe life into clay to create us in the first place? It should be possible, no?   Technically that was three questions, but scholars were really only interested in the very last one. And so, the experiments began until the first terracoton was created. A human fully made out of clay, with limbs and face and movement and all you would want from an obedient servant. Many do believe that this could completely revolutionise labour in the entire country, but the first clay models were far from perfect - and humans could still easily over work them.   The biggest problem so far is the fact that the movement of these terracotons are very limited, it is hard to mimic flesh and joints out of the clay and give them the full range of motions as humans are capable of. They are also not capable of doing anything intricate, so forget about having them making new servants.   The second problem is that they are considerably brittle and fragile and break off easily. There seems to be a small window of opportunity where the clay is strong enough to hold life inside, but not too strong enough to crash it. More experiments are needed.