Editing Marut (section)

==5e==
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Ironically, when maruts returned to 5th edition in "[[Mordenkainen]]'s Tome of Foes", they actually borrowed a fair bit from their 4e lore. In this edition, inevitables have returned, to some extent, but they aren't detailed beyond the barest details. Maruts, and other inevitables, are once again celestial [[golem]]s, created by Primus, the god-mind of the [[Modron]] race as enforcers. In this edition, Primus has created a building in [[Sigil]] called the Hall of Concordance, for the purpose of promoting law by forging unbreakable contracts. Maruts (and other inevitables) exist to enforce these contracts, and as such a marut-enforced contract is regarded as completely binding.

The Hall contains a singular construct-engine, the Kolyarut, which takes in gold and the terms of a contract. If the contract meets the Kolyarut's standards - which is to say it contains no vague, contradictory, or unenforceable terms - it transmutes the gold into a single disk, on which it scribes the terms of the contract. This golden disk is then inserted into a hollow in the chest of a marut (or, presumably, other inevitable), where it activates that particular unit, which henceforth exists solely to enforce the letter of that contract. If either party breaks the terms, the marut will seek to punish them, using whatever level of violence is needed to subdue them so they can be dragged back to the Hall of Concordance to face punishment. Or just kill them, if that's what the terms dictate.

For the first time, maruts have undergone a genuine change of appearance. Heightening their resemblance to modrons, 5e maruts appear as armor-plated giants of clockwork innards, with no head but a prominent hunch where the head should be, into which is set a single, ever-staring, organic-looking eye. Below this is the indentation into which the marut's golden disk is inset in order to activate it.

Good luck fighting them; their attacks automatically hit and automatically deal maximum damage, with the marut passing all saves.  Dice are a tool of Chaos!

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