Editing Weird Wonderlings (section)

==Acicular Golems==
(or simply crystalline golems)
These golems started off as servants of some ambitious mages attempting to create a new type of golem. Technically they succeeded, but they did not live to see it. Their creation was thought to be a total dud, small simple golems made from locally found crystals, but they were too fragile and fell apart at the slightest of exertions. Little did these mages know that each fragment that broke was still alive to a certain extent. Over years and years these shards of golems were reclaimed by the earth and eventually met with other minerals and grew. Though their bodies are fragile the golems are now independent thanks to years of natural minerals and magic feeding them. The wild chaos of the natural magic has also helped their multiplicative and growth potentials, allowing each shard to grow into a small independent creature within just a few short months given they're in a rich natural area such as a cave or in the soil.

They tend to take the form of nearby wildlife as best as they can, attempting to mimic the nearby creatures and learn from them. Though a single one isn't very dangerous and they're not generally considered harmful they can become a serious hazard if they're not dealt with properly and removed. If one is attacked, its fragile structure will easily break and these shards will form the 'seeds' from which will grow many more of its kind, eventually overrunning an area and turning the land barren by consuming all the compatible minerals nearby.

They often appear as a fibrous version of nearby wildlife, and their colors can vary widely depending on the minerals they've absorbed. Though they don't mean harm, their simple intelligence (even for animals) leads them to merely mimic the behaviors they see of the creatures they model their shape after. Thus, a wolf shaped acicular golem would behave much like a wolf might but without the capacity to adapt during a fight. Their size can vary widely as well depending on when they were discovered, and it isn't uncommon to discover them in large quantities wandering barren areas or in mines or cave networks. When the land nearby is depleted of compatible minerals they will sometimes take to consuming eachother or 'merging', which can sometimes create unusual monstrosities. Other times they might simply wander off in search of a more mineral rich area.