>>KING AUTOMATON<<

Ver.001.9....................................ATHOUSANDLORDSSPEAKFORONE

[[INTERACT]]Below are some ways you may glean information in-character about King Automaton as well as optional Dice Checks and footnotes to encourage more immersive play in how such knowledge can be gleaned without direct interaction. No I don't expect you to have a whole character sheet, I just fidget with a d20 ooc. Play off vibes, improvise. Sorted from most to least likely interactions.
[EXAMINE]:Clearly inhuman, but not without inspiration. It carries the hallmarks of a machinist's battle-automaton but deviates from the standard template. It reeks of combusting ceruleum and somewhat uncomfortable to be near. The air around it seems to warp and thin and it is evidently remote controlled. Or autonomous.
[HISTORY] [INT8]:By listening to it, one can easily surmise a learned machine from a simple monotask servitor. It seems to take inspiration from great orators and popular public speakers to sublimate a personality from, creating a vaguely familiar voice that permeates from vox-casters strewn about the King's body. Its words rake the mind with a calculated, piercing cadence, intending to not only be heard but to be completely understood.
[END OF DAYS] [INT15]Those who had experienced the would-be End of Days would have possibly heard of the autonomous forces of the Grand Company of Eorzea's 1st Armored Corps that had marched through Abalathia into Garlemald as linebreakers immune to the tempering effects of the command towers. Famously, the King Automaton had been used by a detachment of Astrologians as a kinetic bombard delivered into a Lunar Primal by repeatedly increasing its Gravity and having the King dive into the primal below and destroying them both.
[AETHERSENSE][WIS15]:Though faint, there appears to be some sort of animus floating inside the construct. It's as if there were a nervous system made of smoke suspended in water. Like a spore mould seeping from a fermenting dreg, it is life in it's simplest, most archaic definition.
[MACHINIST] [DEX/INT10]:Almost a direct fork from the Queen Automaton, the lack of permanent armor and choice of combustion engine sets a King apart from a Queen - and by no means does it appear to be Ishgardian. It was crude, modular, and excessively aggressive in design; tenets adopted by the gung-ho 'junkers' of Thanalan. In more erudite circles of artifice, such work could be seen as the equivalent of working from scratch in order to avoid a paper trail or long-term culpability.
[CONSTRUCT]:A familiar, reflexive call to duty carries on every word spoken by the King Automaton, machines of a simpler intelligence or lacking in self-actualization find themselves obeying the directives uploaded by it without question [Can be checked against with a simple DC12 save against your construct's dominant personality stat. If you don't know, I typically check INT or CHR!]. Doors open, sentries turn a blind eye, mammets rally in parade behind it. More advanced intelligence interpret this machine supremacy as falsely flagged administrator tasks and are often filtered out; a rather rudimentary code execution delivered aurally not unlike a Command spell, however strictly affecting artificial intelligence. Organic minds simply find the King to be rather pleasant to listen to.
[SYNDICATE] [CHA12]After being decommissioned, the King Automaton has been seen passing hands behind opulent doors and guarding incredibly high value targets. Caravans, warehouses, heirs and heiresses, even a particularly gaudy merchant lord have felt sheltered by the indomitable King Automaton - equal parts warrior and scholar to keep up with even the most high of society.