GOLEM

 From the very first time humanity encountered angels, we have been in love with each other. The problem is a matter of difference between the two lovers. Angels are free from desire; they lack free will, but are conscious enough to recognize themselves as pure indistinct phenomena of movement. An angel is an action. Humans, however, are suffering, neurotic creatures; we saw angels and wanted them to be permanent fixtures of personhood.

Some say the first wizards came from those wicked few who dared to love angels with a closed fist; they captured it, dissected it, hung it upside down, and listened to it whisper its own name to itself. From this humanity learned how creation spoke, divine mystic meta-metacognition. The body of an angel, the actions it does, its name, and its command are all the same thing to it. This nature of being was very complex, though, it's like calling someone by the name of all of its infinite karmic links at once through all of time in all directions. 

So man created simple angels, machines of pure dharma, and message that could be comprehended and lived alongside. These were the golem, not a mockery of angels or man but a simplification. The secrets of their creation spread throught the planet, their creation led to miracles and bounds in human development but all who create a golem are fated to die by it. The secret of golemsculpting is a secret held by very few, perhaps none.

All golems have a name; that name is what they are. Just as the name of the suffering wind is equilibrium, they unerringly follow/are their name. One thing people get wrong about this situation is that they think they can control and bind the golem; the best thing you can do is create an alliance with it and serve it as much as it serves you. 

Golems are made of all kinds of things: clay, metals, stones, bones, flesh, paper, living/dead wood, trash, etc. They were also made in many sizes and in many shapes. Some appear as roving tanks or ships, others like wild animals or chimeras, but a vast majority were made like men so that we might understand them better.

Not all golems have names of virtuous or neutral things; some with names like Curse, Famine, Death, or Devil were made in an effort to capture the subject of the name to slay or perhaps release it onto a foe.

All golems have their names written somewhere on their bodies. Most just become inanimate if their word is defaced past legibility; others (usually those enchanted with connected features) will fall apart or explode. Changing the word by adding/changing/erasing letters or characters alters the nature of the golem.

I don't know really how to account for what languages your players are familiar with, or like how you could make them familiar with it. You could even make whatever you want work in a conlang or something, but honestly, using real languages is cooler cuz you get that "huh that's neat" factor. This is obviously pretty Golem of Prague, and im not a Hebrew speaker nor Jewish at all, but it still was cool to me even as an illiterate goyling. If it's not playable for you, uhhhh maybe don't play it... There's plenty of stuff here in English. 

Sample sabotagable golems

1. Charm

2. Neat

3. Feast

4 Price

5. Respond

6. Fill

7.אֶמֶת (Truth >Death)

8. Good

9. Hello 

10. Utopia or Utopia

11. Papá/Papa

12. Gold

13. Imagine or Imagine or Imagine or Imagine

14. Arrow

15. Ward

16. Walking or Walking or Walking or Walking or Walking

17. 月月(Friend >Flesh (archaic))

18. Bread

19. Sí/Si

20.  Fire or Fire

21. Life

There are really countless potentials. I could even see something interesting like forcing hands and fingers for a golem whose name is in sign language, muting a golem whose name is in somehow captured spoken language, or altering a picture drawn on its skin (careful with this one, I heard they're worth 1,000 words). Most of these are assumed to be erasing but vandalizing new bits on a golem's name to change the word should be kosher. Players should be warned, however, that exceeding the one-word limit will not work/have disastrous consequences. Golems might also make good player characters, in my own GLOG that might look like replacing Grace and Will or maybe just Will with their Karma (my version of Luck (I know an imperfect representation of karma)), Immunity/weaknesses depending on their material, and only one, single word Dharma that never changes unless physically altered.