[UA] Mechanomancer or just a wannabee?

[Nick Wedig]

>Whatchoo think?  Mechanomancer or no?  Keep in mind that all those are made
>of CLAY.  But if they were metal...?

He could be a mechanomancer who is attempting to push the school back toward more basic origins.  If mechanomancy is an attempt to imitate a Newtonian/mechanistic God through creation of lifelike machines (which is approximately how I think about it every once in a while) then clay would, in fact, be a better medium than brass or steel (for example, the creation of Adam from clay, or the creation of the golem from clay would be two things clockworkers try to imitate).

The reason most clockworkers use clockworks is the same that most machines aren't made of clay: it's not a very good medium for complex mechanical devices.  Somewhere in the past three or four hundred years, mechanomancers switched over to metal, which allowed more complex devices, although it lacked sme of the metaphysical connections and (thereby) power that clay had.  But this guy is pushing in the opposite way, to get the forgotten power that the clay holds (while uing modern glazing and firing techniques to still have complex machines).

Or maybe he's just some weird artist.  

So, if mechanomancy is an old school, what was its taboo before the late 1800s?  (imagine your PCs, who know all about mechanomancy, facing this clockworker who keeps building machines with working computer parts, but avoids doing something else).

Mr. Teapot
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