Talk:Void Effigy/@comment-1500935-20180429162931/@comment-26199726-20180429165432

Good question. Commonly, I think 'golem' is used to describe an at least partly sentient, human-like being artificially created by another person - in legend, from clay.

So I think the term wouldn't be too inaccurate if the creature you describe is something fundamentally different and new from what it was created from, not just a slightly changed version of the base material. Although it wouldn't be the first term that comes to mind about Frankenstein's beast, or Void Effigies for that matter.