Obsidian Retriever

An enormous spider composed entirely of obsidian, this creature scuttles towards you, lambent energies playing within its faceted eyes.

Combat
As constructs, obsidian retrievers are mindless and can take no actions of their own accord. Consequently, an obsidian retriever responds to combat according to whatever instructions it has most recently received. For those retrievers that are encountered in forgotten ruins and similar locations, these instructions may be hundreds or thousands of years old and may have only passing relevance to the present day. Orders to slay intruders, guard treasure (and retrieve it if stolen), protect a place, person or object or similar simple directives are all examples of the kind of work obsidian retrievers are assigned.

Description
Obsidian retrievers are constructs fashioned by procedures long forgotten. Relics of an earlier age, they are the prized possessions of sorcerer-monarchs and the great merchant houses, but are also sometimes encountered in the ancient ruins that dot Athas' landscape.

Their similarity in appearance to the demonic race known as retrievers may be a coincidence, or obsidian retrievers may indeed be the results of long-lost magical experiments to recreate servile versions of the abyssal species. Whatever the truth, psionics clearly had a hand in their design, as rumor has it that only psionic disciplines of the highest power can allow a user control over an obsidian retriever. Needless to say, these same rumors hint that the palaces of the sorcerer-monarchs are guarded by specially programmed obsidian retrievers that answer only to the monarch in person.