Slim and long, the yellowjacket chrysididae is girded in sickly, yellow and black armor plates that are a fair imitation of chitin. Unlike its kin, the yellowjacket’s chassis is spindly in the middle and bulbous at both ends. Its swelled thorax thrums with voltaic menace, the black plates there popping open whenever an antimagic anchor is launched in a thread of lightning. A quarter of thin, mustard wings hinge to its shoulders and fold tight when the construct is land bound. Its internal workings are obscured, unlike other chrysididae, but it still moves with silent ease. The last difference between it and other Vespidae miscreations, is that the yellowjacket bears two asymmetrical-crystal eyes; blue and green. Step 6 - New Solutions. “It turns out that the greater slaad are beyond my means to control. Oh, I can tend them in my charnel garden, but I have had to cull each and everyone. Their chaotic nature and superior intelligence makes them too dangerous to all life on the mate...

Slightly larger than the average dwarf, this construct is an exquisite imitation of a wasp crafted from shimmering-green plates. The emerald wasp doesn’t make any sound as it moves, despite armored plates sliding off of one another with gears churning beneath. When in flight, its stained-glass wings of a verdant color musically buzz and almost sound like the faux-insect is chanting incantations. The bottom of the emerald wasp is sheathed in the same green glass. Beneath that artificial lightning illuminates the pilfered muscles and sinew which holds its chassis together. Electricity gathers at the bottom of its thorax and fills its stinger instead of poison. Whenever the emerald wasp casts a spell, its wings buzz out the words while arcs of lightning form the proper arcane symbols. An asymmetrical, emerald eye dominates its forehead between twitching antennas. Step 5 - Punishment. “Imagine my delight when the first green slaad hatched from a captured magi of the Planar Guild. Oh...

The sapphire wasp is a construct as long as a goliath is tall. The artificial insectoid is covered in armored plates with a fair imitation of glittering chitin stained a rich azure as its name suggests. Every segment of its chassis slides seamlessly and soundlessly as it moves. Save of course, wings of enchanted glass, also a brilliant blue, that buzz with musical precision while the sapphire wasp is in flight. Its undercarriage is framed by similar glass where a calvanic engine crackles with long bolts of captured electricity which cascade down to its singer. Hints of sculpted flesh and bone are fused to its internal components. Unlike an actual bug, it only has one eye, an asymmetrically-faceted ruby set between two twitching antennas. Step 4 - No Escape. “I have found the slaad husbandry, for lack of a better term, to my liking and remarkably easy. Perhaps, despite all your best efforts my darling, I feel a kinship with these otherworldly abominations. I am no longer a woman. I...

Measuring six feet in length, the ruby wasp is a deadly masterpiece. Its carapace is constructed from alchemically- treated copper, granting it a deeper red hue as well as enhanced durability. Every plate of the artificial insect slides seamlessly and soundlessly as it moves. The articulation of its legs is breathtaking to behold. The ruby wasp’s undercarriage is framed with ruby-tinged glass where a galvanic engine crackles with the longest bolts of artificial lighting cascading down to its stinger. Hints of biomass, muscles and sinew, can be glimpsed if one peers into the bug for long enough. The construct's wings are painstakinly crafted from enchanted, red crystal. It only sports a single ‘eye’ however, an asymmetrically-faceted ruby set between two twitching antenna. Step 3 - Fodder. “The wizards of the Planar Guild, I must admit, are not complete dullards. They know their limitations well. The foremost of which is a lack of physical prowess. Some mages employ summed crea...

As large as a horse, the terrorantula is a twisted abomination of pallid chitin and black iron. It’s chassis resembles the phase spider it once was in general shape with bubbling lines of galvanic-charged goo framing the plates of its armor. The spider’s eyes have been replaced with one large oculus lens and its fangs with a pneumatic pair that inject some of its life-sustaining fluids directly into a victim. Its thorax is covered with thousands of rune-etched needles, each enchanted to disrupt a spellcaster’s mind. Step 2 - Infiltration. “If I regret any of my recent actions, my darling, it is butchering the poor phase spiders I ensnared. There is some mote of intelligence behind their eight eyes, more so than the common child I would say. They did not understand the pain I inflicted upon them to make them better, to mold them to my glorious purpose. Yet, reborn as one of my terrorantulas, oh, they revel in their newfound power! Their ability to move between the ethereal and mater...

A single sawfly is a miracle of artifice being no larger than a horsefly. Its crystal wings are beautiful to behold, like miniature stained-glass windows. Its carapace is painstakingly etched with draconic runes to draw power from a lodestone heart. As one notices that its mouth has been replaced with a diamond-toothed rotary saw, however, the faux-insects menace shines through. As a buzzing swarm, the sawflies cut through bone, flesh, and metal alike, smearing their exquisite forms with gore. Step 1 - Siege Weapons. “The wizards of the planar guild think they are safe in their towers of thick stone and powerful wards. My tiniest contraptions prove this sense of security false. Whether assaulting a tower wall directly or dispensed from a Terrorantula infiltrator, my sawflies will make short work of any bulwark, magical or otherwise, that they come across. The beautiful thing is, once the pitiful protections are destroyed, my lovies tear through mage-flesh just as well. Oh, you shou...