Guardian constructs

Guardian constructs
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Guardian constructs in Defiance.
Introduced in	File:Wiki-Icon-DEF.png Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003)
Appearance(s)	File:Wiki-Icon-DEF.png Defiance

Guardian Constructs were an enemy class encountered in Legacy of Kain: Defiance. The Constructs were classified along with Guardian constructs in the Statues enemy grouping and originated as ordinary statues reanimated by ancient vampire magic and tasked with protecting important artifacts or places from intruders.

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The Guardian Constructs were a class of enemies encountered in Legacy of Kain: Defiance and were the more advanced of the Statues enemies classification. They were enchanted statue warriors devised by the Ancient vampires to defend their secrets against any unwanted visitors that would come to life when specified trigger conditions were met - such as a person entering a room, an object placed or removed, or a mechanism activated - and would attack until they were destroyed.

Like the Vampire golems the constructs visually appeared to be stone statues intended to resemble Ancient vampires and bearing many of the same physical features including feathered wings sprouting from their back tridactyl claws on their hands and feet - although compared to their golem counterparts they appeared to be much heavier and bulkier with more angular features.

Appearance

Constructs had red eyes and were stronger, larger and bulkier than the Vampire Golems. They could launch fiery projectiles and surrounded themselves with a fire shield, hurting Raziel or Kain upon touch.

Abilities

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• Fiery Shield - A shield made of Fire that protects the construct, burning any attackers.
• Fireball - A slightly homing Fire-based projectile.

Notes

• The Guardian Constructs are not directly named in game but they are however titled as such in the Legacy of Kain: Defiance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide where they are classified and grouped along with other statue enemy types which are similarly given the overarching title "Statues". Similarly their "Fiery Shield" and "Fireball" abilities are named as such in the official strategy guide. The Defiance manual also mentions the overarching Statues title as "animated Statues".
• Though it is not directly specified the appearance and placement of the Guardian Constructs in the Vampire Citadel and related locations would seem to suggest they were a creation of the Ancient vampires.
• When they were armed the Guardian Constructs wielded a distinctive broken sword-like weapon, labelled as "Statue_sword" in files.
• Guardian constructs can be clearly seen in early promotional screenshots for Legacy of Kain: Defiance
• A number of other notable statues have been seen in the series, however Vampire golems and Guardian constructs are the only ones that have been seen to move. On a number of occasions statues have been used as physical items to interact with - they can be broken like Ugly statues or interacted with as Rotatable and movable objects, Constrict objects, target for telekinesis or physical attacks or even static parts of the scenery. A number of important characters in the series have also been depicted in the series with statues seen or mentioned depicting Moebius, Malek, Vorador, Kain, the Priestess, Janos Audron and Raziel.

Gallery

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==See also

• Statues
  • Vampire golems
• Ancient vampires
• Ugly statues