(04-26-2016, 05:18 AM)Valence Wrote: What do we know about mammets? Are they magitek? Are they living creatures? A mix between both? The MSQ showing the mammet heart seems to hint at more than just machines... Or are they just like allagan nodes in a less advanced fashion?
Mammets, or as they're more commonly referred to, Automatons are simple clockwork technology developed roughly 100 years ago in Ul'dah. While most similar to early Allagan clockwork technology and for all accounts follow similar structure, it is unknown for certain if modern automatons are based off their ancient Allagan ancestors.
What we do know is that the first modern mammet was created 100 years ago and was named Mnejing. All modern mammets are based on Mnejing's design, though many have been outfitted for a variety of purposes such as security, gladiatorial combat, advertisement, banner carriers, and more. Most clockwork or automaton minions are created using mammet technology.
While automatons are little more than gears, cogs, and bolts held together by silver connector components, which allow aether to flow throughout the mammet's body and move its extremities. What creates a unique, sentient automaton is its core or heart. While the core's exact composition is unknown, a makeshift core made from electrum, pearl, and materia is used to save Mnejing in the Goldsmith storyline. As materia is made from condensing aetherial and soul energy into a solid mass, it makes sense this could be used as a replacement core.
According to the current Goldsmith guildmaster, it takes an incredible amount of skill in goldsmithing to produce a working mammet, and that they require constant maintenance of their small parts to maintain. Of note, the Sharlayans were also accomplished doll makers, but it is yet unknown if these are also similarly constructed mammet automatons or if they're inanimate objects brought to life using golem magicks.
Encyclopedia Eorzea Wrote:1466 - The Goldsmiths' Guild of Ul'dah adapts advanced clockwork mechanisms to fashion the first mammet, a living puppet. The prototype mammet is named Mnejing
Serendipity Wrote:Most mammets are rather simple, capable of no more than rudimentary speech. They can be relied upon for menial tasks, but little else.
Mammet 001 Wrote:Summons a fully operational clockwork puppet built in a joint effort by the Alchemists' and Goldsmiths' Guilds.
Mammet 001 Wrote:The standard frill-free #001 model is not only the best-selling mammet on the market, but is the blueprint on which all other clockwork servitors are based.
Serendipity Wrote:Gigi ate it! Mammets can't even taste food!
Serendipity Wrote:Anyway...silver was historically prized for its beauty. Ancient peoples even believed it to possess magical properties. Although they did not completely understand the natural processes involved, they were in fact correct. It's difficult to explain to someone without an extensive background in the relevant fields, but let's just say that silver is really, really good at channeling aether.
For this reason, silver is the material of choice for making a mammet's precision parts. Thankfully, the component responsible for Gigi's erratic behavior is within my ability to craft. But gods forbid that his core should ever be damaged. ...Oh, the core? It's like, well...it's everything that makes Gigi himself. His memories, his personality─his soul, really.
Serendipity Wrote:I...I think his core might be irreparably damaged. It was made over a hundred years ago with techniques that have long since been forgotten. If it has failed, then he is forever lost to us...
Mammet Heart Wrote:The clockwork soul of a mammet.
Serendipity Wrote:You see, he's by far the oldest mammet we have here, having been constructed by one of our former guildmasters over a century ago. In fact, I'm the nineteenth guildmaster he has assisted, according to records. But what our records didn't contain was his original name, which was so faintly inscribed upon his core that it went unnoticed until now. Gigi is Mnejing, ─the first mammet ever built, and the mammet whose design on which all others are based!
Ovjang Wrote:Ovjang. A mammet of some antiquity, last in possession of a wealthy collector who suffered from a particularly virulent case of buyer's remorse. He ordered the mammet disassembled and sold off for parts. However, once under the chisel, the mammet came to and attacked the smith, wounding her badly before making its escape.
Hope this helps! ^^
