User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20170424001125/@comment-28358106-20170425212641

"I would like to think so, but the mechanics of her Core work based off of one specific mechanism that can't be duplicated: Orichalcum. It's a kind of living metal with energy adaptation and transformative properties.  In a Golem like Regina, the Core's Orichalcum will split and reform into another Core, as if it were alive.  It's not the dead, lifeless Orichalcum we find in deep veins.  It's alive, and it forms the basis for the Golem's very soul.  I've tried to get base Orichalcum to adapt to her power signature, but for some reason, I can't get it to take energy on the scale needed.  It's as if once it dies, it stays dead.  Maybe there is some divine spark required, I don't know, but the Orichalcum I've refined doesn't even come close, and I've gotten it into a pure state, held in a vacuum even.  I just don't understand it."

He rests his head on his hand. "My hope is that if I can find another Orichalcum sample from the same era, I'll be able to duplicate a Core. But so far, I haven't found anything.  The only large amount of Orichalcum that might work as a substitute serves as Aurum's nervous system.  I can't use that."

He sighs. "So, I'm going to be heading out on some expeditions, it seems. Just like old times.  Only this time, Lu can't come with me.  It'll be hard to lie to her to tell her why."