Talk:Automaton/@comment-30895326-20170228215841/@comment-10429980-20170302181308

Well the automatons themselves did not start as monsters, but became monsters as a consequence of how they were reactivated. That is to power up the ancient ones that were discovered in ruins, the mana of monsters was used. This in turn altered them physically to some degree. Whether monsters intentionally gave them mana or if it just happened due to their presence or a mamono realm we don't know as yet.

Note that even gremlins are not stated to be able to make new automatons, at least not easily, and the automaton profile states all the existing automatons are ones that were dug up from ruins.