A flesh golem was a type of Golem, a ghoulish, macabre horror assembled from the body parts of various creatures. They were put together from the body parts of several different creatures, usually human, all stitched and bolted into a new and gruesome humanoid form; they were generally constructed to be bigger and stronger than typical humanoids, to give them advantage as guards or warriors. Like other golems, flesh golems had natural resistance against magical effects, and was innately magical, though it do little more than brutally fling its limbs at foes.
As the flesh was often robbed from graves and still decaying, it had a lingering slight smell of dead flesh and fresh turned soil, and no ordinary animal would willingly follow its trail. Unable to fully control its body, a flesh golem moved and walked stiffly. It was also unable to speak, being only able to make a hoarse roar. Its clothing and possessions were whatever its creator wished to give it, often just a tattered pair of trousers and no weapons.