Bazzle

Bazzle
[[File:{{#setmainimage:Chronomaton.jpg}}|250px]] The Chronomaton, Bazzle's creation
Details
Race	Human, eventually a Golem hybrid
Birthplace	Unnamed village, Innistrad
Lifetime	Unknown

Bazzle was an elderly village clockworker from Innistrad, who was responsible for the creation of the Chronomaton.

History

In his old age, Bazzle caught the creeping plague. He knew everyone else who had caught the plague had died, so Bazzle constructed a clockwork body for himself as his biological body slowly succumbed to the plague. Living in this cyborg state for years, the old man was shunned by the villagers, who kept him around solely because of his unique clockmaking skills. Eventually, even the orders for new clocks ceased, but he kept making them nonetheless.

Six years after contracting the plague, Bazzle had 212 clocks in his house and finally finished working on his masterpiece - the Chronomaton. This was an almost complete clockwork body, which included legs, a chest cage, and a functional clockwork arm to replace the one he had lost to the plague. This clockwork body was going to be his greatest achievement, but he eventually found that his mechanical body wandered off on its own at night while Bazzle's mind was sleeping. The body was attacking people in his village and bringing back objects from its attacks, including many brass keys and a guard's helmet.

One morning, Bazzle awoke to find a mechanical arm in his workshop, made of melted brass keys. This arm was the work of the Chronomaton body itself, without the conscious assistance of Bazzle's mind. In response, Bazzle tried to deactivate the Cronomaton body. Their mutual death would ensure that no more people were hurt by his machine body. However, the clockwork arm attached to his body punched Bazzle in the face and knocked him out before he could deactivate it.

The next morning, Bazzle awoke to find that the Chronomaton had made a mechanical head out of the guard's helmet, again without Bazzle's awareness. Bazzle tried to crawl across the room to reach the deactivating key, but again, the clockwork arm knocked him out, this time by a blow to his neck.

The third morning, Bazzle awoke to find his good arm having been severed by a Butcher's Cleaver, and replaced by the brass clockwork arm he had found in his workshop two days earlier. The two mechanical arms now served the Chronomaton fully. The golem then used the butcher's cleaver to decapitate Bazzle's head from its body and replaced it with the mechanical head it had made itself. Finally, Bazzle's creation was complete.

Story appearances

Title	Author	Publishing date	Set	Setting (plane)	Featuring
Chronomaton	Ryan Miller	2012-07-11	Magic 2013	Innistrad	Bazzle, Chronomaton