Sparkborn

Most animated objects just follow simple instructions. Developments and research into this field has, over time, allowed for more complicated structures and directives. Sufficiently complicated animates have, relatively suddenly, begun to "awaken," gaining the ability to reinterpret, extend, or even defy their programming. Research as to the cause and scope of this phenomena are ongoing, though some claim physical interaction with existing specimens is required. For some reason, those aberrations capable of speech have taken to calling themselves Sparkborn.