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In my headcanon, ender golems are brought to life using the pearls from dead farlanders. The magic that binds their life force isn’t strong enough to bring the dead farlander back to life, it cannot recreate their consciousness or personality or anything that makes them unique, but it creates a crude animus capable of obeying orders. Farlanders and endermen don’t have the human’s cultural belief about treating dead bodies with respect and not desecrating them, so they are fine with putting the intact pearls to practical uses, also hence why farlanders will trade ender pearls for things.

Whoever has the pearl that was used to create the golem, his life force is bounded to that person, and he defends and obeys them. To bound the golem to a structure that it will protect, the pearl is put inside the structure, or to bound him to an entire village, the pearl is buried under the village somewhere. The pearl also acts as a point of grounding the energy from the golem, he can’t get too far away and he can’t get lost.

The golem’s masters unbounded him from the village he was defending and gave him the pearl that was used to create him, which means he can go anywhere and choose for himself who he’ll obey and defend, but he doesn’t really know how to make decisions like this on his own. He can learn new things, he’s learned how to build, and some other skills that would be useful to his masters, and he has a limited grasp on free will… if he has no orders to follow and no directive that needs attending to, he can find something useful to do on his own, like making sure the defensive systems of the village are maintained. But he doesn’t understand how to figure out which orders to follow and who can be trusted, and he would rather not have to figure those things out, because following orders is simpler, faster, and easier than making up his own mind.

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In my headcanon, ender golems are brought to life using the pearls from dead farlanders. The magic that binds their life force isn’t strong enough to bring the dead farlander back to life, it cannot recreate their consciousness or personality or anything that makes them unique, but it creates a crude animus capable of obeying orders. Farlanders and endermen don’t have the human’s cultural belief about treating dead bodies with respect and not desecrating them, so they are fine with putting the intact pearls to practical uses, also hence why farlanders will trade ender pearls for things.

Whoever has the pearl that was used to create the golem, his life force is bounded to that person, and he defends and obeys them. To bound the golem to a structure that it will protect, the pearl is put inside the structure, or to bound him to an entire village, the pearl is buried under the village somewhere. The pearl also acts as a point of grounding the energy from the golem, he can’t get too far away and he can’t get lost.

The golem’s masters unbounded him from the village he was defending and gave him the pearl that was used to create him, which means he can go anywhere and choose for himself who he’ll obey and defend, but he doesn’t really know how to make decisions like this on his own. He can learn new things, he’s learned how to build, and some other skills that would be useful to his masters, and he has a limited grasp on free will… if he has no orders to follow and no directive that needs attending to, he can find something useful to do on his own, like making sure the defensive systems of the village are maintained. But he doesn’t understand how to figure out which orders to follow and who can be trusted, and he would rather not have to figure those things out, because following orders is simpler, faster, and easier than making up his own mind.