What would you make a steampunk construct's brain out of?
Depends on the gender of the brain.
If it's female, it's sugar and spice, and everything nice.
IF it's male, it's snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails.
I'll probably go with cogs and stuff.
Should there be alchemical symbols too? Cards with dots and dashes? Should the cogs and stuff be the mind itself, or some kind of summoning circle-like trap for an elemental spirit?
It's for 5th Edition if that matters.
Also, it's for a spring-powered construct, and a lot of them are key-thralls, which means they don't have access to their own winding key and are reliant on others (for example, their masters or owners) to remain powered. Construct emancipation is going to be one of the themes of the campaign. I'm also stealing the olyphant or megafauna-powered spring winding energy storage idea from Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl.