The Ancient Ones in White Rose

Introduction
Not much is truly known about the mysterious species that once dominated the Earth, this species has been dubbed "The Ancient Ones" for the fact they existed in ancient times before everyone else did, evidence points to their presence in White Rose starting a little before or around the time the original Nymphilli founding fathers discovered what is now known as White Rose and decided to name it "the promised lands".

What is actually known
The Ancient Ones left behind both a lot and so little as to who they are, as shown by their temples and guard robots existing both in White Rose and Silent Aster, it has been decided in the Archeological community that this species was likely a highly advanced species with capable and potentially sentient AI. The only thing holding back future discussion and investigation into The Ancient Ones is the small population of Archeologists that believe the whole species was created as an elaborate hoax and joke that got out of hand. The general reason for why these people believe this is linked to the fact that nobody has even found an intact skeleton or evidence of living breathing creatures reigning over these metallic beasts left behind.

Robots left behind by The Ancient Ones
 Watchers :

Despite the lack of properly translated texts from The Ancient Ones, people have managed to figure out that these robots stand post in temples attempting to scare away trespassers and protect the treasures or artifacts inside. They attack with their four arms all at once to try and overwhelm the target, if done successfully the target has no idea how to respond and ends up with sharp objects dotted around various vital organs.

 Scouts :

Scouts are harder to pinpoint why they exist, based on the archeologists sent to examine temples and take the artifacts inside, some will often have this fast and small Watcher variation chasing them in the two miles around the temple they're programmed to deter people from entering. The Scout will try flying at the person running away and using their arms to latch on by cutting into wherever they can, once they're on your body they won't be getting off as they cut and cut until their target is dead.

Tanks :

Tanks are a Watcher subclass named nowhere in the ancient texts deciphered, the name was given to this large and bulky robot when it was discovered by Archeologists in a temple right outside of The Capital's castle town, it lay dormant against a wall until Polybius kicked it out of sheer boredom and it reactivated only to attack the group of explorers.