'Mmh… Is the hex animating them good to the point of granting them analytical skills and rudimentary reasoning?' although one's talent was undeniably a factor of success most ways of power, the totem side of hex-making was more so about craftsmanship, materials used and imbuing your will into the whole thing, and although impressively done, the golems were made to act and move through hexes that only featured a singular material, being bones.
Also, totem-hexes were supposed to be stationary, building them directly inside mobile golems may aid in allowing these creations to travel further and be free in their movements, but it should also bring about a certain weakening in the overall performances.
So although it shouldn't be the main factor, Alkayne could only guess that their creator was either massively good, or possessed a special ability or a talent like some of the folks that had escaped to the Emerald Realm, which would explain why they could do so much with so little.
