Before W started his goblin stalking, much earlier in Sanctuary Ed was not done experimenting with golems. He was in fact still thinking about his next move inside of the prison.
'I got a blob to move' That was great progress though it sounded so lackluster. The blob was not any blob, it was a new species. The blood clot as he named it was a remarkable milestone.
Ed wanted to take things to the next step now. He would take his exploits from the age of slime straight into the age of humanoid underlings! He wanted to make an unnamed humanoid species.
The first consideration Ed had to make was the material. He couldn't condense the blood into a human shape now, could he? He thought of better materials for this project.
He could use metal, wood, or even dirt. He could also stick to using blood and flesh by making a chimera. He could take the limbs of say orcs and boars or even just swap the limbs of orcs and test if that counted as a proper body.