Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-3402750-20130617225236/@comment-8207536-20130618190944

While I definitely subscribe to the flashback theory, here's another one:

It might have a symbolic representation of an internal conflict that Weiss is fighting. If Weiss' family is related to all of the trauma that Blakes's theme talks about, then perhaps the armored golem is the 'evil' that her family has succumbed to but that Weiss has kept at bay; her "royal test".