Homunculi

Homunculi are born from the combination of extreme alchemy practise and dark magic. Most laws prohibit the practise of creating Homunculi, though some still welcome them as a race, some are outlawed and treated as lower class and seen as impure.

Only a handful of people know how to create a Homunculus. It’s a process that doesn’t alwys go to plan. Lower quality created Homunculi are often terribly deformed and suffer from numerous other issues including a short life span, a low mental ability or inexplainable supernatural happenings.

Homunuli that are created successfully are often not very deformed, they may even appear very good looking though may not feel strong emotions. It’s not uncommon for Homunculi to have pale red or bluish skin.

Homunculi are often a lot stronger than their base race (a base race being the race they were before undergoing the Homunculus procedure). A human turned Homunculi may often be more than three times stronger and smarter. Very well made Homunculi can blend into a crowd without being noticed. They make excellent scholars or soldiers and live far longer than their base race’s average lifespan, they also appear young until their body eventually begins to decompose and rot as their reanimated living parts die off.

Undergoing the procedure would almost erase the host body’s memory. It’s often preformed on a fresh dead body. It’s not known if it would work on a living body.