Homonculous

Mechanics & Inner Workings

A normal homonculous is a smoky creature that takes whatever form it was designed in at normal times, it lives in a small bottle and is unable to understand anything beyond its base purpose. When speaking to another homonculous, the bottle will fill with smoke that takes on the appearance and colors of the other speaker and their surrounding area. The regular homonculous must NEVER be referred to as an individual or given a name in its presence or it will suddenly magically be imbued with power and sentience, violently exploding and damaging the immediate area.   A bottleless homonculous was first designed by Neville in the distant past and he finally realized his invention in the year 202. It has physical presence and lacks all the drawbacks of a bottled one's lack of individuality while retaining the full ability to take on its smoky communication form. The unique drawback is that with their autonomy, they can often get into mischief.

Significance

Used to speak to other homonculi across vast distances (barring magical interference or planar shifts)
Item type
Communication
Rarity
Bottled Homonculi are difficult to make as they require many rare ingredients, bottleless ones are even more difficult as they require metaphysical ingredients as well, which can only be extracted by an expert alchemist

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