#I WOUDL LOVE MORE HOMUNCULUS AND WIRM CONTENT

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HEYYYY ITS MAN FROM THE FLASK INFODUMP TIME YIPPEEEE THIS IS GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY LONG AND KINDA INCOHERENT!!!

SO! Homunculus first. He's basically like,,,, OKAY i am GOING to need to explain something else before getting to him. And that is:Nightfalls.

Basically in the setting of MftF, there are these creatures called shadows, and they are like normal shadows except, they are alive. They can move around at night but are rendered immobile when day comes. They do minor damage and are kinda easy to dispel, however they tend to mindlessly 'hunt' in groups. However, if they come across something inorganic that has been imbued with magic (also known as AMM, abiotic magical material), they tend to get amalgamated a bit. See, the shadows are not creatures, they're more like the closest thing anyone has ever gotten to creating life solely out of AMM, so they're essentially clouds of VERY fine black powder. Cool? Cool.

Anyway when they come across more AMM, it kinda fucks with their magic and fuses them together. This is what is referred to as a nightfall. The AMM that fused them together is absorbed and stored at their center, most of the time, and is referred to as their core. Damage the core enough and you defeat the nightfall.

Homunculus was originally created with material from the body of a dead nightfall(they get a more physical form when fused together, they actually have 'flesh' of sorts that's kinda like putty but more gooey). A character called the Unnamed Alchemist is the person who took the material, and decided to try to mix it with plant matter and his own blood and meat/bones from livestock and hunted creatures, since organic material is inherently imbued with magic.

The experiment was carried on in secret for months, the Unnamed Alchemist knowing that if his mentor found out what he was doing, he'd go off on his whole spiel of 'how he was young and a prodigy at alchemy but that doesn't mean he should go against the rules. No making things alive(It's what originally created the shadows--which are huge pests-- and in turn, nightfalls-- which are VERY dangerous since they hunt down everything that moves with shocking speed) and'- you can see why he wouldn't want to get this lecture all over again. So he continued 'feeding' the flask of nightfall-flesh-plant-stuff. The... homunculus :)

Eventually, he became more and more obsessed with it and more and more paranoid that he'd be found out which CAN'T HAPPEN I'M ON THE PRECIPICE OF A HUGE ALCHEMICAL DISCOVERY OR SOMETHING HERE!! But eventually he just decided FUCK IT IM LEAVING I'M IN TOO MUCH DANGER. (he wasn't. literally no one knew about any of this. to everyone else, he was just losin it for SEEMINGLY NO RWEASON AND PUSHING EVERYONE AWAY WHY-)

So, one stormy night, he left. Climbed out of the window of his little dorm at the house he lived in with his mentor and just- left, in too much of a paranoid rush to bring anything with him other than the clothes on his back and the sealed flask containing his homunculus. In his rush away into the forests of the foothills where he used to live, he slipped on some mud and took a bit of a tumble to the bottom of it.

But, by the time he was at the bottom of the hill, a few seconds later, he was no longer human.

The flask that carried the homunculus was a strong tempered glass, but by the time these events took place, the material in the flask had actually eaten away at the glass, making it fragile. So, it shattered, and the Unnamed Alchemist was engulfed by his creation. This is the event that led to Homunculus(the character) forming in the first place.

Homunculus is an entirely new creation. He doesn't really have any memories of his past life as the UA... except what he sees in his dreams and nightmares. He knows that he wasn't like this, like his current body and self before he first woke up as himself. He thinks that the UA did this to him intentionally and doesn't have the full story. So, he sets out on a journey to try and find him through hints given to him in his hazy dreams.

However... you know how the homunculus(flask) was made from material from a nightfall? Material that is only "alive" and moving through AMM? And how nightfalls have cores that form around the magic that fused the shadows it consists of together? Well, Homunculus(character) has a core of flesh, both because of the things the flask was fed and because the flask homunculus engulfed the UA because, at its core(hah), it was a nightfall. Well... turns out that the mixture of AMM and organic material is unstable, and does not really mix. The only reason the stuff in the flask existed for so long was because of the enclosed space of the flask itself.

Anyway, over the course of the story, Homunculus deteriorates. First, it manifested as his dreams slowly becoming more distressing(and uncovering more of the truth about his existence), then as him physically deteriorating. By that I mean he uh. Let's just say He didn't know he actually had any sort of blood in his head until it came leaking out of his face as it started to fall apart and melt. Like he knew he got a soft skeleton and some dysfunctional organs in the rest of his body. But he thought his head was just. Blobby stuff. ANyway. He sticks around long enough to find out his own backstory and it's like severely scarring and stuff on him but ye!.

This is already suuuper long so I'll have to cover Wirm in another infodump so ye!!!!

Oh btw Homunculus pronouns is he/they <3!

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