This enchantment forms a shriveled, impaired, quarter-weight duplicate of its caster’s mortal self. This squat, restricted, and often bitter creature must obey any command by its maker, sometimes willingly, sometimes not. They are not harmed by sunlight. You can make one as a lab assistant, flunky, or substitute child if you like.
Ingredients: Glass bottle blown on the night before the new moon, semen, chalk, graveyard dirt, the caster’s Blood, a dead man’s thumb, and a dead pig.
Process: The caster puts the Blood and other ingredients in the glass bottle, corks it with the thumb, shakes well, and lets it sit in total darkness until the full moon. The bottle is then bathed in moonlight while the caster recites a short chant, before sewing it into the pig’s stomach. The caster buries the pig in consecrated ground, at least three feet deep, and makes the Ritual roll. If it succeeds, on the next new moon when the caster digs it up, the pig looks like a miniature version of them. The caster commands it to arise, and it must obey.
System: Make the Ritual roll against the higher of 3 or the user’s Stamina: their very flesh resists this blasphemy. If the roll succeeds, the hemonculus quickens and births in a month. A hemonculus has its maker’s Attributes and the Skills from their mortal life, but each at one dot lower, to a minimum of 1, half the maker’s Health and one dot of Willpower. Hemonculi can’t become ghouls, be Embraced, or be Blood Bound, and any vampire who feeds on one gains no nourishment and finds the process repellent.