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Homunculus · salience 0.9

“From that point the forming Homunculus is said to require regular feeding with the arcanum of human blood, kept at a steady, womb-like warmth, for a further period (accounts vary on the exact duration, with roughly forty weeks sometimes given), over which it is said to grow into a small human child, tiny in stature but reportedly capable of speech, movement, and even precocious intelligence.”