A human-derivative species first created by foul arts.

They are mainly distinguished from humans by their small stature. They may also exhibit traits more diverse than the humans they live with. Some branches of the species cohere more to the idea or symbol of a human than an actual human body (resulting in odd appearances such as “chibi” homunculi or homunculi resembled a child’s drawings).

The process of creating homunculi is forbidden and severely punished by the homunculi themselves. The necessary knowledge, as much as possible, is destroyed. Homunculi are able to reproduce normally, but the artificial creation of a homunculi involves acts only tolerable to the perverse and sadistic. This fact leaves little hope for homunculi who arise under the process.

Homunculi who are created, rather than born, are not even orphans, for they have no parents to lose. They have no relations, no heritage, no genetics, no kin.