Homunculus

A Homunculus (Latin for Little Human) is an artificially created human being created through means of alchemy or magitek.

Creation
To make a Homunculus requires the chemical components of a human body, it also requires human blood.

It has been stated that, broken down to its barest components, the average adult human body is comprised of Water (35 L), Carbon (20 kg), Ammonia (4 L), Lime (1.5 kg), Phosphorous (800 g), Salt (250 g), Saltpeter (100 g), Sulfur (80 g), Fluorine (7.5 g), Iron (5 g), Silicon (3 g) and fifteen traces of other elements.

Sperm and or ovum are optional ingredient; if sperm is added the Homunculus will be biologically male, if ovum is added the Homunculus will be biologically female, and if both are added it will be intersex. If neither are added the Homunculus's sex will be random and it may not develop sex characteristics at all.

Please note that this method only allows for controlling biological sex; it is impossible for an alchemist to decide the gender identity or sexual orientation of their creations.

A Homunculus is born inside of a flask, and in order to leave the flask without dying it must be fed a quarter pint of blood every day for 40 weeks. Once outside it's flash a Homunculus will look indistinguishable fro a regular human.

In ancient times an alchemist would need to labor for hours to produce a single Humonculus. Thanks to modern technology the process can be industrialized. In order to produce Homunculi en mass, the Apotheosis Initiative has facilities around the world where prisoners are farmed for blood.

Abilities
Super-Human Abilities: Homunculi are physically superior to humans in every way. Their bodies are faster, stronger, and far more resilient than normal human bodies. Once do not age (after they are finished growing), are immune to all sicknesses and poisons, and can heal from any injury as long as their energy isn't depleted. Examples are severed limbs and even heads growing back in a matter of seconds.

This healing factor can be weakened by using weapons of enchanted metals;

Immunity to Charm-Speak:

Molecular Mutability: the constituent molecules that constitute the Homunculi's bodies can be rearranged to form other substances or to grant shape-changing abilities. For instance rearranging the carbon bonds in their skin to turn it into a diamond-hard armor; reshaping their body parts into weapons; assuming the form of other people.

Limitations
Mortality: because they are artificially created, Homunculi aren't sent to Tartarus (or anywhere) to reform when they die. Being soulless, Homunculi are more mortal than even humans and have no afterlife at all. When killed Homunculi leave behind a corpse and their life force/consciousness is simply extinguished forever.