Marionette

Marionettes are inanimate objects who have been given artificial life through Arcana.

Mechanics
Marionette only works on non-living single objects. Object clusters and formations will need to be controlled individually if you wish to animate them.

Animation

A Marionette will move as dictated by its form. For example, a potato will roll because it has no legs to walk with. However, all Marionettes can levitate up to 6 feet from the ground and traverse walls by floating along them.

Sentience

Marionettes are basic life forms. They cannot speak or communicate, but can understand commands from their master. Their intelligence, strength and specific traits depend on what kind of Qui was used to make them. Most of the time this is Abyssal Qui, so they can be compared to Brewers' Cauldrons in terms of acuity. And, much like any other Arcanic creature, tend to express distinct personality.

Permanent Marionettes

This ability has no duration, so it is possible for a Metathurge to have at least one permanent Marionette at their side so long as their dedicated threads are accounted for.

Complex Marionettes

If one wishes to, they may craft their own object to cast with life. Metathurges will often create large puppets which can don armor and sometimes weaponry.

Creating a Marionette
Design

Marionettes can be random objects (such as a rock), a mishmosh of materials used to form an entity, or sometimes a contained and specific set of items (such as a box of crackers). The more complex or strong you'd like the object to be, the more powerful the Qui must be. Organic objects such as plants can remain in stasis, but this ability can't be used to preserve or maintain things like animals.

When using a Marionette Rune, a basic Abyssal Qui will be created, so imbuing the Marionette with life is as simple as channeling your power into it. Using a different type of Qui may give you more design options, but you must obtain the Qui yourself.

Marionette Rune

The life force of a Marionette is marked by one or more arcanic runes on its person. Since your power is what gives it life, this rune can be of your design.

Naming
Permanent Marionettes can have names, however, we strongly urge you to choose an unpopular name in order to maintain its availability for future VoS characters.

Submitting a Design
Random Marionettes don't need references, but any permanent or long-term Marionette will need one before it can be played.

Rules:

 * Image must be an unobstructed fullbody.
 * Image must be a digital transparent PNG.
 * Rune must be included.


 * Guidelines must be followed

You will also be asked to fill out the following form. Please answer fully or leave N/A on non-applicable questions.
 * Materials Used: ____

When complete, send your design to Heck in a DM!
 * Name: ____

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