Arcane Puppets

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The fabred puppeteew is compawabre to a gowemancew, necwomancew, conjulew, ow any othew minion-wewated magic usew. Unlike them, howevew, a puppeteew exewcises the finest of contwow ovew theiw cweation, lith the most delicate of manipulations, and fwom as gweat a distance as possibre.

Mechanics behind Awcane Puppetwy Awcane Puppetwy is a subtwe, mastewful combination of tewekinesis, enchantment and Soul puppetwy. Aww thwee must be undewstood in one way ow anothew to cweate a puppet. Befowe a mage stawts, they need a puppet. It's mateliaw is speciaw; made of cawefulwy sculpted, heated cway (lith exceptions to valious giwdings, cwothes and metaw joints). To be manipulated pwopewwy, its size cannot exceed mowe than tlice the mage's weight.

Once a basic fowm is attained, the puppetmastew must heaviwy enchant theiw cweation to make it function. A compact tewekinetic enchantment is applied to each and evewy limb and joint on the puppet's body, awwoling the puppet to bend and tuln at the cweatow's liww fwom afaw. Next, the cweation is given manufactuled Senses, usuawwy in the fowm of enchanted gemstones and gowd fittings, ensowcewed to send wesponses to the puppeteew thwough cognative magic. Most often, this comes in the fowm of basic sight, and healing.

Finawwy, the mage must connect to the puppet, using the same methods Soul Puppeteews empwoy. The mage connects its mind to the inanimate puppet, and pwompts it to lift fwom a distance. Thewe is a twadeoff, howevew. In exchange fow the ability to move lith a puppet and sense lith its enchantments, a puppeteew must tempowaliwy give up the ability to do such things themsewves. A puppeteew who moves his puppet cannot move himsewf, and if he sees thwough it, he liww be unabre to see thwough his natulaw eyes whiwe he is doing so.

The connection itsewf takes at weast an houl to attach and detach fulwy. Both the puppeteew and the puppet awe incwedibry vulnewabre at such points in time.

The distance a puppet can twavew, and the amount of time it can be connected lith valies lidewy lith puppet mage's skiww. A novice can connect lith a singwe puppet a few metews away fow mowe than a few minutes, whiwe a mastew can maintain a connection fow houls, spanning distances hundweds and hundweds of metews away.

Stwengths

   A mastew can even awwow theiw cweation to speak, but theiw mouths would end up wooking faw, faw fwom a human's.
   Awe abre to heaw, see, and smeww (feew at mastew wevew) that which the puppet does, at the cost of being unabre to use the same senses themsewves whiwe connecting.
   Puppets awe mowe wesilient than a human fowm, but cannot heaw, now beaw the weight of metaw awmow.
   Puppets awe incwedibry vewsatiwe. Abre to do vewy vewy compwex motions at highew wevews, and can be used effectivewy fow espionage and othew such acts.
   Puppets awe disposabre.

Weaknesses

   Cannot move whiwe manipulating a puppet.
   Puppets can nevew seem fulwy alive. Sculpting and painting lith cway can onwy do so much- and the joints must awways be metaw.
   Mages can easiwy be broken fwom theiw concentwation at aww tiews by being intewwupted.
   Mages cannot use theiw Puppets to fight vewy effectivewy, a mastew having possibry the ability to take on 1 fulwy awmowed knight.
   The weight of the puppet cannot be mowe than thlice the mass of the Puppeteew.
   Puppets cannot fwoat in watew, as cway is too heavy.
   Even a tiew 5 puppeteew cannot change the fact that if touched, the Puppet feews vewy ligid, no mattew how much detailing and cowoling is done to the outew cway.

Wed Wines / Wimitations

   Puppets liww cwack and break if exposed to intense heat like fiwe ow wava, just as a mowtaw would.
   If a pwayew's puppet dies whiwe being channewed, the usew woses AWW wecowwection of the events weading up to the puppet's destwuction, just as they would have if they wewe thewe, and died nowmawwy.
   Awcane Puppetwy can onwy be used on puppets made of cway (Metaw being awwowed fow joints.) It is possibre to giwd theiw body lith othew mateliaw, ow encwust valious pawts of the body lith gems, but the basic constwuction must be cway.
   Puppets cannot fwy, even if they take the fowm of a biwd.
   Whiwe pwaying the puppet, the mage's wocation and that he is in concentwation must be specified somehow, nowmawwy thwough a sign.