Effigrim

Urban

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Effigrims are dolls, puppets, or similar toys that are committed to evil and have been granted sentience by unholy forces, such as dark wizards, black pacts, or malevolent gods. Though a creator of sufficient power may be able to create an effigrim entirely from scratch, the most reliable way to produce an effigrim is to first procure a host that a living being shares a strong connection with, like a bed-time teddy bear or favourite tea-time doll. The host must then feature as the centrepiece of a ritual that includes the tears of a child and the blood of an innocent as other core components. Once created, effigrims typically take on similar personalities and characteristics to those whom they might have been bonded with as hosts, though elevated to darker extremes. A child’s teddy-bear that has been turned into an effigrim, for example, might share the child’s manner of speech and love of colorful flowers, but will hurl curses and insults and gather such flowers to place around the fresh corpses it leaves in its wake. 

Effigrims maintain their own wills and motivations oriented exclusively towards evil, though they are easily persuadable and easily deceived. This means that effigrims are usually eager to serve the masters that created them, though sometimes an effigrim may choose to abandon its master to carry out its own agenda. Such agendas often involve despicable, abhorrent acts inflicted upon those they shared a relationship with in their inanimate states.

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