Prologue:

In early folklore, a being in the shape of a man appeared under a scientist's microscope. Curious, the scientist fed the man droplets of blood until he grew into a fully formed fetus, and began to crave the warmth of a woman's womb. Unable to provide for this very specific need, the unnatural man slowly withered and died.

The scientist, amazed and intrigued by his revelation, began to prepare necessary arrangements to start the experiment anew. He dreamed to be the first man to create a human, birthed from science itself.

But every new attempted severely failed. No matter how hard the scientist tried, or how prepared he was to tend his creation's needs, the fetus died before it could grow larger than a fist. Defeated and out of funding, the scientist wrote a long paper on how to recreate the experiment. He called it Homunculus.

Just days after the paper was published, the scientist was found hanging by the neck in his summer home in Xerxes. All study on the topic of the homunculi came to a short, abrupt stop.