Korbal Broach's Child

Korbal Broach's Child was a patchwork homunculus built of body parts by the necromancer, Korbal Broach. Unable to conceive a natural child, the eunuch turned to murder and sorcery, collecting human body parts and souls to be sewn together into a wet, fleshy monstrosity.Blood Follows, Section 20
Broach's partner, Bauchelain, kept the creature locked in a warded trunk to keep it safe while travelling.
== In Blood Follows==
Korbal collected the pieces to build his spawn by murdering citizens of Lamentable Moll. Noble Lordson Hoom was killed for his spleen and merchant Baltro was selected to donate his tongue.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 25Blood Follows, Section 4 The murders attracted enough attention that the two necromancers were forced to flee town on the Suncurl.
== In The Lees of Laughter's End==
On board the Suncurl, Broach added all of the ship's rats to his creation giving it rat "feet, limbs, jaws, eyes and spines and tails." For the first time it was mobile and its new eyes, ears, and noses made it an effective tracker. The glistening, leaky, chaotic writhing mass of body parts skittered like a centipede. Its heavy bulk, many mouths, and sharp teeth made it a dangerous and hungry opponent.The Lees of Laughter's End, Sections 21 and 23
Emancipor Reese was so disturbed by the "burbling, moaning, gurgling" sounds of the thing in the trunk that he began smoking Durhang to calm his nerves.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 1 When Broach learned of the lich that was engaged in a murderous rampage in the Suncurl's hold, he was eager to send his child on the hunt. Easily defeating the wards Bauchelain had placed on the trunk, Korbal proudly displayed the child's rat-sourced improvements to his partner.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 21 The child pursued the lich through the depths of the ship where it trapped and subsumed Birds Mottle into its mass.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 23 The homunculus located the lich and the two powerful creatures struggled until a violent movement of the ship crushed the child, safely expelling Birds Mottle in a gush of fluids.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 35 The child served its parent one final time when Broach used its corpse to bait a Dhenrabi to tow the damaged ship to safety.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 44
==In Memories of Ice==
Broach began work on another of his "children". While he and Bauchelain stayed in Darujhistan and Saltoan, both cities were plagued by a series of murders.Memories of Ice, Chapter 4Memories of Ice, Chapter 6 Investigating the wreckage of their carriage after an attack by K'ell Hunters, Gruntle discovered a trunk containing a mass of blood-slick organs joined into a knee-high human shape. The child had not survived the attack.
==Notes and references==
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