Toolspawns

Toolspawns are beings born out of a mother object granted life be it through a Life Core, a soul from another being, or an amalgam of emotions that leach out of souls.

## Classifications

Toolspawns can be classified in the manner they were born and their relationship towards their mother object: **corporeal** toolspawns and **incorporeal** toolspawns. Corporeal toolspawns are toolspawns that use their mother object as their body. Gargoyles and living puppets are a good example of purely corporeal toolspawns. Incorporeal toolspawns are toolspawns that have been split in two forms: their semi-physical humanoid avatar and their physical mother object.

Toolspawns can also be classified in their behavior: **monstrous** and **sentient**. Monstrous toolspawns are toolspawns that are living but reduced to a thing that depends on base instincts to survive. All monstrous toolspawns are corporeal by birth, but not all corporeal toolspawns are monstrous by nature. Sentient toolspawns, meanwhile, are toolspawns that are considered to be capable of rationale, thought, and feeling; it doesn't act through base instinct alone. All incorporeal toolspawns are sentient by nature, and there are some corporeal toolspawns that are sentient as well.

## Abilties

An ability of a toolspawn is derived from its mother object. For example, a blue lantern lit up by fire manipulates fire and light and a mirror spirit can manipulate light and mimic something or someone it sees. The individual abilities of each toolspawn can be found in their respective pages.

## Diet

Many corporeal toolspawns need physical material to either keep on living or grow. Gargoyles "eat" dirt and sand to replenish cracks on their body for example. Many incorporeal toolspawns need spiritual material to keep on living and sustain themselves. This spiritual material can be emotions exuded by a soul or the soul of another being itself. This requires incorporeal toolspawns to stay alongside humans, beasts, and dryads to feed onto their emotions or their soul.

## Human intervention

### The Toolspawn Law

This requirement of eating souls has put toolspawns in a bad light, especially in disasters and incidents that are based on them. Eaten souls are consumed, never to be given judgment or rest in Heaven or Hell, and thus humans needed to make sure this doesn't happen to many of their kin. Then, in 500 TE, the Toolspawn Law is implemented that makes sure toolspawns do not "eat" the souls of anyone. This is considered a crime of absolute murder and the punishment to atone for it is death and purification. In turn, it also protects toolspawns from being wrongfully killed and purified. The punishment to a human or beast is through death penalty, the methods of which changed from time to time.

## Incidents involving toolspawns

The Blue Inferno Incident

The Blue Inferno Incident happened in the Shirogane and Kurokau prefectures where thousands of blue lanterns have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of children in the span of a single decade.

The Leuchter Disaster

The house of the Leuchter family was mired with illness upon illness with many deaths happening time and time again. The lingering grief and misfortune in the family took a devastating turn when the Leuchters have all been found burned to ashes. It was revealed that a blue lantern killed the family but the alleged toolspawn has left with no trace.

The Marred Manor