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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9386044" data-attributes="member: 52734">You could go several directions in this in a more fantasy (and Ravenloft) twist:The Created style where spirits are being ported to wooden maquettes/golems under his control, making them undead constructs, resistant to turning and magic but with a chance of going berserk.  There could be some grotesquery in what is done with the fleshy shells of those spirits transferred to the "puppet" shells, possibly with them put on display in Geiger-like dioramas.Clockworks where the vital organs are removed and placed into metal shells filled with saw-like gears kept run by meatgrinding bodies and  oiled with bodily fluids.  Armed of course with an attachments of saws and other surgical and/or butchering tools.Hellraiser where there is skeletal (warforged) shell underneath and the flesh is worn over like a suit.  By means of a demonic pact the two are fused together, giving unnatural life to the construct's unliving frame.  Yet the flesh is just a facade, and what lies underneath is just a cold, unfeeling shell of a being yearning to feel alive in a way it never really can.  It has the benefit it can change its skin to become someone else outwardly, but deep down it will always be a hallow outsider to humanity.</blockquote>