Dragons), video games (such as Ragnarok Online, Valkyrie Profile, Shadow of Memories, The Legend of Heroes series, Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards and Bayonetta 3), books (such as The Secret Series and Sword of Destiny or Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang), graphic novels (such as Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) and manga (such as Akihabara Dennō Gumi, Homunculus, Stone Ocean, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Fate/Zero, and Gosick). In the Code Realize visual novel series, the protagonist Cardia Beckford is a Homunculus created by the genius alchemist Isaac Beckford as a host to the Horologium an incomplete Philosopher Stone. See also Cartesian theater Doppelgänger Fastachee Galatea, a mythical living sculpture made by Pygmalion Golem Homunculus argument Karzełek Mind–body dichotomy Nuno Simulacrum Snugglepot and Cuddlepie Soul Telesphorus (mythology) Tulpa Human cloning Notes Further reading Watson JD, Berry A. DNA: The Secret of Life. New York, New York: Random House; 2003. External links Homunculus article from The Mystica. Alchemical concepts Paracelsus Literary motifs Narrative techniques Monsters