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In FMA, the being that became Father, the one known originally as Homunculus
or the Dwarf in the Flask, seemed to have been created by Van Hohenheim's
master using some of Van Hohenheim's blood. Is the creation ever explained in
any greater detail?


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How did Homunculus come into being?


The creation is never explained in excruciating detail. However, we do know
that Homunculus was originally part of the [entity within the
gate](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/3209/274) (God, essentially, the being
who regulates all alchemical exchanges). Through an unknown process, Van
Hohenheim's master was able to isolate the knowledge within God.

He was able to give it an existence through the blood of a human (Van
Hohenheim), which I speculate was used as the toll to reach into God's domain.
However, this existence was not stable enough to take form, and thus [cannot
exist outside of its flask](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/811/274).

![The Dwarf in the Flask~](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUyGg.jpg)

Unfortunately, we hear little from Hohenheim's master, and none of it relates
to Homunculus. There is never a further elaboration on the process that is
used to isolate part of within the Gate.


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