Artifact: Organ Bearer
Power: Significant.
Description: A squat, rotten but incorruptible antique steamer trunk, sometimes it leaks a brown effluent fluid. The inside is lined with a muggy layer of heavily vascularized muscle and flesh. Sometimes there are other things lodged in the various pulsing folds, things like bristly, undulating tufts of hair, idiot-staring eyes and toothless, hooting mouths.
Effect: Place any bodily organ, from an animal, human or unnatural gribbly, into the trunk and give it a good shake. Allow six weeks for it to ferment and break down, after which a fresh version will begin to bud and grow inside. Gestation takes around four to eight weeks depending on the size and complexity of the organ. Harvest it quickly when it reaches maturity or the bearer will consume it again. The bearer will continue to produce copies until it is fed something new.
Once every six months feed the bearer a live black lamb, failure ruins and organs it is currently growing and causes it to begin to putrefy over the next week or so (the second can be restored by resuming feeding it). This resets its reproduction memory but it can be restored by refeeding an older copy of something if it's on hand.
Feeding the trunk bad organs, those ravaged by disease or tumours, permanently alters its output. All subsequent reproductions, regardless of type, bear the same defects. This does not apply to damage caused by physical harm or post-mortem rot and decay - you could get away with producing a fresh juicy version of the innards from canopic jars.
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