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A Homunculus as it appears before taking form.

A homunculus (ホムンクルス, Homunkurusu) (plural:homunculi) is an artificial lifeform powered by mana and crafted in the form of a magus and capable of using their abilities, though they are incapable of feigning emotion. The base form of a homunculus is a naked doll with light brownish grey hair. They play a recurring role throughout the Rosenkreuzstilette franchise.

Rosenkreuzstilette[]

In Rosenkreuzstilette, homunculi appear in the Iris Palace and take the forms of Spiritia Rosenberg's friends. They were created by Iris Zeppelin to test Spiritia's abilities before confronting her at the ballroom where Iris resides.

There are eight homunculi that Spiritia must defeat before fighting Iris. Each homunculus will take the form of one Spiritia's friends whom she fought before entering Count Zeppelin's Castle. The homunculi can be fought in any order, just like Spiritia's friends beforehand. Once all of the homunculi have been defeated, a teleporter will appear to take the player to confront Iris.

In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Grollschwert~, the homunculus that would normally shift into Grolla will now shift into Spiritia, due to the role reversal.

Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~[]

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In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Freudenstachel~, Freudia Neuwahl learns from Sichte Meister that the army of the Orthodox Church has deployed homunculi modeled after RKS's members. This serves to both wear down the Magi and cause in-fighting between them, as shown when Sichte attacks Freudia to prove that Freudia is not a homunculus.

Freudia also encounters a homunculus modeled after Liebea Palesch at the end of the White Wasteland. "Liebea" appears to be repeating the same sentences over and over and Freudia suspects something about her to not be right, which she confirms by revealing her true nature upon defeating her. Even with all of her garments ripped off upon defeat, this particular homunculus retains Liebea's hair and forehead jewelry. In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Weißsilber~, Pamela Arwig believes the Liebea homunculus was made by RKS and, after defeating her, reveals that she has maid homunculi of her own and notes that the homunculus she fought was made even better than them.

At the end of the game Eifer Skute and Strudel are revealed to be advanced homunculi modeled after Freudia.

In Rosenkreuzstilette ~Weißsilber~, Eifer reveals that the pope that Pamela was seeking an audience with for the sake of finding the culprit behind the conspiracy against her has been dead for some time and was replaced with a homunculus with huge amounts of magical power that was doing Iris' bidding the entire time.

Notable differences from the originals[]

  • Against the Freudia homunculus, there is less room to avoid her snowflake barrier, but the duration of this attack is shorter than the original.
  • Against the Zorne homunculus, the countdown where both the player and Zorne will be defeated when time runs out will not occur.
  • Against the Trauare homunculus, the Homunculus is fought out of the water.
  • Against the Luste and Schwer-Muta homunculi, the ground is entirely flat.
  • Against the Sichte homunculus, the player can use the walls to evade her attacks in Rosenkreuzstilette ~Grollschwert~ as Grolla.
  • Against the Liebea homunculus in Rosenkreuzstilette, there will not be either of the blocks that collapse beneath the player's weight to the sides of the room.

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Trivia[]

  • The term "homunculus" refers to synthetic human beings created by alchemy, a combination of science and magic.
    • Fittingly, homunculi are described in the Order of the Rose Cross' third manifesto. The steps necessary to create a homunculus were described by Paracelsus, a Swiss-German occultist and philosopher, as including nourishing a man's sperm with human blood for 40 days and nights before implanting it into a horse's womb, among other things.
  • The homunculi are a reference to the Doc Robots from Mega Man 3, as the ghostly images resembling Spiritia's defeated friends float down and fuse with the host bodies.
    • Like the re-battle against the Robot Masters in Mega Man 3, most of the homunculi are also weak against the weapon of the character the assume; the only ones that are not weak against their own weapons are the Freudia and Grolla homunculi.
    • In the first game's code, the homunculi were referred to as Boss Rush Skullbots (ボスラッシュ ドクロボット, Bosurasshu dokurobotto), furthering their similarities to the Doc Robots. Said name was retconned in ~Freudenstachel~, which refers to them as homunculi instead.
  • The battle against the homunculi is a reference the Mega Man series' re-battle against the Robot Masters in the final stages of the game, starting from Mega Man 2.
  • The music that plays when the player fights the homunculi is "Closed Garden", composed by Unlimited Hellest, which is the same music that played during the boss battles against the Webmaster Spider and the Deviled Egg.
  • The Liebea homunculus in Freudenstachel is the only one out of the twelve main bosses, (the eight RKS members and the four Schwarzkreuz members) in Freudenstachel to explode upon defeat in Story Mode instead of teleporting away.


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