Editing Heartless (section)

=== Heart in a Box ===
The Heartless creates a phylactery or vessel, where the root of their being is placed.  Their body becomes a construction or representation.  If the vessel is damaged or destroyed, the Heartless practitioner is destroyed as well.  Should the body that faces the world be destroyed, they reform or are resurrected.  Once achieved, further research or rites may steadily cut down on any of the drawbacks, with more laborious efforts enabling them to decorate or augment the construction they form.  Other forms include taking one’s heart and wrapping it in a riddle, instead (a Rumplestiltskin effect), or arcane science (practice plus a transfer or upload of consciousness, with the prepared clones being the ‘box’).<ref name=":0" />