Story-wise, a Relic’s “creator” takes a living thing – a frog, a child, a body brewed up in a vat or stitched together from harvested parts, whatever – and then instills reality-altering effects into its Pattern. Obviously, this demands high-level magick: Life 5 to bind the Effect into the living host, Mind 5 to give it a working consciousness, and Prime 5 to reweave its vital energies, plus whatever other Spheres the Effect itself requires. (For details, see Creating Living Things in How Do You DO That?, p. 24.) A creature built from dead parts or cybernetic hardware also demands an additional Matter 4 Effect to merge or transform inanimate materials into functional animated tissue. Once the foundation has been crafted, these Spheres provide the “glue” that binds all of the elements into an integrated whole.