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Oh, I see. I was misunderstanding how the spell worked then. I thought the essentia the magician placed in a golem would act as the golem's essentia, and that it was because the golem shared essentia with the master, but didn't have anima to provide true free will, that a golem has to obey the original.

That does remind me of another problem I had though. Why does removing anima cause catatonia in some cases, like in "Treacherous Others"  and the 16th spell, but not when its extracted and the essentia swapped out in the route with Will's operating table, several times, with this chapter "The Women of Kensington" , when he does it to Matthew Crayton, as an example? The operating table is based on the same anima removal sigil iirc, so I'm kinda confused about how that works.