Birthright
Phthinophoria was actually an attempt at making artificial males: the Papal State already had some success in making artificial humans, if Kallistrata was truly made under Kallisto's grand schemes, and by the time of the Supernatural Revolution, the Papal State was very knowledgeable in the anatomy of female bodies, and thus was able to augment and manipulate bodies at will. However, the same couldn't be said of males, and despite numerous attempts at creating males, results were never optimal, although the Papal State was never noted to have a significant male population that suffer from deformities or disabilities. This led to some conspiracy theorists to believe that the Papacy discarded the failed projects ruthlessly, although no facilities were ever found in the Papal State to break down large amount of human organic matter.
Being disillusioned with a purely scientific approach, Kallisto saw promise in the supernatural, hearing rumors from the Silver Lily allies regarding potions that can create clones. As clones could be made from stocks unaffected by meddling, Kallisto believed it to be a perfect opportunity to increase the size of the male faithful. To that matter, Kallisto shipped a clone elixir to Sunset Valley, modifying it to reprogram the clone into Kallisto's designs. Esomena took the missive, and "bought" the elixir from the recently built temporary alchemic consignment store, using it on herself to test out the modified elixir. However, it ultimately failed on gender and appearance, and despite the failures of the project at raising male faithful, Kallisto found a silver lining in it imprinting skills to the clone. Hence the new artificial human was kept, and was enrolled by default to the Ecclesiarchal chapter.
