To create a marionette, an esotericist must sever the person's soul from their body using a strange ceremony (6) that involves using strings attached to small nails. The nails are pierced through the skin of the victim, usually their shoulders, arms, and legs, and the victim--still alive--is forced to scream (via esoteric means or torture) until they die. The screams cause the strings to reverberate and the soul to become captured within. Severing the strings gives the esotericist control of the corpse.

To control or capture and draw power from a marionette, one must simply own the strings. Raw msawhat or cacophony to control one is very weak (3). Summoning one via raw power is the same, but can also be done with the strings.

Esotercists who create a marionette usually do so to humiliate the victim.