The Marionette is the demigod threshold, and there are more abilities here than on all the previous steps of the path combined.
Source of Curses — the bearer turns himself into mystical dolls and paper figurines indistinguishable from the target, and through the established connection casts the most varied curses upon it;
Poltergeist — it awakens and subjugates everything inanimate within a certain radius, turning the surroundings into weapons and traps;
Performance — the Marionette plays the roles of the Prisoner, the Madman, the Werewolf, the Zombie, and the Ghost, raising the corresponding powers to a weak level of the fourth Sequence with divinity;
Reification — it turns into a real doll, forcibly holding within itself its own madness and desires, but at the same time loses every possibility to influence the outside world;
Transformation into an evil spirit — the former ghostly form undergoes a qualitative leap;
Shackling — at this step it is capable of holding back even the pull toward the Convergence.
The canon separately notes what the previous steps did not have: as a bearer, the Marionette knows how to keep unwanted pictures from surfacing in the mind. After six steps of suppressed desires, this is almost its most precious property.
As a demigod it manifests an incomplete mythic form — a cluster of all manner of curses, invisible and intangible.
The advancement ritual corresponds to the name: prepare a mummy that has passed a special rite, possesses divinity and originally belonged to the Prisoner's path, inhabit it, and take the potion.
