Great care has been taken to extract the head and entire spinal column from this body with minimal damage. It's far from perfect - the small bones that have fallen have been fused back to the main column in a way that could only have been by an alchemist. As a result, it's proof that this entire work of 'art' has been conducted after the victim's death. Alchemists cannot work with living material after all.
The fae's body is doubled over like a foetus and frozen in some kind of lacquer. String has been used to keep it tightly bound in this position beforehand, which can be faintly seen if one has the stomach to turn the corpse over and look. The end of the spine has been inserted into the open neck and holds fast by virtue of the lacquer, leaving the head to stare slack-jawed upon all those its sightless eyes pass over.
As a final addition, the victim's cranium has been carefully carved out and its skull emptied of brains and other internal matter, creating something of a cup to drink from - and indeed, the skull can be removed from the spinal column for that very purpose. A wholly unnecessary yet macabre touch.
3) LONG-NECK
The fae's body is doubled over like a foetus and frozen in some kind of lacquer. String has been used to keep it tightly bound in this position beforehand, which can be faintly seen if one has the stomach to turn the corpse over and look. The end of the spine has been inserted into the open neck and holds fast by virtue of the lacquer, leaving the head to stare slack-jawed upon all those its sightless eyes pass over.
As a final addition, the victim's cranium has been carefully carved out and its skull emptied of brains and other internal matter, creating something of a cup to drink from - and indeed, the skull can be removed from the spinal column for that very purpose. A wholly unnecessary yet macabre touch.