Effigy???

[Gremlin66]

Curiosity has gotten the best of me. What is an Effigy? Hodgepodge and Lucky could be of the same species. If there is one. But. What are they really?

[LunarSol]

Little puppets Zoraida made to spy on the different factions.  After the Red Cage fell she lost control over them and they ended up a bit more "real boy" and started being legitimately loyal to the factions they had been sent to infiltrate.  

[Gremlin66]

Thanks. Makes sense.

[spooky_squirrel]

On 8/23/2016 at 0:40 PM, LunarSol said:

Little puppets Zoraida made to spy on the different factions.  After the Red Cage fell she lost control over them and they ended up a bit more "real boy" and started being legitimately loyal to the factions they had been sent to infiltrate.  

The impression I got from Shifting Loyalties: right up until she lost control (if she had it in the first place), they were gleefully awaiting the agonizing demise of the people they had been spying on (which includes Zoraida herself). Red Cage falls and suddenly Fate's littlest minions get a mind of their own, grow three sizes, and fall in line with their factions (more or less). You see the Brutal Emissary drop down from the rooftop and lead the Guild survivors of a scrap on a fresh push, the Arcane Emissary dancing with Colette, Levi legitimately scared of the strange man on the donkey even as it gives him a trinket and wanders off, the Big Bosses of the Bayou glaring at each other until Lucky rolls through breaking all the things, etc.
It's almost like Zoraida flipped a Black Joker on her attempts to steer the factions against the coming Bad Thing Happening to end all Bad Things that Happen.