Elwyrr stares openly, as Caiaphas describes his thought process for the spell. "That's... actually rather brilliant. Attempting to create a construct, that looks and acts real. But, yes, as you pointed out, other mages have tried, and failed miserably, exactly as you described. It creates a creature that's, technically, alive, but it's either a helpless, unmoving creature that dies shortly, or the necessary components are replaced with magic, which requires the mage's concentration to maintain. So, what you did, up until this... other intervened, was something that's been done. Adding an extra step of animating it through magic would have kept it functional, as long as you kept animating it... though I doubt you had enough power left, at that point, since you<em>created</em>the skin, bones, muscle, and everything, without any raw material.<em>That</em>, in and of itself, is enough of an achievement."