Cursed Object

A Cursed Object is a curse that exists as an object rather than a fully formed cursed spirit.

Description
Unlike cursed tools, cursed objects are not items imbued with cursed energy, but actual curses bound to the form of a jujutsu artifact. These relics are often leftover from the past eras of the jujutsu world or are the remains of powerful curses and sorcerers. This also includes paper talisman and other sealing methods called Constraints that contain curses as a means to seal other cursed objects.

Cursed objects can leave residual cursed energy just like normal cursed spirits. Special grade cursed objects cannot be destroyed with jujutsu and certain ones can be used to incarnate powerful cursed spirits.

Among other artifacts are items that can erect barriers such as Commissioned Curtains or Prison Realm. The former is a common item used by curse users that appears to be wrapped in constraints, allowing the user to program special conditions into a curtain before it is activated. Prison Realm is the remains of a sorcerer monk from a past era, a literal living barrier capable of sealing absolutely anything.

Incarnation
Incarnation occurs when the remains of a sorcerer have become a cursed object and are ingested by someone. It is best described as the fusion between a cursed object and human flesh. In most cases, the host's body is completely taken over and their consciousness is completely suppressed. Ryomen Sukuna is an exception to this because Yuji Itadori still controls his own body most of the time. His fingers can choose its host and have such a strong presence that they can still attract curses. Once Sukuna was fully incarnated by Yuji, all of his fingers resonated with cursed energy, resulting in the empowerment of several different curses.

The incarnated individual receives memories, knowledge and common sense from their vessel's brains. This allows incarnated sorcerers to imitate as they are host and utilize the innate technique of the host.

The conversion of a person's physical remains into cursed object so that that person can incarnate is an esoteric knowledge. Kenjaku has this knowledge and is able to create cursed objects. This allowed him to make binding vows with thousands of sorcerers over a millenium in exchange for turning their remains into cursed objects. In preparation for the Culling Game, he then marked hundreds of non-sorcerers and had them ingest those cursed objects. At the end of the Shibuya Incident, Kenjaku remotely cast Idle Transfiguration and adjust their bodies and brains of those he marked as vessels to allow them to use their innate techniques. Immediately after, he also released the seals on the cursed objects. This awakened a thousand malevolent sorcerers in new bodies all carefully selected by the curse user, very similar to Sukuna's relationship with Yuji. While incarnated sorcerers were not able to grasp the mechanism behind it, Sukuna was able to mimic it once he had experienced death and incarnation. This allowed Sukuna to split his soul and incarnate it another individual.

The Cursed Womb: Death Paintings were cursed objects created under special circumstances and sealed with a constraint for 150 years. Death Paintings can be incarnated with any vessel, unlike Sukuna's fingers, and result in a fully fleshed cursed spirit as opposed to a sorcerer.

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