Wessy asked me to draw him as one of the men in charge of creating and refreshing police relics in my blood from a stone universe, so here he is.

(Please note, what follows might be a little gory and disturbing. I am not advocating that any of what is happening is a good thing, but in the 'rules' of this universe, it's just how things go.)

The dangling thing on a string is a section of spine, probably donated from a police officer who was recently killed in the line of duty. Wessy's job will be to get that rabbit he's holding and kill it over the stone table, then carefully focus his own magic and the power gained from killing the rabbit into the chunk of spine. He'll repeat this process 3-5 times until the bone has been sufficiently infused with power. Then he'll carefully trim and carve it until it looks like a thick disk that an officer will wear in a pendant around his neck (or sometimes fit into a badge). Smaller pieces are sometimes worn as rings. The person who converts the bone into a magical relic MUST be the person who crafts it into a chunk of ornamentation. So the art of being a relic crafter is part artisan, albeit a rather bloody artisan. The animals killed are burned in a furnace. They cannot be eaten or used for any other purpose other than magic crafting or the magic will weaken. The faster you dispose of the body of the creature you use, the more powerful the effect is. (If you already 'used up' the magic and then ate or otherwise used the creature, your next attempts at magic will fizzle. It is not an uncommon practice to steal the corpses of sacrificial animals and skin or eat them as a means of sabotaging a rival).

The relic room has a morgue, cages of animals, and a furnace. Wessy probably has an assistant or two who harvest the corpses for the bits of bone he plans to use, feed the sacrificial animals, and tend to the furnace. Since Wessy must do the actual relic crafting and recharging himself, his staff mostly prepare his work area and tools and clean up after him.

Sacrificial animals are dogs, cats, rabbits, and other medium sized creatures (there are larger facilities that will deal in larger animals like goats, horses, and things like that). Small things like mice and insects are too small to have much of an impact. Animal shelters will hand over creatures for relic use instead of euthanasia. The animals are, by law, treated as humanely as possible and are usually sedated in some manner before being put to the knife. There are laws regulating how animals are treated to ensure that they are kept in comfortable conditions and feel as little pain as possible, much like laws regulating conditions for food animals and slaughterhouses. In other countries this is not often so regulated and advocacy groups often show photographs and video to try and force worldwide regulation, much like humanity groups push for their own various causes.

Although animals can be used to initially charge and 'recharge' a newly crafted relic, the relic itself must be made of a sentient creature. Relics made from beasts are weak and fizzle after one or two uses. There is a black market trade in bodies, particularly from India, China, South America, and Mexico, where people have been known to sell their children or kidnap people for the purpose of using them to make relics. All relics therefore must have certification papers signed by the craftsman that states that the person who donated the body part was willing (and it often lists their name, cause of death, and has a copy of the donation paperwork) and that the person who made it was a certified relic crafter. Much like handgun papers and organ donation paperwork.

A relic crafter must also routinely submit themselves to magic tests to make sure they're not using their resources for their own gain, the way an officer in narcotics might be routinely tested for drugs. There are often residual gains that are to be expected simply due to exposure, but any sudden sharp increase in power and they'll probably find themselves under probation.

As added encouragement to stay on the straight and narrow, relic crafters are one of the best paid positions in the police force, and considering that they spend all day with the body parts of former friends in their hands and have to kill small animals all day, few people ever say that they don't earn every single cent.