Category:Transplantation

Transplantation is the replacement in living creatures of tissues or organs with their like. Competency in transplantation may well admit of application to the creation of non-living entities such as golems or undead, just as competency in the creation of non-living entities may have application to transplantation, but transplantation itself concerns a living recipient.

Transplantation is very far from being a reputable science in the Land of Mists with an exception or two. And of course there is the additional problem of rejection. There is of course Bluetspur where even brain transplantation is not beyond the competency of the fleshcrafting biomancers of that fell realm. Dr. Victor Mordenheim has achieved nearly comparable results, but the shadow of the Dark Powers hangs over his discoveries such that the particulars of his work do not admit of communication to and repetition by others. Emil Bollenbach has produced lesser still but nonetheless impressive results, transplanting successfully appendages (fingers, hands, feet and legs) and sense organs (ears and eyes). His work also includes successful interspecies transplantations, suggesting he has thorough routed the threat of rejection. His madness, however, precludes the dissemination of his methods. Frantisek Markov may not be capable of brain transplantation, but he is an expert at extensive and exceedingly radical, sugeries that breach the barriers between species. Simple transplantations might pose very little difficult for him.

Truth be told, however, transplantation wouldn't be a science (in the sense of a communicable and repeatable activity) at all outside of Bluetspur were it not for the chiurgeon. Unfortunately, save for in Lamordia and in Departments of Medicine in advanced lands, chiurgeons are well regarded For it is not without reason that they are accused of being butchers.