Flensing

Utility

Flensing can be employed in nearly any variety of flesh transmogrification or partial petrification. There have even been extreme cases where full petrification of body portions has been treated by chiseling away at the stone on the edges of a fully petrified area, waiting for flesh to grow in from the edges and repeating.

Access & Availability

Flensing is a treatment available to literally anyone with a knife or other sharp implement, but the risk of significant injury through inexpert application, and the difficulty of managing recovery means that it is still effectively limited to skilled physicians.

Complexity

There is nearly no complexity at all to the actual process of flensing, it has even been discovered that the incisions needn't be parallel, literally any significant separation of affected flesh will lead to improvement upon healing. The only complexity is avoiding damaging any major blood vessels or internal organs. However, staunching blood flow quickly and managing recovery from the blood loss which can't be avoided, is a significantly more difficult task, so only well-trained or confident physicians tend to attempt flensing.

Discovery

The inspiration for flensing arose from an incidental arm wound suffered by someone suffering from rigor vitae. Accounts vary on exactly what caused the wound, though it is known that it was many somewhat ragged cuts, not unlike the claws of a beast. Whatever the case, the physician attempting to heal the man needed to make additional incisions in order to get around some of the older, calcified flesh from his patient's rigor vitae while examining his arteries for damage. Luckily, there was no such damage, but as the patient's recovery was being observed he began to regain some functionality in the limb which he'd been utterly incapable of using for nearly a decade. His physician was at a complete loss, and was forced to open his arm again in a search for answers. He found nothing, but the next time the arm began to heal, even more functionality returned. Testing opening a series of parallel incisions on the patient's leg showed a repeat of the results, upon healing, functionality began to return. Flensing had been born.