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Prosthetics

Prosthetics have been used time and time again to help those afflicted with Brokenness, either by trying to replicate the missing parts of the body or by "filling in the gaps" left by other treatments.
The prosthetics technology has advanced through the years, though, and has improved on both materials and technique.  

Modelling Clay

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by Naelin
Modelling Clay Embedding was a feared condition for many years, that would cause people and animals to become stuck with pieces of hardened clay almost impossible to wash off.   However, the people from the Kingdom of Canterbury learned to work the clay and turn it into crude, basic but useful prosthetics for their people, being used by many individuals including some of their cavalry, their famed centaur Courser and even the Queen Laura. People from other nations such as the clan of Pokémon have benefitted from this method as well, though without the kind of extended use that their inventors had.  

Porcelain tricks

A perhaps more unusual, delicate kind of prosthetics were these made of porcelain. Hard, strong and durable, the main issue of these was the difficulty of getting them right as they dried. More often than not, the shapes would get distorted or cracked before setting.   Porcelain prosthetics were mostly used by the clan of Pokémon, used to perform more rough activities.  

Serious Business Clay

Serious business modelling clays required careful mixing of two different sticky components that would get stuck on anything if not careful enough were the most advanced method of prosthetics used in Tierras Mágicas.   They were incredibly hard and durable, and much more precise than porcelain prosthetics.
However, as their name implied, they were serious business, as someone that received one of these prosthetics would likely never be able to get it out.
Courser the centaur was probably one of the most interesting cases of the use of modelling clay prosthetics.
An abomination of nature, Courser was the result mixing the top half of a human Click with the body of a horse.
While he was a capable worker and fighter and usually helped during the fights against geyser snakes, the lower half of his human belly was unsavouringly hollow and left the workings of his fusion free to see. Modelling clay prosthetics were used on him for aesthetic purposes, a rare case among the Canterburians.

What Came After

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by Naelin
After Tierras Mágicas fell and its remaining population flew away to other worlds, the descendants of the Kingdom of Canterbury, the Lions of Vintiver continued perfecting the art of prosthetics, and were able to replace broken parts, and even perform surgeries for entirely aesthetic purposes using transplants of body parts from "less fortunate" people.   These weren't found exactly savoury for everyone, and some people called them "butcher shop parts".

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Jul 9, 2021 08:32 by Simo

O.O Those people. How do they dare! I can't express how much I am loving to read these articles. I guess we can safely say that you could tell the good day from the morning with you, hermanito.

Jul 9, 2021 16:26

I am so glad that this world seems to be interesting to many people :) I really didn't expect people to want to read about it. Thank you for being there for me <3

Jul 9, 2021 15:16 by Amélie I. S. Debruyne

Ah I remember the prosthetic I used to make... Nothing as advanced as modelling clay though!

Aug 5, 2021 13:13 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

I love this!

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