How would prosthetic limbs work in fantasy settings? Would an enchanted gem or item be used to translate nerve signals into actions for the limb to do? What species would make the best ones of the highest quality?
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Prosthetic Limbs in Fantasy Settings
Gabriel Green
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Kevin Perez
Depends on the setting desu senpai.
John Harris
Any setting to be honest.
Jason Ward
Depends on the setting but that's a bit of a non-answer so lets go with something a bit more D&Dish. I can see different races doing it differently.
>Dwarves: Metal limbs made of heavy, sturdy metal. Doesn't quite have the same reaction time but it's very strong and sturdy, capable of acting as much as a shield or a bludgeon as it is a hand.
>Eladrin: Fine mithril, expertly enchanted. All around superior to the base limb but not quite as sturdy as the dwarven one and much more expensive.
>Elves: Nature gives them many spiritual options, each rather specialised but good within that speciality. They could invoke the power of old troll spirits to grant you temporary regeneration or the queen of the dryads in order to give you a limb of living wood.
>Tieflings: Tattoo some runes around the stump and we can get you a deal for a fine devil limb. Easy and cheap...not counting the devil's cut.
>Dragonborn: Fake limbs will never be as good as the real thing, instead they'd use powerful rituals to allow someone to grow a cocoon of scales over the missing limb until it is ready to be shed, revealing your healed limb.
Elijah Gray
Hmm, how would the Dwarves translate nerve signals?
Dominic Reyes
Likely with symbolic runes (Since I used 4e as the basis and 4e Dwarves were one of the origins of the Runepriest class). Linking your body to the limb by basically covering it in runes saying 'This is your limb' to the body.
Samuel Moore
Magic, via runes carved into the bit that snuggles up against the stump.
Owen Roberts
By being magic, you retards? Why would you actually consider how nerves work in real world if you can make magical prosthetic limbs?
Are you people actually fucking retarded? Do you not understand that real presence of magic means that normal scientific laws and concerns do not apply or can be ignored and circumvented?
Jackson Green
because it's more fun to fuse the two and create some semi-pseudo-science bullshit incorporating the fantasy setting
Jacob King
Magic or not, its the user's body that needs to control the limb and interpreting nerve signals is important for function, otherwise that magical prosthetic will not be useful in everyday life and you will technically still be one-handed.