Chimaera

The biology of toy species is a poorly understood science, but it is well known to be quite simple in the anatomy side, and deeply complex when it comes to the Breath-of-Life and the Toy Lifecycle.
An area that was underdeveloped until recent years was that of the transplant of parts, replacing the need for manually crafted prosthetics with the mere replacement of a broken body part with an equivalent piece from another toy.
This particular craft stayed poorly studied for a good reason: For a body part to be replaced, a new one needs to be sourced, and accidental toy death was not a common occurrence in Tierras Mágicas.

History

Courser by Naelin

The first recorded case of the creation of a chimaera occurred in the year 2003 of the All-Mighty, when the body of a fatally headless horse was used to give his mobility back to a legless human click, creating a centaur known as Courser.
While their position as the most technologically advanced society permitted this science to develop first in the Kingdom of Canterbury, it was the articulated and more or less uniform body plan of the clicks that kept them as the most likely to benefit from it. Creating these mix-and-matched bodies stayed through time as a click-only science, though it has always been theorised that making them in other species was possible.
While chimaeras always remained a controversial topic among the past and present societies of Tierras Mágicas and beyond, customization and the use of "spare parts " got popularized in the Space Era by The Lions of Vintiver.

Parts Bank by Naelin

The "art" of chimaerism moved past its original medical goal into a premeditated way to create new toys with specific characteristics, purposefully sourcing their parts in more ethically dubious ways. It is known that the Vintiverians keep a gruesome parts bank, sometimes acquiring new stock with the sole purpose of dismantling their bodies to get a specific piece out of them.

Hatchworth

Origin

Engineered

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Affected Species

• Toy