Graft

A graft was a body part of some powerful creature or monster that was merged onto another living creature.
==Description==
Grafts—which could include limbs, wings, organs, and more—could enhance the abilities of the recipient or grant them new powers. The body parts for such grafts were most often taken from aberrations, fiends, or undead, although some species or groups had their own grafting traditions, including mind flayers, maugs and yuan-ti. It was said that grafting was also practiced by followers of Torog, by draconic races seeking to emulate dragons, and by aboleths.
Once attached, grafts did not radiate magic. A graft was never sentient, although some could act semi-independently of the recipient and others could have adverse effects on their personality or free will. A grafted body part could not be reused if removed from its original recipient.
===Creation===
Creating a graft required access to the necessary body part(s) and usually additional resources and/or spells in order to confer the full powers of the grafted body part. Attaching a graft (either to oneself or to another creature) required skill as a healer in addition to specialized knowledge of how to graft the specific type of flesh. The procedure was generally conducted in a comfortable and quiet setting, such as an alchemy laboratory or a temple. In many cases, the secrets of certain types of grafting were closely guarded or known only to a specific group.
Some fiends possessed the ability to bestow grafts on willing individuals, and some necromancers developed a graft flesh spell that could be used to replace limbs.
==History==
Some scholars believed that mind flayers were the first to develop the means to graft flesh to another creature, although others argued that a fiend of corruption had more likely taught the mind flayers.
During the 14 century DR, Irritym Wonderstar—a wizard with ties to the Church of Gond—was recognized for the great accomplishment of grafting a still-moving metal arm onto the adventurer Baelam.
In the , a group known as Amalgamation arose in Waterdeep who experimented with grafting pieces of monsters onto its members. This included everything from appending claws and tails of beasts to replacing arms with those of sahuagin to implanting beholder eyes to attaching snakes to wrists.
==Notable Types of Grafts==
* Beholder grafts 
* Fiendish grafts 
* Illithid grafts
* Maug grafts
* Undead grafts
* Yuan-ti grafts
==Appendix==
===See Also===
* Broken one
* Hand of Vecna
* Eye of Vecna
* Mongrelfolk
* Symbiont
===Appearances===
===Gallery===
Psionics2 1280x960.jpg|A psionicist grafts a weapon to his arm.
Drow Warlock - Wayne England.jpg|A drow warlock with a clawed arm graft.
Undead Grafts - Wayne England.jpg|A variety of undead body parts for grafting.
===References===
Category:Grafts
Category:Biology