How would....

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....a deer go about losing a limb/ear/tail/etc in The Endless Forest?

Gimme some hypotheticals, please!
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It could possibly be badly

It could possibly be badly broken or injured to the point where blood no longer flows to the limb and it eventually drops off?

Im certainly not knowledgeable within that area.

In all honestly, if a deer

In all honestly, if a deer realistically lost a leg, they would die almost always die. There are no surgical doctors in TEF, and slapping a few herbs on a wound that serious wouldn't cut it. However, you could always take a magical spin on it;
- perhaps the deer lost the limb as punishment from The Twin Gods
- or perhaps they were gravely wounded and the Gods healed them as best they could.
- If the deer is a zombie, it might have just fallen off lol.
- if the limb was infected by poison or some other contagious illness, it might have to be removed (much like modern medicine) but again, this runs into what I mentioned before. The blood loss alone would likely be enough to kill anyone suffering that serious an injury realistically.

My advice, stick to magic. Anything else is going to seem really far-fetched.

I think an ear or tail could

I think an ear or tail could be ripped off by some predatory creature? But once again, as Tera said, blood loss.. so someone would def have to be there and stop the blood flow or.. something. Magic is pretty logical, though. Magic durr. xD


idk about limbs though.. maybe like.. wire or something could get wrapped around the leg really tightly, and cut off blood flow.. then yeah. it'd eventually drop. @__@ like how they dock lambs tails..
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Yeah, That was where I was

Yeah, That was where I was having a problem... finding a way to make a deer lose this limb and live.

Do you think that there could be poisonous spiders in the forest? I was thinking of having a spider with necrotic venom bite the deer and cause the leg to basically "rot off"... there is also some kinds of infection that could cause necrosis... maybe maggots could get in to the wound and clean it, thus enabling her to survive?


Who knows... I probably will have to have magic involved anyways.

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I think the forest can have

I think the forest can have whatever you want in it, honestly. c:
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now, if I could just get her

now, if I could just get her close enough to Joro... XD jk jk

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LMAO. I don't know if

LMAO.

I don't know if Barayas and Brun are poisonous! XD
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hehe I just emailed her to

hehe I just emailed her to ask XD

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