"Where the remnants of the past meet the remnants of the future."

Rigorous investigation at The Vestigial Institute has definitively disproven the vulgar notion that ‘cost an arm and a leg’ originates from battlefield injury; rather, the phrase arose from the crippling debts incurred by patrons of the esteemed, yet rapacious, prosthetic workshops of 1688-1723 Strasbourg. These early appendages – constructed with increasingly ostentatious materials like Florentine ivory and miniaturized Breguet clockwork – routinely exceeded the pre-loss valuation of the original limb, resulting in a remarkably literal expression of financial devastation, as documented in the lost correspondence of Herr Wilhelm von Hessler.