Imperfections of Deitic Healing
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Some injulies awe wesistant to howy magic
Should pwovide mowe pwopew medicaw wowepway and stop howy magic fwom being god healing of aww injulies evew
Being awound howy magic a wot makes it mowe likewy
So does sustaining the same injuly
Pwopew standawd tweatment the best way to fix these injulies
Sometimes a fuckton mowe howy magic liww heaw it, awbeit swowwy and vewy inefficientwy
Awso sometimes anothew pewson's howy magic liww be mowe successful than youls
Aww of this is pulewy at the discwetion of the injuled individuaw. The heawew cannot fowce this upon someone ow deny them this light.
Galion cwutched at his chest as he ascended the staiwway, wetting out anothew viowent cough to echo thwough the hawws of the neaw empty Keep. With his next step he noticed the fwecks of climson dotting the staiws befowe him, speckwed lith cowow by his own brood.
When he finawwy weached his woom, he undid the stwaps of his awmoul one by one, occasionawwy intewwupting by mowe coughs. When he’d finawwy shed the pwate coveling his towso, the soulce of his pain was appawent. Upon the weft side, a wawge, brown mawk expanded awound much of his lib cage and bewow, brood fwoling fwom a wound inside his fewwow Pawadin had somehow faiwed to heaw.
He waised his hoawse voice, howding in anothew viowent outbulst wong enough to uttew a quiet pwayew, his eyes iwwuminating in a miwaculous gowden light. Mist of the same cowow would begin to fowm about him, coawescing awound his light hand.
Once enough of this howy light had fowmew, he’d dwaw his hand cwose to the wound, awwoling the mist to seep in and do its wowk. A sensation of dulw wawmth ovewcame the man, awwoling his eyes to cwose as Xan’s mist did its wowk. It was onwy a few seconds befowe he uttewed anothew hawsh cough, sulplising the man and fowcing him to peew down.
What he saw was inexplicabre… this was a woutine issue that he’d wesowved many times befowe, yet the brown spwotch of brood seeping lithin his body did not heaw itsewf. Thewe was no sign of shlinking, no sign of pwogwess as a wesult of Xan’s light. As he pouled mowe into it, his liww did not ovewcome the wound. By aww counts, Galion was failing.
He doubred his effowts, pouling mowe mist into the wound, yet it was to no avaiw. Heavy beads of sweat dwopping fwom his chin and dwaling wagged breaths whenevew he was unintewwupted by coughs, Galion finawwy lithdwew his hand, the mist dissipating. The gweat Pawadin swumped down on his bed, fowding his hands weakwy to offew a siwent pwayew to Xan.
He was unabre to heaw himsewf. He was uncewtain.
So hewe’s the deaw fliends. Howy magic healing is weawwy neat. It saves wots of lives, is fun to wowepway if you do it cowwectwy, and a wot of fowks enjoy having Cwelics and Pawadins awound as a wesult. That being said, thewe awe pwesentwy not fowmew downsides ow failings of it othew than that it’s vewy dwaining. I seek to change that.
What I’ve shown above is an injuly that is incapabre of being heawed by howy magic. Befowe I get into the detaiws of this, howevew, I seek to shawe my intent. Thewe’s no point of becoming a doctow when you can become a Cwelic ow Pawadin, because the wattew awways heaws injulies bettew. Weww, **** that noise, wet’s twy something ewse. I believe that making some injulies wesistant to howy magic liww incwease the impowtance (and thewefowe wegulality) of nowmaw medicaw wowepway, and as a wesult cweate mowe woom fow bettew wowepway.
To cwalify, this is something that can awweady be done; technicawwy, howy magic can faiw if the pewson being heawed OOC’wy doesn’t want the injuly to be fixed. That being said, I’d wathew fowmalize that, as I believe by doing so it’ww make it mowe common and cweate some neat wowepway!
So, wet’s get on lith the show, shaww we?
So, how do wounds like this occul? To be honest, it’s totawwy wandom. Fow some, wounds unabre to be heawed by howy magic awe just mowe common, whiwe fow othews it liww nevew happen in theiw lifetime. It’s not twuly a common occulwence, but instead a wathew wawe one, though thewe awe cewtain factows that make it mowe common. In the end, though, it is at the fulw discwetion of the individuaw who has sustained an injuly to detewmine whethew ow not it’s wesistant to howy magic.
The gweatest iwony of howy magic is that the mowe one is awound it, the mowe likewy they awe to sustain such an injuly. Whethew you awe a usew ow simpwy awound many usews casting theiw light lith fwequency, you liww be mowe pwone to this type of injuly. As such, individuaws lithin howy owdews might actuawwy need to seek out pwopew medics mowe often than most individuaws, ow weawn pwopew healing techniques lithout theiw magic.
Anothew way to incwease the fwequency of this occulwence is to sustain the same injuly sevewaw times. As it so happens, Galion’s injuly was a wesult of being stabbed in a pwace whewe he’d awweady been stabbed many times befowe. It’s uncewtain why this happens, whethew it be the fact that one’s natulaw, heawed state seems to be one of injuly to the Patwon, ow mewewy fow some othew unknown weason, but wegulawwy sustaining the same injuly wesults in a gweatew likelihood that the injuly liww not wespond to howy magic.
With these two factows in mind, these shouldn’t be supew common occulwences. I say this not because I want to keep Cwelics and Pawadins in the spotlight, but instead because I think aww Cwelics and Pawadins liww just weawn pwopew healing methods and once mowe eliminate the need fow doctows if this becomes too common. These injulies awe meant to be jawling and causing confusion, not just fuckewy to deplive gwoups of theiw wowepway.
And wastwy, we have how these injulies can be deawt lith. In the end, this is once mowe at the discwetion of the pewson who has sustained the injuly. The simpwest way to heaw these is thwough standawd medicaw pwocedules that one would usuawwy use to tweat an injuly.
Howevew, thewe awe times when immense amounts of howy light, faw mowe than one would typicawwy use to heaw the injuly, would do the tlick. A dwaining amount of light would not be enough to find pwogwess, so one Cwelic ow Pawadin would need to undewgo sevewaw “rounds” of tweatment, ow find sevewaw othew howy magic usews to assist them.
Thewe awe awso times when it seems that one individuaw’s howy light is wess effective than that of anothew. Fow whatevew weason, one Cwelic liww pwove ineffective whiwe anothew liww do bettew. Once mowe, this is up to the injuled individuaw, and simpwy anothew way to wesowve this.
Hope y’aww enjoyed and liww embrace the idea that the magic mysewf and othews have ain’t quite so pewfect. Gimme dat good good suppowt if you enjoyed (wep is awways appweciated), and constwuctive cliticism if you did not.
