Healing

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

Healing spells are used by characters to deal with the damage they do to each other, or more commonly, themselves. It's a great favorite of the victims of trauma, particularly in melee. Sarine seems to spend more time casting healing spells (and producing the trauma that requires them, to be sure) than doing just about anything else.

Half elves seem to have resistance to healing spells, as to a lot of other useful stuff.

Characters who cast Healing spells

• Ian Samael -- and a turbocharged version, at that (see below)
• Korene
• Sarine Elle
• Warrel

There are as-yet unseen characters called Lifemages (healers) who apparently specialize in this kind of magic. Whether their capabilities are curative or purely diagnostic isn't completely clear, but both Jon Amraphel (here) and Meji Hinadori (here) report encounters with them at various times, or at least awareness that they exist.

Non-magical healing

There's very little evidence that any of the cultures of Errant Story have done much to develop traditional, non-magical medicine. Certainly Riley's little oddity didn't get dealt with via surgical means in her youth, as it might have, and it took big karma by Ian to deal with Leah's lung problems when a dose of antibiotics might (or might not) have worked.

Michael Poe on healing

(Taken from this thread in the Forum)

"Let’s put it these terms, every few hours a half elf (or elf for that matter) body slowly resets all the various features back to its original factory installed default presets. Now, normal magical powered healing would just be changing features to something else... which ends up being a pointless waste of time since those changes will just be reset back to default. The thing Ian did was to instead change what the actual default presets were so it doesn't matter if it resets or not.

Now this only applies to actual internal changes to how the elf/half elf’s body is made or works... its genetic structure and the like.

Outside stuff like cuts, broken bones, bruises, or viruses are a completely different matter since those don’t really alter the body’s inherent make up in any way, normal healing affects those just fine."