Humakti geas-lawyering

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:27:41 -0800

Dave Camoirano <DaveCamo_at_...> wrote:
>
> ... I feel the geas against
> healing magic is more of a geas against "life magic".
> Since the gift is from Humakt, it's definitely not life magic!!

A valid point. A Humakti might, for example, have a "fight disease spirit" skill. In practice, this would be just like any other healing magic, practically indistinguishable from (say) an Erissan spell. The Humakti makes his die roll, and the patient is healed of his disease.

But mythically, the Humakti is picking up his sword and slicing an evil spirit to bits--and there's nothing un-Humakti about that! So that'd be perfectly all right, even if the patient was geased not to accept healing magic.

Or so I see it...

--AMS