Re: Unmanageable healers

From: simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_UeL-h-cDmEbuHYVwhBbKEGKg3Fs2LuRZPCimz6Jr5MtC_w9tQdqU0wir2D2uHSz3>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:28:12 -0000

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> > To my mind the distinction between Chalana Arroy and Bevara (on which I am no experts)
> > is an exageration of the distinction between doctors and nurses. Chalana Arroy is the
> > power of healing itself, while Bevara is the goddess of providing care to the sick.
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> I can't see that distinction at all. The doctor/nurse professional split is a 19th Century
> invention. ...

I'm just making a rough analogy, not saying that the Heortlings have doctor and nurse professions.

> ...I see Ernalda the healer, not just Bevara, as the face Chalana Arroy adapts
> among the Heortlings. The same skills, the same magic but filtered though Heortling
> customs and traditions. So we get Orventili the peacemaker whose magic is to do with
> healing clans and tribes rather than people. As a consequence some of the most powerful
> CA magics are unavailable to Ernaldans.

Do you mean 'are available', as you mention Ernalda the healer earlier?

Simon Hibbs