ryancaveney_at_rtfzz8xQTVDqgFhmvVMva8dhymfzc7ghpDGSI6h_qLPF6BwCH8iIyYCpmgKSKwMg6ilFFMfLP8H6MDA.yahoo.invalid wrote:
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> > the wizards and sorcerors might see Chalana Arroy as a pagan's
> > superstitious misunderstanding of this ultimate source of healing
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> Actually, sufficiently materialistic sorcerer-healers should have
> worked out the
> importance of harsh disinfectants, if not quite all of germ theory,
> which will
> tell them that Death is as good a healing rune as Life, perhaps even
> better!
> Cleansing a wound is all about Separation: kill the invaders but not the
> host, cut the dead tissue off from the still living and discard it,
> and prevent
> any growth except that which restores what was originally there.
>
I don't think that's a general truth, although there may be some healing
cult somewhere in the West that believes this.The key issue is that the
germ theory isn't actually true in Glorantha - disease really is caused
by evil spirits, and they aren't really "alive" in the same sense as
corporeal beings are (or bacteria, in our world). Certainly, one can
separate the disease spirit from its host, and that's a form of Death,
but I don't think its key to the way that most sorcerer-healers would
work, just some of them.
--
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic
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