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What would u be?
Fineous:
Yea, that was kinda my point. I don't think there is enough time to become knowledgeable about those two totally disparate disciplines. I suppose it MIGHT be possible, but only for a supergenius who never goes out and spends all his/her time studying.
skegmonkey:
I dont see why it wouldnt be possible for someone to learn healing magaic as we have already seen examples of people with no magic ability learning one particular spell. Billy and the werewolves for example i reckon it would be pretty hard to learn to reshape your body and organs to another species so why wouldnt it be possible to reshape human organs.
Here is just one example of how i think it could work. Lets say that a dedicated surgeon or paramedic had some latent supernatural ability but was not picked up by the council or other bodies. Through their dedication one night they have tried everything they can to save some poor kid they know what needs to happen but they have neither time/resources to pull it off and then through dedication/faith they pull it off.
I would steer away from it being necassary to be a devout worshipper or anything as thats too limiting in PC developement as is displayed in the books you can have faith in things other than god. Harry's faith is in magic wheras micheals is in god, a healers could simply be in life. WHat i would be against is if someone playing this type of PC all of a sudden picked up a shotgun and started blasted away with no regard to peoples lives then i would impose damage to the abilities for a while.
Anyhoo thats just my 2 cents and it sounds like a nice charecter idea to me.
SoulCatcher78:
I think Harry (and wizards in general) heal faster than the avg human (as evidenced by their longer life spans). It might have nothing or everything to do with their connection to magic or just a genetic abnormality.
I do like the idea about the wild talent healing though (rather than a specific skill to be learned).
Valiar Marcus:
--- Quote from: iago on February 26, 2007, 05:46:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: Kaos Wizard on February 25, 2007, 03:13:40 AM ---Although we haven't seen examples of healing magic in the Dresdenverse, it dosn't mean it dosn't exist...
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Then you'll have to go outside of the canon to provide such a character. That's all. Nothing stopping you, when it comes down to it.
But even *Hank McCoy*, a wizard of the Senior Council, was only able to give Harry something to ease the pain, and *maybe* lightly nudge the healing process, when Harry got his hand fried. It's not within the scope of human magic, at a minimum -- possibly because resculpting human flesh requires an atomic-level understanding of biology, or just that it's hard not to accidentally strip the muscle off of the bone. Whatever the case, there's just no foundation for it.
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It might not be healing exactly, but Kumori did do the life-support necromantic "Hey, you, yeah you, the spirit, where you think you're going? Get back in that body!" thing for that gunshot victim in Dead Beat...
jtaylor:
Maybe the reason wizards are so bad at healing because they don't do necromancy. To throw in a d&d refrence, all of the healing spells are from the necromancy school. Think about it, if you can maniuplate the tissue on a dead body into movement, you should be able to manipulate the tissue in a living body into knitting back together.
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