How Healing and Healing Magic Works
So pretty much everyone is at least a little bit more durable in BE than in the Old World. When the body is damaged, the soul, acting as like… a backup, slowly tries to put the body back to what it was.
For most people this is only a slight benefit (which, like people being slightly stronger and stuff too just sorta gets rolled up as being ‘normal’ and not particularly magic’ but people like Naomi will take more abuse and bounce back faster from injury and someone like Hotaru can from major injuries in hours.
Healing magic is mostly just encouraging that process and making the souls influence stronger and making it more able manipulate the body. Thing is, the body and soul respond the most to serious injuries. The bigger the difference between the body and the soul, the stronger the soul can react. So if you blow a huge hole in someone, the body is probably healing itself like crazy, relatively speaking. You’re just gonna die long before that could actually close up. But this makes it harder to heal someone who’s just banged up. Weak healing doesn’t fix small scratches, it serves as first aid. Something like a clean knife would would probably be the easiest thing for young healer to help heal. Just stopping bleeding and reconnecting some of the flesh, leaving a wound but a less serious one.
So a healer healing small wounds is actually pumping a lot of energy in to power up the other person’s soul enough that it recognizes even though areas as injured. Basically the better the healer, the more ‘complete’ their healing is.
And a healer can be better in a number of other ways. A healer might be better at isolating problem areas to heal bad areas more efficiently. They might use medical knowledge to say, go in and ‘spot-heal’ something like a torn artery and then work up from there. They might use magic further bind together skin (like magic stitches almost) or like, treat symptoms (like using heat from magic to treat a wound, or using magic to drain fluids or something). So power, precision and medical knowledge are the three sorta… axises a healer could be good in. So someone like Crystal might have a lot of anatomical knowledge plus a lot of magical talent/power that just makes her awesome at it.
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