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Medicine in Tyrie
My guess would be that there are different kinds of healing. Some are magical, some are mundane, some are both. It may very well be that magical healing requires a great amount of skill, and thus cannot be used for everyone simply because there aren’t enough skilled magical healers. Another reason could be because magical healing requires constant effort on the caster’s part. The crashed Zephyrites for example, may need healing attention for longer periods of time. It could be that conventional medicine is simply more suited for that. Rangers for example, would use Troll Unguent medicine while elementalists can call on magical healing…and mesmers can just fool themselves into thinking they’re effective healers.
And finally, it could be that not everything works on everything. Some injuries require potions, or bandages, or surgery. Other, more superficial injuries, can be treated through spells. But some injuries are simply to severe to treat ‘on the fly’.
Just a few random thoughts, hope it makes sense. Basically, what I’m saying is that magical healing doesn’t neccesarily negates the need for mundane healing.
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I would honestly take that response with a grain of salt. Why? Aside Bobby Stein and Angel McCoy telling us that all interviews are malleable, talk to and Mender Aviala just outside the Grove – she explains that Menders exist because sylvari physiology is so different from other races (wood for bones, blood for sap, etc). So it’s pretty clear that just simply knowing healing magic isn’t going to cut it in all situations.
And it isn’t like surgery doesn’t exist in Tyria either – throughout Edge of Destiny there are calls towards chirurgeon whom were (to give a rough idea) the medieval era equivalent of surgical doctors. The very existence of such implies that healing magic can’t fix all.
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They said that lore is malleable under extreme circumstances. though the menders do confirm that sylvari anatomy is so different it should be noted that mender Aviala makes her salves from jungle trolls. So she isn’t simply using spells, she is using alchemy. So spells may be a catch all while it would be understandable that alchemy and medicine would need to specifically be more precise.
- Everyone can (space because it censored) use magic.
- Healing magic effects all races equally, regardless of knowledge of races.
- So why the hell use multiple other means of healing? And at least one case being because of such different biology/physiology/whatever?
Yeah, I’m going to say that this is yet another case of them getting it wrong.
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I would imagine it would depend somewhat on what type if injury it is.
If its something the body can heal on its own, the anatomy doesn’t really matter. The healing magic simply increases the body’s own healing factor to speed along the recovery. Something a bit more complicated, like shattered bones with scattered bone fragments, brain injuries, and stuff dealing with the rearrangement or specialized healing of internal organs (heart surgery and whatnot) might need a specialist in that field.
It may also depend on the problem.
All injuries aren’t the same, and don’t forget other cases : poisons, sickness, etc. I don’t think magic can cure everything, after all a lot of people died because of the toxic miasma used during the attack on Lion Arch, and we even heard about a disease that appeared after that (scarlet’s rattle).
And what about Braham’s leg ? Apparently magic can’t cure this, while it seems to be a very common injury. So, yeah, I’m also with Erukk on that point.
Hence why Sylvari needs menders, I guess. As magic itself doesn’t cure everything, you need specialists for what’s left.
- Everyone can (space because it censored) use magic.
- Healing magic effects all races equally, regardless of knowledge of races.
- So why the hell use multiple other means of healing? And at least one case being because of such different biology/physiology/whatever?.
From that first article,
Those who practice the shadow arts (such as thieves) utilize a combination of physical prowess and magic. Their magic enhances their stealth and other skills, but they have also worked hard to get good at the arts. Just as a guardian has a deep understanding of combat strategy and can read a battlefield in the blink of an eye, a thief can read the landscape of rooftops and find just the right place to step. Magic, for any profession, is nothing without the knowledge, diligence, and alertness that any user brings to it.
It seems pretty clear — and I don’t see any dissonance with anything in this thread — that healing magic works in tandem with non-magical skills. Just because the new interview says the magic is more important (and I would definitely expect magic to be more powerful than first-aid!) doesn’t mean magic is the end-all be-all of an activity.
I mean if you’re a sylvari casting a spell to cure atherosclerosis on a charr and you cast it on his tail because you don’t know where his heart it, that’s not going to be helpful.
The way I see it, some knowledge of anatomy -has- to be important, simply because of what healing magic does. It is accelerated regeneration of the cells in a wound. But if accelerated cellular generation acts in the wrong place, and/or too much, we have a word for it in RL. It’s called cancer.