Elemental Healers

Those who use elemental magic to heal.

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Aukstmikstura

Type: Apothecary

An aukstmikstura is an apothecary who creates medicines with the energy of winter.

In Kardis, the winters are bitter cold. To survive them, it became tradition for some to go into the coldest nights of winter, clad in light clothing unfit for the season, to let the cold in, believing this would protect others from it. Over time, they found that this practice was attuning them to the elementals of winter, and they honored the rite by giving protections to their communities. Then, one year, a plague hit, and the same people went to the winter spirits in the dead of the coldest night and begged for aid. The elementals demanded a sacrifice of blood and heat, and in exchange, they gave them the secrets to making medicines from snow. Thus began the auksmiksturi.

To become an auksmikstura, the process is the same: communing with the winter elementals by going out on the coldest night and the longest night and the snowiest night, clad in light clothing unfit for the season, and honoring the elementals with special rites, giving their own blood and heat. The elementals respond to them by preserving them through the night and teaching them the magic of making medicines from snow.

Auksmiksturi are freezing cold in their bodies at all times. In summer heat, they are weakened and slower. Reptile people are not capable of surviving being an auksmikstura.

The medicines they can make are all crafted with blood and snow and other things of winter:

• Snow’s comfort: a concoction of blood and snow that soothes physical pain.
• Feverslayer: a concoction of blood and snow that chills the body to kill a fever.
• Long night’s sleep: a concoction of night’s dark and snow that lets a person rest for 16 hours straight, helping with recovery.
• Midwinter tablet: a stone found on midwinter’s night and marked with blood that, when powdered and consumed, gives the consumer immunity to heat and cold.
• Snowflake pill: a pill made of a single snowflake and starlight, it gives the one taking it nightvision and enhanced speed.

Auksmiksturi are forbidden in imperial lands, seen as makers of horrible poisons.

PRO -1 ATH +1 STR +1 AWA +2 WIL +2 PRS -1 STH / ESS +1

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Notekasark

Type: Healer

A notekasark is a doctor of elemental blood. They use ancient rituals of hunter and prey to enchant blood - their own or that which they have taken - and heal people via transfusions.

To become a notekasark, one must have been a hunter. One must have attuned to the elemental hunt and run with the predators, but for some reason, they have retired from hunting - perhaps due to age, health, or simply being tired of it. But they retain some of their magic and reattune this time instead to the prey, not the predator. They dream of the animals they once hunted, and after some time, choose one that they wish to honor most. Often, this is an animal that had special significance to them in their hunting days.

Once they have done this, they perform a ritual to honor their prey by spilling their own blood. In the ritual, they speak to the elementals of the prey, and they are tested to see if they are worthy. To be worthy, they must understand the prey’s power, its skill at escape due to its will to live. That will to live flows in its blood and gives power to the magic. If they are, their blood glows and becomes like that of the prey they honor, and they gain certain magical abilities:

• Health sense: they can smell infirmity, illness, or injury on someone.
• Prey’s blood: they can infuse blood into someone to give them strength, healing, or heightened senses.
• Rite of bleeding: they make the prey’s blood via a rite in which they spill their own blood or take blood from willing subjects.
• Preserving circle: they may make a circle of blood that preserves the health or quality of any living thing or blood put in it.
• Simultaneous heartbeat: they may lie next to someone and match their heartrate, attuning to one another so that they may take emotional damage away from them.

A notekasark is often part of a small elemental community that still relies on hunting for survival.

PRO +1 ATH +1 STR +1 AWA +2 WIL +2 PRS -1 STH +1 ESS +1