Unaligned Healers

Those who use unaligned magic to heal.

---

Chymosian

Type: Doctor

A doctor of humors. Chymosians heal people using the theory of the humors of the body. This unscientific and mystical process is, of course, bullshit, but there is body magic that makes it work in this magical setting.

Chymosians recognize many humors and their importance:

• Amniotic: the waters of life and protection of the unborn. Keeping it healthy is crucial. In imbalance, it causes miscarriages. A healthy uterus keeps it balanced.
• Black bile: black bile is any organ fluid that is not other fluids listed. It is correlated to melancholic disposition. It is said to cause depression, cancer, and senescence if it exists in excess. A healthy spleen keeps it from increasing to excess.
• Blood: blood is correlated to a sanguine disposition. It is the most powerful of all the humors and can be studied to know the full balance of all humors in a body. It is the source of life within a person. A healthy heart keeps it balanced.
• Lymph: lymph is correlated to a compassionate disposition. It is said to be responsible for healing within the body and for bodily growth. Too much, however, causes heart and lung issues. Healthy lymph nodes keep it balanced.
• Milk: milk is correlated to a maternal disposition. It is nourishment and strength. Healthy mammary glands keep it balanced. Too much milk in the system causes anxiety, back pains, and osteoporosis.
• Oestrus: menstrual blood is correlated to a minerval disposition. It is said that an excess of it causes every problem "women" usually have, but it is also considered a self-balancing fluid. Healthy ovaries keep it balanced.
• Phlegm: phlegm includes any kind of mucus or pus in the body. It is correlated to a phlegmatic disposition. It is said to cause tumours, chlorosis, rheumatism, and cacochymia. A healthy brain keeps it from increasing to excess.
• Semen: semen is correlated to an agrandized disposition. If in excess, it causes strokes, heart attacks, and blindness. It must be purged regularly. Healthy genitalia keep it balanced.
• Tears (lachryma): tears are correlated to a hysterical disposition. If in excess, they cause headaches, confusion, and paranoia. Healthy lungs keep it balanced.
• Urine: urine is correlated to a sour disposition. If in excess, it causes digestional problems. It must be purged regularly. Healthy kidneys keep it balanced.
• Yellow bile: yellow bile is actual bile, the yellowish fluid found or associated with the liver and gallbladder. It is correlated to a choleric disposition. It is said to cause increased anger, irrational behavior, cirrhosis, and jaundice. A healthy liver or gallbladder keeps it under control.

Different foods, exercises, and other practices help to keep fluids balanced, and chymosians know what to recommend to their patients. They also know how to encourage blood and lymph to heal sicknesses or wounds, keeping medicines for this purposes always on their person. Their magic is generally long-term, slow, and an absurdly pseudoscientific version of medicine, they have access to quicker magicks such as special herbs, roots, and potions that speed recovery from injuries.

PRO -2 ATH / STR -1 AWA +3 WIL +1 PRS / STH / ESS /

---

Dricar

Type: Mortician

Dricari are morticians who use body magic to preserve and analyze corpses.

In Affaria, dricari are the ones who handle many funerals. They go from town to town, village to village, and work on the bodies, prepping them for burial. They are part coroner, part mortician, part funeral director, part death doula. They study anatomy, preservation of bodies, grief and loss, local funerary rules and traditions, laws about bodies, medicine and disease, and make up and tailoring. They have some skill even in surgery.

And they study the magic of bodies. To wield it, they keep a special and very potent diet of magical foods, and they practice exercises that stretch their own bodies to the limits. They do this for years before they are attuned to their own bodies enough to draw upon their power, but once they do, they are able to use their knowledge of anatomy and biology to control their own bodies. They also can use it to alter the corpses of the dead, if they are fresh enough, or to put a little color into those too far gone.

They cannot restore flesh to a skeleton. They can restore life to the dead. They cannot bring back missing limbs or organs. But they can stitch someone up without stitches. They can put things back where they were if they are still present but unattached. They can make the body look nice for the funeral. And they do. It costs them - they are exhausted by it, usually - but they can do it.

Some abilities they may gain include the following:

• Seamless stitch: they can close any wound on a dead body without needle and thread.
• Reparative twist: a simple twist can reattach a limb or organ.
• Flushing touch: their touch brings color back to the flesh.
• Readjusting massage: a massage that will reshape a mangled body to its original form, if all parts are present.
• Filling out: a puff of breath into their body will make it seem full if things are missing inside.

They are respected for their roles in communities, and they are feared if they are crossed.

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