Jamahu Posted August 18, 2019 Report Share Posted August 18, 2019 I am rereading Shadows Of Self, and noticed a line in chapter 5 where Wayne heals away his hangover when talking to Allriandre - it said that his sniffles would return because it was hard to heal diseases for some reason. Is there mention of Wayne having a disease anywhere else in the series? I don’t remember this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted August 18, 2019 Report Share Posted August 18, 2019 It's just an artifact of him storing health. While he stores he is much susceptible to "the sniffles" - and simply stopping his storage doesn't get rid of the cold he's caught while storing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamahu Posted August 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2019 Hmm. I guess that makes sense. The word disease confused me because it brings to mind something more serious than just a cold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 The common cold is a disease though. But yeah, the thing is that when a Bloodmaker is storing health, everything to do with the body's ability to repair itself is reduced and that means a compromised immune system as well as healing from injuries at a slower rate. Since he's already gotten sick, just stopping the storing process won't heal anything he's caught and he'd have to actually use stored health to recover from it, which would kind of defeat the purpose of the storing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamahu Posted August 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 14 minutes ago, Weltall said: Since he's already gotten sick, just stopping the storing process won't heal anything he's caught and he'd have to actually use stored health to recover from it, which would kind of defeat the purpose of the storing. In this case, though, he is using stored health to “heal” from being drunk. And it takes away the sniffles, but doesn’t cure the cold. Is that just because he didn’t tap enough health for a full healing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsecaller_17.5 Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, Jamahu said: In this case, though, he is using stored health to “heal” from being drunk. And it takes away the sniffles, but doesn’t cure the cold. Is that just because he didn’t tap enough health for a full healing? Because poison is so much easier to heal than a disease he likely just didn’t tap enough to totally heal, so yes. But between or Wayne POV and Miles POV I think it’s safe to say that when a bloodmaker taps health they get a sort of “high” that would account for the relieved symptoms. Edited August 19, 2019 by Truthwatcher_17.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsdaughter613 Posted September 2, 2019 Report Share Posted September 2, 2019 It may also have to with viruses not being completely ‘alive’. The healing may render the virus inert (by removing infected cells) but the virus becomes active again after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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