Hemalurgic First Aid

[Trusk'our he/him]

Hemalurgic spikes rearrange organs and tissues to prevent death in the spike bearer, right?

So, would staunching a wound from a blade or a bullet with a spike be a possibility then? Even if it was aligned incorrectly to grant powers, putting a spike in place until you got a better form of healing (Unsealed Goldminds or a Kandra surgeon) seems like it could be useful. 

[Longshot97 he/him]

Uh, breaking this down, you suggest patching ruptured organs by using Hemalurgic spikes to rearrange material, right? The thing is, the material is already rearranged rather forcibly (read: split open). So the organs the spikes move would still be damaged, right? Blood may no longer exit the body, but internal bleeding could still occur.

Edited June 15, 2024 by Longshot97

[Trusk'our he/him]

7 hours ago, Longshot97 said:

Uh, breaking this down, you suggest patching ruptured organs by using Hemalurgic spikes to rearrange material, right? 

Yup, that about sums it up; rearrange the internal structure of the person with a Hemalurgic spike to make the changes of the wound something that the spike fits into, thus reshaping the organ(s) to no longer be a true injury. 

Basically, if you get a bullet hole in the heart, put a spike in that hole, which then changes the structure of the heart to naturally work around it as it does with any Hemalurgic spike. 

7 hours ago, Longshot97 said:

The thing is, the material is already rearranged rather forcibly (read: split open). So the organs the spikes move would still be damaged, right? Blood may no longer exit the body, but internal bleeding could still occur.

I mean, it's an internal and external change, and it's something that would already happen with a regular spiking, so I see no reason why it wouldn't work. 

[alder24]

13 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

Hemalurgic spikes rearrange organs and tissues to prevent death in the spike bearer, right?

So, would staunching a wound from a blade or a bullet with a spike be a possibility then? Even if it was aligned incorrectly to grant powers, putting a spike in place until you got a better form of healing (Unsealed Goldminds or a Kandra surgeon) seems like it could be useful. 

Unless the wound is directly in a proper binding point, in which you can fit a spike and stop the bleeding with a piece of metal, organs won't be healed when rearranged by Hemalurgy, because Hemalurgy doesn't heal. You would still be wounded, lethally if the wound was that serious, but the wound would be just shifted into a different place, without being healed in the slightest. 

The only advantage of Hemalurgy would be increased investment of your soul, which in terms boosts your immune system and your body's natural ability to heal, but that won't help you in the immediate aftermath of being wounded.