Blood Savant

[Themasterhunter]

Hey could a blood savant be like the best medic ever, or would they just die.

 

Thank

[+Ark1002]

What do you mean by a blood savant?

[Themasterhunter]

A soulcasting savant using the Gem for the blood essence, similarly to the way kaza uses smoke

Edited November 1, 2018 by Themasterhunter

[Spoolofwhool]

17 minutes ago, Themasterhunter said:

A soulcasting savant using the Gem for the blood essence, similarly to the way kaza uses smoke

Not really, because then they could just remove blood toxins or replace blood. Wouldn't actually help with the issue of them bleeding out and you'd be spending a lot of time soulcasting to replenish. A flesh soulcaster who could repair the body would be a far better medic.

[i’m in the details]

28 minutes ago, Themasterhunter said:

Hey could a blood savant be like the best medic ever, or would they just die.

 

Thank

I tend to believe they would be, beacuse they can mend flesh too if I recal correctly. Picture a “Blood Savant” like a barely sentient liquidy creature sliming around healing people instead killing them XD

[Quantus he/him]

The (believed to be) Regrowth Fabrial used both topaz and heliodor, the Flesh and Bone essences.  If a fabrial-induced savant were to go full-healer I think that's the route Id expect more than any single essence Soulcaster savant.  If a Soulcaster were to manage it I think a properly subtle and exact ability with soulcasting transmutation could be a fantastic tool, but would still require the old fashion kind of advanced medical knowledge to apply effectively, since I dont think it would be able to use the spiritweb as a guide the way Regrowth and other spirit-based healing do (or even Bondsmith Adhesion for that matter).

[Themasterhunter]

I think the spiritweb function works regardless, because of the spiritual nature of the flesh and bone essences... Right?

[Quantus he/him]

22 minutes ago, Themasterhunter said:

I think the spiritweb function works regardless, because of the spiritual nature of the flesh and bone essences... Right?

I dont think so, I think the Regrowth Surge uses the Spiritwebs own definitions and floods it with Stormlight to repair/realign with that image (a stronger version of the natural healing Radiants get for being Invested and holding Stormlight).  Soulcasting fundamentally works differently by directly changing that definition, so if you dont know what you are doing in precise detail your "Healing" would look more like Mutation/cancer; it would be a lot like a telekinetic trying to "heal" you by physically reshuffling your DNA strands.  Because you arent going to the spririt web and telling it to repair per the established schematics, so much as you would be re describing a whole new set of schematics that may or may not function any better (depending on your design skills).  Put another, simpler way, it would be spiritual brain-surgury, and the Soulcasting would just be the scalpels.

All that to a Soulcaster might be able to heal with some combination of Blood, Bone, and Tissue, but I think they would have to either be very skilled or very, VERY Lucky to do more good than harm.

[CrazyRioter she/her]

I don't think Rosharians have enough medical knowledge to produce viable tissue through Soulcasting. And even if they had the medical knowledge to theoretically do it, it would be incredibly complicated and probably prohibitively difficult.

[Themasterhunter]

so basically What im hearing is that youd have to have taravangian-like leves of intelligence to be able to use soulcasting to effectively heal /repair a person.