Healing in Elos is very interesting to me. Have my rambling thoughts on it trans+ people and imagining being isekai d into my favorite series (Note itās been a while since I read the web novel version where as Iāve just done a full reread of the novels)
Some spoilers if you havenāt read through all the currently out books at the time of this post. (1-5) I wonāt be covering the web novel ones just in case Rhaegar changes anything.
On the one had you have Life based healing and Blood based healing neither of which seem to soothe trauma of the mind, they are almost wholly āphysicalā healing through the healer to the subject. We still donāt know what Ash Healing can do, as of yet, nor can I remember what the web novel says about it.
Ash is linked to death though, which means it should work on death spirits and undead beings. (Another benefit arcane has over life and blood)
Ileaās arcane based healing is different, while it doesnāt out right heal mental trauma it seems to make it easier for the recipient to move past, to accept it. Meditation apparently also helps too.
Along with the frankly massive 50% reduction in pain she gets from her initial class / the blue moon grass (I canāt remember which one pretty sure itās the moon grass) it essentially perfectly sets Ilea up for her journey. Especially given how important resistances are.
All pain is lessened AND she can recover from the trauma quicker via her healing and meditation. Itās a neat very core mechanic to her being. Something that doesnāt happen with the Medic Sentinels. Without her initial pain tolerance training, I highly doubt the initial group would have made it. But once they reach the second tier, and especially after they receive their healer classes, they start to build their resistances on their own. Itās neat.
But personally I think if push came to shove Iād still try that 50/50 of the blue moon grass. (Luckily they now have an alchemist, two enchanters and an ancient tree with a healing class to look into the blue moon grass at some point) but then go through all the training that the Sentinels go through.
Soul magic also sounds interesting and I wonder what Soul magic healing would be. (I canāt remember if it ever comes up. I know astral does.)
Anyways: all of that was a ramble to get to the point of Healing and the Trans/queer/enby/g-f/etc community. (I should do a web novel reread)
Of which I have a bunch of thoughts:
Thereās Flesh and Bone magic: which I imagine would be a very easy become a shapeshifter but I donāt want to -have- to pigeon hole myself just to get my body right. As an aside: This is the problem with the superpowers question as well. Obviously Iād pick Shapeshifting as it fixes my most major issue with how I identify but there are so many other powers I would rather have, if only superpowers came with a free āideal selfā makeover too. (Though a flesh bone mage who worked as a gender affirming provider would be lit as fuck.) (also also thereās a crazy badass fight between ilea and a flesh mage coming up in the books, I hope it doesnāt get cut)
Blood magic- seems like the easiest way to get hrt - there are also a LOT of runes and rituals that could probably be used with this one.
Then thereās Life magic - Iād imagine this wouldnāt do anything. Maybe it would provide you free hormone therapy. Maybe itād be cool enough to just slowly change your biological sex or just remove/add secondary features associated with masculine or feminine. I donāt know. Life is weird and it hasnāt officially shown up yet. Itās only been mentioned.
Arcane healing: worries me based on what the magic perceives as the āproblemā I feel like thereās a slight chance that it could have an outcome I find horrifying. The horror version of it would be if it just āhealedā your mind. Essentially slowly making you āacceptā your agab. Iād like to think it would just do what life does, although maybe youād have to chop of parts of you before the more āyouā version appears with use of the magic. Luckily, I donāt think it would do that!
And thatās because of our good newish friend the General Skill: Soul Perception and Soul Magic Resistance
Which read:
ādingā You have learned the General Skill: Soul Perception ā lvl 1 Soul Perception ā lvl 1 You have learned to perceive your soul. Congratulations. A skill that didnāt require killing and blood to unlock. Marvelous.
ādingā Soul Magic Resistance reaches 2nd lvl 1 Soul Magic Resistance ā 2nd lvl 1
The fleeting conscience of man and beast. Flesh, energy, motion, and thought. The soul stands separate entirely, yet intertwined all the same. Through hardship you have learned understanding, not through meditation and study. A brutal yet comforting truth, strengthening that which cannot be grasped.
2nd stage: Battered and cracked. Challenged and near broken. Your soul has endured through sheer tenacity against that which sought to bring about its end. A serene calm now permeates your very essence, changed and evolved, grounded and calm.
I take these skills as implying that the soul is your fundamental self, from which your arcane and flesh flow.
With this in mind, I believe your soul would impress its will upon any of the healing options, at least to an extent. I think actively having soul perception and maybe soul magic resistance would increase the amount your will and the āideal form of yourself that exists in your soul influences any healing. I also imagine if you suddenly found yourself on Elos or if you were a native trans person or gender-fluid or any of the others would have a step up in getting soul perception due to the amount of introspection on yourself youāve already done.
Thereās also the fact that Ilea is pan (Iām still irked he cut out the her sleeping with heranuur and the other little moments with the elves in book 3 but I get it for reasons) so I donāt think the horror option is a real possibility.
Given all that I think Iād still want Arcane Healing, Space magic is also cool as fuck. Those too are my definiteās. Or Astral and Space as Astral is just Space+Arcane.
To be real Iād have Ileaās classes in a heart beat I love all of them. If I had to choose my own Iād still be a front line teleporting battle healer. I resonate so much with Ilea.Maybe Iād pick barriers or and astral/barrier class or being a sand/glass creator over ash. Creator classes are so cool too being a sand creator that can turn their sand molten then cool it into obsidian sharp bits of glass. Idk I have this thought once a week or so and my answer is almost always different. Maybe a silver creator? I wouldnāt pick gold personally, not my color. Iād definitely want to learn runes, but more as a side gig, like a general skill.
Okay bye!


















