#mediwix

Basic and Advanced Healing

Healing classes give training in Healing of every kind. This includes medical spells, potions, charms, procedures, etc, as well as ways to respond to situations requiring such magic.

Basic Healing I trains students on how to respond to emergency situations. It also teaches them magic to use during such situations. In other words, it is more of the “first aid” type Healing, which could be used by more than Healers and Mediwixes - in fact, it can be used by anyone in any field that could result in injuries.

Basic Healing II is slightly more advanced. It goes deeper into specifically magical injuries, caused by creatures, plants, or other beings, and how to treat them. It is still mostly focused on repairing minor injuries, such as broken bones, concussions, minor jinxes, cuts, etc. It focuses most on medical spells rather than potions.

Basic Healing III is the most in-depth look at medical potions. It teaches the properties of common plants and creatures used in such potions, as well as specific recipes. It trains students on how to create potions under pressure and time restraints, and forces them to learn to clear their heads during emergencies.

Advanced Healing I is where students begin their Mediwix training. They begin an internship with the Ilvermorny nursing staff (who are unfortunately busy) and work alongside them in their Healing. During their class period, they Heal those in need, and if there is no one in need, the school nurses will teach them more about Healing.

The end of Advanced Healing II results in the Mediwix Certification of the student. They have a part-time internships with Mediwix departments of magical hospitals across the continent (rotating every year). They take the Floo to these hospitals during their designated time, and are on call during weekends.

Required materials:

Healing 101 by A.N. Marrow Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray Medical Draughts, Drafts, and Concoctions by Freidian Rogers Size 2 Pewter cauldron Protective medical scrubs (for Advanced Healing only)

~Prefect Selwyn

Depends on the area, how manymagical encounters a person has (and how often), and their emotional state.Most people never get noticeably contaminated, buteveryone probably has a cousin or friend who has some small, obvious magicalabnormality. While full transformation to a monster is often an execution-leveloffense, little quirks and mutations aren’t punished by the state.

Magic naturally pools in places that are usuallyuninhabited due to high (even for Europe) contamination levels. Too-quietwoodlands dancing with flecks of light, moors that always appear in a twilight—even when you KNOW it’s high noon—and mountain hearts thatliterally beat with a living pulse oflava. These places are safe-ish to enter, but like with radiation, a person’sarcane levels will slowly build the more they visit. A hunterwho frequents enchanted glens may, in time, find herselfsporting a pair of horns, thick bark scales, and/or a ridge of tiny human babyfingers down her spine. Gross? Oh yeah. Unmanageable? Certainly not. Plenty ofpeople are fine with taking that risk.

Normal folks who turn into, say, dragons are a bigger rarity. Magic isinfluenced by mental and emotional cues, and attracted to both, kind of like amagnet. Users harness this intentionally under controlled conditions,inducing intense states of emotion to harness the tremendous ambientpower of the environment. But the majority of a user’s education is not aboutharnessing magic—it’s about controlling yourself enough to dispel it afterwards, because if you don’t…boy, it gets nasty fast.

People who transform rapidly intomonsters usually experience one to three months of an intense emotional state,obsession, or other unusually focused or volatile mindsets that makes them bigol’ beacons for all the ambient magic in the area. The hyper-acceleratedcontamination makes for bigger, more dangerous monsters (and a higher failure rate),as opposed to more slow-burn creatures (witches, glutton knights) that remain somewhatmore humanoid. It’s possible to stop the process in the early stages.

An interesting social side effect ofthis is that Europe has an unbelievablyhigh focus on mental healthcare. Almost every town or village has a government-sponsoredmediwix (wix = govt. evaluated witch) who is required by law to have expertiseas a psychiatrist and offer their services freely. A mediwix is equally asimportant as a knight, and teams are often paired together during theirapprenticeship days with the anticipation of being later deployed to the samesettlement.

They aren’t always in pairs, though. There are more mediwixes in cities and more knights in wilder outposts, generally–Augustine was alone in their town, which is part of why they went undiagnosed for so long.