bleasestob replied to your post “High and low fantasy with magic will have spells for healing,…”
i’ll never write fantasy with spells for hunger/thirst OOT i know but
It just makes so much sense to me that magic would be employed in one of two ways: either medically or as a weapon (or both). Like science. Writers want to equate magic to science so bad but then it’s like ‘it takes up my entire mana to create a barrier that will shield me from attacks but lemme spend my time applying magical makeup bc apparently women just… do that’
I don’t read much fantasy so this is a blanketing statement and I’m just spewing out opinions with little knowledge but from the little I’ve seen it’s either equating to science or akin to religion, and the latter does make more sense to me. But like, you got magic to be used healing and only apply it in war…. Oh poor knight has wounded himself in the leg with an arrow we must use all our resources to heal him!!! yeah except there are 10 thousand others like them who have been highly trained to withstand and sustain such injuries and there are certainly effective resources to heal such a wound like, herbalism is a thing that’s been around since we walked out of caves and realized the big fiery ball in the skies is a Sun, medieval people weren’t dumb fucks who put plasters made of dirt in wounds and monks weren’t doofuses. People knew the properties of herbs. It’s the enlightenment era that fucked it all up, and the victorians who made shit. And that’s just western society, everyone else was pretty much smarter than we were. So like, you got herbalists and healers on the battlefield and you’re gonna waste the resources of a highly trained wizard meant to heal on a goddamn scratch in a knight’s leg? There’s probably a woman giving birth right now at risk of breaking her spine or going into pre-eclampsia but if writers didn’t cling to the idea that in medieval times women stayed at home sewing and birthing and getting raped we wouldn’t be having this discussion
‘Oh but what if he has to be amputated’ then imagine using healer magic to create prosthetics instead of regenerating someone’s arm or closing up a wound that will leave a scar or just leave you in pain cause those vessels aren’t properly shut or whatever I don’t know shit about medicine lmao
it just boggles my mind because this is the sort of shit people justify with ‘but historical accuracy!!!!!’ yeah enlighten me in which era of history was MAGIC historically accurate. Be creative goddammit.
