Welcome to the Arztenritter

[baldrshand]

Who: Ethlyn + anyone interested in healing + anyone else
Where: A clinic near the edge of town
What: Arztenritter healing brigade training! Feel free to put up your own toplevels too.
Warnings: None


The Willow Clinic wasn't the one nearest the center of town in Aldrip--more towards the fields, and crucially, near a horse paddock as well. It was where Ethlyn had found employment as one of the clinic's standing healers and where she'd first proposed the idea of what she now liked to call the Arztenritter--"doctor-knight" in old Jugdrali--who could ride out all over town and beyond it in case of emergency medical needs.

After starting on the idea with people she already knew and putting up flyers around town for a general interest-and-training day, Ethlyn made her way to the clinic bright and early in the morning to get things set up for a day of medical and horsemanship training combined.

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[menancia]

[The flyers posted around town had been quick to grab his attention; healing through artes was a skill he already knew, but was one he was always willing to hone and expand, in addition to finding new applications for. The idea of becoming more proficient with riding in the process was also appealing, a skill that would undoubtedly be of great use here— he certainly knows the basics, but it wasn't until recently that he had left Autelina Palace, and he and his companions largely traveled by foot.

He crooks a finger against his chin as he examines a nearby training dummy, then turns his attention to Ethlyn with a faint smile.]

I already know some healing artes— spells, others might call them— but my more practical skills are lacking. I imagine the combination of first aid and healing artes would be far more effective than simply one or the other.

[baldrshand]

[Ethlyn smiles, pleased to see Dohalim here. She's quite keen to witness the artes he speaks of--always interested in the methods of other worlds--but she nods in firm agreement to his statement on practical skills.]

I have to admit--I had a great deal to learn about the practical skills when I first began working here. I knew how to splint a broken arm or remove an arrow from a person's thigh--but I didn't know about local anesthetics, or antiseptics. [She gestures towards a bottle of iodine on the table.] Is it battle injuries that you've dealt with before?

I blinked and the whole hiatus and month were gone :c

[menancia]

[He nods his confirmation, letting a hand come to rest casually against his hip.]

Indeed— while I am not a dedicated healer by trade, my artes have seen a great deal of use among my companions in combat. I am not as skilled as Shionne, if the two of you have had the chance to meet, but I wish to further develop my abilities and put them to good use. There is no such thing as having too many healers on hand.

[He has a feeling they're going to need a good number of capable healers in this place, as well.]

I appreciate your putting this together, Ethlyn.

god yeah WHERE DID APRIL GO!!

[baldrshand]

[Ethlyn beams. She can't not, to hear someone be so effusive over the cause of healing. And a part of her is also whispering very loudly, though still not out loud, that bad rulers don't take an interest in healing. And she should know--the erstwhile King Chagall had a powerful staff in his possession that he never once used on the men he asked to die for him.]

That's wonderful. And I definitely can't disagree with that. What with people monster-hunting, and that expedition through the woods... I think it will be helpful to people here to know that they can call for help and someone will be riding out to save them.

I've been quite curious about these 'artes' from your world. How do they work?

[menancia]

[Her enthusiasm is quite catching, it turns out, and Dohalim has never been sorry for an opportunity to discuss either the theory or practice of astral artes— just as he finds himself curious to learn about similar abilities or even magic as it exists in other worlds, now that he has the opportunity. Though their presence here is against their will, he cannot help but take interest in some of the opportunities it has made available.]

They are not unlike what other cultures might refer to as magic— though rather than come from within, they are performed by manipulating the ambient energy in one's surroundings. Each practitioner will have an affinity for certain elements, or may be more inclined towards healing or offensive artes.

[baldrshand]

[That does sound rather like magic, yes. Interesting that it requires an external source of energy to perform, though.]

So it's not from your own source? That's a little different from my world, but not entirely so. [After all, some people--particularly those of certain families--have a powerful affinity for one type of magic over another, sometimes even to the exclusion of other arts. Tailtiu, for instance, never touches a tome that isn't imbued with thunder and lightning.] I hope you've been able to find the same energies here that your own world has.

[menancia]

They are similar enough to suit my purpose.

[He smiles, offering a nod of confirmation.]

While not entirely the same, one can adapt easily enough. I've been able to make use of my healing and barriers here with the same ease as I would back home, though I wish to expand their use. Is it an innate ability for you, then— your healing?