Healers

Definitions

Healers and Master Healers and Halls Masters

• "A Healer is one who may look into the heart and mind of one who is in pain, soothe the pain and restore the sufferer to joy." From Preamble to the Healer's Guide
• Not a Healer, but...sensitive:
  • On Surebleak, Liaden physician Kez Rel ter'Ista is sensitive, but he’s not a Healer. However, his sensitivity helps him more fully collaborate with Healer Hestya van’Lorin. See Chimera
• Most Healers have base med tech skills. Some Healers are also Med Techs or work with Med Techs.
• A small number of Healers have the ability to heal the body as well as the mind and soul. "Most physical Healers were young, the talent burning out in only a few years."
• Sparkles. As a child, Healer Shan yos'Galan saw “sparkles” around people (except in one near-fatal case). Anne Davis asked Er Thom yos'Galan about that:

"Er Thom, do you see sparkles?" "Ah." He lowered his hands, slowly, keeping them in full view until they hung, open and unthreatening, at his sides. "I am no Healer," he said seriously. "However, you should know -- Korval has given many Healers -- and -- and dramliz as well."

Guilds and Guild Halls

World-bound Liadens tend to shun anything and anyone different, including wizards. However, the Healers are allowed, if reluctantly, and are supported by their Guild Law.

“The Healers, you see, were useful. They might, the Council conceded, require regulation—even oversight!—but they scarcely needed to be purged. That would have been too much. Luckily, it happened that the Healers were closely aligned with Korval. Which is why there is today a Healer’s Guild. Not even the Council dared tamper with Guild Law.”

• The Healers are organized into the Healers Guild.
• All Liaden Worlds have a Healers Hall, with a Hall Master. Bigger Liaden ports on Terran planets and stations might also have a Healers Hall.
• Liad itself has multiple Healers Halls: at least one in Chonselta, and at least four in Solcintra (including Fountaincourt Hall and Mid Market Hall in Mid-Port, and at least two in Solcintra City proper). "Positions in the city Halls were so much sought after that there was a grand joint interviewing twice a year for hopeful Healers."

Exceptions:

• Avontai is a Liaden world but the population has a horror of mind control. Healers are barely tolerated, and others types of The Dramliz and norbears are regarded as abominations and banned outright.
• Irikwae is also leery of mind control and magic, but Healers are allowed
• When the Council of Clans purged the otherwise-gifted from Liad, several clans immigrated to The Redlands System, the world of Colemeno. There under the ambient, small gifts have evolved over the centuries to larger gifts, including Healing.

Guild Rules

excerpt Our Lady of Benevolence

“Not even the Council dared tamper with Guild Law.”

“A Healer does not Heal, unasked. There are. . . ethical considerations." See Chimera

“Low Port is not granted a charter to open a Healer Hall.” (Possibly a rule forced on Healers by Council of Clans? or sociocultural norms?) And likewise, “The Healers did not administer to the clanless."

• Some applications of telepathy are banned by Guild regulation, including “utilizing psychic ability to influence another’s behavior”

The Case against Telepathy:

"The Guild Halls of so-called "Healers" — interactive empaths — can be found in every Liaden city. Healers are charged with tending ills such as depression, addiction, and other psychological difficulties and they are undoubtedly skilled therapists, with a high rate of success to their credit. Healers are credited with the ability to wipe a memory from all layers of a client’s consciousness. They are said to be able to directly — utilizing psychic ability — influence another’s behavior; however, this activity is specifically banned by Guild regulations."

Dept of Interior Abuse

Numerous healers and dramliz were unwillingly forced to serve the The Department of the Interior. They, in turn, bound others to serve the department. Healers conscripted into the Department:

• Section Head Tarona Rusk who had been a powerful young halfling, an outworlder half-clan trainee at Solcintra Hall when the DoI messed with her head, long ago. She is now the eldest healer of the dozens left in the DoI, all of whom she enslaved.
• Kethi vay’Elin, formerly Master Healer at Solcintra Hall (see Accepting the Lance and Trader's Leap)
• “Valisa dea’Manz” -
• “Hosilee ver’Fonat” - a match telepath and Healer, killed by Commander of Agents
• Fel Pin, Tarona’s sub-chief, (m) last name?
• Aei Vin — first healer Tarona enslaved, died of separation shock
• Sondi - powerful Healer / dramliz, bound tightly to Tarona. Suicided.
• and dozens more: healers, dramliz, vas'dramliz of all sorts (plus all else the Dept took— Scouts, accountants, etc)

Terrans & Healing

"The legendary Healers of Liad. Damn the Healers, that they expressed no kinship, and offered no assistance, to those probable kindred living among the Terran worlds.

"Are there Healers among Terrans, old friend?"

He considered it, coming forward. "Not formally, I believe." He bent over her screen, frowning at the upside-down characters. "You want 'empath,' my precious. It's listed under 'paranormal.'"

Terran worlds were thought not to produce dramliz, but healer Shan yos'Galan is half Terran:

“He sees sparkles, as he calls them, from which he may interpret another's emotional state.”

Petrella stared. "A Terran?" she demanded.

Er Thom was seen to sigh. "A yos'Galan," he said patiently, "which has given dozens to the Healers and the dramliz over the years since the Exodus. Why stare that another child of the Line shows these abilities?"

Petrella closed her eyes. A Terran -- blast it all! At best, a half-blood yos'Galan. And already he showed sign of Healer talent? Rare to show so early, certainly.

Also, Tarona Rusk is half-Terran and yet a powerful healer/dramliza. She felt disdain from many Liadens, including her fellow healers and dramliz, so she was ripe for DoI seduction.

Even full-blooded Terrans might be Healers:

“It was Hestya who spoke. "We have been told that there are no Terran Healers," she said. "This would appear to be. . .an error. Clearly, you are a Healer, Darby Bajek, as I am. The difference between us is that I have been taught control.” See Chimera

The clanless and impoverished do not expect help from Healer Hall in Solcintra...but maybe on Surebleak things will be different:

Elaytha needed a Healer, he thought. In Low Port, the situation would have been hopeless. The Healers did not administer to the clanless. He could not have said why he thought the Healers who had come to Surebleak might deal differently, unless it was merely that, Surebleak had dealt them a hand, when Liad had refused even to sell them a deck." (See Block Party)

List of Healers

On Liad

at Healer Hall in Solcintra

• Master Healer Kestra told Petrella yos'Galan and Daav yos'Phelium that Anne Davis and Er Thom are lifemates. She also saw that young Shan was intensely powerful, even at three years old, or near enough: "But I must ask that the child be removed...He is — enormously bright."
• Jen ana'Tilesty
• Kethi vay’Elin, Master Healer (enslaved by The Department of the Interior, freed eventually
• Master Healer Tom Sen
• Anthora yos'Galan - she taught healing classes, too?
  • She definitely taught at the College of The Dramliz in Solcintra,
• Shan yos’Galan is a powerful Healer but he didn't work at the Hall??

Fountaincourt Healer Hall, Solcintra Mid-Port

• Grasy bel'Dona, Healer and teacher of Healers
• Aazali sen'Pero
• Dyoli ven'Deelin Clan Ixin
• Tin Non

Chonselta Healer Hall, on Liad

• Hall Master Ethilen, who healed Aelliana

On Irikwae

Healer Hall on Irikwae, a Liaden in-world (outworld?) that bans The Dramliz

• sig'Harat (Tilba (F), Master Healer
• yos'Arimyst (Therin (M), Hall Master

Student healers on Irikwae:

• Meicha Maarilex, daughter of Clan Tarnia
  • Meicha has a rare gift for healing the body as well as the mind.
• Miandra Maarilex, daughter of Clan Tarnia, Meicha's twin. She is actually a dramliza, but tries to repress it, because Irikwae accepts Healers but abominates the dramliz. Her delm urges her to restrict herself to only Healing, but Miandra has too much power. She withstands a sudden wind twist, and her power melts her Healer gem, a ruby.

“I cannot -- Aunt Stafeli. It is -- too big. I drown in it. Let it be known, and done.” “Done it surely will be, witless child!” Lady Maarilex held out an imperious hand. “Give me the pendant!”

On Eylot

a Liaden out-world, home of Kara ven'Arith’s Clan Menlark, but also populated with many Terrans.

• Healer el'Kemin, who helped Theo Waitley -- that nexus of violence -- at Anlingdin Piloting Academy on Elyot

On Surebleak

"There is a Hall here — a poor thing, compared to the Great Hall at Solcintra, but we will do our duty by our kindred." See Chimera

Healers:

• Master Healer Pel Tyr (m) - he helped Ren Zel dea'Judan and Anthora yos'Galan administer the dream choice to the captured DoI agents.
• Master Healer Mithin — (f) spare and grey, she also helped Anthora and Ren Zel emulate the dream Rys and Silain made.
• Healer Hestya van’Lorin. Terran (f) See Chimera

Students attending Surebleak Healer Hall

• Darby Bajek, in Chimera - (m) Terran, native Bleaker
• Elaytha, in Block Party - (f) Liaden, a Low-Port orphan, immigrant

Healers within The Bedel:

• Silain, the Luthia healed Rys to large extent when streeters half-killed him. She killed Mr. Newhouse by tracing his lifeline .
• Kezzi of The Bedel is learning the healing arts from The Luthia and from an occasional lesson with Anthora