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[sunnydxmen]

if blood magic is gonna have consequences what about spirit healer they get off Scott free.

[Doctoglethorpe]

What would the consequence be? An angry person getting revenge for their failed suicide attempt?

Benevolent spirits ain't gonna do nothing.

[Fast Jimmy]

The fact that Bioware made a pure-healing class also be tied to a Good Fade Spirit, which are so rare they are hardly discussed at all by scholars in game, was a little short-sighted.

They would be better off scratching the class and finding a sect of hidden apostates who study healing magic and make them a Specialization. In fact, with the Mage/Templar War, you could have all sorts of weird apostates come out of the wood work to be companions or magic-based Specializations and avoid the whole "possession" issue tied to some of these classes.

But yeah, Blood Mages (or, at least, the use of Blood Magic) should have some consequences. Having a mage who can heal damage in combat should not.

[sunnydxmen]

good spirits can go bad in become demons like justice.

[Doctoglethorpe]

sunnydxmen wrote...

good spirits can go bad in become demons like justice.

The spirit itself didn't just turn bad though, nor does it even really technically exist anymore.  The being that resulted from the fusion dance between Anders and Justice, which is in all essence a brand new being, not a true abomination, was the.. debatably.. evil one. Its also debatable that the spirit half (for lack of an easier way of putting it) of that being even counts as demonic.  Popular definition of a demon is not simply that its evil (a debatable word itself) but that it yearns to experience carporeal life and feeds on emotions and life energy, and yada yada.  Demons are selfish beings.  Vengence, if you will, was not that.  It still only selflessly desired justice, its just that sense of justice was warped to appear more vengeful or anarchic.  It, and by that I mean the full New-Anders being, not just the spirit which again technically no longer exists, was.. beyond good and evil.  Which is.. complex, to say the least. 

Anyways, I digress, bottom line is you don't have to develop that close of a bond with a spirit to use spirit healing.  You only have to be able to commune with them.  So none of that even matters. 

[jack253]

Unlike bloodmages who seek out the most powerful demons out there to get as much power as possible, the average spirit healer uses small and weak spirits to assist him in healing. However a spirit healer, like Wynne, who binds a stronger spirit will recieve more power but will be influenced by the spirit. This is obvious in Asunder were her personality is more businesslike then the motherly wynne in DA:O, most likely do to the spirit's influence.

[Wulfram]

It would be nice to get to talk to your spirit

Fast Jimmy wrote...

The fact that Bioware made a pure-healing class also be tied to a Good Fade Spirit, which are so rare they are hardly discussed at all by scholars in game, was a little short-sighted.

They aren't rare so much as rarely encountered, I thought.  Just not interested in humans, really

[LinksOcarina]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

The fact that Bioware made a pure-healing class also be tied to a Good Fade Spirit, which are so rare they are hardly discussed at all by scholars in game, was a little short-sighted.

They would be better off scratching the class and finding a sect of hidden apostates who study healing magic and make them a Specialization. In fact, with the Mage/Templar War, you could have all sorts of weird apostates come out of the wood work to be companions or magic-based Specializations and avoid the whole "possession" issue tied to some of these classes.

But yeah, Blood Mages (or, at least, the use of Blood Magic) should have some consequences. Having a mage who can heal damage in combat should not.

It's funny, because the lore says that Spirit Healers are just tolerated vs venerated because of their connection to spirits, as benevolent as they are.

So i actually agree, they should be given a cold shoulder, not as much as say blood mages, but at least with a fair degree of suspicion because of their power.

I mean, isen't that kind of the reason for this conflict, how to control such power without opressing them?