Medic
A Zoraï occupation
Each homin race has always had some knowledge of which local plants could serve as medicine, even in prehistoric times. But the Zoraï have always practised Medicine the most extensively, as a side-effect of their everlasting struggle against the Goo. Ever since the first Zoraï attempted to remove Goo by simply plucking it with his bare hands, and developed horrible boils on his hands as a result, the search for remedies against the effects of Goo on homins has gone hand in hand with the Zoraï's search for ways to combat the Goo.
The ancient Zoraï scoured their jungles for all the different kinds of plants they could gather and started mixing them into balsams. After many years of experimentation, they managed to find combinations of plants that helped Goo-afflicted wounds to heal better. As a side-effect, they also found many balsams that helped against regular, non Goo-related injuries.
As the Zoraï came into contact with the other homin civilisations, they also started scouring the other ecosystems for ever more ingredients to experiment with. Some Zoraï travelling to Pyre, the old Fyros capital, even brought back plants that the Fyros had extracted from the Prime Roots. Over many decades the Zoraï perfected their balsam-recipes.
But all that changed when the Kami started teaching the Zoraï magic. At first only a few Zoraï merely dabbled in magic, barely able to create a spark, but over time magic became more widespread and more powerful. And why did the Zoraï need balsams, that took much effort to create and only healed injuries slowly, when any magician could just cast a healing spell and heal the same injuries instantly with hardly any effort?
Over time, healing magic overtook the practice of traditional medicine, Healers replaced Medics in Zoraï society, and the knowledge of bandages and balsams only remained in old documents and the minds of a few traditionalists. No surprise then, that after the Great Swarming that killed most of the Zoraï and destroyed all of their libraries, there was nothing of this knowledge left amongst the surviving Zoraï refugees.
The Medic occupation would've been lost forever, but unexpectedly returned to the scene only recently. In the last decades, scientists studying the Goo have found hints that the use of magic speeds up the expansion of the Goo. This gave rise to a movement to minimalise the use of magic. Homins quickly realised that although elemental and affliction magic were not always necessary and could be used less, they had no alternative for healing magic.
And it was amongst this climate that some Zoraï scientists got their hands on an amber cube from the Old Lands that contained lost knowledge of the Medic occupation. Nobody's quite sure where it came from, though accusations fly that they purchased it from the Marauders. Regardless these Zoraï decided to use this amber cube to reinstate the Medic occupation and so put a stop to hominkind's dependence on healing magic.
They realised it would take many years to rediscover all the recipes, so they decided to start with the simplest of the more powerful balsams on record. Unfortunately this balsam required plants very specifically from the Prime Roots beneath the Old Lands. Similar plants from the Prime Roots in the New Lands didn't have the same effect, so currently the ingredients for the only balsam that's been rediscovered can only be obtained from the Kitins' Lair below Almati Wood.
A Zoraï occupation
Each homin race has always had some knowledge of which local plants could serve as medicine, even in prehistoric times. But the Zoraï have always practised Medicine the most extensively, as a side-effect of their everlasting struggle against the Goo. Ever since the first Zoraï attempted to remove Goo by simply plucking it with his bare hands, and developed horrible boils on his hands as a result, the search for remedies against the effects of Goo on homins has gone hand in hand with the Zoraï's search for ways to combat the Goo.
The ancient Zoraï scoured their jungles for all the different kinds of plants they could gather and started mixing them into balsams. After many years of experimentation, they managed to find combinations of plants that helped Goo-afflicted wounds to heal better. As a side-effect, they also found many balsams that helped against regular, non Goo-related injuries.
As the Zoraï came into contact with the other homin civilisations, they also started scouring the other ecosystems for ever more ingredients to experiment with. Some Zoraï travelling to Pyre, the old Fyros capital, even brought back plants that the Fyros had extracted from the Prime Roots. Over many decades the Zoraï perfected their balsam-recipes.
But all that changed when the Kami started teaching the Zoraï magic. At first only a few Zoraï merely dabbled in magic, barely able to create a spark, but over time magic became more widespread and more powerful. And why did the Zoraï need balsams, that took much effort to create and only healed injuries slowly, when any magician could just cast a healing spell and heal the same injuries instantly with hardly any effort?
Over time, healing magic overtook the practice of traditional medicine, Healers replaced Medics in Zoraï society, and the knowledge of bandages and balsams only remained in old documents and the minds of a few traditionalists. No surprise then, that after the Great Swarming that killed most of the Zoraï and destroyed all of their libraries, there was nothing of this knowledge left amongst the surviving Zoraï refugees.
The Medic occupation would've been lost forever, but unexpectedly returned to the scene only recently. In the last decades, scientists studying the Goo have found hints that the use of magic speeds up the expansion of the Goo. This gave rise to a movement to minimalise the use of magic. Homins quickly realised that although elemental and affliction magic were not always necessary and could be used less, they had no alternative for healing magic.
And it was amongst this climate that some Zoraï scientists got their hands on an amber cube from the Old Lands that contained lost knowledge of the Medic occupation. Nobody's quite sure where it came from, though accusations fly that they purchased it from the Marauders. Regardless these Zoraï decided to use this amber cube to reinstate the Medic occupation and so put a stop to hominkind's dependence on healing magic.
They realised it would take many years to rediscover all the recipes, so they decided to start with the simplest of the more powerful balsams on record. Unfortunately this balsam required plants very specifically from the Prime Roots beneath the Old Lands. Similar plants from the Prime Roots in the New Lands didn't have the same effect, so currently the ingredients for the only balsam that's been rediscovered can only be obtained from the Kitins' Lair below Almati Wood.