Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
Is your argument really that we shouldn't have new things?

But... is this really something new?
Weapons that heal people aren't new. I remember I was pretty shocked when I watched Inuyasha and saw that his brother Sesshomaru has a magic sword that heals whoever it slashes. This really isn't too different.

All of our healers use magic to heal people, they put aether inside them and it makes pretty lights that surround and enter the target when it happens. Lasers are just a more high tech and science based way of doing this.
Both of your examples involve a logical connection of *locality* and *causality*. The weapon is in fact a healing tool. The target of its attack is healed.

This Sage nonsense is different. Both locality and causality are broken because you attack *one thing* and then *a completely different thing* is healed. You aren't doing laser surgery. You are shooting pewpews at an enemy and then an ally is healed "because Cardia."

All I am saying is that Cardia is a poor way of theming it, because it communicates nothing flavorfully or mechanically about how/why this should work. What Cardia *actually* functions as is something that feels more vampiric than medical. If the writers would at least make a nod to Cardia being a sort of aetheric transfusion, or the nouliths being magical fangs, then it all comes together. But absent some lore explanation, there is a total disconnect as to why a *surgeon* would need to *hurt other people* in order to heal the patient.