The Chronic Healer: Self-Inflicting Harm for Haan Healing Pleasure

The Haan system have brought a large variety of idea and concepts throughout the magic system’s development into the Sagen world. Many of these concepts were created as a side effect of other creations and principles within the Haan system itself. Since the system is built on a continued explanation of the core functions for Sagen’s Haan elements and the nature of the magic system within the world, the ideas making up those functions bring with them additional thoughts deriving from the baseline explanations of them.

One of these concepts is the Chronic Healer.

A Chronic Healer is a Dast Caster who specialises in Haan-related healing spells. Haan healing spells all have their bases in the category of Trimél’s Uphold and the caster use these principles to gain the ability to perform the spells needed for the healing process.. What makes these characters different from other characters who practise Dast Casting within this category is that Chronic Healers will commit self-harm. Causing cuts and wounds on themselves. And then said character performs healing spells on themselves to gain the pleasure from the feeling of the spell itself and the healing process of the Dast Casting.

Related: What is Trimél’s Uphold? (the Haan Study)

This practice has nothing to do with outside effects on others and only serve as an addiction for the character who does it. The practice of a character’s self-harm in this way stems in the idea that the Haan magic within the Sagen world gives a pleasurable ‘’feeling’’ when preformed. This is due to the Haan healing spells repairing the wounded parts of the body. It is somewhat like addictions to pain killers, expect Haan healing spells are about the process of the spell itself and not the chemical compound affecting the body.

Chronic Healers are most commonly characters who have a history of specialising in healing practices where self-healing is the primary goal of said character’s Haan practice. Since the character is used to using Haan healing spells on themselves, said character is familiar enough with the feeling of the spells they use to the point where they are performed without need. This is to gain the soothing and tensioning feeling of the Haan healing spell. Haan healing spells work by casting Haan spells under a longer period. This is due to Haan healing spells being unable to heal wounds instantly and require an extended time and multiple spells to work.

Because of this, the duration of pleasure the character gains from the healing process then becomes sought out to the point where the caster becomes addicted to the feeling of the healing process.

How the Chronic Healer Came to Be

The concept of Chronic Healers came from the idea that magic and spells can emit a ‘feeling’ of their presence within the Sagen world. In the same way we can ‘feel’ the presence of a magnetic field if one holds two magnets against each other with either the negative or positive sides towards each other. Even though we can’t see it with our bare eyes, the feeling of the magnetic field is still there.

And the same goes for magic.

In a Fantasy world were magic exist in the natural part of said world it would in turn have a variety of feelings about it. Either the feeling being a pushing force with destructive spells or a tensioning feeling with healing spells, magic existing within the world one lives in brings with it a physical presence onto the world around it. The idea of the Chronic Healer cannot exist without this idea.

The concept of the Chronic Healer brings it back to the development of Fantasy worlds whose ability to be told in a grounded and explainable way to the point the world begins to sound like a real place. This have always been the underlining reason for the creation of these types of thought puzzles for Fantasy worlds in its entirety. For it is within these types of ideas where new thinking patterns can thrive.

The continued creation of new ideas brings with them new ways to view imaginary worlds and for new concepts to come as a natural continuance of other core ideas making up the world itself.

The Chronic Healer is an example of a concept which would not have become a thing unless it was for the continued will to create explainable Fantasy worlds. The Chronic Healer was a mixture of the explanation of how the Haan elements and Haan spells ‘’feel’’ for people within the world where these elements exist. And too for the idea behind Trimél’s Uphold which serves as the fundamental concept of Haan healing spells. It was then when the two got mixed where the idea of the Chronic Healer came to form.

The Chronic Healer: Initial Thoughts

The Chronic Healer is one out of many ideas deriving from the Haan magic system’s development, alongside the Catcher and the Soul Slinger. As I remember, the Catcher was one of the first concepts being born out of other ideas. It was through the nature of the Dhemsen elements were the idea’s first steps for the spell catcher class of Haan Dast Casters came to be. Later turning into the Catcher class.

For the Chronic Healer: the origins to the Haan healing spell addicts are not as clear as the rest. There is no distinct moment I remember where the concept came to form. Though the concept is based in ideas I have been working on for a long period, the Chronic Healer’s origins do not stand out like the other concepts do. As I see it, the concept was just a natural transformation of ideas I have been working on throughout the time I have been doing this project. And came alongside as a natural progression of the project’s development.

Most likely the concept of the Chronic Healer stems from the problems of the underground markets and Haan practices illegalised within ROUE. Back when the Haan Study chapters were within its first iteration — when they were written as an unabridged version featuring every subject of Haan within the same text — I wrote about trades and practices which had been banished by The Sun army of the ROUE capital. This included things like illegal replicas of Haan weapons, faked Haan minerals and crystals and the smuggling of spell grimoires and Numbrina potions.

The Chronic Healer was most likely one of the illegal practices within those texts I no longer have. At least that is the place for it to have been featured since I don’t fully remember what the text included.

The text ought to have been over 20000 words long since it was created back in 2015 so it is understandable that I don’t remember all of it.

And the Future for the Concept

Both the Catcher and the Soul Slinger classes has an established presence within the volumes of the main series. This is also the reason they are included within the introductory and terminology explanation chapter of the Haan Study.

The same cannot be said about the Chronic Healer. At least not initially since it is a characteristic of the person performing it rather than a separate Haan practice a character specialises in.

However, the Chronic Healer do deserve its own part of the Sagen world. Though it is not set in stone regarding in what way a Chronic Healer character is going to be featured within published text. It’s possible for a Chronic Healer character to appear within the main volumes but there is no set place within the text where the Haan Healing spell addicts are included.

Other than this, it would also be possible for a stand-alone text/book surrounding concepts such as the Chronic Healer to be featured in or to be stared in. Throughout the development of the Sagen world have there been a large portion of book ideas expanding on the Sagen world outside of the main series and the primary storyline. This could in turn make a Chronic Healer character viable to be one of the main characters within their own text rather then to be a side character not having a major part of the books.

Though it’s not possible to feature everything the Sagen world have, the wanting to create and showcase these types of ideas and concepts is at great will. This is due to these types of concepts being the natural continuance of the Haan magic system. And to include concepts which have to do with the Haan system is one of the major parts which makes the project special.

To show light on the ideas behind the Haan system is primary for the project in its entirety since it is the Haan system where the core foundations of the Sagen world lays. And the development of the system is where a great deal of the Sagen world’s culture and civilizations stem from.

Regardless of the importance within the books themselves, every aspect of the Haan system helps to bring The Eferian Day to life in every way possible. For it is not within the storyline where the world grows. But within the laws and nature which make up the world to begin with. So, the wanting to bring concepts such as the Chronic Healer to light shows that there is so much more under the surface then at face value.

And with the inclusion of every aspect of the Haan system too comes the ability to expand on topics one would normally leave behind for the topics one think is of greater importance. Yet a house is only as stable as its foundation. And once the core functions of the people’s lives within the Fantasy world are brought up does said world appear to be of greater and more understandable ways of life for the ones who live within the laws and nature of the world’s magical abilities.

Since every part of the puzzle is important.