School of Healing

Is there a term for the school of magic that covers healing? Like, Necromancy is for raising the dead. Alchemy is about transmutation. What name is attributed to healing?

Schools of healing.

The tricky part is to give all the different subsets names that don't sound too much like they're lifted off the real-life schools of medicine. Magic aside, there'd still be different subsets just for sheer time management—herbalists, doctors, and other general-practitioners would help with minor issues that don't need too much help, and then refer you to specialists for in-depth issues, unless they're the only doctor/clinic available for the next ten or fifteen miles, in which they do what they can and hope their patients don't get too scarred/crippled.

Surgery would probably have a magical counterpart that deals with things like bone-setting, heavy traumatic injuries, and other things that physically need to be put back together somehow. Midwives and other childbirth specialists are a category unto themselves thanks to the many, many things that can go wrong with pushing babies out. Then there's nurses who deal with the physical care of recovering patients, people who keep track of inventory/records, people who either make or transport supplies, trainees who are learning the craft and probably help out with moderate issues when needed, etc. And that's just for humans—veterinary medicine is another field entirely.

"Healing" covers a huge range of topics, so just think of the different subsets of modern medicine you'd need and then figure out how to make them sound fantastical.

edited 25th Apr '17 3:52:23 PM by Sharysa

Use Google English to Latin translation for that. Heal is a broadly defined word, but I found 'consano'. Add '-ology' to that, and you get Consanology, the study of healing (under which you have individual schools of thought).

The historical term was "Physic".

It's where we get "physician" from, after all. Borrowing from that... physiomancer? Also, personally it annoys me that "-mancy" has become the universal "does X magic" suffix when all it really means is "divination". Kind of like how "-taur" has come to mean the quadrupedal body of some animal with a human upper body for a head when it means nothing of the sort.

I say this with tongue planted firmly in cheek: Theramancy. From therapeutic, meaning "pertaining to the healing arts."

In the webcomic Erfworld, they had Findamancy, Predictamancy, Mathamancy, Lookamancy, Thinkamancy, Foolamancy, Dirtamancy, Croakamancy, Luckamancy, Hippiemancy, etc.

Their healing magic was called (obviously enough) Healomancy.

ἴασις (íasis): ancient greek; cure, remedy, repair, mend.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἴασις#Ancient_Greek

ἔργον (érgon): ancient greek; deed, doing, action, labour, work, task.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἔργον#Ancient_Greek

Whatevermancy

Iasurgy? Iasisurgy?

The Elder Scrolls call it "Restoration" (it's a perfectly valid school of magic! )

Iatergy.

Chirurgy, with practitioners being called Chirurges or Chirurgists?

Based on Chirurgie/Chirurgeon (old terms for Surgery/Surgeon) combined with Theurgy, both of which have Greek roots.