Chaos Medicine: Helgram Game
Chaos Medicine is related to the Healing class, but has its own requirements and course lengths. It is only available as a class in the Helgram Game, which is why it reroutes back here from the wider Sable Magic System.
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The study of Medicine in the Courts of Chaos is rather more complicated than in Open Shadow, either side of the Dancing Mountains, or down to the South with the Golden Circle and Amber, due to the number of different kinds of denizens of the Courts and the Black Zone. Magical medicine exists hand in glove with shapeshift-based medicine.
Shapeshift Healing
This is in the purview of those shapeshifters who have learned how to shift others, as well as themselves. Licensed shapeshift healers will have under taken tuition on the anatomy and ailments of denizens of the Courts, either with a specific mentor, or in a group at either one of the House Academies or the Thelbane College of Medicine.
Shapeshift Healing Specialisation: Trauma Care
This deals with the care and treatment of shapeshifters who have ended up in their emergency fight or flight mode (aka bucketing).
Chaos Magical Medicine
There are two tracks for learning Chaos Medicine. Cures are brought about using the right combinations of magic, drugs and shapeshifting (in the latter case, if the physician has studied how to shapeshift others).
A potential mage can choose either a single-track course in Magical Medicine at the Thelbane College of Medicine (or their House equivalent), or can take Chaos Medicine as a class within a more general magic course at Mage College. The issue becomes more complicated, as what might work as a treatment for one kind of Chaos denizen, might not work for another. As a result, courses are seperated into a number of different areas, a non-exclusive list of which can be found below:
- Cornelians, Lords and Ladies
- Demons
- Fixed-form Chaosians (Humanoid)
- Fixed-form Chaosians (Non-Humanoid)
- Non-Oxygen Breathing
- Heavy Gravity
- Light Gravity
- Shadowfolk (Human)
- Shadowfolk (Non-Human)
For the course descriptions below, the following definitions apply.
- Level 1: the mage-practicioner has the equivalent of a nursing qualification for treating the specified type of of Courts denizen. They have a general grounding in the ailments and injuries of the specified race within the Courts, including basic front-line medical care. They can treat injuries, offer simple remedies and make general diagnoses.
- Level 2: the mage-practicioner has a level of knowledge equivalent to a nurse-practicioner for treating the specified type of Courts denizen. They can diagnose more complex ailments and are much better with respect to treating them, and can also offer emergency care and triage.
- Level 3: the mage-practicioner has the equivalent training of a qualified doctor with respect to the chosen specific kinds of denizens.
- Specialism: this allows the mage-practicioner to take their studies of a specific type of denizen even further, or perhaps branch out into areas such as mind magic, surgery, genetics, etc, or a particular type of ailment across all Chaos denizens (such as ENT, cardiovascular, etc)
The two ways of studying Chaos Magical Medicine are as follows:
As a Single-Track Course
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As Part of a Wider Magic Degree
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Bachelor of Chaos Medicine (BCMMd)The full Chaos Medicine course will give the student a full Level 1 grounding in how to treat all types of Chaos denizens. They will leave the TCoM with the basic knowledge of how to treat general ailments in all types of Chaos denizens, with basic diagnosis, prescribing, and starting the healing process.In addition, they will be able to undertake ER-style triage for any patient that may come their way. They may also have begun advanced studies (Level 2) in the physiology of one or two specific types of Chaos denizens or specialities. It also gives the graduate the equivalent of Partial Healing for non-Chaosians, as well as a Partial level in Investigative Magic, where it relates to looking inside the body, organic investigation and diagnostics. They can effectively look inside their patient, to find something amiss, like a shadow on the lungs which might suggest pneumonia, or the abnormal growths that are indicative of cancer. They will not have been taught any other classes of magic. This is the equivalent of an Nurse Practicioner. Course duration: five years. |
Bachelor of Magic (BMg)A Bachelor of Magic candidate, who chooses to study Chaos Medicine in addition to the normal curriculum will effectively take the Chaos Medicine course as their only partial specialisation.They will leave Mage College with a basic grounding in all magic classes, and Level 1 treating two or three kinds of Chaos denizens from the list, as well as a general grounding in basic EMT-level medicine for all denizens. This is effectively the equivalent of a Registered Nurse. Course duration: five years. |
Master of Chaos Medicine (MCMMd)An MCMMd builds on the studies at Bachelor level, and gives the graduate a better grounding for treating all kinds of Chaos denizens, equivalent to Level 2 for all types of Chaos denizens.In addition, they gain the equivalent of Full Healing, and Full Investigative for organics/diagnostics. At this point, at least half their teaching will take place at the Thelbane Teaching Hospital. In addition, the student can take one Level 3 specialisation in one kind of Chaos denizen. They will leave the TCoM at the equivalent of a Junior Doctor. Course duration: two to three years in addition to the Bachelor Level. |
Master Level (MMg)If taken as part of a wider degree, a Master of Magic with Chaos Medicine gives the mage student the effective equivalent of a Bachelor of Chaos Medicine. In addition, the mage will be able to have taken a Partial skill in one other magical class. Course duration: two to three years in addition to the Bachelor Level. |
Doctor of Chaos Medicine (MCMMd)The DCMMd brings the practicioner’s level of knowledge up to Level 3 for two or three additional types of Chaos denizens, over and above their specialisation at Master level. This is mainly through hands-on experience and lessons at the Thelbane Teaching Hospital.From there, they take their studies further, including areas such as mental magic, surgery, prosthetics, etc, or a particular type of ailment across all Chaos denizens. They will leave the TCoM/Thelbane Teaching Hospital at the equivalent of a Registrar. Course duration: two to three years in addition to the Master Level. |
Doctor Level (DMg)If taken as part of a wider degree, a Doctor of Magic with Chaos Medicine gives the mage student the effective equivalent of a Master of Chaos Medicine. In addition, the mage will be able to have taken a Full skill in One other magical class. Course duration: two to three years in addition to the Master Level. |
Specific Specialisation: Field of Study
This allows the mage to study a particular field across every type of Courts denizen, rather than knowing everything about one particular type. Fields of Study include such areas as Ear-Nose-Throat, Cardiovascular, Obstetrics, etc.
Specific Specialisation: Genetics (Courts Denizens)
Genetics mages are often researchers in healing hereditary ailments and conditions, as well as the ins and outs of shapeshifter genetics. They can look at the body at the genetic level, working out parentage and hereditary, as well as figuring out what which parts of the genome map to what. It is a highly skilled discipline, and there are comparatively few specialist geneticists.
Related Studies: Genetics mages are also likely to hold at least a partial specialisation in investigative magic, as an invaluable adjunct to their healing abilities. At least basic shapeshift is also desirable (but not obligatory).
Specific Specialisation: Chaos Cancer
Chaos Cancer is the most serious disease that can afflict a denizen of the Courts, and is exceedingly difficult to cure. The number of doctors who are proficient in this area is no more than a dozen across the whole Courts. They are not Logrus initiates (as the Logrus can make its initiates more susceptible to Chaos Cancer), and have both magical and shapeshifting medical credentials.
Specific Specialisation: Mental Magic (Chaos)
Mental magic, unsuprisingly, deals with ills of the mind. This includes mental disorders, which can be helped with magical therapy; curing mental tampering; and dealing with actual brain damage at a suitable degree of skill – finding the injuries within the brain and putting them on the road to recovery, or relieving pressure on the brain from injuries to the skull, etc. The Chaos specialisation has been adapted to account for the non-Euclidian nature of many areas of the Courts, and the different stresses that this can put on the mind.
Related Studies: A better than usual knowledge of how the brain and nervous system works, and what can go wrong with it is needed – somewhat above the usual level taught at medical school. It also requires a fundamental understanding of the nature of the Courts of Chaos, so basic Logrus initiation is preferred (but not obligaory). Training in psychology/psychiatry is encouraged.
Specific Specialisation: Mental Magic (Logrus Madness)
This is a sub-discibpline of normal mental magic, and is specifically geared up to treat those who have walked the Logrus, and are suffering from Logrus madness. Specialists in this area work with the afflicted to bring them back to themselves following the profound experience that walking the Logrus represents. Sometimes, there will be a poor unfortunate who never recovers, in which case they will be looked after by Logrus Madness specialists within special facilities. Most of the Major Houses have one of these, while for other victims, there is a specialy facility located in Suhuyways, home of the Keeper of the Logrus.
Related Studies: For someone to truly understand the madness that walking the Logrus can call, they have to have experienced it for themself, and have come to terms with it. Those who treat Logrus madness are usually higher-order Logrus intiates.