Lav Tash
Alive. Big. Long hair.
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Finding a Healer
The communities of Girasol are vast and diverse, yet in all, you can find the comfort of a healer. Before Microsia ushered in the age of greed, those who sought the tender care of a healer only needed to find the closest community. Now with Microsia’s expansion, medical practice is at an all-time low. Those who have the aptitude for healing are trained and pushed into classes better suited for “securing Microsia’s interests.” What would have become the next age of healers and protectors is now a swarm of warriors and mindless police. And to add salt to the wound, those who still practice medicine are now so heavily policed that their practices must be vulgarized for the comfort of the state and many practicing healers adopt the greed that Microsia imposes upon the good, honest people of Girasol. All this to say, what is labeled as a place of healing by “our” state is never going to be a place of healing, but instead a place of commerce. Only by turning to the communities most vulnerable and neglected can you discover the true care of a healer.
The healers that practice in these areas typically hail from similar poverty and therefore practice healing as an art derivative from their class, not as a means for profit. They can be found by the makeshift white tents and canopies they construct in the middle of urban centers or tent cities. These constructions are meant to be quick to set up and easy to take down and occasionally glow with various blessings and cantrips to promote a healing environment. And due to Microsia’s obsession with expanding profits, free medical care cannot be practiced openly, requiring that those who dedicate themselves to this manner of healing must also adopt a nomadic lifestyle. So if you are seeking a genuine healer, and cannot find the white tents where the working people thrive, all you must do is wait for the next healer to wander on in and set up shop. If your condition needs immediate care, do not be afraid to ask for help from the people in the area. These people are thriving under the shackles of Microsia will do everything in their power to ensure that you too can thrive.
-Lav Tash the Miraculous
Lav Tash's Guide to the Elementalist; Intro
Though I may be young, I have traveled far and have beared witness to the grotesque potential of corrupted minds. Through losing everything I have learned to embody the ways of the elements. Through my wanderings, I was blessed by Lady Rose to protect life. With these blessings of the elements and m’lady, I am dedicated to the protection of these elements and the life in which they sustain.
Elementalists are gifted the ability to “interface” with all four elements intuitively once the individual experiences a great loss. This loss allows for the will and its power to be deconstructed and then reconstructed in accordance with the elements. Though this is not the only path to elementalism, it is the most common path to elementalism. So many communities have turned into cities, rejecting and persecuting the individuals that once characterized these communities. This widespread rejection into poverty and houselessness, this loss of hope, is what largely drives Elementalists to this path. Once hope is seemingly lost, we embrace the elements we were thrust into and learned to live with them.
Becoming an Elementalist means that you will be able to call upon all of the elements. To common understanding, this includes fire the element of power, water the element of change, air the element of freedom, and earth the element of substance. However, through my escapades with the Lady and my friends, I have come across two other, distinct elements. One of which is light, which only manifests in matters of death and the other being shadow which is evoked when healing. I have yet to meet another Elementalist that wields such elements nor have I met a healer who wields shadows in their practice nor have I met a light-wielding mortician. However, through my shenanigans with Ramaria and Dulliander, I have come to realize that there is a great deal that I do not know.
Aside from what I don’t know, I intend to cover the extent to which the elements can be employed and how “best” to do so. I will also note the cultures surrounding the element and the ways in which these elements can be applied to each other to yield some rather unique bending practices. Since this became my introduction, I will also add here that not all who develop relationships with the elements do so in this manner, and even not all Elementalists become so in this manner. However, because this is how I became an Elementalist, the ways in which I teach bending and elementalism are going to be largely influenced by such.
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