Edviere (eh-d-vee-air)
Often a collection of buildings, sometimes one, the edviere is well known as the epitome of healing knowledge and culture, one that the dovicorlands in charge of them are both proud and defensive of. While holding more than simply hospitals, the buildings involved are all in support of healing culture and the promotion of teaching such culture to the next generations of dovicorlands.
Purpose / Function
As dovicorland culture is not only focused upon healing, but their society is built around it, the edviere is not only the hospital(s), but the living and breathing heart of dovicorland society. They eat, sell, buy, play, and learn within the edviere. Those who live outside an edviere spend as much time inside of it as they do in the rest of the city, town or village.
From an outsider’s perspective, the edviere is mainly hospital and school, for people would focus upon the healing houses foremost, as that is what any dovicorland would focus on.
Architecture
The particular build and set up of any given edviere depends on whether it is set in dovicorland lands and the size of the population around it. However, no matter the size or location, the centre of every edviere is the main hospital. This is where instruction takes place and where backups of all records are held, when not held in the hospital the records were initially made. Depending on the speciality of the area is what types of healing are given the most space, but the layout tends to come in diamond sections, making it easy to ascertain where you are within any edviere - as long as you are aware of the city’s foci.
Ganeid Edvieres
City
The edvieres with the largest populations tend to be built with the siliceous stones which are most common to the area: such as granite, quartzite, bluestone, and naunthin. Outside of the central hospital, there are additional buildings at every point around it. The largest edviere, in Alridgeham has 128 hospitals. Some are much smaller clinics, meant for lesser injuries and illnesses, or immediate assistance within its particular section before the patient can be taken to the most appropriate sector.Towns and Villages
Smaller edvieres still are set up as the largest ones, though with fewer hospitals and usually with more magical devices. If unable to put together an edviere with siliceous stone or other easily maintained materials, the buildings will be imbued with a magic to make them more so than they would naturally be.Homesteads
For dovicorlands who live outside of town, their own homes become the edviere for the area. Those who are unable or unwilling to become healers in their own right are always very aware of which of their neighbours are the strongest healers. In this way, country dovicorlands organize a very separated yet similar edviere to any more largely populated one: the most highly esteemed healer as the centre and other able healers as the smaller sections of the edviere.Foreign Edvieres
In places where dovicorlands are a minority and with the inability to build an edviere, they make do with the locations they have. As with the homesteads in Ganeid, foreign edvieres always have their central “hospital” which is the home of the highest ranked healer, followed by the other “hospitals” which are the homes of the other dovicorlands in the town or city. Unlike in Ganeid, even the homes of dovicorlands who are not healers are considered part of the edviere, as the edviere is the centre of dovicorland culture and society, so in a place with little of either, even a low ranked dovicorland would be important (let alone even a non-healer would still be considered to know more about healing than non-dovicorlands).History
It is said that once upon a time the edviere was simply one building, what one would consider a hospital. However, as healing knowledge increased and dovicorland ability to recognize more injuries and disease did as well, more dovicorlands became healers. Therefore, the edviere grew into not only one building, but many. An outsider might consider them all one hospital, but it is all one edviere, many hospitals, and the other businesses and homes that are situated between them.
Tourism
Dovicorland are not fond of tourists, not even of their own kind. The only ones they allow to view their edvieres in such a matter are others in the healing profession - and even then it is unlikely for those to not be a fellow dovicorland. However, there are exceptions made upon occasion for certain healers of another species. Yet they are definitely not tourists, but guests, lecturers, or transferred staff for a short time.
For dovicorland healers, an attempt to “tour” another city’s edviere other than their own often ends up with their continued service in that place for some time before they can return home. This is normal, not unexpected, and generally what a dovicorland healer desires when they go to “tour” another edviere. Often this is used to see if they can work more closely with a healer from a different edviere, of which they were unable to get a letter of introduction for.
Alternative Names
Vicor’s House (foreign-based), City of Medicine