Lifespan Magic

While a considerable amount of Enhancive Magic is dedicated to Enchantments, another large subset is dedicated to meddling with the soul or health. As described here, there are four principle ways of manipulating the soul, included as a subset of Lifespan magic as Soul Magic. In the more general sense, however, Lifespan magic includes anything which involves the health of the individual, whether manipulating the body or the soul.
Whether affecting the body or the soul, life energy from the practitioner propels some sort of change in the receiver. Though this may overlap with particular Wielder-Affecting Enchantments that protect the wearer, all forms of Lifespan magic are from body to body: in other words, the magic is always cast upon a living1 person2. By nature, Lifespan magic works off of whatever energy already exists in the receiver, and this cannot be used to affect things which lack energy of their own. (Of course, this does not prevent enchanting inanimate objects; simply that it requires methods detailed here.)
Whereas enchantments may be learned and practiced without much training, Lifespan magic requires much more training. In the case of Soul magic, this more often requires study under Life; some forms of Health Magic may be taught if the practitioner is already a doctor by scientific methods, but is still highly restricted.
In general, Health Magic requires less training and expertise for the rote magic than Soul Magic; however, the magic is nearly always combined with some form of scientific medicine, and may take an equal length of time in total training.
A small subset of Lifespan magic, dedicated to reducing lifespan, was practiced historically, minor illnesses turned into full-blown epidemics forced upon enemy countries, manifesting in either famines or plagues. The nature of Elemental Transformation remains that they are mostly immune to the effects of these, however, and so as magic among humanity has been restricted to the four nations, this has been almost completely wiped out.

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1 "living": in exceptional cases, solely practiced by deities, this may be broken; this os so rare however that it is better discussed on a case-by-case basis.
2 "person": Life and Death are known to affect animals and flora, but due to the duress undergone to practice Lifespan magic, most human practitioners prefer to save their resources for humans. There are exceptions, though, which will be discussed in greater depth with the use of magic for creation.

Articles under Lifespan Magic:

1. Soul Magic
2. Health Magic
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