Healing Hands

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez
Publisher Mongoose Publishing
Publish date 2005

The Sisters of Earth’s Mercy were a pseudo-religious order that developed a reputation, over the course of the order’s existence, as the finest healers and herbalists in the and. Though very few of them practised magic, they were able to accomplish amazing feats of healing with nothing more than a few herbs steeped in water, often able to surpass the effects of a healing spell. They were devoted to the study of the natural world and the processes of the body, holding to the philosophy that the body was an extension of the world itself, and through the resources provided by the world in the form of plants and minerals, any ailment of the body could be cured. The Sisters were an exceptionally strict and rigid order, however, and only grew more so as time passed. New recruits into their ranks became fewer and fewer, until the Sisters’ membership was reduced to a small handful of old crones, lamenting the impending loss of everything the Sisters had learned over the centuries. To prevent that loss, they set out to write down the sum total of their knowledge, so that their learning and Wisdom might not vanish from the world along with their order. They never finished, the last of the Sisters was found in their retreat by the gardener the order maintained, lying dead at her writing desk, pen in her hand. The greatest mysteries of the Sisters’ knowledge were lost forever, but that which they did set down on paper is a treasure trove of healing lore. Anyone who studies Healing Hands may use the information in the book to train his Heal skill up to 12 ranks. The book does not grant the reader any skill points, he must spend his own points if he wishes to increase his skill, but it does effectively take the place of a trainer.

Healing Hands: 400gp; 14 lb.