For many generations ancient Menders lived among the other peoples and exchanged their talents for sustenance. In the World of the Three Suns, only the snow-white skinned people possessed unique healing abilities.
Fisher had served Saligia’s father Dydracks and Grandfather Wort. The Mender had treated Saligia for many infirmities. The pale healer neither aged nor changed. Lore held all Menders looked and acted the same. The healers were totally neutral…what an odd alignment! Menders didn’t cast spells. Menders combined Nature’s ingredients and created Magick remedies. Neither Kiennish shamans nor Drelvish elders and ultra rare Spellweavers understood Menders’ talents.
Did Menders belong to Nature, Magick, both, or neither?
The pale healers commanded great knowledge of natural and herbal remedies. For instance, Fisher’s sleep poultice contained thirteen herbs and spices. Specifically, valerian root, dream fruit, passionless fruit, booderries, byneberries, melon toning, butter fly, slumber berry, nodding ham, kava kava, lavender, rose petals, and a live cricket. The identity of the ingredients was commonplace knowledge. Only Menders knew the secret of mixing the ingredients and creating the cataplasm.Fisher typified the ultra rare Menders. Given the opportunity, a Mender healed a warrior and then the warrior’s enemy. Mender’s nature precluded haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, feet swift to run into mischief, deceitful witness that uttered lies, and sowing discord among brethren. Menders were neither loyal nor disloyal. Menders did not display lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Likewise Menders did not show signs of chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. Menders did not seek adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, “and such things.”
Menders understood mending.
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