Although healers were relatively common in the remote parts of Paladia, vivimancy was rare enough that there were all kinds of claims about what vivimancers were capable of—that they could enthral the living just as necromancers enthralled the dead, for instance, and perform unspeakable transmutations upon living flesh. Helena used to think these views of vivimancers unreasonably harsh, but now as Stroud’s subject, she began to understand.
