So one of the really fun things about me and my gm (co-gm? we've talked about me doing sessions as well) talking about all the psyker shit we can do even just rules as written is that it gives us so much room to fuck about with Severa as a character.
Like, she's a biomancer with a specific medical focus. Normally from what I can tell Sanctioned Psykers whose specialty is biomancy aren't medics or doctors of any kind, the one that I do know of that's in the Rogue Trader CRPG uses his biomancy to torture information out of people and he has no idea really how to fix some guardsmen who died to shrapnel in the stomach. Can boil the shit out of their blood tho.
He's very offense focused. Which is fine! Not all psykers do shit the same way. But Severa? Severa is a rogue psyker who was specifically trained to be a ripperdoc in the underhive she ended up in. Some hive gangers saw an opportunity to make money off of her and that's what she did. Fixed people.
But rules as written in Imperium Maledictum as an unsanctioned psyker she doesn't have as much endurance to do Warp Bullshit as her sanctioned peers. Her Willpower Bonus is +4, meaning she only gets 4 warp charge before she's gotta roll to contain that shit.
This absolutely means she's gonna have to make some choices re: treating people. What can't be fixed with Seal Wounds has to be approached with Shape Flesh. Shape Flesh has a warp charge of 1 however you have to have a SL of +5 or more to do anything substantial with it. And both of us agree, this shit is painful.
So Dull Pain is WC 2, Shape Flesh is WC 1, but it might take multiple casts for her to be able to properly heal someone in a way that Seal Wounds can't handle. Seal Wounds is WC 2, and its a big ass heal! The target will heal their toughness + her willpower + SL and it removes the Bleeding effect.
If she were to heal Trudi (Ogryn friend of hers) it'd be like 5+4+x and even assuming its a SL of 1 that's ten fucking wounds right there. However if Trudi got blinded due to say, a Scab Bomber's grenade, Seal Wounds isn't gonna fucking cut it and she's gonna have to do Shape Flesh.
Seal Wounds is good for immediate injuries, but its gonna do what it says on the tin. Seal the Wound. The only condition it removes is Bleeding, anything else she's gonna have to stop and think about what's wrong and how to fix it. She can't just chant Healing Word can Trudi run off to get killed again. Especially if we steal some Dark Heresy rules where the bigger the heal the more taxing it is for the psyker in question.
Its good shit and I love the slow tactical thinking of Space Wizard Healing and how it'll affect Severa