CHAPTER 4 | THE MARK OF HEALING 99The Mark of Healing.................................................
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life with a touch, restoring vitality and the will to
live. When dealing with mundane medicine, the
mark helps its bearer sense the nature of maladies
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equipped with dragonshard focus items, the mark
can even draw the dead back from the depths of
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HOUSE JORASCO
The Healer’s Guild provides a vital service
to Khorvaire, and the Last War ensured that
there was great need for healers. The guild runs
the schools that teach medicine and houses of
healing that provide both mundane and magical
services. If it could save a life, it’s probably tied
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you have the gold, Jorasco healers can remove
a disease instantly with lesser restoration. If you
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with mundane techniques (the Medicine skill).
House Jorasco is also the source of potions of
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for payment, the leaders of the house maintain
that it’s not about greed; it’s about ensuring the
survival and prosperity of the house, so they can
continue to help future generations.
While the public face of Jorasco is that of the
healer, there are rumors that the house engaged
in disturbing experiments during the Last War,
working with House Vadalis to develop biological
weapons and strange new creatures. A Jorasco
heir will have to decide if they want to investigate
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are true.
DRAGONMARKED CHARACTERS
Here are a few examples of characters who carry
the Mark of Healing.
Noble Cleric. You are one of the heirs of
Baron Ulara, the matriarch of House Jorasco.
Your mark is remarkable (and the source of your
clerical abilities) and you feel that you’re just
beginning to unlock its power. Are you willing to
devote your abilities to your house? Or do you
think that you may have a greater calling?
Folk Hero Bard. You served as a medic in
the Last War, using humor and stories to keep up
the spirits of your patients. You’ve seen too much
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You’ve broken away from the house and you’ve
been doing charitable work in your community.
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Criminal Rogue. You grew up as an orphan
in Sharn. One of your parents must have been
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the Boromar Clan, a criminal guild run by
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hurt people. Now you need to decide which path
you want to follow.MARK OF HEALING TRAITS
The Mark of Healing manifests exclusively on
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Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score
increases by 1.
Medical Intuition. When you make a
Wisdom (Medicine) check, you can roll one
Intuition die, a d4, and add the number rolled to
the ability check.
Healing Touch. As an action, you can
draw power from your dragonmark to spend
one of your Hit Dice and revitalize yourself or
a creature you touch. Roll the die, add your
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number of hit points equal to the total. Once
you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you
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