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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 3182918" data-attributes="member: 46559">Thinking out loud:  What if clerics were given the divine gift of being able to perceive the body as a construct of positive energy, and damage to the body as pockets of negative energy.  They would be able to remove the damage by using positive energy to drive out or disrupt the negative energy.  The positive energy comes, of course, from prepared blessings/spells, and higher level spells contain more positive energy (or deliver it more efficiently).  This would explain why some clerics can sacrifice other prepared spells for healing spells; they are the ones whose prepared spells consist of controlled positive energy.  Serious wounds produce denser, more concentrated pockets of negative energy than minor wounds.  Experienced, tough fighters are ones who have trained their bodies to be healthy and resilient, i.e. have a higher concentration of positive energy, and are more resistent to the negative energy produced by wounds.  Under normal circumstances, the negative energy built up in wounds dissipates in death, leaving just an empty shell.  If through magical means the negative energy is not allowed to dissipate...  undeath!It could work, I think.  For verisimilitude, one might house-rule that spells like negative energy ray could not be transmuted into healing energy.</blockquote>