Physician

Doctor, Healer, Medicine Man, Torturer, Vivisectionist

Physicians have detailed knowledge of how the body works, although they do not necessarily use that knowledge to heal. Some instead offer their skills to extract information by coercion, or further the depth of their education by questionable practices. A physician can take many guises, some examples being the medicine man of a tribe with his totems and fetishes; a local hermit or wise woman with their knowledge of herbs and poultices; or a court physician who can cure fevers and agues with compelx chemical remedies. Some doctors embellish their treatments with ceremonial theatrics, bogus medications, and even manipulative psychology.

Skills

• Standard Skills: Dance, First Aid, Influence, Insight, Locale, Sing, Willpower
• Professional Skills: Commerce, Craft (Specific Physiological Specialty), Healing, Language (any), Literacy, Lore (Specific Alchemical Specialty), Streetwise