Healer

Healer spells are second echelon spells associated with the Life element. They progress into Maker spells.

All Healer spells require body to body contact, so physically touching the target.

Name: Diagnose
Type: Healer
Description: This spell may not be performed as an action, requiring at a minimum several seconds of focused examination of their target. This spell may be cast on a fresh corpse that has not yet begun to decompose in order to assess the state of their body at the time of death.

This spell allows the healer to physically touch an organ, and in so doing learn everything about its current function. If it is damaged, if its function is impaired in any way, any abnormalities including magical ones, and so on. Because this spell requires physically touching the organ, in order to target anything other than skin it will require an exploratory surgery so that the healer is able to reach their fingers in there.

This spell is mainly intended for allowing medical researchers to learn exposition around what's going on with an injured, cursed, or diseased person. That the mage is required to cut into the person in order to make full use of the spell is deliberate. A surgery roll could fail, injuring their target and heightening the tension. That the spell works on corpses gives players an out in the event their subject does actually die, or they want to try to find a workaround for the spell's one caveat for whatever reason.