Maelis
Maelis was a major goddess in the Thauzunian Orthodoxy, associated with healing, recovery, and bodily repair. In pre-Fall belief, Maelis did not represent compassion or miraculous cures, but the restoration of function. Her domain governed medicine, surgery, and recovery as technical processes rather than acts of divine mercy. Healing was understood as correction, not salvation.
Orthodox doctrine treated injury and illness as expected conditions of life rather than moral failings. Maelis oversaw the return of the body toward operational stability, whether through rest, intervention, or adaptation. Failure to heal was not considered divine punishment; it was an outcome of limits in knowledge, resources, or physiology. Her role reinforced a pragmatic approach to medicine.
Maelis was closely associated with physicians, surgeons, and medical institutions. Pre-Fall teachings emphasized training, documentation, and empirical observation. Healing without method was discouraged, and untested remedies were considered irresponsible. Maelis’s influence supported medicine as a discipline grounded in accumulated knowledge rather than spiritual appeal.
No knowledge of Maelis survives into the post-Fall era. There are no remaining references to her name, symbols, or medical doctrines in modern Vey’Zari society. The Thauzunian Orthodoxy itself is unknown, and with its collapse, all formal understanding of Maelis disappeared. She is not remembered or adapted into later belief systems.
Orthodox doctrine treated injury and illness as expected conditions of life rather than moral failings. Maelis oversaw the return of the body toward operational stability, whether through rest, intervention, or adaptation. Failure to heal was not considered divine punishment; it was an outcome of limits in knowledge, resources, or physiology. Her role reinforced a pragmatic approach to medicine.
Maelis was closely associated with physicians, surgeons, and medical institutions. Pre-Fall teachings emphasized training, documentation, and empirical observation. Healing without method was discouraged, and untested remedies were considered irresponsible. Maelis’s influence supported medicine as a discipline grounded in accumulated knowledge rather than spiritual appeal.
No knowledge of Maelis survives into the post-Fall era. There are no remaining references to her name, symbols, or medical doctrines in modern Vey’Zari society. The Thauzunian Orthodoxy itself is unknown, and with its collapse, all formal understanding of Maelis disappeared. She is not remembered or adapted into later belief systems.
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