The Five Warrior-Context Wounds

Five injuries that arise from protective work and are easily missed by everyone else — because the people trained to treat the visible wound are not usually the people who recognise these.

The layer beneath a physical wound. Someone struck also carries the shock-imprint of the strike: the abrupt disconnection from the body that protected them during it, and the residue that remains after the tissue has healed. The medical care addresses the injury; this layer often goes unaddressed and does not resolve on its own (Trauma, Healing).

Wounds carried from having done harm. Those who have taken life, or participated in what they now know was wrong, and turned back — these carry a specific weight. The canon's claim here is about who can accompany them: someone who has themselves stood in the destructive face can companion them in a way that someone who never has may not be able to. Hence the funeral discipline, which is this wound's prevention rather than its treatment (The Funeral Of Destruction, Atonement, Forgiveness).

Inherited wounds. Patterns carried from ancestors who fought, were tortured, killed, or were killed, running in a line until someone in it recognises them as not their own and clears them (Lineage, Exorcism).

The wound of the dying. Someone passing out of life carrying the accumulated weight of long engagement needs specific accompaniment through the transition — one of the oldest and most sacred functions named in this domain (Dying, Giving Birth).

And the disputed fifth: conditions presenting as ordinary symptoms. The canon claims that some presentations that look medical or psychological have a different source, and that addressing that source resolves them, "often unexpectedly fast." No case is named and no evidence is offered. The claim is recorded here because it is in the canon and because it is the class most likely to do harm if acted on: a person whose symptoms have a medical cause and who is treated at some other layer is a person not being treated. Nothing here replaces competent care, and the rule that governs the others governs this one — read the layer honestly, and where it is the body, it is the body (Healing Cannot Be Imposed, And Must Match The Layer, Mental Health).

Also called: the wound classes of protective work Stands on: Healing · Trauma · The Warrior As Restorer · The Threefold Capacity Opens onto: Healing Cannot Be Imposed, And Must Match The Layer · The Warrior-Healer Pair, And The Deferral · The Funeral Of Destruction · Dying · Lineage · Mental Health · Atonement · Rest And Regeneration In play: the Room — and any body whose members carry work like this Sources: LIØNSBERG Wiki Books/The Sacred Warrior Guidebook/Sacred Warrior — I.7 Healing, §Warrior-Specific Healing (unmarked) · lionsberg.wiki: The Sacred Warrior Guidebook Open: The second class as the canon states it — that clearing a non-physical source resolves medical and psychological symptoms, often quickly — is asserted with no case, no record, and no test, and is carried here only as the canon's claim, marked. · The taxonomy has never been checked against anyone's actual practice; it is one chapter's account.