Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26863727-20160617041255

While the Gondorians and Elves have a deep understanding of herbs, and the Eldar also have a touch of magic(I assume not all have as much magic "oomph" as someone like Elrond), the Atmoran people use other means to help patients recover and to maintain their health. Namely, common sense and trial&error.


 * Atmorans possess damn good anatomical knowledge. How? Cutting open a dead guy- if his permission was given in life, of course! The openings in the cadavers left by a battle can only show so much.


 * They have knowledge of what most organs are for- they figure the lungs have to do with breathing because they have air/empty space in them and are connected to the mouth and nose, that the heart has to do with blood because it's attached to the veins and arteries, and the brain... well, they figure it must have something it does. They don't think that the body would have anything in it that does nothing.


 * Their physicians wash hands and tools before sticking them in a wound for whatever reason- they've yet to find dirt inside a body, so they figure they shouldn't risk putting some in it.


 * They know of pipeweed smoking thanks to trade with Glosur's Dwarves, but it's illegal in the Empire. Back in TA. 20, the first Atmoran who tried it in a pipe as the Dwarf trader had shown him had a terrible fit of coughing at the first puff. This young man just so happened to be, well, Emperor Marius Tiberius Nerva, the one who was known for being the one who made the Empire bounce back from near anihilation in the early Third Age.  He thought about the cost of the substance. He thought about the coughing fit he had, which had reminded him terribly of the feeling of being choked by the smoke of the fires that had engulfed the Imperial Palace as Sauron's forces had swept through the capital of the still weak Empire when he was a boy. That is a story for another day. He spent the next several hours A), recuperating from the ensuing panic attack, B), doing a lot of math, and C) writing a bill to outlaw pipeweed, "to prevent the physical, moral, and economical deterioration of our society". To the end of the civilization, the border guards checked all travelers for the following things, in this order:

1. Signs that they were enemies.

2. Any "implements of unpleasant nature" which were banned for non-imperial persons(torture equipment, poison strong and plentiful enough to kill a person, etc.)

3. Pipeweed. 