Skin
Names: SkinmembraneSkin chamberSkin-tank deviceSkin-tanktankhealing Skin
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 39 (1)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 6Skin is a psychoactive membrane in which patients are healed en masse, using the patient's own mind and body energies guided by a redactor.
- Ch 6Healing cannot restore brain injuries, the decapitated, those past full brain-death, or aged minds that have deteriorated too far.
- Ch 34The Skin is a thin transparent membrane that the strange woman says brings life, not death, and will remove the prisoners' gray torcs.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 13A healing technique whose success depends on the practitioner's skill and the patient's willpower; Felice's creator-coercer is held in it at Afaliah.
- Ch 18The Skin is a transparent healing sheet from Dionket's pouch that covers the mother and lets the child be brought forth with healing.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 14Greggy says the Skin-tank device looks promising and he has volunteers eager to try it on Howlers.
- Ch 17The Skin-tank wraps a patient in membrane and feeds regenerative commands to the sleeping brain; there is a risk of death or worse deformity.
- Ch 26The Skin-tank is Greg-Donnet's experimental cross between healing Tanu Skin and a regeneration tank, meant to ease Howler mutant deformities.
Connections
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