(09-27-2011, 02:29 PM)Uthaniel Wrote: [ -> ]Nature magic, in my opinion, heals by greatly enhancing your body's natural healing speed. This means a troll would perhaps heal a lost limb using nature magic, but not a human.
That said, however, Nature magic is also employed through the spirits, or nature itself. They are supernatural in nature, and as a consequence, so are their abilities. They "transcend the normal", and thus, can make a shaman or a druid fully heal a destroyed limb.
The deal is the same with the Light.
In other words: Magic is magical. It breaks the norm, does the impossible. Does it have limits? Perhaps. Are they clearly outlined? No.
Pretty much this, with a few differences.
Basically, magical healing in Warcraft, by my own interpretation, is restoring a person's physical body, according to their cellular memory and the fractal patterns inherent in their genetic code.
Since most people don't get what that is, I'll try and explain.
Basically, your body has, stored inside it, the blueprints for how you are(as a whole individual). If an arm is chopped off, your body isn't whole anymore. Healing magic is essentially energy that uses the blueprints in your cells to rebuild your body and make it whole and healthy again. This applies to curing diseases, healing lost limbs, and even resurrection.
Which is why you can resurrect someone with just their ashes, or hell, even a cell, or fecal matter from the person that killed and ate them.
As long as you have a single cell of a dead organism, it can be resurrected, because stored in its cellular memory are the fractal patterns - the genetic code - through which the body can be rebuilt.
Now, the two types of healing magic do the same thing, but in different ways, in my opinion.
Nature magic invigorates the body, and urges it to regrow through the means it grants. Basically, super-regeneration and nourishing, a la Wolverine from the X-Men. Hence Regrowth, Rebirth, Rejuvination, Etc.
Light magic infuses the target with divine energy, making them whole through said divine will, through the belief of the caster. It's not really regeneration, as much as it is miraculous healing.
A point I would like to make is that I've treated the same as applying to Forsaken/DKs, when the caster uses Shadow to repair undead bodies. Thus, through a treatment of Shadow/Unholy, the Undead body returns to a post-death pristine state. Though the cells are dead, cellular memory allows the body to be restored to wholeness through Unholy magic. Oh yay. Deaders are now healz0rd.
Still, nothing Player Characters can do can rezz the Undead into being alive in the WoW setting. Just back into being Undead.
TL;DR: Yes, Light and Nature alike can restore limbs, rezz people, and repair damaged organs.