Various Questions

[Jack_Trowell]

Originally Posted by shatner

Can afflictions caused by unremovable items (Eye of Aiming -> Lost an Eye, The Heart of Life -> Chest Wound, etc.) be healed with a healer, recuperation, Gift of Health or The Chalice? Can the chance of them occurring be mitigated by giving the commander regeneration ahead of time?

The only way I know would be to remove the cursed item first (by changing unit type with a shapechange ability or the transformation spell to a form without the cursed item slot, or by dieing (immortal unit, recalled god, ritual of rebirth ...)), as long as the item is equipped you cannot remove the affliction

Getting thos affliction when equipping the item is automatic, regeneration has no effect here.

Furthermore, can the starting afflictions on pretenders (for example the Forge Lord's limp or the Allfather's missing eye) be healed?

I'm almost sure that they can be healed.

Finally, does regeneration do anything to heal existing afflictions or is it solely preventative?

Regeneration will only lessen the chance to get an affliction when damaged.

To remove afflictions on a unit you can use any of the following methods:

- using a healer
- casting gift of health
- Chalice in same province
- units with recuperation
- immortal units heal afflictions with time too (I think that it works less often that with recuperation)
- changing unit ID (transformation, forced shapechange (not with the shapechange command, but with werejaguars transformation for exemple), transformation in wight or mummy with the appropriate rituals, ...
- unit being ressurected (immortal unit killed in dominion, god recalled after death, etc ...)

Undead cannot be healed by healers units, but gift of health and the Chalice works on then (say hello to the Tartarian factory )