Labrat wrote:
Here is a possibility that, while it does not truely convince me, has halfway interesting implications.
While the gods were deeply involved in the creation of elves, it is very possible that humans naturally evolved while the gods weren't looking. The bitch goddess inhabiting Ian would therefore not know how a half-elf is actually supposed to go together and Ian isn't a doctor so he wouldn't be able to correct her. She would either terribly fuck up the job (where I placed my bet) or would put her back together as something she actually understands... namely a full-blooded elf. All the human parts might actually be considered random aberrations that are actually part of the disease.
Another very good possibility is that the goddess is not actively supplying info so Ian is fixing Hacky McCoughcough by trial and error. 'Whoops... that doesn't work right. Um, that doesn't work right either. Lets try this...' He might get it right in the end but his solutions to biologival problems might be completly different from how the gods originally designed bipedal organisms. The poor woman might end up menstruating out her nose after this.
Even if she walks away perfectly 'healthy', she might still think she got the sour end of the deal.
Some cures are worse than the disease. Even if the disease involves death.
The unbiased opinion of most medical men of sound judgment and long experience holds that the amount of death and disaster in the world would be less if all disease were left to itself.
While I agree that Anilis probably isn't familiar with half-elven anatomy (even if the elf gods did create humans, I think they were hibernating by the time there were any half-elves), I don't see any reason to believe Ian isn't. He did study healing magic under Maxwel for a while, after all, so he presumably knows how a healthy half-elven body works.