Healers Beyond Realms: An International Organization of Saviors

Healers Beyond Realms

An International Organization of Saviors

Healers Beyond Realms, HBR for short, is a neutral international organization comprised of mundane doctors, kah users, magical healers, clerics whose mission is to provide medical care and relief in conflict zones, impoverished areas, and warzones to all injured and suffering within those place. Founded in the aftermath of the combined alliance of the Sea Wars in the First Epoch of Flame, HBR has since been seen around the known world giving aid and care to all combatants, non-combatants, and civilians in the areas they operate in. They are funded by a world council of multiple nations along with private charities that buy their equipment, provide transportation, and pay their healers salaries. They are given special privileges and access to the areas they operate in that very few organizations have. Along with this worldwide laws have been enacted that outlaw combatants hurting or killing them. An offending party will be punished by the healers not being required to heal the offending party's wounded along with incurring sanctions upon any nation that trespasses on their mission. Some groups and nations disregard this and beyond intentional harmful intent, being an HBR is a dangerous job that pays less than a contractor doing the same work for a specific side. HBRs are picked from strong-willed individuals that understand the dangers they face and are willing to make sacrifices and put themselves in peril to do their jobs. 

HBRs are hated by Tierians, claiming them to be a subversive equilibratist conspiracy while even some equilibratists are wary of what they represent due to the way they are funded. That does not prevent nations such as the Uhlionic Republic from allowing them within hot zones they operate in and they have a special relationship with the Republic in much the same way Gravemarker Templars do in that their special skills warrant privileges others do not receive. While a majority of their funding comes from Harmonist nations, HBRs do receive patronage by equitianist and traditionalist nations as well, with the Republic and Wakunan making up near 39% of their total funding. The latter nation has multiple monks and healers involved in HBR.

HBRs in the Grush War

HBRs partook in the Grush conflict and treated both sides. While having to dodge fire from the Uhlionic and the Thralish alliances before they were recognized, they were often given the access they needed to heal both the armed forces and the civilian urkain caught in the crossfire. Temporary hospitals set up by them were left alone and they often mediated disputes between different troops from opposite sides being housed in the same buildings. The Neo-Firmament forces did not treat them differently from their enemies in Uhlionics and their allies and hospitals containing HBRs have been shelled and individuals of the organizations murdered. While tolerated for a while by the Thralish side, the Commonwealth needing the extra help to wage a war a longways from their homeland, these murders had a huge effect on public and national support of the Thralish alliance.