LE Doctors in Skyrim

[TacticalAce]

Ok in a game where there is a lot of violence and even diseases I feel like there should be some people that are considered doctors. If someone catches a disease they should go to the doctor and ask them how to cure it. So basically the player can pay a large amount of money for a cure from the doctor or pay less for ingredients to a cure. Feel free to add to this idea.

[xaliqen]

Interesting, and potentially similar to Morrowind's alchemists? Of course, one can also look at other games (such as Assassin's Creed II) for their version of the apothecary.

 

I like the quest potential for this idea. In Morrowind there were a few memorable quests involving alchemists, perhaps something similar would suit the world of Skyrim?

[Aluminumfoil]

Why would anybody pay a doctor for a mundane remedy that will take a long time and might not work, when you could go to any skilled Restorationist or Alchemist and pay them to magically cure your disease instantly? Cure quests themselves are a fantastic idea, but for mundane injury or disease it just doesn't make sense in the universe, to me.

 

There was a great little cure quest in one of the mods I played with Oblivion. You got poisoned at the beginning of the quest, and you started dying slowly of stat loss. You had to track down a cure before it killed you. Something like that certainly works in Elder Scrolls: it just needs to be a special kind of poison or disease that Cure magic doesn't work on. Oblivion's Vampirism could be viewed as a cure quest, too, now that I think about it.

[kitsuneshoujo]

Alchemist = medieval pharmacist.

Apothecary = medieval doctor.