[Riverfall Location] The Gilia Medical Center

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While no one may seem to notice, the Gilia Medical Center is the one of the busiest buildings within the entirety of Riverfall. Considering the Akalak culture is founded in the strength and discipline of warriors, it is often very common that injuries occur among their people. Bruises, cuts and broken bones are a common daily occurrence within Riverfall, whether it is a result from raids, ImageRites or just every day training. The building itself is three stories tall, with a basement level below. A main entrance leads to a lobby on the first floor, where visitors come in and log their name and leave any and all weapons they have with the front desk. A pair of Akalak sentries are posted at the front desk to ensure such rules are followed. To the right, a single door with a staircase leading up to the other two floors and down to the basement for those visiting others. Patient entrances are handled on the other side of the building, as long decks and ramps leading upward lead to a wide side of swinging doors to each floor, save for the basement, which is accessed from within the building via a winding ramp leading down from staff only sections of the medical center itself. Along the west side of the building, a single tower, peeked with a lookout is present. The tower itself houses rooms for each of he staff who works there, while the lookout itself has an Akalak Sentry posted within, standing vigil and ready to raise an alarm in the event a threat of some sort begins approaching the hospital. After all, especially among the Akalak, individuals are most vulnerable when they are sick or injured. The first floor is reserved for the treatment of injuries of all kinds. Marble floors stretch for the entirety of the hospital floor as a single wall separates the lobby and the treatment area. The treatment area is lined with white walls, several wooden doors lining their paths. Each room within holds only one patient and is only large enough to hold three visitors. Treatment is done in-room, as generally one alone will see to the treatment of a patient (though it is not unheard of for the patient’s medical overseer to be assisted by two others if the treatment requires such). The second floor of the medical center is reserved for females during childbirth, and primarily the Akalak newborns of Riverfall giving birth to Akalak offspring. It’s layout is similar to the first floor, save for the fact that its staff is all female. Due to the great risks involved, especially to the mother, most deliveries of children are performed within the medical center itself, unless otherwise specified by the Akalak and the woman carrying his child. Every precaution that is available is taken to prevent the fatality of a female giving birth. After a child is born, the Akalak is then generally taken to his own room for cleaning and physical examination. The mother then is generally taken to the first floor of the hospital to recover and start the separation process between child and mother if the Akalak father wishes such. After an Akalak child is considered to be healthy and without complication, it is very often the child is sent home with the Akalak father on the very same day. The third floor is generally a floor who’s patients won’t often find a visitor for. It is here that patients suffering from illness’ and diseases are housed, some of which tend to be contagious and could spread through touch. Those with serious diseases will generally be quarantined off from other patients. The floors, walls and rooms are similar in design to the previous floors before it. However, every door to a patient’s room will generally be air tight, as well, for particularly dangerous diseases, magical precautions such as Shielding Magic empowered in Glyphing are used to further prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Finally, the basement of the Gilian Medical Center is normally where patients who didn’t make it, no matter the reason, are sent to. There, they will be inspected for cause of death if such is requested by next of kin, and prepared for final rest before a family comes to pick up their remains. For those who request such, or for deceased who have come down from the third floor, a cremation furnace also rests within the bowels of the Gilian Medical Center.   Karvin Lostrum Name: Karvin/Lostrum Gilia Race: Akalak DoB: 298 AV (214) PoB: Riverfall Title: Head Healer Skills: Healing 91, Herbalism 85, Philtering 75, Business 55 Gnosis: Rak'keli 3 Karvin is a second generation healer who's family has ran the Gilia Medical Center for all of its existence. They've sweated and toiled, building it up to what it is today by sheer dedication. Karvin and his dark brother Lostrum pull long hours at the healing center. They run the day to day operations of the place, hiring and firing people and acquiring the necessary needed supplies to keep everything from bandages to medicines in stock. Karvin is incredibly personable and considered one of the most approachable Akalaks in the city. He has yet to be a father and is said to be on the lookout for the perfect kelvic or Nakivak of Konti origins. Karvin's office has an open door policy and is often occupied by visitors, concerned relatives of patience or people who are trying to get in on Karvin's supply chain and be a seller to the prestigious institute.   Clarissa Name: Clarissa Race: Human DoB: 486 (25 YO) PoB: Syliras Title: Healer Skills: Medicine 73, Philtering 31, Massage: 42, Rhetoric: 28, Herbalism: 59 Gnosis: Priskil 1, Rak'keli 1 Clarissa is relatively new to Riverfall, having traveled from Syliras after hearing the rumors of how life for women would be easier within their city walls. And for a while, she did find things easier. However, after repeated offers from Akalak men were turned down, she eventually found herself having to work harder for what she needed. It wasn’t until she had saved the elder of a prominent Akalak family, from dying from injuries sustained in a raid, that her skill as a healer was recognized. Only a year had passed before she took over as the chief healer of the first floor, soon after the Medical Center’s previous chief healer died from natural causes.   Lorithi Name: Lorithi Race: Konti DoB: 386 (126 YO) PoB: Mura Title: Healer, Ex-Nakivak Skills: Medicine 42, Philtering 56, Teaching 34, Negotiation 80 Gnosis: Rak'keli 2, Avalis 1 It was close to a century ago since Lorithi had come from the isle, following the call, and like many Konti coming to the mainland, her arrival was not what she expected. Not even a season had passed before she was captured by slavers. She was fortunate in that this particular group merely used her body occasionally in their travels to sell her. Still, her empathic nature caused her to feel the vile nature of each one, every time they took her, and slowly it caused her to lose hope in ever finding the true nature of her call. Close to a year would pass, before she found saviors, these tall men with blue and cobalt skin tones. They were fierce in their attack of the slavers, dispatching each with a fierce savagery one moment, and a calm efficiency another. When the last slaver was left, he used Lorithi as a shield, hoping to barter her life for his own. One Akalak’s answer came in the form of a sharp Lakan, spinning through the air. It had merely grazed Lorithi’s hair before imbedding itself into the slaver’s head. Lorithi was saved, and even as one of the Akalaks, who spoke her native language fluently, began to explain to her that she now owed a debt to their race, she couldn’t help but feel her own call as she dropped to her knees and embraced the nearest one, wrapping her arms around his legs in gratitude. In Riverfall, Lorithi found herself lost. Lost to the customs, to the language, even to the customs when they attached her silver bracelet, marking her as a Nakivak. Looking around, she saw that others were as unaware as she. It wasn’t until the first who claimed their right, an Akalak named Delkort, that such was finally explained to her. Over the course of a year she spent with Delkort, carrying his son, she learned the Akalak language, their customs, the dual souls all Akalak carry, what it meant to be a Nakivak and the primary reasons why. It changed everything for her in the end. Not only did she see the Akalak as saviors, but when she discovered that the status of a Nakivak wasn’t primarily a means for an Akalak to find pleasure without commitment, but to continue their race, it made the call she heard all that much more clear. She discovered that she was helping to continue their race, and that was their primary reasoning. After they had saved her own from an existence she could barely fathom would end, giving her saviors children, doing her part to ensure their race survived, seemed the least she could do. In the end, she didn’t feel her Nakivak status a form of slavery, but a simple step she would be taking overall for her calling. After a short time, she had finally paid her debt to the city, but instead of leaving in search of other things, she turned her gifts of healing towards helping other expectant mothers within Riverfall, doing whatever she could to ensure that they would live through the birth of an Akalak, ensuring that further members of their race are born, and hoping to save the mother as well. While she is no longer a Nakivak, Lorithi still accepts offers to sire further Akalak children. The only difference now is that she gets to choose whom she sires a child for, and most often her generous nature towards such will favor those who have recently passed their Rite of Manhood, and who’s family line does not run long. She fells every family line should be allowed to grow, not just the prestigious ones who can afford to throw the most mizas at her.   Employment And Apprenticeships The Gilia Medical Center can always use help. They routinely take on apprentices and healers, even providing on the job training if necessary. See Karvin for training, teaching, or employment. *Credit for the original location goes to Baku.