(01-03-2015, 11:32 PM)Kinono Wrote: I wonder how likely cesarian section-style births are? Given the prevalence of preventative and responsive healing magics... Given the right people with the right skills in the right location, I could see this being "common enough."Real World, cesarean births have been documented as far back as 200BC, it seems? Â It was typically done only when the mother was already dead. There is some evidence that during the later part of the Roman era that a living mother did survive up to 25% of the time.Â
And during the 1800's, European explorers in Africa observed indigenous tribes performing successful cesarean-sections on numerous occasions, and the survival rate for the mothers was quite high -- the procedures were highly developed among these people, so there was evidence that even though the people were 'primitive', they'd been performing them for a long time.
So... in theory, if the practice was achievable by primitive peoples, it could be achievable in a setting like the game has. Keep in mind, though, that at the same time these primitive people were developing their advanced techniques, surgery of any kind was illegal in some of parts of 'civilized' Europe.
