"A hand for the most can be removed with little issue unless it happens to be the dominant hand, I know enough in the army who've suffered a wound without a healer or mage about to see them cutting it off to stop them from dying." And they get on well, grumble about it but some of them were happy enough - more than, men and women reliving their glory days no doubt - to discuss it with a little boy peering round a study door for stories. "I suppose for what I've heard of them doing with it, the hand makes the most sense but elsewhere...I mean lyrium for instance or people who spend too long around a Blighted thing? You can't cut it out. It's there, it's in them. I mean I hardly need to tell you that but the Blight I've seen in beasts and I've had to study it a long time, even a small wound that might otherwise come off and see them well? No. That much magic together could even be too much but obviously I'm no Mortalitasi."

He's Nevarran, he cannot help but deflect to them as the highest authority on magic; given that there are spirits there and this is something to do with the Veil? Maybe it wouldn't be so far off the mark.