: in the same way you think that the Summoner used
: something totally unlike the unlife dream and
: necromantic spells to resurrect the Myrkridia (the
: time-space theory of the Tain you explained), i
: believe that SB used something unlike the unlife dream
: and necromantic spells as well to make him what he has
: become (the state of limbo he exists in). i can't just
: limit my explanation to SB's healing weakness in TFL
: to strictly necromantic means, but rather something
: different, something new, and something he knows about
: only (in the same way only the summoner knew about His
: abilities).
I think the SB explanation is simple. He's alive. He's preserved by some bizarre ritual whereby he mutilates himself and eventually cuts out his heart, which is STILL ALIVE and beating back in his temple. (This was the whole point made to Miguel back at that old MacWorld; he cut out his heart so that the only way anyone could ever truely kill him would be to find his heart and kill that too). Unhealing hurts him because it's healing the wounds that are sustaining his life, so he turns to crows and runs away before he can be healed fully healthy and die.
