Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-9601450-20131225183646/@comment-24180901-20140501084738

Yes, you are right about that. THIS ... IS ... SKYRIM.

Because that is true and because restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic I can see a system building on the "protected" status - you can hack and slash the other guy to your heart´s content until he submits, then apply shackles, gags and whatever it is that strikes your fancy.

All the while Colette preheats her thing and before the victim is well and truly dead she brings him back from the brink. Presto - instant nonlethal combat.

With this approach you circumvent the whole "unarmed and dangerous" thing if restorative magic is readily available and if (as is the current default) a quick application of "Close Wounds" fixes thirty inches of steel in your entrails.