Nana Pine

Nana Pine is a young healing witch whose work makes survival possible for Border Town's soldiers and helps turn public opinion in favor of witches. She begins as a frightened student who asks whether she will be hanged, but becomes a disciplined medical worker trusted by civilians and the First Army. Her power can reconstruct severe physical damage when treatment begins before death, yet it cannot reverse death, independently cure disease, or permanently overcome every magical and environmental injury.

Biography

Awakening under threat

Nana is a student at Karl Van Bate's school and the daughter of a declining local noble family. She is known as lively, distractible, and more interested in watching insects than attending lessons. Her ordinary cheer disappears when she awakens and remembers the apparent execution of Anna. She confides in Karl and asks whether she will be hanged as well. Karl, already ashamed of having repeated Church doctrine and failed to protect Anna, approaches Roland Wimbledon in the hope of saving his second student. Roland promises that Nana will not be punished merely for being a witch. (Chapters 10 and 13–14)

Nana first discovers her ability while trying to help a bird with a broken leg. Roland tests the power and establishes its central rule: it repairs injuries in a living body, but does nothing once the subject has died. He allows her to remain with her father rather than separating her from a family that has not rejected her, while arranging regular practice at the castle beside Anna. This makes Nana unusual among the early witches of Border Town—she retains a civilian home and family life while gradually entering Roland's developing witch community. (Chapters 14–15)

Her first military work changes more than individual outcomes. During the Months of Demons she treats wounded militia members who would otherwise die or remain disabled. Roland openly associates their recovery with Nana, judging that firsthand gratitude will challenge Church propaganda more effectively than abstract argument. The soldiers call her the “Lady with the Lamp” and regard her as an angel. Nana's visibility is therefore both medical service and a public test of coexistence: the town learns to connect a witch with restored lives rather than disaster. (Chapters 35–44)

From protected child to working healer

Nana's importance grows with Border Town. She restores Ashes after a firearm tears through the Extraordinary's sword and abdomen, demonstrating that she can repair catastrophic damage if the patient is still alive and the remains are available. During an outbreak among arriving refugees, however, Lily is the one who neutralizes the disease-causing agent; Nana treats patients whose illness has already produced open physical damage. The division clarifies that healing trauma and curing disease are not the same ability. (Chapters 167–168 and 217)

By the following winter, Nana follows a daily routine at the medical center. She waits for patients, practices on animals when none arrive, and remains available from morning until night because prompt treatment can decide whether an injury becomes fatal. Miners, kiln workers, laboratory apprentices, and soldiers all benefit. Their greetings and small gifts give her a sense of achievement, and she explicitly connects this acceptance to Anna's advice that prejudice must be confronted rather than avoided. Karl's visit lets him see that the frightened pupil he tried to protect has become a public figure who corrects even his fatalism: Neverwinter's changes, she says, come from human effort. (Chapters 403–404)

This medical role also changes the town's politics. When Roland exposes the Church's crimes, citizens use Nana's treatment as personal evidence that witches are not inherently evil. Her name becomes the central example in public speeches and later in an illustrated story intended to normalize witches across the kingdom. By then the fifteen-year-old healer is famous beyond the clinic, and other young witches cite her as the person they want to become. The reputation rests on sustained work rather than ceremony: Nana's service turns an argument about witches into a network of patients and families with reasons to defend them. (Chapters 419–422, 575, and 758)

Medicine under expanding war

As Roland's wars move beyond the Western Region, Nana becomes strategic support. She travels or is brought forward when casualty levels justify the risk, treats wounded riflemen after major engagements, and allows soldiers with otherwise fatal injuries to return to life without permanent impairment. Her availability raises morale, but it does not erase death: soldiers killed immediately cannot be restored, and transporting a wounded person to her remains a race against blood loss and bodily failure. During the Battle of King's City, the expedition against the Church, and later anti-demon operations, reports distinguish those she can still save from bodies already sent to the rear. (Chapters 449, 507, 624, and 629)

The growth of the army exposes a second institutional limit—one healer cannot treat everyone at once. After the first large battle on the Fertile Plains, Nana must triage fatal injuries while field medics handle lesser wounds, and some soldiers die because needles have to be removed before they can be transported. In the failed ambush against the Magic Slayer, she remains at the front for days treating the most critical survivors before Andrea's nonfatal leg wounds reach the front of the queue. Her power makes extraordinary rescues possible, but the First Army still needs ordinary medical training, prioritization, transport, and infection control. (Chapters 984–989 and 1167)

Encounters with injuries magic cannot simply erase

Nana's later cases define the edge of her power. A strange wound inflicted through the Magic Slayer's curse refuses to close even though it looks minor, showing that an ongoing magical effect can prevent normal reconstruction. Experiments with radiation injuries reach a similar but distinct boundary: she can repair some damage, yet contaminated tissue deteriorates again, and complete reconstruction lies beyond her unaided ability. These failures puzzle and upset her because they break the dependable relationship between visible injury and successful treatment, but the reports treat them as medical findings rather than personal shortcomings. (Chapters 1041 and 1118)

At the latest confirmed stage of her work, Nana is alive and still integrated into Neverwinter's medical system. She treats the wounded after the Taquila victory and remains a familiar standard of honesty and common sense among the witches afterward. The corpus does not give her a final retirement, reassignment, or independent political office; her latest established role remains that of a healer whose value is greatest when combined with a larger medical organization. (Chapters 1167 and 1229)

Appearance and personality

Nana is a child when she awakens and is identified as fifteen years old by the time her illustrated public story is released. The corpus emphasizes her youth and expressive behavior more than fixed physical details: she laughs easily, pouts when Roland's animal tests seem cruel, and is repeatedly described by others as a little girl or “Miss Angel.” It does not provide a dependable height, eye color, or consistently repeated hair description within the reviewed evidence. (Chapters 10, 15, 403, and 575)

Her natural disposition is warm, sociable, and somewhat playful, but not careless about patients. She dislikes seeing living subjects hurt for tests, enjoys food and companionship, and misses the time Anna could spend with her. At the medical center, however, she accepts boredom and long hours so that injured people will not have to wait. The result is a credible development from a child seeking protection to a young professional who takes pride in being useful without becoming solemn or distant. (Chapters 15, 106, and 403–404)

Nana's courage is primarily moral and repetitive rather than martial. She does not fight on the front line, yet she works close enough to battles to receive casualties, faces severe trauma directly, and publicly lives as a witch among people who once feared her. When her power fails against an unfamiliar wound, she reports that failure instead of pretending certainty. That honesty is part of her medical value: she is confident about what she can restore and visibly troubled by effects she cannot explain. (Chapters 403, 882, 1041, and 1167)

Magic and abilities

Restoration of living tissue

Nana channels magic through direct contact with a living patient. She initially describes the sensation as something flowing from her hands and surrounding an injured bird; observers instead see wounds close at a visible rate. The power repairs cuts, bruises, fractures, torn tissue, and extreme bodily trauma. Severed parts can be reattached if recovered and placed correctly, while dirt and other foreign matter are expelled during restoration. The result can return a patient to their prior physical condition rather than merely accelerating scar formation. (Chapters 14–15 and 167–168)

The absolute limit is death. Once the test animal dies, further treatment has no effect. Early tests also show that a wholly missing part does not simply grow back, whereas later treatment succeeds when the missing tissue is recovered and reconstructed. Nana therefore depends on rapid access to a still-living patient and, for the worst wounds, preservation of the damaged body. Her ability does not replace extraction, transport, or the judgment needed to determine who must be treated first. (Chapters 15, 167–168, and 984–989)

Disease, contamination, and magical interference

Nana repairs the damage disease causes but does not eliminate the disease agent itself. Lily's microscopic control is necessary during epidemics, while Nana treats broken skin and other advanced injuries. Magical curses can also sustain a wound faster than she can close it, and radiation contamination can re-damage tissue after an apparently successful repair. A proposed full reconstruction of a cursed body requires Spear Passi's channeling ability and exceeds Nana's power alone. (Chapters 217, 850, 1041, and 1118)

Her magic reserve and time are finite even when an injury is treatable. Large battles force triage, and a surge of wounded people can occupy her for days. The corpus does not establish a precise daily number of patients or a fixed maximum wound size; severity, timing, and the number of simultaneous casualties all matter. Claims that she can save anyone who reaches her should therefore be understood as morale-building shorthand, not resurrection or unlimited capacity. (Chapters 44, 507, 984–989, and 1167)

Clinical experience

Repeated practice gives Nana experience beyond raw magic. She maintains a clinic schedule, tests on animals when idle, recognizes when treatment is behaving abnormally, and works within a system that includes field medics and witches with complementary powers. She is not presented as a conventionally trained physician capable of diagnosing every disease. Her expertise is the disciplined application of an exceptional restorative ability and the judgment to admit when a case falls outside it. (Chapters 403–404, 1041, and 1118)

Relationships

• Roland Wimbledon: Roland protects Nana after Karl reveals her awakening, tests and organizes her ability, and makes her healing central to both military medicine and public acceptance of witches. Nana trusts him, eats at the castle, and adopts his emphasis on human effort, while retaining enough independence to disapprove when his experiments hurt animals. (Chapters 13–15, 44, and 403)
• Anna: Anna is Nana's earliest witch friend and training companion. They practice and play together, and Nana later credits Anna with teaching her to face prejudice openly. As Anna's engineering duties grow, Nana misses their earlier time together but follows a parallel path into demanding public work. (Chapters 15, 106, 297, and 403)
• Karl Van Bate: Karl is Nana's teacher and the first adult to act on her fear of execution. His appeal brings her to Roland, while her later safety and public service help heal his guilt over Anna and the old stonemasons' tragedy. Nana respects him but corrects his claim that divine intervention, rather than people's choices, created Neverwinter's change. (Chapters 10, 13–14, and 403)
• Lord Pine: Nana continues living with her father after awakening. He accepts her ability, bargains with Roland around her service, and becomes enthusiastic about the weapons used to defend the town. Their home life is affectionate but imperfect; Nana notices his absences and wishes for a more complete household after her mother's death. (Chapters 14, 39, and 403)
• Lily: Lily's disease-control ability complements Nana's restoration. Their work distinguishes internal causes from physical damage and becomes the foundation of Neverwinter's early medical system. Lily sometimes resents Nana's public popularity, yet recommends her example of direct service and supplies treatments for cases Nana cannot reach personally. (Chapters 217, 404, and 850)
• Andrea Quinn: Andrea is one of many combat witches whose survival depends on Nana after the Taquila ambush. Her wait behind more critical patients illustrates both Nana's importance and the triage imposed by limited capacity. (Chapter 1167)

Items

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