Healmace

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Go forth and healmace!
—Oscar Wilde, Tyari


The eponymous Healmace is a meme spawned from the random conversation of the Community.

Origins

The term healmace originally referred to War Mace of Unrequited Love which played a part in the storyline of Keristrasza and (what appeared to be) Malygos' crush on her.

Sadly for Keristrasza, the crazy wyrm captured her during the assassination of his former consort, brainwashing her to become the replcement. She is later fought in The Nexus. The mace which then drops from her would appear to refer to her unrequited, forced love.

Speculations over how a war mace could aid in the event of unrequited love among the community were that such issues would easily be solved with a quick blunt crack over the head with the war mace, which was a healer mace. Thus the exclamation "HEALMACED!" came into being.

Further mutation

After a few weeks, the meme began to evolve and mutate. Aside from becoming the local equivalent of the banhammer, or perhaps even more, the weapon started being used by everyone with the guts to declare ' Healmace ! ' on the chat. Not long did arguments start to flow, the ultimate tool became exclusive to Dennet, sometimes lent by Iseri.

Tyari, for reasons to this day unfathomable, started associating the object with the famous Irish poet, Oscar Wilde. Thus, the Healmace became even more encouraged (see quote on top of the page).

Use

The Healmace, as stated before, is the Community's equivalent of the banhammer. It is an ultimate tool capable of obliterating anyone's privilege to speak, or even to exist in the domain of the chat. Later on, it expanded to being capable of ensuing wholesome oblivion of anything it comes in contact with under even the slightest force.

Healmace is also used as a degradatory term applied to one-handed maces with (former) bonuses to healing, deeming them but a fraction of Healmace's awesome power.

The term can also be used as an innuendo, though this is far seldom. The last meaning is a threat, in a tongue-in-cheek way.