I have found there are few other schools of magic quite so effective at controlling a battlefield. It is also less lethal than setting someone on fire, which can aide in simply avoiding combat if the need arises.

[With the man they were tending to quickly stabilizing he ceased his healing, the remainder could be healed later or on its own, there were others in more dire circumstances that required tending to now. He wiped his hands on some cloth he had come by, then got to his feet seeking out another for them to tend to.]

I am called Solas, and yourself?