[shatner]

I will say that putting healing on a cap-only, high-caliber mage is non-synergistic. Arco does it right by having a dinky, cheap mage-priest as their healer because having a priestess spend her mage-turn healing some wounded troops or a feebleminded astrologer is an acceptable use of her time... she's recruit-anywhere and inexpensive.

My two main concerns for the Saigu is that she should be magically distinct from both the Onmyo-ji and the Ryujin, AND she should be interesting. Healing is interesting, but it is far from being the only interesting thing we could give her. If you really want healing for the nation, we could make the Shugenja or Envoy of Ryu a weak healer.