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[Star Wars] Could Darth Plagueis actually do any of that healing stuff, or did Palpatine make it all up?

Doesn't seem like a Sith Lord to take much interest in healing others. Seems like that would be a light side skill.
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Palpatine...*embellished*. Plagueis could certainly heal. Healing in general was a light side ability, but that was when taken from a philosophical perspective of 'righting the natural balance of the body'. Healing could also be done by a skilled dark side user, especially if handled from a purely scientific point of view by specifically manipulating the body itself to do what you want it to. If the differences sound ambiguous, that's because they are. It's a major problem with the Force, and one of the reasons it's easy to "fall" to the dark side. Basically it boils down to this. Light side healing is done by *helping* the body's healing process, whereas dark side healing is done by *controlling* the healing process.

Also, Plagueis was much more concerned with the technical aspect of healing and how it could be used to help him. He wasn't a local village healer or anything. He was working on discovering a way to achieve immortality in his own body rather than through something like essence transfer. The things about creating life (specifically creating, not resurrecting; that he *could* do, and used it to torture a rival) are where the embellishment came in; Plagueis was only able to do so once (with the help of Palpatine), and it was purely by accident. It wasn't something he could just pull out whenever.