Bleeding blade to the best of my knowledge has no severing crits in the table. I maybe totally incorrect and would like to know but the bleeding system was put in place about 5 years after the mud was created which is when the original severing crits were created.
Bleeding blade doesn't use a bleeding system. It's simply a colourful name for a spell that adds cutting. Severs tend to cause bleeding.
The aether table could be simply toned down but many of the crits themselves could maintain their forum since they looked really neat. It's not that difficult to conceptualize.
How do you "tone down but keep the concept" of scattering one's equipment around the mud and absurdly silly things like that? I quite disagree that aether was "neat" conceptually. It was basically a bunch of random effects that made little sense, had no sense of balance and didn't add to atmosphere.
