Negative healing

[Barnabas Eckleworth III]

Was this ever officially defined anywhere?
I'm trying to not jump to assumptions based on knowledge of 3.5 or Pathfinder classic.
I assume it's a trait all undead have to be healed by negative energy.
But I don't know that. It could have more meaning. I don't see the definition anywhere.

[lordcirth]

Barnabas Eckleworth III wrote:

Was this ever officially defined anywhere?

I'm trying to not jump to assumptions based on knowledge of 3.5 or Pathfinder classic.
I assume it's a trait all undead have to be healed by negative energy.
But I don't know that. It could have more meaning. I don't see the definition anywhere.

Good catch. The phrase "negative healing" does not occur in the CRB, nor in the Bestiary except for stating that creatures have it. However, there is this on CRB 452:

"
Two special types of energy damage specifically target the living and the undead. Positive energy often manifests as healing energy to living creatures but can create positive damage that withers undead bodies and disrupts and injures incorporeal undead. Negative energy often revivifies the unnatural, unliving power of undead, while manifesting as negative damage that gnaws at the living.
"

[Barnabas Eckleworth III]

Cool. Thanks for the paste.
Hopefully they codify it in a second printing of the bestiary. I can make an educated guess, since I've been playing since the red boxed set. But a new GM might get a bit lost.