Poison

Poison—also called atter, and lib/libb/libbe or libness often for magical poison or a nasty hex—is a natural or concocted substance that causes harm to living things. In nature it occurs as venom, the substance of plants, or a property of minerals. These kinds of substances, or harmless substances that when combined become a poison, are mixed by an apothecary, alchemist, or herbalist to create a more concentrated and reliable poison, often formulated to produce a specific effect.
A popular method for neturalizing poison is unicorn horn.
== Examples ==
=== Natural Poisons ===
* Nightshade
* Hemlock
* Arsenic
* Greatwort (Meadow Saffron)
=== Atteric Ingredients ===
* Spider Fang
* Snake Fang
* Scorpion Stinger
* Manticore Stinger
* Atterdrake Fang
* Atterdrake Venom
=== Alchemical Poisons ===
Those substances used in a mixture that becomes lethal
* Mandrake
* Poppy
* Nux Vomica
* Peach Pit
* Yew
* Castor
* Metals: Lead, Antimony, Copper
=== Poisonous Compounds ===
* Hebenon, Hebona: tetter/serpigo/rash, slowly curdles the insides, soon kills in large dose; best administered through the ear
* Nightbane: feverish fatigued state and horrific nightmares
* Cluth(e): weak poison used for being easy to control dose and effect, in low doses it particularly addles the brains of magi making spells difficult to cast and thus enchantments and woven spells must be relied on in that state
* Silverthorn: elven poisonmade from a plant that grows on a black lake in the Soreb Mountains of Northern Gretchland
* Bloach: causes bloating until bursting
* Dragonsand: victim feels the best they've ever felt before, then after 3 days of euphoria, the victim feels like they are burning up and the skin blackens and crumbles as if being burned by fire
* Moffun: lethal infecting fungus, grows out of grave of victim
* Carninen: fatigue and coughing; diminishing or killing through slow, chronic exposure (< HE carninén 'red water', distilled alchemically from carnondo, which can be various red minerals or an intermediate step to a philosopher's stone)
* Ulgar: causes spasms, and then wild loss of the mind, victims are known to froth at the mouth and can even bite their own tongues off in their furor
* Realgar + Natron
* Fumes of cinnabar, realgar, green vitriol, lodestone, [fifth substance] caught by a feather
== Methods ==
* Putting liquid in a drink
* Rubbing onto rim of a cup
* Coating the edge of a blade
* Coating just one side of a blade
* Swabbing onto cloth
== More ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_(poison)
== Sources ==
Ancient and Medieval Poisons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_toxinsCategory:Alchemy