Felblood Elixir

The Felblood Elixir is a potent healing elixir for the Undead that serves as a viable replacement for consuming the flesh and blood of the living. It's one of the most effective resources for triage among the Forsaken and it's introduction into Forsaken life proved to be a massive paradigm shift in how the Forsaken improve their longevity.

# History

## Creation

The elixir was created by Anevay Windrunner during the war against the Lich King. Due to choosing to fight on the Forsaken front as opposed to the Warsong front, Anevay witnessed firsthand how ineffective most methods of healing were for the Forsaken and opted to do something about it. Being a talented, self-taught alchemist, Anevay opted to use the Royal Apothecary Society's vast alchemical resources to conduct her own experiements. Observation of the Forsaken's tendency to consume fresh corpses to regenerate themselves led to Anevay trying to replicate the effect of consuming flesh and blood.

A breakthrough occurred shortly before the Wrathgate when Anevay noticed that Forsaken who used Fel Magic, like Warlocks, experienced minor regenerative effects. Further observation of the Dark Rangers and their tendency to absorb magic led to Anevay trying to combine the two effects. Using her own blood to experiment with, Anevay found success in combining the two elements of magical absorption. As Fel Magic burned life to sustain itself, consuming Fel-infused blood had an intensely potent effect. She fed an injured Forsaken a vial of her blood, and it healed him extremely quickly, however it also made him intensely blood-drunk.

Anevay contiued her experiments in using the blood as part of an elixir along with other common ingredients to focus it's effects while using less of her blood in the process. Eventually she managed to perfect the elixir in such a way that a single vial of her blood could be used to make up to 500 vials of the elixir. The effects were similar to powerful and expensive healing potions, though they took slightly longer to work and became the bread and butter of speeding up recovery efforts.

## Discovery

Sylvanas Windrunner was unaware of the existence of the elixir at first, but took notice of the fact that new parts for Forsaken were being requested less and less. She eventually discovered it when she suffered an anxiety attack in Anevay's quarters and Anevay hastily brewed an elixir to calm her. The effects of such haphazard creation left Sylvanas blood-drunk for the rest of the night. After she sobered up, she realized that Anevay had been drawing her own blood for the sake of her people and found it difficult to accept. The notion that someone would literally bleed for the Forsaken was unusual, and among the Forsaken the existence of the Felblood Elixir had a powerful emotional effect. It laid bare just how much Anevay cared for the Forsaken.

After it became public knowledge, Anevay had a vial of blood drawn by the apothecaries every two days.

# Effects

Felblood Elixir causes rapid regeneration of injured bone and tissue in the Undead, even going as far as to reverse the effects of rot. It's healing effects are so powerful that regular consumption can empower the Forsaken to a level similar to the Val'kyr ritual used on Nathanos. High doses can even reinvigorate the senses for a short time. However, as the elixir is consumed by the body and wears off, rot and decay slowly begin to return.

High doses also run the risk of making an individual blood-drunk, a form of inebriation that can be compromising both physically and emotionally. It's for this reason that the elixir is used in recovery and not deployed in the field. Elven Forsaken, such as the Dark Rangers, Banshees, and Sylvanas herself, are especially vulnerable to this inebriation.

The Felblood Elixir is extremely toxic to the Living, and kills them faster than the Blight. This is largely due to the Black Lotus used in it's creation.

# Trivia

* Nathanos Blightcaller has so far refused to ever consume Felblood Elixir.