Disease, Illness, Sickness, and Poison

There are various unique **diseases, illnesses, sicknesses**, **and poisons** in the Ethuveraz. Common maladies include headaches.

## Asteliär

Asteliär is typically used as a perfume to rebuff suitors. “If the dose was small enough, a person might survive swallowing the distillate of its flowers, but only after days of vomiting. And it would be terribly easy for the dose to be just that fraction too large." Traditionally, trials by ordeal in Amalo were to ingest a dose of asteliär.

## Borlaän

Borlaän can be contracted in childhood and cause permanent physical disability in the form of a limp and physical weakness, and possibly some mental confusion.

## Brainstorm

Brainstorms are sudden and leave their victims bedbound, with difficulty moving, speaking, staying awake, and with their awareness and memory. Victims tend to die relatively close to experiencing a brainstorm.

## Bronchine

A bronchine is a disease that can be brought on by exhaustion, hunger, cold, and wet, and can be deadly, but is treatable, and survivable without apparent lasting effects. A symptom is a "terrible rattling cough".

## Burn out

Something that tends to happen to Witnesses for the Dead after a certain period of years practicing. It is when they lose their abilities to Witness that way, and can be brought on by an intense use of their abilities, though this is abnormal. Thara Celehar was a little too young for it when he experienced it.

## Calonvar

Calonvar is a slow and deadly poison that, when ingested, mimics enteric fever and morning sickness, and causes vomiting and scaly patches on the skin, particularly the hands. It might be possible to cure, so long as the poison's identity is known. An end to ingestion of the poison can ween off its effects. Calonvar is easy to come by, as it's used in many things, from hand lotion to hair tonic, and in large doses as rat poison. It was the main weapon of Broset Sheveldar.

#### Victims

* Drachano Michezaran (deceased)
* Inshiran Urmenezhen (deceased)
* Livano Sheveldaran (deceased)
* Ulanu (deceased)

## Charcorsa

The/a charcorsa is a fast acting disease that can kill almost as soon as the victim realizes they are ill, sometimes in less than a month.

## Enteric fever

Enteric fever can take whole families at once. Poisons like calonvar mimic the effects. It's very common in poor areas in Amalo. It possibly mimics morning sickness.

## Hezhelta

Hezhelta is one of many poisons that can mimic a thunderclap coronary, but it is the easiest to obtain in Amalo. It is a lovely plant that grows in the Mervarnen Mountains, and the flower is used by dyers, while the root is poisonous when ingested. Death occurs in less than a minute.

## Iärditha

Iärditha is a deadly disease, and there was an epidemic of it at some point that killed many, including the family of Arveneän Shelsin. It is common in the quarries of Amalo, making a sentencing to the quarries (e.g., for making pornography), essentially a death sentence.

## Sessiva

Sessiva is possibly an infectious disease. It is deadly, but survivable. Survivors can be left with harsh, gravely voices. It swept Lohaiso during Thara's prelacy there.

## Thunderclap coronary

Thunderclap coronaries typically occur in people with heart troubles, and are sudden and deadly. A thunderclap coronary can be mimicked by hezhelta and several other poisons, and be taken for a thunderclap coronary, so long as an autopsy isn't performed.

## Wasting fever

A disease that can be contracted in childhood and lead to lifelong invalidity. Good insulation for warmth can help to combat the effects.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Addison, Katherine. *The Witness for the Dead*, First ed., Tor, 2021.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Addison, Katherine. *The Grief of Stones*, First ed., Tor, 2022.
3. ↑ Addison, Katherine. “16. News from Barizhan.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English 1st ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.
4. ↑ Addison, Katherine. “24. The Revethvoran of Dazhis Athmaza.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English 1st ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.
5. ↑ Addison, Katherine. “3. The Alcethmeret.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English 1st ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.
6. ↑ Addison, Katherine. *Lora Selezh*. 2021.
7. ↑ Addison, Katherine. “27. The Great Avar Arrives.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English 1st ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.