Cloyttin

Cloyttin was one of the rarest and most dangerous poisons ever concocted. It was the poison that infamously killed Emperor Gallius VI.

The primary ingredient was a rare plant native to the Gavainian Highlands known as the Draggonfeld; however, the poison is mild by itself. By adding a substrate collected from ground merhle flower, the poison's potency increases 100-fold. Cloyttin is produced from a plant known as Cloy Bushes; however, it takes the skill of a master herbalist to be able to harvest and concentrate it into the infamous poison. As such, it is an extremely rare poison due to both the source vegetation’s location and level of skill required to procure it. This also makes the poison extremely expensive.

Cloyttin, better known as the invisible killer, is an untraceable poison able to effectively kill its victim within minutes of consumption or application. After contact, the poison will absorb into any tissue it interacts with and enter the bloodstream. The damage is immediate as seconds after exposure any tissue that encounters the poison will begin to die. This effect is most prominently visible if the poison is applied to the skin; skin application will directly lead to surface-level tissue blackening as the poison works its way into the bloodstream. Within minutes, the poison will work its way into the bloodstream, killing the local tissues, shutting down major organ systems, and eventually making its way into the brain wherein the victim will become brain dead, and the body will die from total organ failure.

While the physical symptoms of Cloyttin poisoning are quite vivid, victims of this poison appear to have died days before their actual deaths due to the unique way this poison kills its victims. Coroners and autopsy reports are also unable to confirm Cloyttin’s involvement due to the poison’s inherent untraceability. It is because of this invisibility that the true number of Cloyttin murders are unknown as many potential cases are assumed to be seemingly natural deaths with severe bodily decomposition.

In very rare cases, the poison may not kill its victim. This typically only occurs when the victim has been subjected to a micro volume of the poison; however, the victim will still fall into a comatose, vegetative state due to major damage to the brain and other major organ tissues.

This poison is unique in that it is one of the only substances known to man which becomes inert and untraceable if not utilized or stored properly. It is well documented that the poison will become completely untraceable and totally inert after only one hour; therefore, anyone attempting to use the poison must employ haste when attempting to utilize it.

The poison’s effect on blood is probably the most interesting. Even though Cloyttin can near-instantly kill any biological tissue it touches, it appears to latch onto blood cells and ride them through the body before killing the cell seconds to minutes later prior to moving into new local tissues to destroy.

The most attractive, yet most limiting, attribute of the poison was its extreme ability to go inert and become untracable. While this undoubtedly helped assassins hide their tracks, the poison had an extremely short life. If not properly preserved, the poison could go inert in as few as five minutes.

The poison was extremely rare. It was only crafted in Sar'Ga in the highlands by the apothecarists there. It was considered a dark art to craft the poison, but that did not stop the master of Selma Carroway from teaching her how to craft the poison. As the last person alive who knew the secret to crafting Cloyttin, Selma refused to teach her apprentice the recipe and hoped she would take it to the grave as retribution for the lives it had taken. After the death of Emperor Gallius VI, the poison could no longer be found anywhere in the empire.

By the time Prince Yvath came to Sar'Ga to find Cloyttin, the only remaining apothecarist capable of making the poison, Selma Carroway, initially refused to craft it for him stating she didn't believe it was moral.