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[jadedragonsage]

Flux Affliction Lore Pt2

Healing Flux Poisoning

To anyone reading this seeking a cure for flux poisoning please keep in mind that most of these are theoretical methods and only a small number of cases were able to be “cured.” Full restoration of the patient has not been able to be achieved and a number of remaining physical mutations may linger. Predominantly, affected skin and eyes will retain a light purple coloration, skin appearing to have the look of staining or tattoos depending on original manifestation. Severe cases of flux poisoning may not be able to be removed and can only be contained via the methods listed. Proceed with caution and carefully observe your patient at all stages of treatment.

Methods of Curing Flux Poisoning

Ethereal Blooms

For all cases of flux poisoning the primary and easiest means of beginning curing and containing extreme cases is to use ethereal blooms. These alone will not be enough but they act as a base to provide a constant source of ordo and are naturally efficient at fighting taint and flux based manifestations and maladies. The infected should remain in contact with active blooms for as long as possible including either resting near planted ones or wearing strands of them. While ethereal blooms are able to live on longer than most plants after being plucked they are expensive to replace and shimmerleaf is often difficult to obtain outside of magic infused forests. Ethereal blooms combined with a steady intake of ordo infused healing potions often acts as a base for recovery or containing the spread of flux within the body.

Contact with infected skin appears to work best but remaining within close vicinity to the bloom will still help. For those who cannot obtain a large amount of these marvelous plants it is recommended to keep them in pots around the infected to prolong the flora’s life as long as possible. If the infected subject must remaining moving around then keeping the plants in areas most commonly inhabited is a potential solution. Remember, ethereal blooms are rather delicate so do not handle them roughly or make too many fast movements when worn.

Ordo Infused Healing Potions

NEVER POUR DIRECT ORDO ESSENTIA INTO YOUR POTIONS

Like ethereal blooms, these potions are one of the primary means of curing and containment of flux poisoning. The addition of ordo infused into the potion will help with moving the element more directly through the subject’s body and help dispel deeper flux within. The direct healing also helps to repair damaged and mutated flesh as much as possible, giving the body more to work with as the fluxed magic is metaphorically unwound from its chaotic messy state into a balanced natural form. This often has multiple side effects to the body and subjects who have experienced more severe mutations due to flux often find their bodies cannot function the same without the chaotic magic coursing through them. Healing potions help ease this and decease any potential pain caused. Keep in mind however that extreme cases of mutation and flux poisoning may not be able to be cured using these potions or ethereal blooms. The two combined do help greatly in the healing and/or containment process.

A careful thaumaturge with a basic understanding of essentia distillation and object infusion should be able to take standard healing potions and turn them into flux fighting elixirs. Using your choice of healing potion, usually glowstone infused is prefered for the added strength, place the potion upon the central pedestal. Using two order shards (generally found within infused stone underground) place them equal distance upon opposite pedestals surrounding your altar. Keep no less than a half full jar worth of ordo and sano essentia both on hand for the infusion to assure a safe ritual. Multiple potions may be placed upon the altar to infuse all at once but please keep in mind that this will increase your required supplies, two potions requiring four order shards and twice as much essentia and so on.

Depending on the level of infection the patient may need multiple potions a day or simply a single potion everyday to every other day. It’s important to keep a constant source of ordo active within their system and when using ethereal blooms this can mitigate the extensive use of healing potions in less severe cases. Never depend solely on one method alone to completely cure however. It has been proven that large amounts of ordo must be present to neutralize the flux. Potions are the most direct way to assure safe delivery of ordo to the inner most parts of those infected and will assure even someone who is internally flux poisoned will still receive ordo regardless of proximity to blooms.

NEVER DIRECTLY FEED YOUR PATIENTS ESSENTIA, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH IT IS DEADLY

Self Infusion 

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Amputation

ONLY USE AS A LAST RESORT

As a last ditch resort amputation can be used on severely infected limbs as long as the majority of the flux has not traveled past the connection point of said limb. If the infection is beyond this point then do not attempt this method as it will have no helpful effect to the patient. This should always be performed by a trained doctor and never attempted on one’s self or by an amateur.

A prime case for using this method would be if a subject’s arm was beginning to display signs of taint such as a dark purple, crusting or tentacle like growths. Another case would be if the subject has been able to be cured of flux everywhere else in the body but the limb will not heal and threatens to infect the rest of their body. In this case the patient should be given the choice between using blooms and potions to prevent spreading or using this method to completely remove the severely infected limb.

Disposal of the infected limb is incredibly important, make sure to cure as much as possible via ethereal blooms before burning. Stay away from the fire as a small amount of flux gas may be released and will safely rise up and dissipate on its own in the atmosphere.

For theories regarding how flux afflictions work see part one.