Name: Brain Rot, or more commonly, The Rot
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Quick Facts: A degenerative nervous disease passed through procreation or contact with contaminated brain matter.
Origins: Unknown
Races: Yludih, Wisps and Tunawa are not effected by this disease, though they can carry it through touching infected brain matter, and thus infect others
Symptoms: The disease is passed by the parents to the offspring often unknowingly. If either parent has it, the child will be born with it. Men can pass it to women by causing her to become pregnant. Even if the baby is removed, it has already been spread.
The surest symptom is blinding headaches. Theses will begin from adolescence and continue on into adulthood, growing in severity. Common headache remedies will not help. As the patient ages, blood will occasionally leak from the facial orifices while the migraine persists.
Less common symptoms include nausea, spots in one eye or inexplicable and temporary blindness in one eye. Further along in the disease, tremors and partial paralysis is common.
At the end stages the brain shuts down, resulting in a slow creep of paralysis up the body. This takes several seasons, and can be very traumatic for both the victim and their family.
Treatments: There is nothing definitive to be done. Doctors are experimenting at this time with surgery to remove part of the skull, or directly introduce antitoxins directly to the nervous system, but nothing seems to work.
Most doctors will provide an excessively large dosage of sleep medication, hinting that the person should put their affairs in order and handle things themselves.
Druce LaVarro of "The Bedside Manor" in Etzos has begun therapy to drastically reduce the manifestation of the disease. Through a careful administration of hallucinogenics and neurocranial stimulation via needles stuck in the skull, the life expectancy of his patients has nearly doubled. He is still researching this, and offers treatments for low prices. The treatments are required three times a trial for a season, once every two seasons. This has limited the number of places those with the Rot can live, as long distance travel to get to Etzos is not always possible for many.
Complications: Death is inevitable. Most people who contract this disease will die by their thirtieth arc, but those who are fortunate enough to obtain Druce LaVarro's treatment have lived to be well over fifty arcs of age.
Credit: Vluharqih
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Quick Facts: A degenerative nervous disease passed through procreation or contact with contaminated brain matter.
Origins: Unknown
Races: Yludih, Wisps and Tunawa are not effected by this disease, though they can carry it through touching infected brain matter, and thus infect others
Symptoms: The disease is passed by the parents to the offspring often unknowingly. If either parent has it, the child will be born with it. Men can pass it to women by causing her to become pregnant. Even if the baby is removed, it has already been spread.
The surest symptom is blinding headaches. Theses will begin from adolescence and continue on into adulthood, growing in severity. Common headache remedies will not help. As the patient ages, blood will occasionally leak from the facial orifices while the migraine persists.
Less common symptoms include nausea, spots in one eye or inexplicable and temporary blindness in one eye. Further along in the disease, tremors and partial paralysis is common.
At the end stages the brain shuts down, resulting in a slow creep of paralysis up the body. This takes several seasons, and can be very traumatic for both the victim and their family.
Treatments: There is nothing definitive to be done. Doctors are experimenting at this time with surgery to remove part of the skull, or directly introduce antitoxins directly to the nervous system, but nothing seems to work.
Most doctors will provide an excessively large dosage of sleep medication, hinting that the person should put their affairs in order and handle things themselves.
Druce LaVarro of "The Bedside Manor" in Etzos has begun therapy to drastically reduce the manifestation of the disease. Through a careful administration of hallucinogenics and neurocranial stimulation via needles stuck in the skull, the life expectancy of his patients has nearly doubled. He is still researching this, and offers treatments for low prices. The treatments are required three times a trial for a season, once every two seasons. This has limited the number of places those with the Rot can live, as long distance travel to get to Etzos is not always possible for many.
Complications: Death is inevitable. Most people who contract this disease will die by their thirtieth arc, but those who are fortunate enough to obtain Druce LaVarro's treatment have lived to be well over fifty arcs of age.
Credit: Vluharqih
