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blaserables · 3 months

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Kot’s Dark Research Blood Boons

From The Wonders Of Thedas Podcast

While Magister Danarius’ research is well-guarded on this subject, some rumors have slipped enough that a young magister has begun researching how to improve not only himself but his allies through his blood magic talents. Inscribing Lyrium under the skin is considered not only lunacy by most, but costly and not worth the trouble.

Through this Dark Research the PCs can gain several boons by sacrificing their own blood or the blood of others to gather the magic necessary to inscribe strange lyrium tattoos on themselves. These boons can grant a significant advantage to the heroes for the small price of life.

PCs may sacrifice one point from their Constitution rating to gain a Boon, or sacrifice a living NPC victim to gain two Boons. If a creature’s Constitution is lowered to 0, they die from the process. At the GM’s discretion, powerful individuals or monsters with higher Constitution ratings may be bleed for more Boons, at the rate of one Boon per point of Constitution, and two Boons if the ritual kills them.

When the heroes gain a Blood Boon they may spend it on the following abilities and bonuses. Some Boons require more than one Boon being spent, so a PC will have to gather more power for the Boon to manifest.

1 Blood Boon:

Lyrium Ghost: The PC can activate the lyrium runes to send part of their physical form into the Fade, making them difficult to track and their attacks more difficult to stop. This mode requires and activate action to enter, and while in Lyrium Ghost mode the PC gains a +1 bonus to Defense and +1 SP that can only be used to perform the Mighty Blow and Lethal Blow stunts.

Fade Grasp (requires Mage) You gain the Fade Grasp spell. This spell functions as Arcane Bolt, but always deals double damage to denizens of the Fade while also bypassing their Armor Rating.

Runic Passage (requires Rogue) You gain complex runes on your legs, increasing your Defense by +1 and giving you a +4 bonus to Speed whenever you use Dexterity (Stealth) tests to use your Backstab class power or sneak by unnoticed.

Hunger of the Fade (requires Warrior) Your lyrium tattoos grant you alacrity for the cost of blood. You can activate Hunger of the Fade mode with an activate action. While in this mode, you gain a +2 to Speed, +1 to attack rolls, and +1 SP that may only be used towards Mighty Blow and Lethal Blow stunts, but you take an amount of penetrating damage equal to your Constitution every round you keep this mode active.

Deflecting Runes: You have defensive patterns weaved into your skin, giving you a +2 bonus on tests to resist hostile magic effects.

Rune Panel: You gain a blank space in your runic tattoos that gives you body a rune slot. By consuming a rune you can attune an Armor Rune to your body that is always active, even without armor.

2 Blood Boons

Lyrium Spectre: (requires Lyrium Ghost) The lyrum runes are more finely attuned and become more complex, granting further benefit while in Lyrium Ghost mode. While in Lyrium Ghost mode, the PC now also gains +2 Armor Rating and +2 on all tests to resist magical effects.

Blood Sustenance (requires Mage) Your blood gives you power, allowing you to use a Major action to take an amount of penetrating damage of your choice. You gain twice as much Mana as damage you take.

Lyrium Blades (requires Rogue) You can bleed lyrium-infused blood onto your weapons as an activate action. Your weapons get a bonus to damage equal to your Willpower or your Magic, whichever is higher.

#blase dattrpg

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dirtybiowareconfessions · 3 years

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Confession: Meredith would’ve been a lot nicer if she’d just indulged in a good long fucking once in a blue moon.

#meredith stannard #knight commander meredith #dragon age #dragon age 2 #BioWare #Dirty Confessions #dirty confession #or if she didn't indulge her red lyrum addiction

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nessiesspeakeasy · 2 years

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Day 16: Surprise Dinner

Parten had thought about this for a while and all the logistics that would require her surprise to work. She was thankful of her many tentacled limbs. It allowed her to lay on the coffee table and place sushi all over her body.

“Can I come out now? I’ve showered and I’m kind of hungry,” Lyrum called through the door.

Parten grinned. “Not yet, my braven! I’m almost done!” She placed the small containers of sauce onto her abdomen.

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Parten wants to surprise her partner with their secret fantasy.

Rated mature.

You can read this on my AO3!!! And if you wanna leave me a ko-fi, feel free! I also take commissions ($5 for every 1k words).

Parten had wanted to do this for a while. To surprise her mate with a fantasy Lyrum had kept quiet, only telling her about it while drunk. Lyrum did not remember sharing this secret, so Parten hoped it would excite her.

“Can I come out now? I’ve showered and I’m kind of hungry,” Lyrum called through the door.

Parten grinned. “Not yet, my braven! I’m almost done!” She placed the small containers of sauce onto her abdomen. She couldn’t really move to see everything, but she hadn’t felt anything move, so she was hopeful.

She took a calming breath to steel her nerves. “Okay! You can come out now!”

She heard the hydraulics slide the door open and Lyrum, a quadrupedal alien walked out. She was large and furred with multiple eyes and ears. Her eyes surveyed Parten, nude on their coffee table, covered in all of her favorite sushi.

Lyrum slowed to almost a dazed gait. “I… knew you were up to something, I could hear containers opening, but… I don’t understand…” It was plain she was being cautious.

Parten smiled. “You got drunk one night and told me about it. I thought I’d surprise you. It’s not meant to make fun of you. I wanted to show that I cared.”

Lyrum moved closer and sat on her back haunches. “I see.” She picked up the chopsticks. “You… You look so sexy. I can’t believe you’d do this for me…”

Parten smiled. “I want to make you happy.”

Lyrum plucked a piece of sushi off Parten’s hip and ate it. Her eyes traveled around Parten’s body to all the other pieces. To the ones placed delicately on her breasts. Lyrum set the chopsticks down and leaned over, swiping one up with her tongue.

It grazed Parten, the texture brushing over a nipple. Parten closed her eyes, trying to keep still.

“Mmm, yes. After dinner, I’m going to need dessert.”

Her eyes opened to smile at the hungry look in Lyrum’s eyes.

#kinktober2021 #monsters #rated mature #mature #alien female/ alien female #body sushi #tentacles

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felassan · 5 years

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WHAT DOES THE IDOL MEAN WHY IS IT CONNECTED TO SOLAD DID SOLAS CREATE RED LYRUM OR SOMETHING WHAT IS HAPPENIGN I HAVE SO MANY QUESTION HALP MEE DHFADSPGHAEOHG

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This got so long I had to stick it under a cut.

SO. I went into this a lil here but only just and very scattered-ly, and also I think this ask predates that post. permit me a tiny bit of repetition before I get into the rest:

I don’t think the red lyrium idol is the same idol as the one Hawke found on the expedition unless Certainty was re-re-re-shaped/-born again back into the idol-state (because this would be the fourth time, having gone idol -> Meredith’s sword -> reborn as the sword Samson wielded -> reborn/shaped again back into the idol-state). I think what’s more important is what the idol represents: A] obvious spreading red lyrium corruption, Blight, titans and their blood and bodies, digging too deeply & all that entails implication-wise

reborn in arcane energies somehow elven and Tevinter and Blight intertwined

and B] the story/implications the twisted figurines themselves depict (shape-similarity to Andraste iconography, Meredith & Flemeth/Mythal, Mythal’s downfall etc):

We are trapped. The ones born here do not understand the keenness of what we have lost, or why so many of their elders weep as they enter uthenera. The new ones are faithful to Mythal, but do not understand what she was in her fullness. Without the wise to lead them, they will lose what they should have been.

Lyrium is alive. Lyrium is the blood of Titans. Red lyrium is lyrium corrupted by the Taint. after the Breach opened, red lyrium began spreading across much of the south of Thedas, like a cancer or an infection. we see what the progression of the Taint does to people. ecosystems and land will not fare much better. both lyrium and red lyrium are potent and confer power, and both are connected to the Fade and the Veil.

the Evanuris warred with one another and lusted for power. before the Veil, when the Fade and our realm were still one place, they were mining deep in the earth- in the bodies of the Titans to get lyrium (and something else) to power themselves up, and in so doing warred with the Titans and by extension their ‘workers’, the dwarves.

“In this place we prepare to hunt the pillars of the earth. Their workers scurry, witless, soulless. This death will be a mercy. We will make the earth blossom with their passing.”

The runes say the Evanuris fought the Titans. They mined their bodies for lyrium and… something else. It’s not clear.

the something else was the hearts of the titans, which confer incredible power and could be fashioned into foci, which we know can bring about incredible feats. ‘when we eradicate the titans, we will have access to all this fuel and power, and will be able to do wondrous things with this power.’ its like man destroying the earth and the environment to obtain fossil fuels, on a larger and more fantastical scale.

in The Death of a Titan, a mural which depicts the past, Evanuris figures spear the heart of a titan and destroy the creature while doing so. the asterisk symbol representing the heart of a titan is the same symbol we see elvhen figures carrying in spheres here, and they repeat elsewhere.

For one moment there is a vivid image of two overlapping spheres; unknown flowers bloom inside their centers. Then it fades.

this war with the titans for dominion and resources didnt go so well. eventually they needed to break out the Biggest Guns (trademark) - for Mythal to save them.

“Hail Mythal, adjudicator and savior! She has struck down the pillars of the earth and rendered their demesne unto the People! Praise her name forever!”

Solas helped her do this, protected and guarded and attended her.

Protector and All-Mother, why are you honored here, so far from the light of the sun? And why was the Dread Wolf at your side?

Though I remember my Keeper telling a story about how the dwarves fear the sun because of Elgar'nan’s fire. A metaphor for the elves of Arlathan driving the dwarves underground?

I am empty, filled with nothing(?), Mythal gives you dreams. It fills you, within you(?), Making our leaders proud.My little stones,Never yours the sun.Forever, forever.

Hahren said we had lost some of the old words. What if they have changed? Durgen'lin from durgen'len? Little dwarves, never yours the sun? What did Mythal do here?

she saved the People from the Titan War (and this is the war that began the ascent of the Evanuris from generals to kings to god-kings), but had to do something awful to the Titans and by extension the dwarves to do it. the Titans fell, the dwarven race fell with them, and the dwarven race broke in two. now they are as ‘a severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood’. in modern Thedas, they are a fallen, dying, dwindling race, apart from themselves and a shadow of their former glory, with falling birth rates, everything. they are SUNDERED. (everything sings)

Its blood now flows through me, and its song fills the gaps in our history. I close my eyes and see glimpses of the world that was, before everything changed and the dwarven race broke in two. Something caused the Titans to fall, and the fate of my people fell with them. The Titan wants me to know. No, more than that. It wants me to understand. There is a loneliness to its song.

whats the connection?

like in Lord of the Rings, its the Dug Too Deep trope. LOTR’s dwarves

delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm… shadow and flame [Balrogs]

the Evanuris, in their hubris and lust for power and greed, also dug too deeply.

For a moment, the scent of blood fills the air, and there is a vivid image of green vines growing and enveloping a sphere of fire.The vision grows dark. An aeon seems to pass. Then the runes crackle, as if filled with an angry energy.A new vision appears: elves collapsing caverns, sealing the Deep Roads with stone and magic.Terror, heart-pounding, ice-cold, as the last of the spells is cast.A voice whispers:

“What the Evanuris in their greed could unleash would end us all. Let this place be forgotten. Let no one wake its anger. The People must rise before their false gods destroy them all.”

after defeating the Titans, the Evanuris kept mining their corpses, drunk on the power they had thus far accessed. this lyrium substance and their own avarice was driving them mad. they kept going and going until they went somewhere they shouldn’t and woke something up.

they dug and found the very Origin of the Blight. in the void. was it tainted before they got there, or did they taint it with their presence? I don’t know. but I think they sought to harness it, to use its power too. a bioweapon. they certainly unleashed it enough that it began to spread in places and taint things. including lyrium, turning it into red lyrium and including - themselves.

One day Andruil grew tired of hunting mortal men and beasts. She began stalking The Forgotten Ones, wicked things that thrive in the abyss. Yet even a god should not linger there, and each time she entered the Void, Andruil suffered longer and longer periods of madness after returning.

Andruil put on armor made of the Void, and all forgot her true face. She made weapons of darkness, and plague ate her lands. She howled things meant to be forgotten, and the other gods became fearful Andruil would hunt them in turn. So Mythal spread rumors of a monstrous creature and took the form of a great serpent, waiting for Andruil at the base of a mountain.

When Andruil came, Mythal sprang on the hunter. They fought for three day and nights, Andruil slashing deep gouges in the serpent’s hide. But Mythal’s magic sapped Andruil’s strength, and stole her knowledge of how to find the Void. After this, the great hunter could never make her way back to the abyss, and peace returned.

again Mythal had to intervene and prevent disaster. here we also see the greed of the Evanuris in action + the madness (read: corruption) caused by the Taint. Andruil for a time became corrupted (Blighted) and Blighted corruption spread across her lands - a freakin protoblight. she shrieked horrible twisted songs, like the twisted song-Call of Archdemons. Mythal resolved this situation.

I think Mythal perhaps tried to temper their encroach and their greed - counselled them to stop. like, guys, we all almost died in the Titan War, I had to step in and save everything and also do something horrid to ensure our safety. guys, Andruil almost drove us all to ruin, I nearly had to kill her. don’t. this is enough. in so doing she got in their way, in between the rest of the Evanuris and what they craved (we see the effects of lyrium addiction on people ingame). thus she was betrayed and murdered. they killed her, in their lust for power.

Solas - Fen’Harel now - had already started trying to free the People from slavery and the Evanuris’ dominion. he rose up with his guerilla campaign against the false evil god-kings, gathered freed people to him. when they finally went too far and killed Mythal, he punished them for killing her by banishing them and sealing them away to an eternity of torment, and saved the elven people and the entire world from certain destruction caused by the Evanuris by defeating them. he did this by creating the Veil, changing the very fabric of reality - inadvertently sundering more shit. suspect part of this was also sealing the Blight origin in what modern people think of as the Black City. ties into why he finds the wardens trying to kill uncorrupted old gods before they become tainted, and messing with insane powerful forces beyond their ken, which could destroy everything, so abhorrent. (but this and the singing are whole other posts in and of themselves)

every alternative was worse, but this also destroyed the world as he knew it and the elven people. we know the rest. now he plans to fix his mistake, tear down the Veil, restore his People- which will cause chaos and also have the inconvenient NOT SMALL AT ALL SOLAS side effects of releasing the Evanuris (who seem to be pretty freakin crazy and corrupt - Blighted?) and ALSO MAYBE the Blight? as in THE Blight. not a blight, the mother of ALL blights. I’m not saying he’s insane or stupid, he’s clearly of the opinion that he has a plan in place to mitigate and deal with this.

so the newest mural shows Solas trying to tear down the Veil (thats the spheres) to achieve his goals. tying it back to where this wandering answer began, its what the idol represents.

what’s in the middle? it’s the City, Black and Eternal - a prison, a cage. it’s the origin of the Blight, the yawning Void, the abyss. it’s the place of nothing, what Sera is so afraid of, banalhan. (“I think something moved inside the mirror - look, don’t you see that? Can you feel that? - I think it knows we’re here - it’s - showing me places. I can see.. some kind of City. underground? and - there’s a great blackness.. it saw me! Help! I can’t look away!”) It’s what my poor darling Tamlen saw, all those years ago.

erm I hope this made sense I’m not even sure if it answered your question sorry :’D ps this is guesswork

#bioware #dragon age #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #anonymous #mj replies #solas #video games #mj meta

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ninjajigglypuff · 5 years

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Omg what could this all mean. A red lyrum statue and him after it? Also, yes I have lots of questions. I need more. SO EXCITED!

#Dragon age #dragon age 4 #solas #solas dragon age

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samijey · 3 months

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the toxic yuri saga continues... (NXT 23/01/2024)

#wwe #wweedit #nxt #tatum paxley #nxtedit #lyra valkyria #roxanne perez #WWE NXT #lyrum #stuff i made #lyra you are KILLING ME here #if you dont want her give her to me wtffff

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dalekofchaos · 3 months

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Me to Shawn Michaels when there was no Valentines themed gay shenanigans between Tatum and Lyra on Tuesday

#WWE #Tatum Paxley #Lyra Valkyria #Paxlyra #Lyrum

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visceralcoma · 6 years

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I’m responding to this post linked here because I’ve been informed my response deserves to be it’s own post. So with minor edits and TL;DR at the end:

“Varric trusted Bianca with the knowledge of red lyrium and the thaig where it was found, and she decided her own curiosity took precedence over that trust.“

Except he didn’t trust her with anything. He had artifacts that needed buyers after the expedition. It wasn’t any sort of exchange of information with her as his confidant. It was a business transaction. All BEFORE he knew what the red lyrium was doing. Because Hawke ends up with enough coin to not only get the estate, but to furnish it and protect themself and potentially Bethany from the Templars, so that means they sold the cache they found down there through Bianca.

Once Bianca had the location, she went down there, found the red lyrium and studied it, as she says. It isn’t until THREE years later when Bartrand returns/Varric sums up the courage to confront Bartrand that Varric shares what red lyrium did to his brother and him. That’s assuming he tells her immediately after the whole situation at Bartrand’s estate. Could have been later too.

So when he finds out Bianca was studying it, and he admonishes her with “You know what it does to people!” Except… when she started studying it, she didn’t know and wouldn’t for three years - minimum. And depending on your choices in DA2, there is an additional dialogue,

Bianca: You want to help your brother, don’t you?

Kudos to her. She’s doing something to either try and cure Bartrand, or prevent red lyrium from doing that to others.

She went to a Grey Warden “mage” who she believed she could trust. To her, they were the experts of both blight and lyrium for magic. It’s a sensible and logical conclusion to make. It isn’t her fault that Larius/Janeka was possessed by Corypheus, that blame lies entirely on Hawke and Varric. Presumably, she didn’t know. They didn’t know Larius/Janeka was possessed until Inquisition.

And are we really going to blame her for someone taking advantage of her trust? If that’s what we’re doing, then the Inquisitor’s at fault for the Dread Wolf’s eventual genocide of several Thedosian races.

People quote Varric’s dream about what DREAM Bianca says to Varric in HIS dream. Which means the words Bianca says is Varric’s own subconscious idea of how Bianca should perceive him. His own ideals of how he behaves and how he should be treated. But a point to Varric because he realizes that it is a lie and breaks out of the dream. It’s not how the REAL Bianca would act. Either way, you can’t really take any of that for any sort of evidence because it was literally, all a dream. And it could have been a fantasy. Just something he wishes happened.

Additionally, they haven’t talked since the Chantry Explosion in Kirkwall. So not since… what 9:37?

Bianca: You had me worried, you know.

Varric: What did I do now?

Bianca: That letter you sent me about the red lyrium was the first I’d heard from you since the Chantry Explosion.

Varric: Had it been that long?

Bianca: Seriously, if you’d died in that mess, I’d have come back to Kirkwall and dug you up just to kick your ass.

Varric: What would you do if I’d been cremated.

Bianca: Kick your ashes, of course.

So until Varric reaches out to her do they they talk at all. She didn’t even know he was alive. But that still means he’s the one initiating contact with her. Not the other way around. He’s the one at fault, she’s not dragging him around or “dangling a carrot.” How can she string him along if they haven’t talked in FIVE years? Varric is doing that pining all on his own. Varric is nothing but a friendzoned guy who can’t take a bloody hint. I mean she got married. How much more of a hint does a guy need?

Oh but I will admit, there is heavy implications they continued to meet up and fuck(?) prior to the Chantry Explosion in Kirkwall. That makes Varric a “mistress” and a homewrecker. If anyone is at fault, he is. He’s the one putting himself at risk to assassination. He KNEW there was a husband. He willingly went into that himself.

And her arriving to fix her fuck up, makes sense. Um hello? Do we not see how much more dangerous red lyrium is if we don’t cut off the trade source? At least she’s WILLING to admit she made a mistake and try to fix it as best she can instead of passively-aggressively writing about it. She does say “There’s a giant hole in the sky. I think the merchant’s guild has bigger things to worry about.” And she’s right! they do. What will the end of the world do to profits!

Honestly, her threat to the Inquisitor is par for the course. He didn’t reach out to her, not even for the Chantry explosion. But he’s suddenly doing that NOW? When the world is practically ending, and he’s traipsing alongside the person at the center of all that danger? Fuck yeah she’s protective of her old friend/lover. And that same person in the center of all that danger - he sees as a messiah figure and compares the Inquisitor to Andraste herself in the wicked grace scene. Bianca must be like “Oh shit, he’s suddenly Andrastian? He joined a cult!”

TL;DR:

Varric didn’t even know what red lyrum would do when he gave Bianca the location of the thaig.

Bianca was already studying the red lyrium before Varric learned what it did to Bartrand and himself.

You cannot blame Bianca for putting the world at danger of red lyrium because someone masqueraded as someone else. Because if you do, then you (the Inquisitor) are at fault for putting the world at danger for what Solas/Fen’harel will eventually do. Are you ready to admit that fault?

Stop quoting the dream Varric has in Until We Sleep, because that is a DREAM and does not reflect reality, merely Varric’s own perception. We already know the Fade is not objective (As stated by Solas).

They haven’t talked for 5 years. Who is stringing who along? No more like Varric is pining.

At least Bianca admits she makes a mistake. What does Varric do? Oh right... blames it on other people or writes about it in his books.

#bianca davri #varric tethras #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #dai #da2

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sciencethot · 6 years

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What if red lyrium is just a bacterial infection?

I'm a biology major and I've had a blood infection so let me explain my reasoning. We know that the blight is the reason for the red lyrium. We also know that the blight only affects living things. Red lyrium can also be transferred from one host to another. Bacteria also only infect living things and can be transferred. Bacteria can be very resilient and they can live and be found in any area. Some can also be more infectious than others which is why some bacteria infects better than others. Maybe Wardens who didn't die during the Joining is cause they had a better immune system than others. Bacteria also have the ability to chemically sense each other. It's mainly for gene regulation but can be used in a population for defense and becoming a large colony (hoard).

Using Koch's Postulates we also see that:

the microorganism or other pathogen must be present in all cases of the disease.

The blight is present in all cases

the pathogen can be isolated from the diseased host and grown in pure culture

Honestly don't think they talked about this in game but there's still normal lyrium.

the pathogen from the pure culture must cause the disease when inoculated into a healthy, susceptible laboratory animal

The Ted Templars were given the red lyrium and in a way the blight. The Wardens also got the blight.

the pathogen must be reisolated from the new host and shown to be the same as the originally inoculated pathogen

Once again, don't know if they can. I mean they were just getting into the Humors in Inquisition. I don't think they talked about isolating it either but we still know it's the blight.

I know that all of these should be 'yes' to say the pathogen is the cause but I'm working with what I got.

I say blood infection because when I had it it looked similar to how the older Wardens, when you can see their blood vessels clearly against their skin. It made my vessels bright red as it slowly crawled up my arm from my knuckle, where the infection started. I went to the hospital when it was about a 1/3 up my forearm and when I was seen by the doctor it was past my elbow. It was also painful and the doc was worried that if I want treated soon they'd need to do more than antibiotics.

Now imagine the idea of like a house being infected by red lyrum and the only thing that wasn't touched was moldy bread. People think it doesn't like bread or something so people just start throwing loaves trying to keep it at bay but nothing happens. It isn't too they start thinking 'what's different between this bread and the bread we found' that they realize it's the mold. Then, because I doubt they know how to culture things, the throw moldy bread loaves at the lyrium.

#red lyrium #dragon age inquisition #red templars #grey warden #grey wardens #blight #the blight #blood infection #blood poisoning #the blight is a bacterial infection #koch's postulates

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