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			{{creative-work \|title = Interventions and Restoratives of Epochxin Affliction \|type = essay \|author = Xorus Kul'shin \|author-displayed = Lord [[Xorus Kul'shin]] \|date = 2018-04-15}}

	Addressed to the Heir of Bourth and the Mayor of Wehnimer's Landing<br>		Addressed to the Heir of Bourth and the Mayor of Wehnimer's Landing<br>
	c\o Lord Breshon Caulfield, Hendoran Outpost<br>		c\o Lord Breshon Caulfield, Hendoran Outpost<br>

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 ==Appendices and Amendments==
-In light of the confusion regarding the epochxin and prior events surrounding the poisoning of Lady Larsya Caulfield, this will serve as a relatively concise appendix of salient details on the issues covered in the more full report. In the fog of [[Breshon and Larsya: Understanding the Situation|contradictory statements]] even I was unclear at times on these points concerning the epochxin, and I believe I misspoke on the place of the tar-like black salve on the chain of end products. I will later add another appendix addressing the strangeness of how this happened.
+In light of the confusion regarding the epochxin and prior events surrounding the poisoning of Lady Larsya Caulfield, this will serve as a relatively concise appendix of salient details on the issues covered in the summary report. In the fog of [[Breshon and Larsya: Understanding the Situation|contradictory statements]] even I was unclear at times on these points concerning the epochxin, and I believe I misspoke on the place of the tar-like black salve on the chain of end products. I will later add another appendix addressing the strangeness of how this happened.
 ===Appendix A: Derivatives of Ebon-Swirled Primal Blood===
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 ===Appendix F: Temporal Nature of the Primal Blood===
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 ===OOC Points of Clarification===
 (1) The author is having a moment of disorientation when conflating Archales and Aetheri. He knows better. The reason this happened is illustrated in "[[Through A Glass Darkly]]". The supposed assassin Vinswith being transformed or created as a chimera of Archales and Wolfloner may involve an entirely different blood magic methodology.<br>
-(2) It is a corollary of Appendix B that Everblood does not come as such from troll blood. It instead reverses the relationship, asserting that everblood essence originates in primitive oculoth blood as an empirical fact, thus preferring the conjecture that trolls originate in demonic hybridization and the properties of troll blood are loosely speaking a weak debased form of Everblood. This is an independent postulate which allows the transmogrification agent to not involve primal blood. Drangell would then have been loosely based on primal blood even if this unified model is wrong. This is made explicit in Appendix D.<br>
+(2) It is a corollary of Appendix B that Everblood does not come as such from troll blood. It instead reverses the relationship, asserting that everblood essence originates in primitive oculoth blood as an empirical fact, thus preferring the conjecture that trolls originate in demonic hybridization and the properties of troll blood are loosely speaking a weak debased form of Everblood. This is an independent postulate which allows the transmogrification agent to not involve primal blood. Drangell would then have been loosely based on primal blood even if this unified model is wrong. This is made explicit in Appendix D. Appendix E formally states this theoretical interpretation of the relationship between troll physiology and the demon blood, proposing to explain the properties of trolls with it.<br>
-(3) The theory represented by Appendix B is a basic model that may evolve into a sequence of more specific models. In this sense it represents an embryonic theory or "research program" rather than a finished form. The process involved with Rodnay was also involving a cocoon metamorphosis stage, for example, which he shared in common with another blood transmogrification curse of Grishom Stone's turning children into winged fiends. This may have been using vathor blood given the context. There could be a bifurcation in methodology at this point without the basic theory being wrong.
+(3) The theory represented by Appendix B is a basic model that may evolve into a sequence of more specific models. In this sense it represents an embryonic theory or "research program" rather than a finished form. The process involved with Rodnay was also involving a cocoon metamorphosis stage, for example, which he shared in common with another blood transmogrification curse of Grishom Stone's turning children into winged fiends. This may have been using vathor blood given the context. There could be a bifurcation in methodology at this point without the basic theory being wrong.<br>
 ==See Also==

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	Magister Svala is correct that we cannot assume her blood is still the substance (C). In fact, her treatment with the potion (H) has slowed or even halted her aging, analogous to Everblood. However, a rather subtle point has been overlooked in that as far as I can tell, Larsya only displayed her recurrent amnesia after being treated. Rather than a consequence of (A), (B), or (C), her being frozen in time may very well be a consequence of her treated blood, which has artificially suspended her temporal progression.		Magister Svala is correct that we cannot assume her blood is still the substance (C). In fact, her treatment with the potion (H) has slowed or even halted her aging, analogous to Everblood. However, a rather subtle point has been overlooked in that as far as I can tell, Larsya only displayed her recurrent amnesia after being treated. Rather than a consequence of (A), (B), or (C), her being frozen in time may very well be a consequence of her treated blood, which has artificially suspended her temporal progression.

	''Olaesta 14th, ~~5018~~''		''Olaesta 14th, 5118''

	===Appendix B: Model of Epochxin Intermediates and End Products===		===Appendix B: Model of Epochxin Intermediates and End Products===
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	The relevance of this point is that Larsya has already been treated with an anti-derivative of the primal blood, allowing the opposite situation of the primal blood derivative being countered but not the substrate transmogrification. The Tehir spirit caller Akhash was able in Lumnea 5111 to sever the troll specific aspect of the curse on Drangell using items tied to the curse and troll blood and body parts. This reverted the victim to his Giantman form. In this case it was a longsword that [[Thrayzar]] had used to strike down the witch that cursed them. ''If this model is essentially correct then a similar ritual plus the salve could be performed with items of the curse creators and the relevant substrates.''		The relevance of this point is that Larsya has already been treated with an anti-derivative of the primal blood, allowing the opposite situation of the primal blood derivative being countered but not the substrate transmogrification. The Tehir spirit caller Akhash was able in Lumnea 5111 to sever the troll specific aspect of the curse on Drangell using items tied to the curse and troll blood and body parts. This reverted the victim to his Giantman form. In this case it was a longsword that [[Thrayzar]] had used to strike down the witch that cursed them. ''If this model is essentially correct then a similar ritual plus the salve could be performed with items of the curse creators and the relevant substrates.''

	''Olaesta 14th, ~~5018~~''		''Olaesta 14th, 5118''

	===Appendix C: Inhibitor Effects of Primal Blood Anti-Derivatives===		===Appendix C: Inhibitor Effects of Primal Blood Anti-Derivatives===
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	The inference to be drawn from this is that the "essence of Everblood" (D) becomes an accelerant with the tar-like black salve (G), which in effect becomes an anti-derivative substrate for the generalized transmogrification agent (K) per the model in Appendix B. In contrast, the salve acts as an inhibitor of this mechanism in the cases of Afflicted Blood (C) and Half-Elven Sickness (F), where the latter is a whole body purification whereas the former perhaps only inhibits the blood but not its imposed physical effects.		The inference to be drawn from this is that the "essence of Everblood" (D) becomes an accelerant with the tar-like black salve (G), which in effect becomes an anti-derivative substrate for the generalized transmogrification agent (K) per the model in Appendix B. In contrast, the salve acts as an inhibitor of this mechanism in the cases of Afflicted Blood (C) and Half-Elven Sickness (F), where the latter is a whole body purification whereas the former perhaps only inhibits the blood but not its imposed physical effects.

	''Olaesta 15th, ~~5018~~''		''Olaesta 15th, 5118''

	===OOC Points of Clarification===		===OOC Points of Clarification===

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	''Tar-like Black Salve (G):''		''Tar-like Black Salve (G):''
	* Simmering: ~~Purified Everblood Essence (D)~~ + Black Toadstool + White Baneberry -> Chanting Disintegrate or Wither spell		* Simmering: Water + Black Toadstool + White Baneberry -> Simmer -> Purified Everblood Essence (D) + Chanting Disintegrate or Wither spell

	''Bubbling Black Potion (H):''		''Bubbling Black Potion (H):''
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	'''''Blood Curses:'''''		'''''Blood Curses:'''''

	Treatment of the following blood curses by the alchemical recipes (G) or (H) causes a reversion in the blood negating hypothetically the primal blood component of the blood curse in question. This is sufficient for ~~reverting~~ Everblood and blackblood plague to seemingly the original blood of the host. The situation is more complicated in the case of Larsya because her physiology is hybridized with foreign blood. In this respect she is more like Thrazyar, Drangell, and Rodnay than the Blameless or blackblood victims.		Treatment of the following blood curses by the alchemical recipes (G) or (H) causes a reversion in the blood negating hypothetically the primal blood component of the blood curse in question. This is sufficient for obliterating Everblood and reverting blackblood plague to seemingly the original blood of the host. The situation is more complicated in the case of Larsya because her physiology is hybridized with foreign blood. In this respect she is more like Thrazyar, Drangell, and Rodnay than the Blameless or blackblood victims.

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	===OOC Points of Clarification===		===OOC Points of Clarification===
	(1) The author is having a moment of disorientation when conflating Archales and Aetheri. He knows better. The reason this happened is illustrated in "[[Through A Glass Darkly]]". The supposed assassin Vinswith being transformed or created as a chimera of Archales and Wolfloner may involve an entirely different blood magic methodology.<br>		(1) The author is having a moment of disorientation when conflating Archales and Aetheri. He knows better. The reason this happened is illustrated in "[[Through A Glass Darkly]]". The supposed assassin Vinswith being transformed or created as a chimera of Archales and Wolfloner may involve an entirely different blood magic methodology.<br>
		⚫	(2) It is a corollary of Appendix B that Everblood does not come as such from troll blood. It instead reverses the relationship, asserting that everblood essence originates in primitive oculoth blood as an empirical fact, thus preferring the conjecture that trolls originate in demonic hybridization and the properties of troll blood are loosely speaking a weak debased form of Everblood. This is an independent postulate which allows the transmogrification agent to not involve primal blood. Drangell would then have been loosely based on primal blood even if this unified model is wrong.<br>
	(2) In Appendix B, the author is working with the inductive assumption that the (supposedly dead) witch who cursed Thrayzar and Drangell was Raznel, given the context of her apparently having time traveled and possibly extreme unnatural age for a human. The next point allows the basic model to stand if its applicability to this case is wrong.<br>
		⚫	(3) The theory represented by Appendix B is a basic model that may evolve into a sequence of more specific models. In this sense it represents an embryonic theory or "research program" rather than a finished form. The process involved with Rodnay was also involving a cocoon metamorphosis stage, for example, which he shared in common with another blood transmogrification curse of Grishom Stone's turning children into winged fiends. This may have been using vathor blood given the context. There could be a bifurcation in methodology at this point without the basic theory being wrong.
⚫	(3) It is a corollary of Appendix B that Everblood does not come as such from troll blood. It instead reverses the relationship, asserting that everblood essence originates in primitive oculoth blood as an empirical fact, thus preferring the conjecture that trolls originate in demonic hybridization and the properties of troll blood are loosely speaking a weak debased form of Everblood. This is an independent postulate which allows the transmogrification agent to not involve primal blood. Drangell would then have been loosely based on primal blood even if this unified model is wrong.<br>
⚫	(4) The theory represented by Appendix B is a basic model that may evolve into a sequence of more specific models. In this sense it represents an embryonic theory or "research program" rather than a finished form. The process involved with Rodnay was also involving a cocoon metamorphosis stage, for example, which he shared in common with another blood transmogrification curse of Grishom Stone's turning children into winged fiends. This may have been using vathor blood given the context. There could be a bifurcation in methodology at this point without the basic theory being wrong.

	==See Also==		==See Also==
	* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1811850 Brieson's Plan for Larsya and the Everblood] (10/26/2016)		* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1811850 Brieson's Plan for Larsya and the Everblood] (10/26/2016)
			* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1811929 Contents of Raznel's Pack] (10/26/2016)
	* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1812558 Recap of the Southron Wastes mission and aftermath] (10/29/2016)		* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1812558 Recap of the Southron Wastes mission and aftermath] (10/29/2016)
			* [http://www.tinyheroes.com/forums/GemStone%20IV/Towns/Wehnimer's%20Landing/thread/1814503 Eyes of the Dawn Finale - Death of Drangell, Chaston, Blameless, Desolution of Talador] (11/6/2016)
	* [[Eyes of the Dawn - Stability for Larsya and Salve for Half-Elves]] (11/11/2016)		* [[Eyes of the Dawn - Stability for Larsya and Salve for Half-Elves]] (11/11/2016)
	* [[Breshon and Larsya: Understanding the Situation]] (4/13/2018)		* [[Breshon and Larsya: Understanding the Situation]] (4/13/2018)

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