Blinded {x}
Nothing is more terrifying in many ways than when your vision goes dark but you are still awake.
Causes
Like most conditions, this can be caused by a variety of stimuli and experiences, both natural and magickal. It is rare for it to be a permanent effect, though that this possible.
Symptoms
You can't see clearly, if at all, depending how severe the effect is.
Adventures in Valerick Effect: Blinded has 4 stages, hence that it is a scored condition. If x ever equals 4, then it becomes permanent, whether that means you've lost your eyes to some physical issue, had them removed, to badly scarred, or the magick effect upon you has progressed so drastically it has basically become a curse debilitation. This is exceedingly rare but does happen. Otherwise the score represents how brutal you vision has become, representing how many steps worse you treat visibility in any given situation. So if you are suffering Blind (1) and it is middle of the day, bright and sunny, you treat it as if its Low-Light conditions. If it is low-light conditions you treat it as if you need night vision, and if its merely dark, but not lightless, you treat it as if it is lightless. Whilst under the effect of a Blinded condition, you get +2*x to any Defensive Test against supernatural or magick effects that would require you to visually see them to affect you (such as illusions). This caps at +6, because if you are at Blinded (4) you are full on immune to such stimuli as you are fully blind.
Adventures in Valerick Effect: Blinded has 4 stages, hence that it is a scored condition. If x ever equals 4, then it becomes permanent, whether that means you've lost your eyes to some physical issue, had them removed, to badly scarred, or the magick effect upon you has progressed so drastically it has basically become a curse debilitation. This is exceedingly rare but does happen. Otherwise the score represents how brutal you vision has become, representing how many steps worse you treat visibility in any given situation. So if you are suffering Blind (1) and it is middle of the day, bright and sunny, you treat it as if its Low-Light conditions. If it is low-light conditions you treat it as if you need night vision, and if its merely dark, but not lightless, you treat it as if it is lightless. Whilst under the effect of a Blinded condition, you get +2*x to any Defensive Test against supernatural or magick effects that would require you to visually see them to affect you (such as illusions). This caps at +6, because if you are at Blinded (4) you are full on immune to such stimuli as you are fully blind.
Treatment
There are of course magicks that will see such issues removed swiftly, as well as treatments in many cases to compensate for any permanent eye damage. However permanent and total blindess has far fewer methods to overcome it. When it is inflicted by environmental conditions or other such temporary means, it will fade over time, often quite rapidly once one is away from the stimulis that causes it.
Type
Physiological
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