The Mother Blood
From the bowels of the primordial convergence emerged a substance as thick as tar and crimson as the freshest rose. This substance found itself captured by the budding residents of the world and imbibed through ritual, leading to the realisation that this syrup granted immortality.
Transmission & Vectors
It cannot be passed on through genetics nor through drinking the blood of the afflicted.
Causes
The Mother Blood is typically taken by the ancient races to annoint adulthood, as such is a self-inflicted condition.
Symptoms
Initially, when the Mother Blood is ingested, the afflicted will experience a massive fever and aches for a week. Records have compared the experience to catching Dragon Fever due to the tormented days of quaking and profuse sweating.
Treatment
There are no known cures for the Mother Blood, but there are ways to extract it from a creature's bloodstream. Throughout history there have been tales of this rumoured extraction for those exiled from the ancient civilisations, as penance for a great crime. However, sometimes, the afflicted can be cut off if they venture too far away from the place they originally imbibed the syrip. Those severed from the Mother Blood begin to age once again after a massive withdrawal-like symptom described by ancient scholars as "like having a loved one butchered before one's eyes".
Prognosis
Those affected by the Mother Blood will experience agelessness so long as they are bound to the syrup. They do not experience any additional benefits and can still die from disease, injury, or divine retribution.
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