Night's Embrace
I can’t help myself, you just look so tasty right now. - Vigor addict
Transmission & Vectors
The condition is only caused by a medicine known as Renewed Vigor once it has been ingested for a few hours.
Causes
Renewed Vigor may help you to have more energy and heal faster along with a few other benefits, but once the side effect in you wished you hadn't. What most people don't even know about the medicine is that its main ingredient is the remains of vampires! Granting them an extent of their power when they ingest it.
Symptoms
The symptoms are both mental and physical that often have the aspects of a vampire.
Physical
- Enhanced spread and strength
- Heighten sense of hearing and smell
- Advanced healing and
- Renewed energy
Mental
- Urge to bite
- Avoiding sunlight
- Staying up at night
- Urges when seeing blood
Treatment
The best to deal with it is to just let it run through your system until it finally burns out of it which can take days to do so. Once that happens that effects of the potion will vanish from the body and you will feel like you need to sleep for a few weeks afterwards.
Prognosis
The condition is relatively harmless if the potion was taken in small doses, but if the whole thing is taken at once the condition well take full effect in a matter of hours. Causing them to take hold of the host for several days. It they take more of the potion while they still have the symptoms they will become stronger then ever before and they will mentally start to fall apart as they will act more like a Vampire then ever before.
Sequela
While the effect have long since worn off after the potion has left the body, the mental aspect of it does not leave the mind all intact, for those who just took the potion once it will just be a little bit of tiredness once in a while, but for those who have taken the potion more then once would make them feel older and become tired of life. This can led to depression and eventual suicide in some cases, but with help they can manage to bare life more.
Prevention
The best way to avoid such a condition is to is not drink any Renewed Vigor at all as it is the main cause of the main cause of the problem.
History
The Disaster of Eternal Youth
In a vain attempt to regain his youth, an old Alchemist, by the name of Johann Gurber decided to find a way using alchemy to achieve his goal. This of course did not get anywhere as none of the natural sciences could not reverse the effect of ageing. This lead him to the idea of going into the science of the unnatural world instead, which gained him access to things that could halt the process of aging. The potion of Renewed Vigor was one such creation after he began gathering the remains of Vampires that were killed. He even began to selling due to the benefits that it had. This of course back fired after people began to or tried to drink blood. So enough the Inquisition got wind of it and he was arrested. Much of his research was destroyed, but the formula for Renewed Vigor managed to survive and has been used on the black market since then. Causing the supposed sightings of “vampires” when they really were Vigor addicts suffering the side effects.Cultural Reception
The problem with having theses symptoms can be disastrous as people will mistake them for Vampires and will try to kill them. Of course those with any medical knowledge know better then that and will try to help them get through the symptoms as best they can.
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