Zomalli (zoh-mahl-lee)

Transmission & Vectors

Cycle of the Elder Moon

The 50 year half of the elder moon cycle is the period of time where fever reports begin. There are two 10 year winding up and down times in the cycle that eases victims into their decades long challenge.
Symptoms are nearly always reported in the half of the elder moon cycle where it is visible in the sky.

Symptoms

Some additional reactions include: earache, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, hallucinations and temporary disorientation.

Prognosis

The illness is not in itself deadly. Even babies can survive it, though they wail more often. Headaches and body pains increase across the board.

Should the girls get by till the end of the moon's cycle, they will find themselves all the stronger:

Advantage on Athletics checks and STR saving throws

Immune to mental effects

+1 STR +2 CON, +2 DEX, +1 INT, +1 WIS, -2 CHA

Gain Survival +4, Intimation +3, Persuasion +3, History +2

Affected Groups

Females who recovered from the fever after the final setting of the Elder are made stronger than one who did not experience the decades of internal struggle. What is unexplained is the better-than-average proficiency in salt spells they acquire; unmatched by their male peers.

Cultural Reception

Perceptional Shift

The effects of the Elder Moon has been known to all in the valley for as long as there have been people. It was only with in the introduction of the Tinged that the greater potential for power was realized.
There was just something inherent in the brine witches that made this possible. The descendants they left behind in the quipaz have a one-in-three chance of gaining this boost and endeavour to wield it for political ends.

Alternate Name
Wisened

Type

Supernatural

Parent

Elder Fever

Origin

Divine

Rarity

Uncommon