Munday -Illness
How do you deal with illness in your stories? How often do your characters get sick, and in what ways?
What kinds of medicine are there in your world?
Well as my world is magic fantasy based having originated in a d&d setting illness and medicine is widely varied. There are the standard illnesses such as fevers, stomach problems, colds, flus and then there are magic illnesses like the Blood Plague which is a fever that causes a wasting sickness that takes several months for the person to expire from. Because it is a magical plague and designed to cull the populace of a certain bloodline (hence blood plague) there is no known cure for it and only 1 in maybe 50 will survive it. For a large city it isn't so devastating, but for a small town or community it is absolutely horrible.
There is also magical exhaustion. Which in a magic rich environment causes mages to become fatigued if they over exert themselves. It is very similar to fatigue and is usually nonlethal with rare occasions happening when the very young magically inclined expend themselves too much. They end up in a coma that lasts for days.
The other disease that is somewhat rampant is lycanthropy which is a twist on the modern mythos.
As for my characters they suffer the usual range of medical problems, but some of the more prominent cases, are things like amnesia (old but classic), depression, the blood plague, colds, flus and various other serious and minor injuries.
As fro medicines, there are a lot of herbal remedies like willow bark, feverfew, etc. But then there are also magical ones or alchemical ones like healing droughts. To separate the world from d&d healing droughts only alleviate some of the sickness, injury or discomfort as opposed to healing all up.
There is direct healing however through magical means, but it is costly and causes the healers to suffer from magical exhaustion.
Well as my world is magic fantasy based having originated in a d&d setting illness and medicine is widely varied. There are the standard illnesses such as fevers, stomach problems, colds, flus and then there are magic illnesses like the Blood Plague which is a fever that causes a wasting sickness that takes several months for the person to expire from. Because it is a magical plague and designed to cull the populace of a certain bloodline (hence blood plague) there is no known cure for it and only 1 in maybe 50 will survive it. For a large city it isn't so devastating, but for a small town or community it is absolutely horrible.
There is also magical exhaustion. Which in a magic rich environment causes mages to become fatigued if they over exert themselves. It is very similar to fatigue and is usually nonlethal with rare occasions happening when the very young magically inclined expend themselves too much. They end up in a coma that lasts for days.
The other disease that is somewhat rampant is lycanthropy which is a twist on the modern mythos.
As for my characters they suffer the usual range of medical problems, but some of the more prominent cases, are things like amnesia (old but classic), depression, the blood plague, colds, flus and various other serious and minor injuries.
As fro medicines, there are a lot of herbal remedies like willow bark, feverfew, etc. But then there are also magical ones or alchemical ones like healing droughts. To separate the world from d&d healing droughts only alleviate some of the sickness, injury or discomfort as opposed to healing all up.
There is direct healing however through magical means, but it is costly and causes the healers to suffer from magical exhaustion.