Miasmata

Miasmata

  Miasmata originates from Avernus, representing the metaphorical force of death itself, and everything to do with unlife.

Humors The most well known aspect of Miasmata are the Humors. Most living creatures develop within themselves Humors which lead to their vitality no longer sustaining them, leading to aging. An excess of Humors within a body will make the skin naturally lose collagen and sag, growing pale. Veins will shrink, and organs will begin to fail. Maltricians repurpose Humors with specialized tools to yield an illusion of vigor. The polar opposite of a Humor is Life Force. Unlife Miasmata represents the inverse of life, animating the dead with a kind of unnatural vigor. This allows the sapient Undead to still develop a soul, provided their suitably intelligent and reanimated faculties are given enough Miasmata to awaken beyond being a mindless zombie. Death Miasmata represents the slow, cruel march towards death. It makes the animate, inanimate. It drags a discontent soul towards Avernus, and in life convinces them to make peace with this eventual transition. Slowly or all at once through shock, Miasmata congeals with and shrouds the soul as it dies, giving birth to a Ghost in Avernus. Miasmatic Death refers to the completion of this process. Ashes Avernus is a plane full of so-called Soul Ash, a fine sand that carries no weight or feeling. Traversing Avernus billows these ashes around, but these are still a form of complex Miasmata produced naturally by the death of Ghosts. Scourges and undead skilled with Poetics wield these for various purposes.

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