Afflictions

• Afflictions are permanent negative effects.
• Afflictions have a type: Body or Mind.
• Afflictions have a potency: Feeble, Strong, Severe or Chronic.
• Afflictions are normally gained via taking the CURSE call.

• The potency of an affliction roughly determines how easy or difficult it is to remove.
• Afflictions of the body are generally easier to remove than afflictions of the mind.
• The potency of an affliction does not determine the severity of its effect.
• Some abilities may cause afflictions to be treated as greater or lesser than their original potency.
  • In such cases, these abilities can only shift the potency one rank higher or lower from their original potency.
  • It is impossible to make a chronic affliction more potent or a feeble affliction less potent.

• The following abilities can be used to cure afflictions.
• Abilities which can cure more potent afflictions can always be used to cure less potent afflictions.
  
• Sometimes, as in the case of Weavers or Paladins, the nature of the plane or the purview of the Muse must be something appropriate to the situation at hand.

The following abilities do not cure afflictions, per se, but can be used to manage them.

• Moment of Joy (wheel Paladin/encounter): target can ignore negative effects of any affliction for the rest of the encounter.
• Benediction (Savant/adventure): induces a mutation that may compensate for a severe affliction of the body for the rest of the adventure, but will fade afterwards.
• Take up Another's Burden (connection Weaver/encounter): shifts any affliction from the target onto the Connection Weaver, instead.
• Life Unending (Forest Touched/permanent): all afflictions of the body which affect this character are treated as one potency lower.
• Pierce The Veil (Forest Touched/permanent): all afflictions of the mind which affect this character are treated as one potency lower.