Aesculapius Syndrome
Aesculapius is a neurological disorder that only affects brashur. The condition hijacks the brashur's healing and regeneration abilities to the point where they "overheal" themselves. It's very common for the affliction to cause albinism.
The disease has been studied intensively, but there's still not enough information to go off of for finding a cure or better treatment plan.
Treatment
Medication is the only treatment so far that has worked, and can stave off the disease by short term. The medication has to be taken continously once a day, and is a lifetime commitment as well. Gene therapy has been tried, but there have been no success in the trial runs of it. Some others have even tried reverse engineering the ancient way of creating brashurs, using elemental magic the brashur is attuned to.
Prognosis
The liklihood of the disease for the species is 1 in every 500,000 children. The condition is fatal if left untreated, which is why extensive medication is needed for an individual to attain even a normal life without worrying about even the smallest amounts of damage hurting them.
History
No one is sure about where or how the disease had started, but ancient texts describe this disease stemming from Ragnarok, as there's no other traces of text discussing the disease that's before the time period. The alchemist brashur, called Aesculapius, made note of the ailment when his parents had discovered how easy it was for him to bruise and become sick. While this disease caused him to remain indoors and be careful about his body, this bloomed his frustration into curiosity. He began to do experiments with hurting himself carefully, and writing down his notes documenting the changes and experiences he had. While he had passed on without being able to figure out exactly what the disease's origin was, or even get off the ground with his notes, doctors in the future became intrigued by his studies and took upon where he started and ran with it before it finally took off and became a much more understanding of the disease.
Hypotheses made are under the assumption of the disease being a result of brashur breeding with voidseeds. Because of how chaotic voidseed blood can be to an individual, in this case it causes hyper healing to the point of killing in brashur. This also is not contagious, more of a genetic disorder that's passed down by individuals who are predisposed of it. Sometimes the child will not inherit the disease, and it may be as late as 3 generations later that another is born with the disease as well. There have been papers released every so often with breakthroughs, but unfortunately they do result in dead ends that either make them back track to the very beginning or lead them to a wild goose chase. Purely light magic, in a docile form not used for battle, is already difficult to get a hand of in pure form, and some scientists have theorized this could help with the condition. This hasn't been tested as of now, and nobody is sure if it will even work with healing if they can somehow find the amount needed to test on the cells of a brashur with the condition.
Many famous people have the disease, including Jackson.
Cultural Reception
Many brashur in Ni'Avan look down at individuals who are diagnosed with the condition and think of them as "weak". Many of them are deployed in military to test their strength, only to end up with a tragic fatality that isn't even counted towards a conflict. Treatments in Ni'Avan are far rarer as well, but they can scrap on by with some minor healing through the magic, or buying contraband medication from outside of Ni'Avan.
Brashur outside of Ni'Avan do not hold this mindset, and encourage their fellow brethren to look into treatment plans to prolong their life as much as possible.
Type
Neurological
Parent
Origin
Divine
Cycle
Chronic, Acquired
Rarity
Uncommon
Affected Species
