Animated Cold
Causes
Excessive exposure to cold magic (any magic that has a low temperature)-- environmental or attack-based. It's a bit like a combination of frostbite and hypothermia, with other elements such as delusions and hallucination.
Symptoms
Include:
- delusions
- hallucinations
- dangerously low body temperature
- frostnip on extremeties (can progress to frostbite if left untreated)
Treatment
Tea made from a specific root, which causes the afflicting magic to be counteracted. It also has minor heating and healing effects, which helps treat the hypothermia and frostnip. Frostbite requires one to visit a healer.
Those with a grasp of fire magic can sometimes use that to recover without assistance, and they are already less likely to develop animated cold, considering their bodies run hotter than others of their species.
Prognosis
If left untreated, extremities can become necrotic, and the afflicted could die of hypothermia. It can also result in the afflicted developing Magic Exhaustion, as the magic reserves are depleted.
Affected Groups
Those who are already low on magic are more susceptible to developing the more serious effects, without experiencing the warning of delusions and hallucinations. Beings with smaller magic reserves also experience more extreme effects, as their bodies don't have much to counteract the foreign magic. Such beings are also made susceptible to Magic Exhaustion, as is anyone whom has this condition persist.
Cool article love the fact that tea is a cure. Also great idea that you have fire mages resistance to this resistance to this disease.