Paralysis

Paralysis is a fairly well-known affliction amongst Achaeans, causing the muscles of the victim to lock up and become unresponsive. Notorious for their ability to cause paralysis are zombies, basilisks, and the Serpents of Achaea. In order to cure paralysis, one should eat a leaf of the bloodroot plant.

There are many afflictions that may befall adventurers in Achaea, each one unique in its effects. While most are detrimental, some may actually be considered advantageous under certain circumstances. Such afflictions are often considered defences, such as deafness and blindness.

A comprehensive list of cures for afflictions may be found on the Cures page.

Afflictions include any of the altered states of mind and body brought on by venoms, curses, psychic manipulation, and various other abilities used by combatants and creatures. The ring of pestilence is an enchantment that will target its victim with a random affliction.

As is natural, every ailment has a corresponding cure, whether it be an herb, salve, or elixir. The powerful Tree of Life tattoo can also cure almost all afflictions, as could the Priest skill of Healing (formerly), and lifestone. The worry stone, gem of negation and the necklace of purity are enchantments that also cure afflictions.

Affliction List

AFFLICTION SHOW <affliction> will give the following (example with Addiction):

Affliction: Addiction to curatives Diagnose: suffering from addiction. Afflicted msg: You feel a terrible hunger grow within you. Cured msg: Your terrible addiction seems to wane. Cure(s): Eat Ginseng / Eat Ferrum WhisperingMadness: Yes Tzantza: Yes Accentato: Yes CadmusCurse: No

Affliction	Effect	Skills	Cure
Addiction	Elixir doublesip, and eat all of a mineral/plant to cure instead of just one	Vardrax	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Aeon	Delays actions, making it impossible to do more than one thing at once	Aeonics, Artificing, Tarot	Elm/Cinnabar (smoke)
Agoraphobia	Causes fear outdoors, rush around to seek shelter.	Artificing, Curses, Evileye, Hypnosis, Tarot	Lobelia/Argentum (eat), Focus
Airfisted	Hinders parrying and movements of chaos orb	Striking	Time (15s)
Amnesia	Cancels the next action you take.	Artificing, Curses, Evileye, Hypnosis, Telepathy	none
Anorexia	Makes it impossible to eat anything	Artificing, Curses, Evileye, Devotion, Hypnosis, Physiology, Runelore, Spiritlore, Voicecraft	Epidermal (apply), Focus
Asphyxiating	Reveals your curative smoking	Duress	Time
Asthma	Makes it impossible to smoke anything or hold breath.	Various	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Blackout	Obscures prompt, prevents you from seeing anything.	Puppetry, Pranks, Propagation, Telepathy, Vodun	Time (4s)
Blindness	Prevents seeing the world around you.	Various	Epidermal to head (apply)
Blistered	Delays movement between rooms, movement causes damage	Ignition	Time
Bloodfire	Prevents applying salves while bleeding.	Psionics	none
Bound	Prevents movement and many actions, harder to escape than entanglement	Skirmishing, Subterfuge	Writhe
Brokenleftarm	Prevents using that arm in most situations.	Various	Mending to arms (apply)
Brokenleftleg	Prevents using that leg, delays movement, standing.	Various	Mending to legs (apply)
Brokenrightarm	Prevents using that arm in most situations.	Various	Mending to arms (apply)
Brokenrightleg	Prevents using that leg, delays movement, standing.	Various	Mending to legs (apply)
Bruisedribs	Can die to three backbreakers instead of four.	Tekura	Time (30s)
Burning/Ablaze	Periodic (per 10s) fire damage.	Various	Mending (apply)
Cadmuscurse	Causes focusing to add more physical afflictions.	Domination	Time
Calcifiedskull	Timed affliction, gives mild/extreme head damage on completion based on prior head state.	Sculpting	Restoration to head (apply)
Calcifiedtorso	Timed affliction, gives mild/extreme torso damage on completion based on prior torso state.	Sculpting	Restoration to body (apply)
Claustrophobia	Causes fear when indoors, rush around to seek exit.	Various	Lobelia/Argentum (eat), Focus Mind
Clumsiness	Makes it hard to physically hit target.	Various	Kelp/Aurum
Coldfate	Negates breathing underwater	Pervasion	Time
Concussion	Recurring amnesia (per 1s), making it hard to act	Various	Restoration to head (apply)
Condemned	Locks in ablaze so burning levels can't be cured but also unable to be increased by paladins.	Excision	Time
Conflagration	Periodic damage for as long as conflagration lasts.	Artificing	Cure all stacks of ablaze on you
Confusion	Extends equilibrium recovery rate by double.	Various	Ash/Stannum (eat), Focus
Corruptedhumours	Drains mana when you bleed, drains health when you clot.	Physiology	Time
Crackedribs	Reduces health elixir healing amount, periodic sensitivity	Weaponmastery	Health (apply)
Cremated	Forces you to embrace when you die.	Ignition	Time (60s)
Crushedthroat	Increases smoking pipe balance time.	Shikudo	Mending to head (apply)
Daeggerimpale	Periodic damage, restricts movement	Apostasy	Writhe
Damagedhead	Recurring stupidity	Various	Restoration to head (apply)
Damagedleftarm	Unable to use left arm.	Various	Restoration to arms (apply)
Damagedleftleg	Unable to use left leg, delayed movement	Various	Restoration to legs (apply)
Damagedrighttarm	Unable to use right arm.	Various	Restoration to arms (apply)
Damagedrightleg	Unable to use right leg, delayed movement	Various	Restoration to legs (apply)
Darkshade	Receive damage while outdoors, chance of death.	Various	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Dazed	Wipes out ability to resist hypnosis	Hypnosis	Elm/Cinnabar (smoke)
Dazzled	Lowers accuracy, halves damage resistance	Various	Mending to head (apply)
Deadening	Makes you more susceptible to telepathic locks	Telepathy, Duress	Elm/Cinnabar (smoke)
Deafness	Stops you from hearing anything.	Various	Epidermal to head (apply)
Deathsickness	Gives immunity to aeon, but you keep all afflictions upon burst and pass death sickness to your killer.	Charnel	Time
Deepsleep	Sleep which cannot be naturally woken from	none	Time
Degenerate	Artificially ages you, dropping constitution 1-6 points.	Aeonics	Time
Dehydrated	Reduces resistance to fire-based damage	Artificing	Time
Dementia	Makes you see things that aren't there, causes LOOK to show random locations	Apostasy, Curses, Devotion, Domination, Evileye	Ash/Stannum (eat), Focus
Demonstain	Reduces all statistics by 1 point	Apostasy	Time
Depression	Everytime you suffer a mental affliction, you take health and mana damage	Shadowmancy	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Deteriorate	Artificially ages you, dropping intelligence 1-6 points.	Aeonics	Time
Disloyalty	Turns loyal creatures into enemies	Artificing, Duress, Monkshood, Necromancy, Occultism	Valerian/Realgar (smoke)
Disrupted	Keeps you permanently off-equilibrium.	Telepathy	Concentrate
Dissonance	Periodically lose defences	Crystalism	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Dizziness	Causes you to frequently become prone on movement.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum, Focus
Enlightenment	Drives you insane, making your mental afflictions permanent.	Occultism	Death
Enmeshed	Makes you unable to parry.	Dragoncraft	Time (4s)
Ensorcelled	Causes various movement attempts to fail.	Memorium	Time (20s)
Entangled	Prevents movement and most forms of action.	Various	Writhe
Entropy	???	Occultism	Time
Epilepsy	Periodically lose balance.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat), Focus
Fear	Drop wielded items and run around uncontrollably.	Various	Compose
Flamefisted	Prevents rebounding, but also reduces your bleeding	Striking	Time (15s)
Flushings	Eating ginseng or ferrum causes bleeding.	Pestilence	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Frozen	Recurring disruption, delays movement	Elementalism, Metamorphosis, Necromancy, Occultism, Pervasion, Sublimation	Caloric (apply)
Generosity	Causes you to give away your material possessions.	Hypnosis, Voicecraft	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Grievouswounds	Locks in bleeding amount.	Shikudo	Health to torso (apply)
Guilt	Focussing causes mental afflictions.	Zeal	Lobelia/Argentum (eat)
Haemophilia	Prevents clotting.	Curses, Domination, Memorium, Oppression, Pervasion, Physiology, Skirmishing, Weaving	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Hallucinations	Recurring stun, prone, stupidity.	Devotion, Hypnosis, Pervasion, Tarot	Ash/Stannum (eat)
Hamstrung	Delays movement.	Striking	Time (10s)
Hatred	You will consider everybody an enemy.	None, (Parni	Time
Healthleech	Periodically drains health.	Various	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Heartseed	Timed instakill	Propagation	Restoration to body (apply)
Hecatecurse	Prevents curing whispering madness	Domination	Time (16s)
Hellsight	Gives slickness, recurring hallucinations, fear, epilepsy	Apostasy, Zeal, Devotion	Valerian/Realgar (smoke)
Hindered	Delays movement through forest.	None'	Time
Homunculusmercury	Extends the next herb/mineral balance.	Physiology	Time, eating a curative
Horror	Prevents curing fear.	Anathema	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Hypersomnia	Prevents insomnia.	Apostasy, Hypnosis, Tarot	Ash/Stannum (eat)
Hypochondria	Gives recurring nausea, addiction, lethargy, and impatience.	Hypnosis, Shadowmancy, Striking	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Hypothermia	Prevents curing freezing.	Artificing	Restoration to body (apply)
Icefisted	Prevents touching tattoos.	Striking	Time (15s)
Impaled	Prevents movement, makes you bleed alot.	Skirmishing, Two Arts, Weaponmastery	Writhe
Impatience	Halves mana-sipping, prevents focus.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Indifference	You cannot generate rage or use battlerage attacks.	None	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Inquisition	Reduced mana regen, increases mana cost of focus, makes being ablaze inextinguishable.	Devotion	Time (20s)
Insomnia	Makes it difficult to fall asleep.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Internalbleeding	Causes massive bleeding.	Various	Time
Isolation	No one will hear you speak on channels	Telepathy	None
Itching	Periodic loss of balance, recurring impatience	Pranks	Epidermal to body (apply)
Justice	Any attack you make on the afflictor causes damage to yourself also.	Shadowmancy, Tarot, Zeal	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Kaisurge	Prevents mounting, adds slight extension to broken limb penalty for tumble.	Kaido	Time
Kkractlebrand	Weakens fire resistance and unlocks further ignition abilities against you	Ignition	Time, Health (sip)
Laceratedthroat	Causes stuttering, bleeding, reduces amount healed by health and mana elixir	Propagation	Restoration to head (apply)
Lapsingconsciousness	Recurring unconsciousness	None	Time
Latched	Various symptoms based on existing afflictions, setup for an instakill (Dessicate)	Pervasion	Time
Lethargy	Leaves you physically drained, delaying movement and actions.	Hypnosis, Pervasion, Physiology, Spiritlore	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Lightbind	Causes most movement attempts to occasionally fail.	Emulation	Time (22s)
Loneliness	Forces movement from rooms without people.	Hypnosis	Lobelia/Argentum (eat), Focus
Lovers	Prevents you from attacking the afflictor.	None, Sirens	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat), Focus
Manaleech	Continuous mana drain.	Curses, Duress, Evileye, Shadowmancy, Spirituality, Tarot	Valerian/Realgar (smoke)
Mangledhead	Very damaged head. Gives a concussion, recurring amnesia	Various	Restoration to head (apply)
Mangledleftarm	Very damaged left arm. Unable to to use that limb.	Various	Restoration to arms (apply)
Mangledleftleg	Very damaged left leg. Unable to to use that limb.	Various	Restoration to legs (apply)
Mangledleftarm	Very damaged right arm. Unable to to use that limb.	Various	Restoration to arms (apply)
Mangledrightleg	Very damaged right leg. Unable to to use that limb.	Various	Restoration to legs (apply)
Masochism	Causes you to periodically harm yourself.	Various	Lobelia/Argentum (eat)
Mindclamp	Reduces health and mana by one fifth so long as mindlock is maintained.	Telepathy	None
Mindravaged	Makes a psion's attacks on you to also drain your mana.	Psionics	Time
Muddled	Makes actions more likely to fail when you have stupidity, and more likely to fall prone when you have dizziness.	Psionics	Time (12s)
Mycalium	Everyone considers you a personal enemy. Also causes balance loss.	Pestilence	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Nausea	Recurrent vomiting.	Various	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Numbedleftarm	Gives clumsiness, then healthleech if applied twice	Shikudo	Time
Numbedrightarm	Gives clumsiness, then healthleech if applied twice	Shikudo	Time
Pacified	Makes it impossible to perform aggressive actions.	Telepathy	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Palpatarfeed	Periodically afflicts with healthleech.	Domination	Time (20s)
Paralysis	Prevents physical actions and movements.	Various	Bloodroot/Magnesium (eat)
Paranoia	Makes you consider everyone a personal enemy.	Various	Ash/Stannum (eat)
Parasite	Makes all your health regeneration heal the afflicter instead, delays speed elixir.	Shadowmancy	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Peace	Makes it impossible to perform aggressive actions.	None	Bellwort/Cuprum
Penitence	Lets a priest regain Devotion by killing you.	Devotion	None
Petrified	Prevents all actions and movements.	Metamorphosis	Time
Phlogisticated	Prevents eating irid moss or potash.	Alchemy	Time (45s)
Pinshot	Causes various attempts at movement to occasionally fail.	Subterfuge	Time (21)
Pressure	Pressure delays movement and progressively enables Duress abilities.	Duress	Pear/Calcite (eat)
Prone	Restricts movement, opens you up to more damaging abilities	Various	Stand
Pyramides	Bleeding increases by ten percent	Pestilence	Bloodroot/Magnesium (eat)
Pyre	Locks levels of ablaze on you (up to 5) until pyre is cured	Excision	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Rebbies	Applying a salve gives sensitivity	Pestilence	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Recklessness	Makes your health and mana appear to be full.	Various	Lobelia/Argentum (eat), Focus
Retribution	Sipping health elixir makes you lose half that amount in mana. Sipping mana makes you lose half that amount in health.	Shadowmancy	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Revealed	Temporarily negates effects of shroud and hiding	Star sigil	Time (60s)
Sandfever	Gives "Now now, don't be so hasty!" message after only one room, inhibits focus	Pestilence	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Scalded	Inhibits parrying.	Artificing	Epidermal to head (apply)
Scrambledbrains	Can't naturally break telepathic locks. Delays curing via focussing.	Telepathy	Time (60s)
Syctherus	Makes any afflictions you have relapse after a short delay.	Venoms, Memorium	Ginseng/Ferrum
Selarnia	Makes it hard for metamorphs to maintain bonds with animal spirits	Various	Mending to body (apply)
Sensitivity	Increases damage of attacks you receive.	Various	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Serioustrauma	Causes great bleeding	Various	Restoration (apply)
Shadowmadness	Periodically gives random mental afflictions, increases mana cost and cooldown of focus.	Shadowmancy	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Shivering	Causes periodic equilibrium loss.	Various	Caloric (apply)
Shyness	Makes you run away at the sight of other people.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat), focus
Silenced	Inhibits both speaking and hearing.	Duress	Time
Silver	Negates affects of shroud concealing actions.	Alchemy	Time (180s)
Skullfractures	Extends health sipping cooldown, gives periodic nausea.	Weaponmastery	Health to head (apply)
Slashedthroat	Reduces how much health and mana elixirs heal you.	Propagation	Epidermal to head (apply)
Sleeping	Causes prone, can do nothing but dream, and wake up.	Various	Wake
Slickness	You can't apply salves while slick.	Various	Valerian/Realgar (smoke), Bloodroot/Magnesium (eat)
Slimeobscure	Obscures random cure messsages.	Domination	Time (60s)
Solarburn	Afflicts uncurable sensitivity for a time	Sublimation	Time (5s)
Spiritburn	Causes flames of ablaze to drain mana as well as health.	Zeal	Lobelia/Argentum (eat)
Stupidity	Causes you to occasionally perform silly emotes instead of intended actions.	Various	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Stuttering	Makes all speaking (aloud and on channels) unintelligible.	Hypnosis, Puppetry, Pranks, Shikudo	Epidermal to head (apply)
Temperedcholeric	Progressively causes random curing abilities to fail.	Physiology	Ginger/Antimony (eat)
Temperedmelancholic	Progressively reduces effectiveness of moss and potash.	Physiology	Ginger/Antimony (eat)
Temperedphlegmatic	Chance of filling lungs with phlegm, extending smoking cooldown.	Physiology	Ginger/Antimony (eat)
Temperedsanguine	Causes bleeding to increase over time.	Physiology	Ginger/Antimony (eat)
Tenderskin	Applying salves drains mana, especially for restoration.	Excision, Zeal	Lobelia/Argentum (eat)
Tension	Increases pressure and it impossible to land (if flying)	Duress	Elm/Cinnabar (smoke)
Timeflux	Doubles salve cooldown and delays tumble attempts.	Artificing	Time (60s)
Timeloop	Causes all Shadowmancy instillations to give twice as many afflictions.	Shadowmancy	Bellwort/Cuprum (eat)
Tonguetied	Makes you unable to cure stuttering until it is itself cured.	Puppetry	Restoration to head (apply)
Torntendons	Makes movement attempts fail, gives periodic clumsiness	Weaponmastery	Health to legs (apply)
Transfixed	Prevents many actions.	Elementalism, Runelore, Weatherweaving, Woodlore	Writhe
Trueblind	Blindness so perfect not even mindseye counteracts it.	Weaving	Time (7s)
Unconsciousness	Causes you to blackout and stops you from doing anything.	Skirmishing	Time
Unweavingbody	Progressively drains health.	Weaving	Ginseng/Ferrum (eat)
Unweavingmind	Progressively drains mana.	Weaving	Goldenseal/Plumbum (eat)
Unweavingspirit	Makes this progressively harder to cure.	Weaving	Elm/Cinnabar (smoke)
Vertigo	Makes you afraid of heights. No flying or highjumping.	Various	Lobelia/Argentum (eat)
Vinewreathed	Negates parrying viridian thornrends	Propagation	Time (20s)
Vitiated	Reduces strength and dexterity stats by 2	Shindo	Time
Vitrified	You will bleed anytime you use balance.	Alchemy	Time (45s)
Voidfisted	Chance of curatives failing.	Striking	Time (15s)
Voyria	It will bring death in 15s if not cured.	Curses, Evileye, Memorium, Venoms	Immunity (sip)
Waterbonds	Chance to hinder movement.	Pervasion	Time
Weakenedmind	Next focus will have a very increased cooldown.	Domination	None
Weariness	Increases endurance use, increases damage from blunt and cutting attacks, makes certain delayed movments move delayed.	Various	Kelp/Aurum (eat)
Webbed	Restricts movement and actions.	Web tattoo	Writhe
Wristfractures	Periodically gives lethargy.	Weaponmastery	Health to arms (apply)