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 | 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) |