Stone Sickness

Stone sickness is an ailment effecting stone casters. It is common among heavy, relentless practitioners of the magic, and its effects can be severe or even fatal to the magician. Most cases of stone sickness are correlant to extensive use of the gems necessary to stone casting. Heavy use of lower quality stones, such as coal, will often result in the sickness, but it is also possible to get the sickness from ingesting gems too powerful to be controlled.

Coming in a number of forms, stone sickness effects both the physical and mental state of the mage afflicted. While most of the sickness surrounds the digestive system, some heavier use can stretch symptons to the head and even deeper into the mind....

Symptoms can include: nausea, cramping, abdominal discomfort, diarrhoea, migraines, blurry vision or blindness, deafness, mental instability, and mental breakage in extreme cases.

Stone sickness is hard to treat, as it is a magical ailment and not physical. Herbal and alchemical salves can provide some comfort to this issues, but time is the only thing that will fully heal the sickness.