Carthesis

Carthesis

While this well-known spiritual ailment is cureable by a realtively simple alchemical mixture involving Goat hair, blessed by limestone spirits and steeped in a cider made from toasted cicadas, few realize this contagion was created by the Anathema known as Perphyron Deran. This madness spread from its host, infecting his followers with the same careless zeal for meditation as he. While the Solar had no problems with meditating under a Echryistac Tree for weeks at a time without food or water, his devout followers were not so lucky.

The worst of it is that instead of correctly attributing the cure to the Chief Inspector-Theologian Clouseaus Jade, it is usually attributed to the Blasphemous Jasim Oath-Breaker instead. The fictional account of her discovery of a cure for the disease out of concern for the mortals is completely absurd. Despite correctly identifying the symptoms - the intense desire to meditate when confronted with a philosophical riddle, leading to the abilitiy to ignore all physical constraints, as well as curing it by banishing a mysterious third essence attaching to their hun - it obviously MUST be false as no Anathema could possibly retain any veneer of humanity that long after stealing Essence from the Unconquered Sun.

Other additions, such as the Solar Perphyron Deran proving that he could not have spread the disease to his followers by revealing that he was under the permanant protection of a powerful charm that protected him from all dieases, physical and spiritual, and proving it by donning a essence-restraining collar, bathing in a tub filled with pus from every known disease and remaining free of illness for the rest of his life, are clearly designed to gross out younger listeners, taking advantage of their immature conceptions of what is and is not "cool".

-- Bet of Zagohana, Chuzei to the Bronze Tigress and Interpreter of Ancient Lores

See Also: Echryistac Tree, Clouseaus Jade