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The Potion of Regeneration What is this potion?: Well, the potion of regeneration is a potion which helps regenerate lost bodyparts. Before posting a -1, and exiting this post, read the following explanations, because I have thought hard about this potion for a whole load of time, and a sensible answer finally came to me. This potion works in a peculiar way, as you need to stay for many a month, drenching your missing body part in this strange liquid before it regenerates. Another peculiar thing about the regeneration is that when the body part finally regenerates, it will act as if it has never been used, and thus needs physical therapy, which take even more time, as physical therapy itself takes months. Only after the regeneration and therapy, which for limbs usually takes a matter of a whole IC year, and for other body parts even longer. How did this potion come to be?: Far away in the south, in a certain dwarven alchemist's halls of horror, a potion with amazing effects, and horrible side effects was created. Kardel Irongut, the alchemist obsessed with immortality, youth, and transmutation, was determined to find a way how to regenerate his lost hand. Being an experienced herbalist, he was able to identify a plant with this type of potential: the mandragora, most importantly the 'meat' of the mandragora, which had great rejuvenation properties, but was useless without the help of two other major ingredients, fresh human liver originating from a mother's body, and the blood of the individual who is drinking it. A twisted recipe it was, but Kardel was able to find these reagents by certain means, and was able to create a potion using them. But why, why the liver of a person? The reason for this is because the liver is the only human organ that can regenerate himself, a study made by Kardel that proved true, and combined with the ripe 'meat' of the parsnip-like mandragora, which also has great rejuvenation properties. The blood of the patient acts as a navigator, showing the potion what it is supposed to do. With these ingredients a potion capable of restoration of limbs was made, but it comes at a great cost. This potion, more like an oil, is not drank, but applied instead. It works in the most peculiar way, as it requires the user to soak the part he wishes to regenerate in the liquid for a very long time, usually a span of 7 months, as the part slowly regenerates. After the process of regeneration, there is yet another side effect. Since the liver does not truly 'regenerate', but re-creates itself slowly, and in the end is as if the regenerated part had never been used, the regenerated body part will also act as if it were never used. An example of this would be regrowing your arm with this potion, the regenerated arm being as if it was never used, a brand new arm, one that needs a lot of physical therapy, as blood does not run through it properly, and as it is not nearly as old as the rest of the body. The therapy also takes a lot of time, a matter of another 3-5 months, but in the end, the product is a brand new limb, maybe not equal in strength with the others, but still having the same function. Another thing that Kardel purposely did when brewing the potion was make sure that the liquid was useless to anyone but him, to hide his secret. He did this by using his own blood as a base, so that the potion would only work on him. This works with any other person as well, if their blood is used, and this would stop others from using that single brew. How do you prepare this wonderful substance?!: The potion is prepared using the meat of the mandragora, along with a mother's liver of the same race and blood of the user. Using the liver and of an orc, when the user is a dwarf, would result in a horrible regeneration of a strange half orc/dwarf hybrid limb, which is horribly unstable. This potion is put together like any other, accept the blood is the base, and the liver and mandragora being reagents. These reagents are all traced back to the symbol of Water, Water representing life, birth, and in this case regeneration and re-creation, so it alchemically makes sense as well. The potion itself requires fresh ingredients and takes a whole load of time to make, usually a matter of 2 days, its nature being extremely reactant, so the creation can fail very easily. The potion has a certain heat it must be heated to, and this heat must remain constant throughout the whole process. It also must be mixed until it turns into a rich, dark color. Only after this, is the potion valid to use. The nature of the potion: This potion is quite a tricky one, as if prepared wrongly, it might leave your body part only half regenerated, and due to its extensional long period of effect, if used on major organs, like the heart, it might not carry out its effect fast enough to save the patient. It can also leave a body part half-regenerated if not prepared in plentiful quality, so the risks of this potion are much too great, and only very talented alchemists may create it. Sometimes, it may even create a limb that will not accept therapy, and leave you in a horrible situation, so it is always encouraged to be extremely careful when using such a potion.
