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| <blockquote>{{Object|image1=SS flamesgaz.png|location=[[The Elder Continent]]|related=[[Rosina]]<br> | | <blockquote>''"Animescence is a rare disease of the Elder Continent. A slow combustion of the soul, gradually baking the vital organs. Poets suffer worse than most; lovers worst of all. The blistered monks who run the hospital will accept any assistance."''<ref name="assist">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist at an Animescence Hospital|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''Animescence''' is a disease endemic to [[the Elder Continent]] that sets [[souls]] aflame. Even for people raised on the Continent, this can be permanently fatal. Symptoms generally include a cripplingly high fever,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Ambition:_an_Additional_Sherry_with_the_Fierce_Philanthropist|Recruit her to the Seven|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> injury to vital organs, severely dry skin, and wayward passions,<ref name="assist" /> culminating in spontaneous metaphysical combustion. The disease can be highly contagious if another person is caught in the explosion; in fact, the Presbyterate occasionally uses ailing animescence patients as bioweapons during times of warfare.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Rosina%27s_Chambers,_in_Health#Interactions|Speak to her about her history|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> |
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| ''"Animescence is a rare disease of the Elder Continent. A slow combustion of the soul, gradually baking the vital organs. Poets suffer worse than most; lovers worst of all."''<ref name="assist">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist at an Animescence Hospital|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>'''Animescence''' is a disease endemic to the [[Elder Continent]] that sets [[souls]] aflame. Even for people raised on the Continent, this is typically permanently fatal;<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Rosina's_Chambers|Meet Rosina|Sunless Sea}} ''"For a long time she looked for a cure to the disease. Tradition ascribes healing features to certain poems, ointments, and postures of the body. But these only delay the gradual combustion."''</ref> there is a hospital (or perhaps quarantine facility<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Ambition:_an_Additional_Sherry_with_the_Fierce_Philanthropist|Recruit her to the Seven|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] the patient-inmates of the animescence hospital in Adam's Way."''</ref>) for its victims in [[Apis Meet]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist at an Animescence Hospital|Sunless Sea}}</ref> Symptoms generally include a cripplingly high fever,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Ambition:_an_Additional_Sherry_with_the_Fierce_Philanthropist|Ambition: an Additional Sherry with the Fierce Philanthropist|Sunless Sea}} ''"She is preparing a dispatch of comforts for the patient-inmates of the animescence hospital in Adam's Way. "The poor things. Their souls baking; their bodies fevered.""''</ref> injury to vital organs, severely dry skin, and wayward passions,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist at an Animescence Hospital|Sunless Sea}} ''"Poets suffer worse than most; lovers worst of all."''</ref> culminating in spontaneous metaphysical combustion. The disease can be highly contagious if another person is caught in the explosion at a point when they are vulnerable; in fact, the [[Presbyterate]] has, on at least one occasion, used an ailing animescence patient as a biological weapon.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Rosina%27s_Chambers,_in_Health#Interactions|Speak to her about her history|Sunless Sea}}''"Of course in that mood I was far too vulnerable not to take the disease, when an animescent beggar combusted in the street. The Nidaheen sent him to infect me."''</ref> | |
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| Animescence itself can be highly dependent on one's emotional state; being emotionally vulnerable or overly optimistic can make one more susceptible to the disease.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist in the cloisters|Sunless Sea}} ''"You conduct interviews, record observations, track the simmering, inexorable advancement of a dozen cases of the disease. The more phlegmatic patients endure better than the melancholy and the sanguine. "''</ref> Passion, in any form, can speed up the disease's progress, so patients often have to make an effort to remain as apathetic as possible.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Rosina's_Chambers|Meet Rosina|Sunless Sea}} ''"She must, therefore, lie very still in an ice bath and think of things that do not interest her."''</ref> Of course, for individuals such as poets and the lovestruck, being passionless is easier said than done.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Root out a reckless poet|Sunless Sea}} ''"The cellerar has discovered scraps of love-poetry on the pantry floor. The abbot wants the perpetrator found, before they dangerously inflame the inmates' passions."''</ref> | | Animescence itself can be highly dependent on one's emotional state; being emotionally vulnerable or overly optimistic can make one more susceptible to the disease.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Assist in the cloisters|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Passion, in any form, can speed up the disease's progress, so patients often have to make an effort to remain as apathetic as possible.<ref name="meet">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Rosina%27s_Chambers|Meet Rosina|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Of course, for individuals such as poets and the lovestruck, being passionless is easier said than done.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Assist_at_an_Animescence_Hospital|Root out a reckless poet|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> |
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| Treating animescence is a daunting task. Traditional medicines such as ointments, posturing, and poems only slow down the disease; they do not cure it.<ref name=":0" /> [[Rosina]] of the [[Seven Against Nidah]] managed to sharpen her spleen in [[Anthe]] to repress her anger, but she is still vulnerable to other passions, and has been forced to lie still in an ice bath to prevent her own demise.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Rosina's_Chambers|Meet Rosina|Sunless Sea}} ''"Rosina is dying of animescence, the disease of the Elder Continent. Any passion speeds the disease. She must, therefore, lie very still in an ice bath and think of things that do not interest her. Going sharp in the spleen protects her against the passion of anger, but other passions are still a danger."''</ref> | | Treating animescence is a daunting task. Traditional medicines such as ointments, posturing, and poems only slow down the disease; they do not cure it. Rosina of [[the Seven Against Nidah]] managed to sharpen her spleen in [[Anthe]] to repress her anger, but she is still vulnerable to other passions and was once forced to immobilize herself in an ice bath to prevent her own demise.<ref name="meet" /> |
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| <blockquote>''"Rosina's Onlookers are everywhere in Anthe, sighing over poetry and languishing in feverish postures."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Anthe|Clear out the Conflagranti|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>For reasons poorly understood, a significant number of people have chosen to treat a typically fatal illness like an old-timey "pox party." Called '''Conflagranti<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Anthe:_Conflagranti|Anthe: Conflagranti|Sunless Sea}} ''"Conflagranti wander the chambers of Anthe, suffering from and trying to spread their animescence."''</ref>''' or '''Conflagrati''',<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sift_the_waters_of_Adam%27s_Way|Sift the waters of Adam's Way|Fallen London}} ''"There is a kingdom of the Animescent, who bathe daily in the waters. Their wounds are ignited, burn, and slough off, leaving the skin fresh, to burn anew. This account is written by a notorious liar, however, who faked his own death by animescence in order to wed a Conflagrati queen. She later drowned him for his troubles."''</ref> they seem to see animescence as something of a fad, flocking to the side of a known victim (like [[Rosina]]) and trying as hard as they can to contract and spread it.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Anthe|Clear out the Conflagranti|Sunless Sea}} ''"Rosina's Onlookers are everywhere in Anthe, sighing over poetry and languishing in feverish postures. The Antheans cannot endure them."''</ref>
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| There is ''supposedly'' a kingdom of the animescent in the [[Presbyterate]], but this account was written by a notorious liar who had eyes for a Conflagranti queen.<ref name=":1" /> The fact that this queen exists or existed is of interest, even if the kingdom is made-up. Regardless, there are some indications that the Conflagranti are more common and possibly more organized than we have seen of them thus far.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consult_the_Presbyterate_directly|Consult the Presbyterate directly|Fallen London}} ''"There is, in fact, much harm. They send your letter back in a large vase, in ashes. An Animescent member of the Conflagrati is sent too, to ensure the letter continues to burn."''</ref>
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