Elemental Fatigue
May 30, 2013 4:24:55 GMT -5
Post by Kender Bard on May 30, 2013 4:24:55 GMT -5
What is elemental fatigue?
Everyone except for Clears and those individuals who have lost their signs somehow are able to call upon the Elements. But this isn't an effortless task and prolonged use of of your element--or doing too much all at once--can cause you to feel drained and tired or worse. This is elemental fatigue and just about everyone experiences it in their life. Children learning to use their signs can often fall victim to this sort of fatigue as they continue to push their elemental limits in their training and growing. Adults can succumb to this too. What happens when you become fatigued depends on how severely you are pushing your powers. There are certain levels of fatigue as detailed below.
How do you reach higher 'levels' of fatigue?
Two ways: as mentioned before, either you do a great deal all at once or you ignore the signs of your current fatigue and continue to push past what your body is able to handle. Think of it as continuing to exercise even though you're beginning to tear muscles. It's not a good idea, and most people will stop after experiencing the first and second levels of fatigue as once you pass a certain threshold, you begin to face the possibility of doing serious and/or permanent damage to yourself.
What are the levels?
Everyone except for Clears and those individuals who have lost their signs somehow are able to call upon the Elements. But this isn't an effortless task and prolonged use of of your element--or doing too much all at once--can cause you to feel drained and tired or worse. This is elemental fatigue and just about everyone experiences it in their life. Children learning to use their signs can often fall victim to this sort of fatigue as they continue to push their elemental limits in their training and growing. Adults can succumb to this too. What happens when you become fatigued depends on how severely you are pushing your powers. There are certain levels of fatigue as detailed below.
How do you reach higher 'levels' of fatigue?
Two ways: as mentioned before, either you do a great deal all at once or you ignore the signs of your current fatigue and continue to push past what your body is able to handle. Think of it as continuing to exercise even though you're beginning to tear muscles. It's not a good idea, and most people will stop after experiencing the first and second levels of fatigue as once you pass a certain threshold, you begin to face the possibility of doing serious and/or permanent damage to yourself.
What are the levels?
- Level One: Headaches. These start as a dull headache. Each continued use of your power will cause a sharp spike of pain and can swiftly catapult you into 'migraine' territory. The sensation is often described as a dull, throbbing pain in your head that quickly turns to a sharp, stabbing pain somewhere behind the eyes.
- Level Two: Nosebleeds. This is cumulative with level one. In addition to headaches, you begin to bleed from the nose with varying severity.
- Level Three: Shaking, nausea, and/or vision problems. This can be a combination of symptoms or just one, also in addition to the previous two. Shaking can range from slight trembling (and a feeling of buzzing or vibrating similar to an adrenaline high) to full shakes. Nausea usually does not include vomiting, although that isn't to say it never does. Vision problems usually are blurry vision or momentary white-outs of temporary blindness that last a few moments.
- Level Four: Full-bodied pain and/or blacking out. At this stage you have done some serious damage to yourself. Aftereffects include temporary inability to summon elemental energy, permanent decreased capabilities with elemental energy all around (stamina, power, range, etc), and even permanent pain when calling upon your elements.
- Level Five: Permanent ability loss and/or slow death. You have burned out your elemental abilities and your own body. Some very lucky individuals may continue to call upon their elemental power after this (see level four for effects of doing so), but many lose all ability to call upon elemental ability at all. They are effectively now Signless, although they still have an intact sign. Furthermore, often such individuals will suffer a long, slow degradation in health that ends in death as the body systems begin to fail. As most people black out before this point through prolonged sign usage, this level is generally reserved for individuals 'blowing out' their abilities in one massive display. The benefit is that you are able to reach power otherwise completely out of your reach, but the downsides are obvious.
Is it possible to heal Elemental fatigue?
Absolutely! ...To a point. Levels one through three are all temporary and will go away with time. Healing water will generally not replace the fatigue, however, so any dosing of healing water will most likely only help with the nosebleeds and little else. All other symptoms will persist until one rests. Levels four and five cannot be treated with healing water. Once someone burns out their elemental abilities, it is permanent.
