through the help of Zaba the witch, the "kind woman" I referenced above. I find it tragic that so many of their clan is willing to condemn themselves to a slow death for the sake of traditionalism alone. At least the Ashkhan knows his power is expressly granted to him by the health of wise woman's position in the tribe, even if he is unwilling to admit it.
They are in desperate need of potions - they have plenty of ways to cure these sicknesses, but they do not have the means to produce them in large enough quantity to also tend to their herds. Judging from the skins hung in the wise woman's hut, their traditional method of
producing curatives is through fermentation rather than distillation, a much more time-consuming process. They use a different set of ingredients to create potions to cure soul sickness than any recipes I have encountered among alchemists of the mages' guilds - Roobrush, two species of lichen, one dark green, the other almost black (the wise woman said they are interchangeable, but it is better to use both), Kagouti tripe, and a material similar to Scrib Jelly produced from Shalk (too bitter to eat, they said). The wise woman agreed that if Vos sent Turedus on the day before every other full moon, the tribe's witches and merchant - surely a mistranslation, as when I