It's not parkinsons....
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At first I thought the shakiness was kinda lame, but after reading the short story and giving it a bit of thought.....he's a cannibal.
From the WDs short story: Rumors followed the stories. Some......told of the heretic eating the flesh of slain witch doctors and becoming a cannibal—a kareeb. At first i thought this was something the elders made up to cause outrage against you, but maybe you just got a little carried away and/or munchy during the battle. (it's mentioned that its your character, he's the WD following the falling star to tristram.) You can only eat so many people before you get a serious MJF thing going... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_%28disease%29 I thought i'd mention it because not only does it explain why he trembles like an old man, it kinda makes it cool. Your thoughts? Am i right or am i missing something.
Edited by ALittleHazey#1268 on 4/28/2012 2:50 AM PDT
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Creepy. love it.
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Awesome find bro, I did see a post earlier that his shakyness could also be associated with drugs
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The character isn't a cannibal. If you read the short story it leads you to believe that doing so would have turned him into an abonination/deamon and that character is not the same person that follows the star.
The female WD doesn't shake. Maybe voodoo/drugs/spirits could cause this. |
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Doing so would have done nothing but been tabboo, outrage those who were oppressing his ideas and get him exiled. She is no god. The figure's orblike, unchanging eyes somehow showed disapproval. This is a demon......Benu saw himself eating of the heart. Despite Adiya's claims, it did not grant him godlike powers. It did nothing. And as far as being the same character that follows the star.
If you look at the female character model she is damn fidgety, although the shaking isnt as pronounced. I thought it was exposure to the poisons you use as well, until putting all this together. Edit: to be clear im saying the heretic is our character, seeing as the story tells us what happens to benu it obviously can't be him.
Edited by ALittleHazey#1268 on 4/28/2012 10:44 AM PDT
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The short story believes me to think that our character is not a
I believe that the warrior we play is the young warrior who listened to Benu at the end. If you pay attention in the short story the Demon was a demon from the beginning that came because she knew of Benu's doubts due to the heretic (the one they found in the woods protecting his master and using a forbidden curse to kill the members of the 7 stones). She wanted to convenience him to eat the heart so that he would be exiled and she would be able to follow him and devour his sorrows. The shakiness I believe would either come from a wound or our young warrior having a strong connection with the spirit realm as did Benu and thus being plagued at times to feel other spirits torments. |
And as far as being the same character that follows the star. Also as for this the heretic I think they are talking about is the one who saved the master from death, not the cannibal |
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Kuru (one of the many prion diseases) gives you Spongiform Encephalopathy, a rare infection of the brain that has RAPIDLY progressing dementia and will always kill you in a few very short weeks or months at best.
Also, the abnormal movements in Kuru are more of a type of ataxia, which is not being able to walk properly or hold normal posture. He is hunch-backed, true, but that is more of a vertebral column abnormality, not a central nervous system abnormality like in Kuru. Patients with Kuru also have muscle incoordination. The witch doctor does not have this, as demonstrated by his excellent ability to kill hell-spawned demons with lethal efficiency. He has a resting tremor and an expression-less, masked face (no pun intended) which is almost pathognomic for Parkinsonism. /pwnt
Edited by Xaavii on 4/28/2012 9:49 PM PDT
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He shakes like a boss.....because he is a boss....nuff said.
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CrypticBlade Yes I know, this doesn't change the fact kareebs, or cannibals, are common enough that amongst a group of small tribes they need a word for it. The demon just tried to convince Benu it would give him powers.
While Benu wasn't having a good time in the trance, the spirits wern't tormenting him they were confused and angry because they were lied to. They never lead us to believe the ghost trance is always painful/stressful.
Take another look, the two characters are one in the same. while at first i interpreted the kareeb stories as unfounded rumors to hurt his reputation, but this wasn't implied and i no longer think it's the case. |
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This isnt med school lol In the book of Eli they made people hold our their hands, if they were shakey they were booted out of town for being cannibals. It's called artistic license. they can take out whatever aspect of the disease doesn't work, and just say its caused by a different prion.
Everything you said here was incorrect, i dont mean to start a flame war but.... it was years or even decades before an infected person showed symptoms. ......... the usual first symptoms were an unsteady gait, tremors, and slurred speech. Unlike most of the other TSEs, dementia was either minimal or absent. ...., and they died in a comatose state from 6 to 12 months after the first appearance of symptoms. Source:http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/kuru/kuru.htm
Edited by ALittleHazey#1268 on 4/28/2012 10:32 PM PDT
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This isnt med school lol In the book of Eli they made people hold our their hands, if they were shakey they were booted out of town for being cannibals. You are trying to explain the witch doctor's "symptoms" using MEDICAL terms. I don't see why using actual definitions and descriptors of diseases is somehow off the table. You can't say he has Kuru if he is not at all showing the disease's hallmark (gait instability/incoordination) Posted by Xaavii what I said was actually accurate. I said that Kuru's neurological symptoms are rapidly fatal compared to other comparable forms of dementia (i.e. alzheimer's, which takes years to kill). And they are. He is clearly showing some symptoms of neurological disease, at which point he would only have a few months to live. The years and decades is the incubation period, during which they would have no symptoms at all. The WD is clearly past that.
Edited by Xaavii on 4/28/2012 10:49 PM PDT
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1.I mentioned artistic license, are you saying they can't base his condition on kuru much like the writers for the book of eli? 2.He is most definately showing the symtoms you mentioned. what I said was actually accurate. I said that Kuru's neurological symptoms are rapidly fatal compared to other comparable forms of dementia (i.e. alzheimer's, which takes years to kill). And they are. He is clearly showing some symptoms of neurological disease, at which point he would only have a few months to live. The years and decades is the incubation period, during which they would have no symptoms at all. The WD is clearly past that. Actually man it wasn't. First of all your adjusting your past statements to make them closer to the facts, second of all it isn't at all a form of dementia, and rarely causes even mild dementia. You said it was rapidly deteriorating dementia with death following in a few short weeks or months. In reality, little to no dementia, and 6 months to a year not counting decades of incubation, your using a lot of medical terminology, but just because you know the words doesn't mean your correct here. Even if he doesn't have kuru, he has the sanctuary equivalent quru, which is almost identical with a faster incubation period, more pronounced early symptoms and a delayed death. Along with whatever herb blends the WD makes for himself to ease the symptoms lol
Edited by ALittleHazey#1268 on 4/28/2012 11:07 PM PDT
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1.I mentioned artistic license, are you saying they can't base his condition on kuru much like the writers for the book of eli? No, he is not....resting tremor=/=incoordination. He also doesn't show any walking problems. someone with kuru would lose ambulation in few short weeks/months, something I doubt will be the fate of the hero of sanctuary :) |
fine. i give up. lol. he can have kuru. |
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Like i said i didn't want to start an argument, my point was the exact nature of his symptoms are irrelevant, the point is whether or not all the pieces fit together well enough to say they likely based his shakes on kuru. My opinion? Yes.
Edited by ALittleHazey#1268 on 4/29/2012 12:10 AM PDT
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Like i said i didn't want to start an argument, my point was the exact nature of his symptoms are irrelevant, the point is whether or not all the pieces fit together well enough to say they likely based his shakes on kuru. fair enough. |
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heretic =/= kareeb
They explained these were rumors. As in society, some people tend to blow stories out of proportion and add things that are not true. Hence why Benu believes the heretic isn't a kareeb. Benu followed the star with his eyes. He was watching what was happening to the heretic. |
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