Difference between revisions of "Spore eater"

When someone becomes a spore eater, the interior of the person's body becomes infested with aether.{{book ref|tress|27}} The spore eaters are directly Connected to one of the larger parent aethers present on Lumar's moons. The aether inside of them is insatiable for water, drawing it continually from its host and providing it to the parent aether on the moon via an unknown mechanism. These parent aethers are irrational though and draw increasing volumes of water the longer the host has been afflicted by the spore gestation. The existence of a spore eater is quite painful as well.{{book ref|tress|28}}

The aether on the moons draws from a number of spore eaters spread around the world in order to obtain sufficient water. A spore eater must drink water to replenish what they lose to the aether. Additionally, it is also very painful to be a spore eater.{{book ref|tress|28}} The condition is progressive, and advanced spore eaters will find themselves drinking water with increasing frequency. Ultimately the need for water increases until it is unsustainable, and the spore eater becomes dehydrated and withers away before dying. Usually this process plays out in under a year or so, although a it can last longer.{{book ref|tress|28}}