Melting Sphirix Syndrome

The disease is known by many names, some of which are Melting Sphirix Syndrome, Soul Core Corruption, Soul Melting, Skeleton Sphirix Syndrome and many others. It is unknown what it is caused by. Some suggested that it isn’t even a disease to begin with, but a symptom of the divided gene that occurs sometimes, like any other type of corruption the Divided grifix face.

✦ It only affects Divided Grifix.

✦ It is chronic (so it can not be healed), but it doesn’t kill the host. However, depending on how quickly it advances, some grifix may live to the point where their entire soul is corrupted by it and they become soulless bodies. That rarely happens though, because it usually takes longer than a grifix gets to live.

✦ It is a genetic disease and it can be passed on from parents to offspring.

✦ It causes the sphirix’s skin, meat and organs to “melt” until there is only the skeleton left. As grifix can feel pain when their sphirix is injured, this will cause a lot of phantom pain for the grifix. It can sometimes be agonizing, but rarely. In very advanced stages of the disease, the bones will melt as well and eventually the sphirix will be completely gone.

✦ It causes magic to spill or bleed through the eyes, nose and mouth of the grifix.

✦ The grifix often dreams of their sphirix in their unmelted state and that is the only time where the patient feels at peace so they tend to sleep a lot.

✦ In the advanced stage of the disease, after the sphirix fully melts, dreaming is the only way to meet the sphirix. Patients in this stage may even refuse to wake up, and it is a sign that their soul is almost gone.

✦ Once the soul is gone, they won’t be able to dream anymore, and their consciousness will be completely faded away. They don’t act on their own anymore so they can’t chew or swallow on their own. They can walk because of muscle memory, but they need to be led around by a caretaker or they will just stand and do nothing.

✦ There is a belief amongst grifix that once a grifix’s soul has fully melted away they will never be able to go to the afterlife, that their soul is completely gone. They also believe that the soul will never heal, so if someone dies with their soul in the early days of decay, it will remain in that painful stage for all eternity. There are legends of mothers killing their children when they are diagnosed with this disease, as they do not wish their child’s soul to live in suffering for all eternity.