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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a substance with a wide variety of uses.
- Image Source: Roy XVI
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Mummia | Mellified man
- Name: Mummia
- Manufacturer: Ishani Sibwarra
- Affiliation: Ishani Sibwarra | Whomever she shares it with
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Powdered mummies, alchemy
- Classification: Drug/Pigment
- Method of Consumption: Can be consumed orally, inhaled, or mixed into a paste and applied directly to wounds. In its pigment form, it should not be consumed.
- Average Life: After performing its healing act, the substance no longer has any other properties and is flushed from the body naturally.
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: Aside from the psychological horror of consuming powdered human remains? Eh. It won't kill you.
- Mummia is a substance created from powdered mummies which is then alchemized to grant it healing properties.
- It can also be used as a pigment in oil paint, producing a reddish brown color.
- Cure-All: Mummia functions as a general medicine for a variety of ailments, ranging from disease to the common cold. It can also speed up the healing of injuries and serve as a painkiller.
- You Snorted What?!: Most people are not comfortable with the idea of consuming human remains, even though powdered mummies are basically just dust at this point.
- Boris Karloff: Mummia's effects are somewhat slow to take hold, making it better for use as a curative than something you would take into battle with you.
- Not an Aphrodisiac: But you're welcome to try this, babe.
Ishani Sibwarra, budding Sith alchemist, stumbled across a Holonet article describing how certain cultures once used "mummia" or mummies, as a cure-all for various ailments (and as an aphrodisiac, because the cure-all always doubles as an aphrodisiac). Of course, the purported properties of the substance were fake; consuming powdered human remains has no effect on the body, you're just eating dirt/desiccated organic matter. But then Ishani thought, what if it really did have healing properties, granted to it by alchemy?
Korriban is a desert planet with a lot of dead people buried in the sand, so it wasn't as if she was in short supply of mummies to work with. By combining the crushed remains with honey and then alchemizing it, she was able to create mummia with a genuine healing factor. Ironically, Ishani refuses to use it on herself, but she will sell it to people, give it to a friend suffering from a headache, or slap it on a teammate's stab wounds. They don't need to know what it's made out of.
