Poisons and their Effects

Regarding the descriptions of the individual poisons below, it should be noted that the prices, but also the durability and effect, can vary depending on the quality. The prices are for one portion and include the surcharge for buying from a fence for most prohibited substances. The code after the poison’s name indicates the level of the poison, as well as whether it is a weapon, ingestion, contact, or breath poison.

Fear Poison (Angstgift)

This magical weapon poison is made from Mandrake, berserk saliva, crypt dust, rabbit’s feet, and shark’s teeth. It does not physically harm the victims, instead causing them to panic and flee from the first creature they see after being poisoned.

Level: 4
Type: weapon
Effect: same as HORRIPHOBUS spell
Start: immediately
Duration: depends on quality
Price: 25 ducats
Durability: 18 months
Preparation: alchemy +6, HORRIPHOBUS must be casted upon the brew

Arachnae

A weapon poison distilled from a cave spider’s digestive secretion. Arachnae paralyzes slightly (AT/PA each -2) and is therefore often used for kidnappings.

Level: 1
Type: weapon
Effect: paralysis
Start: immediately
Duration: 1 hour
Price: 5 ducats
Durability: 3 months
Preparation: alchemy +3

Arax

A distillate from Arachnae, therefore it has a stronger debuff effect (AT, PA, AG, DX, ST each -2). It is only available as a weapon poison.

Level: 5
Type: weapon
Effect: paralysis
Start: 2 game rounds
Duration: 1 day
Price: 35 ducats
Durability: 6 months
Preparation: alchemy +10

Bane Dust (Bannstaub)

A very rare and special ingestible poison whose recipe is only known to a few magicians and initiates. It is made from amber, Kosh basalt, nitrol, summer solstice rooster eggshell, griffon feathers, iron powder, rainwater distilled by sun’s heat, salt, Brabak vitriol, gold, sun lynx urine and Praios flower petals.

Level: 15
Type: ingestion
Effect: loss of d6+2 Astral Points per game round
Start: 1 game round
Duration: 3d6 game rounds
Price: 250 ducats
Durability: 1 year
Preparation: alchemy +15

Boabungaha

A very dangerous respiratory poison that the forest people and a few alchemists in the south know how to make. A tiny pinch is enough and the victim is doomed to die if help is not given as soon as possible, which is probably only possible by magic.

Level: 19
Type: respiratory
Effect: suffocation
Start: 5 combat rounds
Duration: until death
Price: 250 ducats (Mohas barter for high quality metal weapons)
Durability: 6 months
Preparation: herb lore +12

Dragon Spit (Drachenspeichel)

The heavy, greenish liquid is brewed from all sorts of unsavory ingredients (Unau brine, quicksilver, wolf rat dung, viper blood and much more). Since it is rarely fatal, it is one of the few legal poisons. The effect of this drug, which is widely used as an ingestion and weapon poison, varies depending on its quality. It is also used in trap hunting.

Level: 7
Type: weapon, ingestion
Effect: max 1d+3 damage per game round, swelling, pain, dizziness
Start and Duration: varies, the latter 1d+1 game rounds max
Price: 40 ducats
Durability: 1 year
Preparation: alchemy +7

Fire Tongue (Feuerzunge)

Slightly sour tasting ingestion poison. This formerly rare, water-clear liquid is obtained from the bile of the fish of the same name, which lives in the southern seas and off the coast of Maraskan. Recently, however, particularly poisonous (level 6, 2d6 damage per hour) representatives of this species, which have ugly deformities, have been piling up in the bays of Maraskan.

Level: 5-6
Type: ingestion
Effect: 2d6-2 damage per hour, swollen tongue makes speech impossible
Start:5 game rounds
Duration: 5 hours
Price: 25 ducats
Durability: 3 years
Preparation: alchemy +7

Golden Glue (Goldleim)

The sap of the naftan plant can be processed into pale yellow, honey-tough gold glue, which also eats away at living tissue. Even small areas of skin affected by this contact poison can lead to serious damage. As a weapon poison, it does half the damage (rounded down).

Level: 5
Type: contact, weapon
Effect: 2d6-3 damage per hour
Start: immediately
Duration: 2d6 hours
Price: 30 ducats
Durability: d6+6 months
Preparation: alchemy or herb lore +6

Gonede

This weapon poison is made from the venom of the yellow-tail scorpion and is popular with predatory desert tribes.

Level: 8
Type: weapon
Effect: d6+5 damage per game round, spasms, convulsions, choking
Start: 10 combat rounds
Duration: 5 game rounds
Price: 70 ducats
Durability: 9 months
Preparation: alchemy +9

Semi-Venom (Halbgift)

This alchemical weapon and ingerstion poison is made from red lotus, the wood of a tree split by lightning, and Brabak vitriol, and appears to be capable of halving the victim’s physical abilities — though sometimes their size as well…

Level: 8
Type: weapon, ingestion
Effect: reducing CR, AG, ST, AT, PA, damage points
Start and Duration: varies greatly, the latter on average 4 game rounds
Price: 60 ducats
Durability: 3 months
Preparation: alchemy +8, PLUMBUMBARUM spell

Kelmon

This weapon and contact poison is extracted from the nettles of the carnivorous disdychonda plant.

Level: 5
Type: weapon, contact
Effect: 4d6 damage and complete paralysis
Start: 5 combat rounds
Duration: 6 game rounds
Price: 30 ducats
Durability: d6+9 months
Preparation: alchemy or herb lore +8

Kukris

The poison is obtained from the Mirham silk liana, is deadly even for a troll and easy to handle (ingestion and weapon poison). Aventurian assassins also refer to kukris as “kingmaker”.

Level: 12
Type: ingestion, weapon
Effect: d6 damage per combat round, itching (WD, DX -1 for 10 combat rounds), spasms (ST, AG -3 for 15 combat rounds)
Start: 10 combat rounds
Duration: 3 game rounds
Price: 90 ducats
Durability: 3 months
Preparation: alchemy +12 or herb lore +9

Mandragora

A light weapon poison obtained from the mandrake root.

Level: 2
Type: weapon
Effect: if a ST test fails, nausea (d6 damage)
Start: 5 combat rounds
Duration: 30 combat rounds
Price: 3 ducats
Durability: 8 months
Preparation: alchemy +3

Omrais

Derived from desert scorpion venom and sold as an ingestion or weapon poison. Omrais is frowned upon in assassin circles, since victims are said to have survived poison attacks.

Level: 11
Type: weapon, ingestion
Effect: d6-1 damage per combat round, burning throughout the body
Start: 1 game round
Duration: 1 game round
Price: 80 ducats
Durability: 6 months
Preparation: alchemy +8

Purple Flash (Purpurblitz)

An odorless and tasteless water-soluble powder (which can be mixed with food as an ingestible poison) for the discerning assassins. Crimson Flash is made from crimson lotus, Marasque spines, Salzarel tran, cinnabar, and more. The victim often does not even know what is happening to him; the only symptoms of poisoning are purple mists before the eyes. Even an examination of the corpse (which is forbidden in many places) often does not provide any indication of the poison.

Level: 20
Type: ingestion
Effect: 2d6 damage per combat round
Start: immediately
Duration: until death
Price: 300 ducats
Durability: 1 year
Preparation: alchemy +10

Velvet Touch (Samthauch)

Popular respiratory poison, especially in Al’Anfa. The bee pollen of Creeping Death can induce pleasant dreams, but with a two-and-a-half-fold overdose it is often deadly.

Level: 5
Type: respiratory
Effect: 2d6 per hour, falling asleep and wild dreams
Start: 1 game rounds
Duration: d6 hours
Price: 20 ducats
Durability: 2 months
Preparation: alchemy +9 or herb lore +6

Sleeping Poison (Schlafgift)

Ingestion and weapon poison is brewed from mandrake, ilmen leaves and — according to the latest recipe — marmot milk. The drug puts the victims into a deep sleep from which they can only be awakened magically.

Level: 5
Type: weapon, ingestion
Effect: see description
Start and Duration: variable; the latter on average 7 game rounds
Price: 35 ducats
Durability: 1 year
Preparation: alchemy +5, SOMNIGRAVIS spell

Black Lotos (Schwarzer Lotos)

With great care, black lotus pollen can be extracted. A deadly respiratory poison.

Level: 10
Type: respiratory
Effect: 2d6 damage per game round, hallucinations
Start: 5 combat rounds
Duration: 2 hours
Price: 100 ducats
Durability: 2d+15 days
Preparation: herb lore +10

Shurin Bulb Poison (Shurinknollengift)

This insidious poison is almost always deadly. Its effect persists until death or poison treatment or Klarum Purum. The victim usually only notices the effect when it collapses like a limp, empty sack.

Level: ?
Type: weapon
Effect: d6 damage per combat round, reduces AG and ST by 1 per round
Start: 6 combat rounds
Duration: 5 hours
Price: 70 ducats
Durability: unknown
Preparation: alchemy +7

Sunsura

This weapon and ingestion poison is refined from the venom of Maraskan-tarantulas.

Level: 9
Type: weapon, ingestion
Effect: d6+3 damage per game round, frenzy, delirium
Start: 1 game rounds
Duration: 10 game rounds
Price: 90 ducats
Durability: 9 months
Preparation: alchemy +6

Tinzal

A distillate of the venom of the nettle viper. Weapon poison.

Level: 7
Type: weapon
Effect: d6+1 damage per game round, difficulty in breathing
Start: 1 game round
Duration: 2d6 game rounds
Price: 40 ducats
Durability: 1 year
Preparation: alchemy +6

Tulmadron

Carved from a rare rock in the Khoram Mountains, it requires processing if used as an ingestion or weapon poison. Dwarves are immune to Tulmadron.

Level: 15
Type: ingestion, weapon
Effect: d6+1 damage per combat round, hallucinations, pain
Start: 20 combat rounds
Duration: 4 game rounds
Price: 200 ducats
Durability: light-tight and air-tight closed indefinitely
Preparation: alchemy +9

Wurara

The forest people obtain this arrow poison (weapon poison) from the juice of the hell herb.

Level: 5
Type: weapon
Effect: damage d6 per hour, chills, blurred vision
Start: 1 game round
Duration: d6 hours
Price: 15 ducats
Durability: 4 months
Preparation: alchemy +5 or herb lore +4

Poisons Effects in Arkania Online