Kerilyk
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| Shrub | |
| Common Name | Kerilyk |
| Classification | Shrub |
| Origins | Dei’wan Isles |
| Habitat | Tropical environments. |
| Common Use | Recreational drug use, and tentative medical use. |
Kerilyk, a longstanding flora amongst the widely unknown Kingdoms east of Galudon, has a history marked by controversy and legal issues. Its importation has been a tricky navigation within Galudon, given that the plant requires hot, airy, tropical environments for thriving. Its importation has been linked to recreational drug usage in large quantities amongst various socioeconomic classes, causing the flora to repeatedly dance on the line of legality within various Kingdoms in Pannotia. While there is mild evidence to link the usage of Kerilyk to medical assessment, its properties are largely unexplored as a numbing agent within the wider world of medicine. Substances such as birchbalm are far preferred by most medical professionals. The recreational use of this substance has popularized, a highly expensive substance typically only available to those of sustainable income. Kerilyk has a reputation as a substance that has extremely addictive properties and manifests its addiction in physical withdrawal. It alsohas had a long-standing history with legality, finding the substance scheduled for illegality in recent decades among many countries such as Ellawren, Galudon, and the Keldwikian Kingdom respectively.
History
Kerilyk was discovered in 1455, by an Eastern botanist by the name of Dr. Ki’oren Xiayu’ing. Doctor Xiayu’ing’s contributions to the early discovery of Kerilyk were put into the scientific papers with plentiful sketches provided to the wider world of a miracle drug that could cure the plight of pain in the insufferably unmodernized world within the Far East. Substances such as Birchbalm were notoriously difficult for warring Eastern Kingdoms to import due to high shipping costs within the region. Doctor Xiayu’ing hypothesized that this substance would be the miracle cure for surgical drugs within the Far East. The Doctor received several awards within the communities of Dei’wan and the broader Eastern medical community for the synthesizing of the substance that is modernly known to be Kerlyk on the streets. Doctor Xiayu’ing would have never expected himself to be the godfather of such a ruthless substance in its future.
It was by 1513 that Kerilyk had swept the Far East with its use cases. Pharmaceutical companies scrambled to create patents with what they figured to be a miracle drug that seemed only to boost profit. It was estimated within the decade that 90% of all medical professionals prescribed Kerilyk for all pain-curing regimens of treatment. In this period, due to the plant's innate toughness to discern in the lush Eastern Isles of Dei’wan, the price of the drug remained high. While available for commercial use, acquiring the substance without a prescription remained notoriously difficult.
It was in 1572 that Kerilyk received its first public pushback from one Dr. Robert Kerilyk, who published papers within the Galudonian National Science Magazine openly criticizing the East usage of this substance. Dr. Kerilyk has been a well-traveled man for his time, having taken trips to the East frequently to write of the unique botany and fauna within the Eastern Islands. On a trip to Dei’wan, henoted the persistent prescription of this substance, as it was almost the staple drug of choice across Dei’wan. He openly discusses in his journal the rampant addiction of the populace to the drug. While it was a significant placeholder for Birchbalm, Kerilyk was defined and slandered by the Dr. as being nothing short of an addictive filler for a larger problem within Dei’wan.
The Royal Family of Dei’wan quickly caught wind of the Doctor’s work, eager to silence the seemingly harsh opinions toward what had become almost a miracle in the last century. Defiantly, the East retorted to the Doctor inviting him to return to the Islands on business. While the exact details are unknown, it is believed to this day that Dr. Kerilyk was given significant boons, including monetary compensation and funding for the man's research, along with what was suspected as permanent residence within Dei’wan.
Almost rapidly, the Doctor’s opinion and tune changed almost overnight. He became a pushing force for Kerilyk to make its way to the Western Kingdoms and sang the praises of the refinement for the synthesizing process to remove the addictive nature of the substance from it entirely. It was after his death and work of preaching the drug to the Western world that the Dei’wan Royal Family decided to immortalize Dr. Kerilyk for his work and contributions to the Kingdom of Dei’wan byhanging the substance's label to the Doctor’s namesake.
In 1720, Kerilyk finally achieved the expectations of the distant past Royal Family, Pharmaceutical companies, and the Doctor of the past. Commercial dispersion commenced into the Kingdoms of Galudon and Principalities of Ellawren respectively. The Royal family watched as tax off of the substance stacked their coffers, with the reputation of exotic goods shipping from the east only seeming to boost this.
Finally in 1799, a child in Ellawren was seen to ingest Kerilyk before seemingly passing away after ingesting too much of the substance by accidental sniffing of the powdered substance. This sparked wide controversy within Elven Principalities, causing scholars to come out and label Kerilyk as a wicked deathly substance with addiction that the mind could never rebound from. The wider world watched as Ellawren banned the importation or exportation of Kerilyk. Tenderly watching the effects of this, Ellawren witnessed violent crime lower to a ten-year span. Soon other nations followed suit, the first being the Galudonian Kingdom with some slower to adopt. This brings us to the modern state of Kerilyk, a vastly illegal exotic drug from the East and a stark reminder of the potential dangers of substance abuse.
Appearance
Kerilyk is a leafy thin shrub within the Dei’wan Isles, believed to only grow within immensely tropical environments and hot summers from the East. A Kerilyk plant is known to be almost as large as a person, with thick leaves requiring great strength to break off,and is often farmed with a scythe or sickle. Green in appearance, Kerilyk possesses a white streak down the center of its leaves. Kerilyk also has thick roots used to embed itself into the soil much like a tree would, spreading outwards into the soil.
Kerlyk can be used for its recreational use after being processed and synthesized by alchemical processes of burning organic matter from the thick stocky leaves. To many, it appears like a thick, white powder to many. Being almost entirely scentless, Kerlyk is a rather inconspicuous substance.
Uses and Capabilities
The wider world majorly uses Kerilyk for some medical processes. It is believed that Kerilyk is seen as rather ineffective by many doctors due to its relatively short-acting period as a numbing agent. Only lasts between 30 and 45 minutes, far too short for the average surgery session. However, the wider use of
Before its modern restrictions, Kerilyk was commonly used in dental procedures due to its practical applications. Today, dentists are still allowed to import very limited, controlled quantities of Kerilyk for use with patients. However, its application remains highly regulated, with stringent protocols in place to ensure its safe and appropriate use.
Kerlyk as a recreational substance is seen as an upper by those of the criminal underground and wealthy upper class nobles. When ingested nasally, members of Eastern Nobility discovered that Kerlyk gives the user a jolt of energy far more potent than your average cup of coffee and provides a smooth numbing effect to the head and face. Many members of upper-class patronage have long used the substance to combat intense headaches and migraines. This provides the user with a surge of euphoric energy across their body, leading nights of parties to go on far longer than normal.
Trivia
- Kerilyk is believed to potentially not be as rare as the Dei’wan Government claims it. After a published journal in 1732 by Konrad Delfinus, the man claimed that Dei’wan had a lush island of Kerilyk plants used for most of their selling operations. It was not a month later that Delfinus was found dead on account of a ship crash landing.
- Shrouded in mystery, there are many rumors of the Dei’wan government surging to project the substance of Kerilyk back into international trade by black market means. Whispers have it that the government of Dei’wan is directly attempting to push the trade, and not domestic pharmaceutical companies.
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