About the Possible Deterioration that the curse of Inmortality had on Khaenri'ahns (TL;DR)
CLARIFITACION: This thread was written just after the Caribert Archon Quest came out, and also when I was still an student in Psychology.
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The effects of the curse started to gain my interest since we got the Caribert Archon Quest, because they remind me a bit of neurocognitive disorders.
First off, I'll use the knowledge I've obtained during my Psychology career, and the sources that were given to me during that time.
Even so, I'd still need an specific specialization to talk confidently about this topic.
So because this is not my specialized field of research, I'll be talking from the knowledge and point of view from when I used to be an student.
I'm open to feedback by any expert in the topic<3
By the way, I'll use the "ND" abrevitation to refer to neurocognitive disorders.
And I'll also use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed). I would use the DSM-5 TR (most updated edition) but I still need to get it
If I ever use other sources, I'll add them around the thread.
First, what are neurocognitive disorders?
In the most simple definition ever, neurocognitive disorders are a group of disorders that affect: memory; behavior; attention; learning; decision making; perception; movement; & language.
These disorders usually happen to older adults by longevity, but they can also be obtained by younger people. The causes can be for genetics, accidents or other unkwown causes.
The thing is, Chlotar had symptoms of these kind of disorders.
Of course we can't classify him with an specific disorder because the symptoms are quite vague, and also I don't have any kind of specialization on the area of neuropsychology.
Still, we can detect some of the symptoms and understand a bit better in what consists the curse of inmortality.
Along the quest, Dainsleif says that his memory wasn't fully functional due to his long period of existence; here we have a problem with memory, a symptom of ND.
There's a possibility that Dainsleif is actually presenting symptoms of dissociative disorder. People with this disorder tend to live in a constant state of alert, making them to not be totally present during their daily lives; this results in them not remembering important or regular stuff, because their mind were not completely present at the time.
This case can be seen in memories that are partially or totally forgotten.
I'm not really sure if Dainslei actually went through this disorder, but the possibility is there; it seems (not confirmed) that Dainsleif had to endure 500 years in constant danger of the abyss, making him be in a constant state of alert all the time.
If Chlotar is being serious about this, then here we can find two symptoms of ND: motor skills; & I would also add facial recognition because supposedly he wasn't able to recognize his son, but to be honest his son is a hillichurl & it's totally understandable that he can't distinguish between hillischurls.
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CONTEXT: On Twitter I wrote about making this an on-going thread, so that when we learn new information about the curse, I be able to add it into the thread.
