Cancer magic

Considered by most to be a truly disgusting type of low magic, cancer magic involves the absorption and spread of disease.

Description
Cancer magic is best divided into two components: taking disease and spreading disease.

Cancer mages are able to take diseases into their bodies, which they do deliberately. They receive no physiological effects from these diseases, but remain as carriers, and so most act as disease "collectors," actively seeking out new diseases to take in.

Spreading is where cancer mages truly excel, however. Their magic revolves almost entirely around it, and while neophyte cancer mages tend to spread only by touch and cough, more advanced ones can infect wounds, imbue temporary intelligence into a disease, or even assume the form of a cloud of their disease of choice.

Practitioners
While cancer mages can be of any race, gender, or location, they all have two things in common. First, one cannot be come a cancer mage without suffering from the ravages of disease and being significantly hurt by poison. Second, though they acquire immunity to the physiological effects of all disease, they do not mitigate cosmetic effects. As a result, cancer mages tend to be covered in boils, pockmarks, pits, bloodshot eyes, and the like, which can never be removed. The result is a grotesque caster that only gets more repulsive with time.

Notable Cancer Mages

 * Plague: a cancer mage living outside of Garaam Varask, who swore revenge on the upper city for what he perceived as a failing on their part to give him and his mother treatment for their disease. His powers were granted to him by Chenaline, a High Abyss mage. Plague was revealed to have been the son of Roich, the Admiral of Garaam Varask. He was killed by Gaius Kvath.

History
Cancer magic has its origins on Noctis.