Arquen wrote...
[i]The thing about the Lyrium being under his skin I’ll address first. The way I see it is that the Lyrium is burned into him. Not necessarily tattooed onto his skin, but literally engrained into his nervous/circulatory system. Sweat is a byproduct of the body and epidermis; it is the body’s natural cooling system and is taken from the water within a person’s body. It really isn’t taken from the blood or circulatory system, and while I think the Lyrium was burned into the circulatory system I also don’t see it as floating around in his actual bloodstream. More like scarring to his actual arterial and vein walls. The lyrium markings are a result of that scarring, and show through his skin. Consider someone struck by lightning, someone with scarred arteries/veins from something infiltrating or damaging them, it creates permanent scars.
I have a problem with this - becuase the body would regard the lyrium and whatever carrier used to distribute it, prevent it from clumping, aid in application to ski, etc - as foreign to the body. The body would try and break the lyrium + carrier down.
"In a laboratory within FDA's Arkansas-based National Center for
Toxicological Research (NCTR), research chemist Paul Howard, Ph.D., and
his team are investigating tattoo inks discovered:
- The body cells may digest and destroy the tattoo ink, just as they rid the
body of bacteria and other foreign matter as a defense against
infection. NCTR studies show that a common pigment used in yellow tattoo
inks, Pigment Yellow 74, may be broken down by enzymes, or metabolized.
"Just like the body metabolizes and excretes other substances, the body
may metabolize small amounts of the tattoo pigment to make it more
water soluble, and out it goes," says Howard. - Sunlight may cause the ink to break down so it is less visible. NCTR
researchers have found that Pigment Yellow 74 decomposes in sunlight,
breaking down into components that are colorless. The pigment components
may still be there, says Howard, and we don't know if these are
potentially toxic. - The skin cells containing the ink may be killed by sunlight.
"Research has also shown that some pigment migrates from the tattoo
site to the body's lymph nodes, says Howard. Lymph nodes are part of the
lymphatic system, a collection of fluid-carrying vessels in the body
that filter out disease-causing organisms. Whether the migration of
tattoo ink has health consequences or not is still unknown. NCTR is
doing further research to answer this and other questions about the
safety of tattoo inks."
David Gaider alludes that the lyrium in Fenris' may become unstable without maintenance and I think Fenris requires some injection replacement every so many years? i thinkt he body breaks down that lyrium, which is why he need it.
If Fenris doesn't get it, he will over time lose his power and possibly get lyrium-poisoning?
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No, just kidding, but I don't have a fan yet that reads My Little Pony as well, as far as I could tell. I did have some fav's from people with an anime profile picture and stories in their fav list that seem about anime. At first I though: "Oh, look, I've got a fan from Japan!", but when I looked at her profile description she seemed more American, lol. xD
