It's only mostly lethal; the resilience of humans often surprises even the very Wise.

"A shame," she says, of either their failure to uphold their duty or the spread of the Blight, it is hard to say, but she notes the north as a point of interest in her mind. "I shall look afar when I can, though there is little to be done of it now.

"Should you need to test your cure, come to me. None who are corrupted may don my cloak nor hold my belongings. It will tell you if you have succeeded and, indeed, I would pray you do."