At one time there was a belief that moonlight could unhinge your mind, make you a lunatic,
Has anyone played such a character who is negatively affected by moonlight?
Any advice?
I had a local bailiff's daughter suffering from "moonsickness" that the ~Pharmacopean spent a season studying. Her symptoms were: obsessively paces in circles (east to west), during the dark moon she is melancholic (neurotic) and under the full moon she is excessively sanguine (hysterical).
Using Art & Academe she was alternating melancholy (Severity 7: stable 4+, improve 10+, weekly interval) & hysteria (Severity 7: stable 4+, improve 10+, weekly interval). It took a Recovery roll < 3 for her symptoms to worsen, but she'd rarely recover from one affliction before it's superceded by the other.
They considered prescribing a Regimin to give her a Recovery bonus, or specific Theriacs, but ended up deciding that Mythic Herbalism potions were far easier and convinced the local Hedge Witch to initiate her into that mystery (I swapped out Healing for Mythic Herbalism for the local witches in my game to coordinate with the Pharmacopean better). They didn't want to spend the vis + time on an enchanted item to counteract the symptoms.
They weren't able to figure out a Hermetic remedy because what was actually going on is that she was contaminated with Aether (for... reasons), and although Hermetic magic might've identified it as something it wouldn't have been conclusive and they never checked for that anyway.
There's a lycanthrope they want to "cure" now which will also be moon-related in some way that I haven't settled on yet, so they'll probably have to just mitigate his symptoms too, rather than "curing" him.
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