Malgas

Alt text: Low gravity can cause bone loss. So we’re pleased to report that, since we initiated capsule motion, the number of bones in each crew member has been steadily increasing.

Ironic, given that the English “dandelion” was borrowed from the Old French dent de leon (“lion’s tooth”).

But also it’s a magical curse from Molag Bal.

Though the metaphysics of TES are weird enough that it’s not really safe to assume anything has the same underlying cause as it would in the real world (e.g. sunlight comes from another dimension through a tear in space). So maybe all diseases are actually curses in the setting.

I thought I was an autonomous collective.

I wonder if this was inspired by a koan:

A monk asked Tozan, “What is the Buddha?”
He replied, “Three pounds of flax.”