Category:Poisoning

Poisoning is the action of impairing, incapacitating, or even killing a living creature by the use of poison, which is to say with a substance that is toxic to the creature in question, impeding, damaging or even destroying its biological processes. The corporeal undead may also be susceptible to rare and exceptional substances, these poisons impeding, damaging, or even destroying the necromantic processes constitutive of their continued existence.

Poisoning is also an execution method that consists of killing with poison an individual condemned of the commission of a crime. The action of so killing may or may not be intended to be quick and painless. Great skill is required to prepare a reliably lethal poison that can be stocked and efficiently delivered in adverse circumstances. The circumstances of an execution are usually such that shelf life and delivery present little or no problem. Nonetheless, considerable skill is still required on the part of a poison maker to prepare a reliably lethal poison. Alternatively, considerable skill is required to acquire a manageable creature that can make an attack with a reliably lethal poison. Either way, an executioner is not presumed by this method of execution.