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Consumable · Introduced in Book 3
Mordecai’s Special Brew
Mordecai’s Special Brew is an emergency healing potion. For thirty seconds, it continuously repairs injuries and can keep someone alive through blows that would otherwise kill them.[1]
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Limits and cost
The brew cannot save someone whose head has been removed or whose body has been destroyed. It only works twice on the same person. A dose also causes about ten hours of potion sickness, restricting the use of other potions afterward.[2]
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History
Book 3
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Mordecai makes two doses for Carl. Carl keeps one ready before the confrontation, then drinks it during the escape and survives repeated crushing blows.[2]
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Book 4
The Gate of the Feral Gods
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Book 7
This Inevitable Ruin
The healers use a prepared dose during Louis’s transplant. They must put the donor organs in place before the potion closes the wounds. Louis still needs a way to breathe with his new lungs.[4]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Chapter 7.
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook, Chapters 7, 21, 33.
- The Gate of the Feral Gods, Chapter 31.
- This Inevitable Ruin, Chapter 84.