A poison garden. A witch's flower. Something for wolves.

Aconitum napellus, monkshood, common European wolfsbane. Related species lycoctonum, variegatum, carmichaelii. The active is aconitine, a diterpenoid alkaloid that binds voltage-gated sodium channels and holds them open. In the Lycian the relevant tier is the catecholamine cascade: vascular smooth muscle, cardiac tissue, CNS. The shift cannot finish. Abortion, or collapse to Type II. Dried root, not green leaf, not flower: the traditions that insist on the root are recording alkaloid concentration.

Engagement, not threshold. Kinetics are slow relative to shift onset: pre-load a confined space, or put it into circulation on a weapon. A scratch does nothing. Depth is the doctrine. Theophrastus, Pliny, Dioscorides: lycoctonum, wolf-killer, two millennia of the same name. Useless against the haemophage. Wrong architecture. Alpine, Carpathian, Caucasian country — LERV-trigger altitude.