Stamina and Resting
Strenuous activities like running and fighting cause you to temporarily lose Stamina. The lower your Stamina goes, the less likely you are to succeed whenever you try to perform a significant action.
Eating
You cannot starve, but if you are feeling “hungry” your performance may suffer.
If you double-click on a food item it will disappear – you just ate it. Eating restores a bit of lost Stamina, but more importantly it influences your healing rate for both Stamina and Hit Points. An empty stomach will result in a slow healing rate.
Resting
You will regain your lost Stamina fastest if you stand still and take it easy for awhile.
Healing
Damage in the game heals itself naturally in the course of time. You will heal at the fastest possible rate if you have recently eaten something. There are three other ways of healing damage in the game.
The cheapest and most common way is to use a bandage. Bandages can be obtained from healers, vets or several other merchants, or you can make them yourself by Using scissors on cloth. Bandages don’t restore much damage, but they’re an excellent way to deal with minor wounds, and a useful “first aid” measure for more serious injuries. The higher your Healing skill, the more benefit you can gain from bandages.
More powerful, but far more expensive, are healing potions, which are created by alchemists and can be purchased from alchemists, mages and some other NPC types.
Best of all, if you’re a mage, or are travelling with a mage, you can cast healing spells on yourself, or request they be cast on you.
Poison
Some monsters, spells and potions can poison you. If you are poisoned, you get a message to that effect, and your Health bar turns green. Poison causes you to lose Hit Points at a steady rate while the poison is active. Some poisons are so weak they barely slow your natural healing process, others are so virulent they can kill a strong man in a matter of seconds.
Poison from all sources can be cured with spells or a curative potion, or will wear off naturally with time (assuming you can survive long enough). You can also cure poison by visiting a Shrine. There are eight known shrines scattered around Britannia.
