Rennala's condition was directly related to Radagon.
If Radagon hadn't handled things so badly, Rennala wouldn't have ended up like this.
Whatever had gone wrong, it was all Radagon's fault.
Even if Radagon admitted his fault now, Rennala couldn't hear him, much less find peace.
Curing Rennala would be harder than bringing her back from the dead.
Then could bringing her back from the dead cure her illness?
Not necessarily.
Those were two different things.
According to the Perfumers, this had become a matter of the soul.
When someone went mad, their soul was damaged. Problems with the soul couldn't possibly be cured through physical means like perfume powder.
What if she drank the perfume powder directly? Wouldn't that make her just like those Depraved Perfumers?
Taking perfume powder directly damaged the nerves, could cause abnormal behavior, and could even be addictive.
There was a contradiction here. The Perfumers knew a little about nerves. Some perfume powder formulas could even improve a person's reflexes.
But they couldn't possibly study it in much detail, and knew even less about exactly how those changes developed.
Their technology was far too lacking.
So, to deal with Radagon, they could only call it a problem with the soul.
It was like calling madness or idiocy a derangement of the heart or a loss of the soul.
Perhaps evil spirits had blocked the heart, or the soul housed in the liver had flown away. Either was possible.
The Perfumers used a similar explanation to deal with Radagon.
Fortunately, knowledge concerning the soul really did exist in the Lands Between.
The sorcerers, for example, were very experienced in exploring the soul.
But he would have to seek out the Primeval Current School. The other schools might not have any knowledge concerning the soul.
So where was