Overview
Encountered in Mirage Estate, The Viper of Seven Venom is a talking character renowned for two poisons of his own.
Anyone dosed with Silence Poison dies, as it is extremely toxic and has neither colour nor smell. Still Poison lacks colour and smell too, yet is harmless in itself. What it does is block the meridians and cause a state like death; even when no antidote is given, it wears off unaided after four hours.
His 18 voiced lines paint a scene: it is the third watch of the night, the moon hangs high, and Still Poison stopped working ages ago. A captive of the phantom realm is described, a man with a drifting mind and three souls on the brink of shattering.
Background
Leng Tu, the Herald of the Veil, is connected to the Viper's history. Inside a prison of illusion without light, everything the Viper had, his talent, kindness and loyalty, was ground to nothing, leaving him able only to survive through ceaseless torment. Later the Herald swapped Still Poison and Silence Poison in order to poison Lei Dang of the Order, reusing the plot that had once ruined the Viper.