Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150801001020/@comment-26397825-20150804034126

Yep, technically speaking you were right.

Also, most of medieval England was really stupid. It was healthier to drink alcohol all the time and spend your days wasted than it was to drink the water. No wonder the average life span was only about 30-40 years old. A Rule of Thumb was to have about 5 whole cloves in a standard brewing of mead, which was about 1 litre. Cloves have a hallucinogenic property in large quantities, so they were actually really high most of the time, off fighting dragons and going home with the fairies.

It seems to be one of those diseases which will never actually go away, but as we grow more adept at dealing with it, it'll grow even less and less.

As an inspiration for the character, it works. You've been able to tie them all together in a way that works and keep him original whilst still having those little nods to where the inspiration came from.