Elin: How To Get The Ether Antibodies Potion

Ether disease is an inevitable mechanic in Elin: Sooner or later your character is going to start growing a single malformed wing or equine hooves. When this happens, you'll need to redesign all their outfits accordingly, or ideally find a cure in the first place.

For players who've already used their one free dose of the antidote, it can be difficult to know how you're meant to get more. The one store that sells it is deep in the wilderness and only trades in exotic currencies. Here's how to find the Ether Antibodies potion, and how to gather the small medals used in Miral and Garokk's workshop.

How Ether Disease Works

Ether disease has a lot of mystery around it. You're told it is a fundamental aspect of the world, since everyone is exposed to amounts of Ether in the air.

The way this works mechanically is that characters have a hidden stat representing their current exposure level. For you, it goes up gradually with time and can also be rapidly shot forward by Ether elemental attacks.

The effects given by Ether disease can be beneficial or detrimental, and many of them have multiple tiers that progress with time. You can't guarantee a beneficial disease but you can take advantage as they appear:

• It can be worth keeping wings if you don't have a way to spot and disarm traps.
• Diseases that rebalance your core attributes can be great or terrible depending on your build. Gaining extra eyes for gaining bonus perception is great on characters not bothered by the social penalties.
• The Hoof and Wing Transformations both improve your speed attribute. Speed is difficult to improve making these diseases broadly worthwhile.
• Multiple diseases improve your defences at the cost of other stats. If you're building a tank, these are great to have.

Be especially careful if you contract the symptom "Enemy Of All Living Things". This turns most creatures aggressive to you.

The unpredictability of getting positive or negative diseases makes it difficult to take advantage of, especially in the early game. Once you've got a good supply of cures, you can more freely roll the dice and remove any harmful diseases.

How To Cure Ether Disease

The first time you contract Ether disease you'll find a strange letter in your mailbox. It contains a cryptic note explaining the basics of the illness and a single dose of the Ether Antibodies potion. Drinking this at any time will cure two stages of Ether Disease, so it can be worth saving your dose for when your symptoms get worse.

It can be tempting to carry this potion on you to cure the disease whenever it appears. Potions in your inventory are among the first items targeted for destruction by enemies with ice attacks. Antibody potions are best kept at your base unless you have very good elemental resistances.

Finding additional doses of antibodies is a challenge, as it only appears reliably in a few places.

• The Fortune Bell Casino sells them for 3,000 chips. To get that many you need to either spend 60,000 Oren or have exceptional skills at the basketball minigame.
• Potions will rarely be offered as a prize at the Tinker's Camp monthly prize draw.
• Miral and Garokk sell the most consistent supply. The letter you received will have vaguely mentioned the hillfolk developing a treatment, but it won't give you precise directions to their workshop.

How To Find Miral And Garokk

To find Miral and Garokk's Workshop, you'll be heading into the snowy biome in the North. The workshop is East-North-East of Lumiest, the city with the mage's guild. It is a rather small singular hut in the overworld so it can easily be missed if you don't know where to look.

You'll want the following prepared before setting out:

• Settle any outstanding issues at your base. The trip will take over a week from the starting meadow and you don't want all your food to spoil while you're gone.
• Carry enough preserved food for at least two weeks. You can also purchase travel rations and bread along the way if you haven't brought enough provisions.
• Bring pets and companions. The encounter zone is level 20, so you'll either need to fight your way through some tough ambushes or use your companions as meat shields as you run away.
• Grab a Scroll of Return so you can teleport back afterwards.
• A minimum of ten small medals. They weigh nothing and can't be lost, so there's no harm storing them in your coinpurse at all times.

Once you've found the workshop, you'll be able to travel to it. This lets you skip the risk of encounters but still requires provisions and time.

The pair running the workshop are only willing to trade in one currency: Small Medals. You'll likely have picked a few up from looting chests in the dungeons and wilderness, and each dose of Ether Antibodies will cost ten of them. You'll be able to buy as many as you like, as the shop restocks far more quickly than the disease progresses.

How To Find Small Medals

Small medals are a challenging currency to find consistently. You'll pick up a few passively, so you may already have enough for your needs:

• They appear as prizes at the Fortune Drum in the Tinker's Camp. The tickets for making a prize draw are awarded whenever you craft an item for the first time, limiting this supply.
• Certain towns will have hidden spots that reward a free coin for using the wait action. These coins are not replenished.
• Silver Bells, an exotic enemy that spawns during winter, will consistently drop small medals and platinum coins. Bells have strong defences and will flee if not killed quickly.

When actively trying to gather them, you've got three main methods:

Method	Description	Cost
Treasure Chests	Dungeons and even wilderness maps can contain a decent number of chests, but not all will contain coins.	This method requires some combat skills and either lockpicking skills or weightlifting to drag locked chests to the nearest town with an informer. It becomes more effective with higher combat levels.
Stealing	Each town has a number of small medals spread around them and more can be obtained by stealing from private chests.	This method is slow due to the cost in karma, requiring you to do quests and return lost purses. It's also inconsistent as there's a large pool of potential loot for stealing.
Fishing	The third method is fishing. You always have a small chance of gaining medals when fishing, and they become more frequent as your skill increases.	You'll need a large supply of bait and a decent fishing skill. Worshipping Ehekatl and wielding their lucky dagger greatly helps this process.

The most effective method for mass-producing fishing bait is to strip mine a mechanarium, turn the copper scrap into nails, hammer the nails into bones, and craft the bones into bait. The second-best method is to hammer fertilizer into mystery corpses and turn those into bait.

You can also obtain some unique weapons, armour, and companions via this shop if you have spare medals after curing the Ether Disease.

• Depending on your progress through the main story quest, you will already have a special storage chest sold by this workshop. You can purchase upgrades such as adding in a cooling function or expanding the capacity.
• Diary books provide you with unique companions when read. The more expensive books give higher quality companions.
• The weapons sold are artifact-tier equipment. If you don't have the coin to buy them now you can get the cheaper replicas for a chance to train the relevant combat stats.

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