Thought you might want to see it frank.
The mountain man primitive's mentioned his medical problems before, long before any recognition of the upcoming nominations for top primitives entered any primitive's feeble mind.
That's why I believe him, and am laying off.
Now that the primitives are aware, however, that decent and civilized people go easy on ill primitives, I wouldn't put it past them to allege this deadly ailment or that near-death affliction, just so we go easy on them.
And so one's going to have to be careful about taking other such campfires at face value.
If nadin suddenly is dying of terminal male erectile dysfunction, or the Taverner primitive says he's undergoing a mastectomy, be skeptical.