Anathema, first off, you're a warrior, secondly, what is your medical condition?
What you see is a birthmark. A large one. It goes ear to ear across my face and from the corner of my lips up to basically the top of my skull. What most people don’t know is... birthmarks grow. If they can no longer grow along the surface of the skin, they grow out from the skin. It’s called thickening. That's a lot of what you see on the cheeks and nose.
As a consequence of the birthmark I also suffer from a neurological condition called Sturgeon-Weber Syndrome. This includes epileptic activity, glaucoma, and calcium deposits in the brain.