Bloodblight (concept)
The Bloodblight was a disease that rocked most of The Continent and Sarradon during a period known as the Chaos of the Seventh Century, though the disease has had smaller outbreaks since. The disease is generally agreed to be magical in nature, though its origins are unknown. Victims normally show traits similar to Exposure Sickness, most likely due to the disease itself rapidly increasing the levels of magic within the victim. Victims normally show glowing, pulsing red veins, bleed from the nose, eyes and ears, and will normally expire from blood loss after rapid skin loss. If they survive this, then they normally die from the lining of the lungs collapsing, and their chests filling with blood. Bloodblight spreads most rapidly to Magi, though mundane humans are still prone to it.
The effects of the Bloodblight outbreak of the Seventh Century were massive and longreaching. In Chevalie, the first High King in a generation along with his entire extended family were wiped out and the Chevaliens forced to withdraw from their last colonies in the Black Mountains. In Aversaria, an entire generation of the nobility were destroyed, leading to mass societal collapse and a near dissolution of the Aautokrata. In Sarradon, the structured and elite magic class, the Sirhad, were almost entirely destroyed. Without the Sirhad to direct and control magic on the continent, the following generation would throw out most established norms and standards from their predecessors, and begin a rapid arms race to discover new horrifying and powerful spells for war. This would eventually lead to the discovery of Self-Replicating Blood Magic, and by extension, Frodbrokna.
Aliases: The Bloodblight