Bloodchill

I can't feel my legs, why isn't the fire working?

The Bloodchill is a disease that is brought on by a sudden cold strike. The Bloodchill takes over the body, turning you into a frozen undead, searching for heated bodies to infect.

The Frozen

When one succumbs to the effects of the Bloodchill, the body becomes a type of undead called Frozen. A Frozen has blue tinted icy skin, with ice jutting out of the joints, and cold blue pupils. The hair is frozen in place. The Frozen seek out warm bodies of heat, and a touch by them infects the person with the Bloodchill as well. Any body parts cut off will shatter like ice. The only way to truly kill them is with a Fire-Enchanted blade or a Magic Nullifying item.

Transmission & Vectors

The Bloodchill can be contracted by a frozen making contact with the body. When it is transmitted this way, the process of infection takes a while longer to spread.

Causes

No one knows what it is that carries the Bloodchill, but before major outbreaks, there is always a intense cold-snap that takes place, turning the area into a freezing wasteland for up to a month. Plants freeze, small animals die, and the people have to find some way to keep themselves warm or else suffer the same fate.

Symptoms

At the beginning stages infected exhibit flu like symptoms, as well as severe lack of body heat. Overtime, frostbite manifests in the body, starting with the limbs, where you lose feeling, and then spreading through the body. Eventually the Bloodchill freezes you to death, but preserves your body, turning you into a frozen undead.

Treatment

There is no known cure for The Bloodchill, but after The Preyan Inquisitor Maner Roman was touched by a Frozen, he was able to be healed by a Daka Pyromancer.

Type

Magical