Spreading Corruption

In the aftermath of the Night of Blood, corruption spread through the land, striking first the followers of the death goddesses Paeris, Inia and Ilyrana. Necromantic corruption began to slowly wither their bodies, and they pleaded with their patrons for aid.   Ilyrana was the first to act. Drawing upon her experience making hags, she tried to reshape her dying worshippers to save them. Unable to cleanse them of the necromantic corruption, she instead shaped them to use it instead of being poisoned by it, creating the first vampires.   Paeris, inspired by her fellow death goddess, followed suit. However, displeased by the vampires' cruelty and bloodthirst, she was careful to shape her dry liches so that they had no such need to harm the living to fuel their own survival. As a sun goddess, she also forbid vampires from being seen by the sun's radiant light, causing it to harm them and many other undead.   Inia, alone among the death goddesses, managed to cleanse rather than simply reshape the corruption from her followers, drawing on the bestial powers of life and nature to drive the corruption from their forms. In the process, she infused them with the essence of the wild, creating the lycanthropes.