State of the World

Don't worry. Everything is going to be fine.

— Believer of the state of the world conspiracy

The state of the world is a conspiracy theory propagated by the anti-obscurist movement. It claims that all warnings by obscurists, and everyone else for that matter, about a threat to humanity are lies. They even go as far as to deny the rise in birth defects. A popular part of the theory claims The Pulse never happened, even though it is commonly accepted among scholars and historians that it did.

Rise in Birth Defects

The defects we see are not always life altering. One of the more common defects is a change in part of the infants skin. This can be a patch of scaly skin, or skin that looks like it was once ripped apart.

— Excerpt from a medical study

For several years a worrying occurrence is happening all over the world. The number of babies born with some sort of defect is on the rise. What is even more worrying is the fact that many of these defects have never been seen before. It is not only the obscurists who look at the similarities between these new types of defects and the mutations witnessed in Inflicted. Doctors, midwives, and healers share the same concerns. Yet for the believers of this conspiracy these are all lies. In fact they even deny that birth defects are a reality. When confronted with a baby with a defect they often come up with absurd theories just to be able to deny that it is real.

Inflicted Fluff

One of the more bizarre theories circling around claims The Inflicted are people dressed up in monster costumes to keep the rest of humanity in check. Two years ago a group of seventeen believers set out to prove their theory right. They walked out of Mehrula's city gates with the intention to live out in the wilderness for two days. They had camping gear and food with them. And the belief that their theory was right. Their intention was to return after two days with prove for their theory. None of them were ever seen again. Search teams later recovered their bones which proved the group was ambushed and eaten by an Oghwen mere hours after their departure from the city.

It is all a lie!

— Conspiracy theorist