The Death
A magical malady only found in Mandor the Death's first records where found soon after the death of Maria in the Reign of her daughter Kyrith. The Death kills almost all those it touches and those who survive survival with scares that are more beautiful than the painful disease would have any believe. As it kills from the outside in. Changing the color of the effected to its current reiteration.
Transmission & Vectors
No one knows how it is transmitted. However it does not spread from one host to the next. It seems to those who have researched it like people are born with the disease and then each knew wave of it triggers it if one has the corresponding markers in their body. Meaning it moves incredibly fast or not at all. Whatever triggers it is permeating all of Mandor at once. Many think it is the light of the sun.
Causes
It seems too be random, though many think it is because all other deceases where purged a super disease was created.
Symptoms
Each Death wave has a color correspondence, the color slowly overtakes the body starting with the tips of the nails and hair as if the dead matter is more easily effected. It crawls closer to the body touching the eyes farthest from the Iris , and the skin scar tissue first. By the time the tongue and organs turn the color if the person inset dead they wis they where. The death seems to freeze things, if it reaches the root of the hair the hair will never grow again but neither will it fall out, the skin becomes hard and non elastic. The eyes go blind or develop a sensitivity to light. Then the migraine start the world gets bleached in one color. If one lives to the origin crystallizing stage they are in constant agony unable to understand the changes in perception until there is nothing but the pain left of slowly just stoping and dieting while still alive.
Treatment
There is no true treatment that can be said to work however it has been shown that some actions can be taken to stop it sometimes however these actions are always different each wave the key is in the color its a symbol, many think the reason for this is because the gods are mad at them. Some examples where when the black wave came if the infected killed anther person the infection would stop. In the yellow wave it was shown living in cold places or far away from the sun would stop the spread but they could never go back out.
Prognosis
The disease is fatal to almost all and it can either progress in a matter of minutes, or years even decades in some cases or for the rest of ones life.
Sequela
Those who recover from the disease are still affected by its markings those who only had it in their hair and nails can cut the edges off and never think about it again but those where it progress to the skin or eyes are not so lucky. The pains they faces during the disease continue but the infection does not spread.
Prevention
Many flock to the gods to pray and by protection but there is no full proof way except to leave Mandor forever.
History
Maria later in her life experienced on eradicating disease and in so doing found out about something. She hid her research and told her daughter that nothing good would come of getting rid of the natural order of things something knew would take its place. When Kyriths father and children died a couple years after her mother from a disease she found her mother research and acted upon it eradicating disease from Mandor forever and creating something much worse. The thing called Death
Cultural Reception
Those who live through it are pitied and depending on what they did to stop the spread emotions follow, once touched by Death it never truly leaves. Those who died are mourned.
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