The Fifth Year Plague

The Fifth Year Plague is a plague that happened during the 1500s. The Great Goddess, Ariya, had a small town she took partial to. However, the town dared to go against her and her Voice, leading to her Voice's demise at the pyre for talk of witchery. Ariya, in her grief, brought down a great rainfall onto the town. It stopped a week in, but that was not all that had happened. Two days after the rain had stopped, Jiron Thom, a young boy in town, collapsed at the corner where he had been hawking papers. He ran a fever well into the night, and died the next day to the heartbreaking sobs of his family. An hour later, one of the doctors who had tended to him collapsed, and then a woman who had found young Jiron, and then like dominoes they fell to the ground, one after another. The other cities around the town closed their borders to them, and bade no travel that way for years on end. When they finally dared to venture forth, all of the town had died, leaving behind skeletons and clothing as evidence of life. However, one foolish traveler tried to steal some money from a register. Within three hours, he came down with a fever, collapsed, and died. He was burned. The town was avoided once more, a plague they called it, terrified of any consequences raining down on them. The Great Goddess, Ariya, sank to her grief, and in her stead, the young God, Lopolo, rose to the forefront, which will be explored in the book 'Lopolo's Reign and the Blessings of the Gladiators'.