Story of the Blood Drop

The myth of the Blood Drop is a story passed around for ages in the land of Pellad. A sad tale of loss and grief passed on generation to generation. The story starts in a time people can hardly remember. A time when the first kings arose and civilization was budding. In a large and prospering city, a genius healer help all people of the city with his wondrous magic. he would weave beautiful spell to do things thought impossible. He could rid any aliments, cure the blind, give youth to the old, and Restore limbs lost long ago. He live a happy life beloved by the city and his wife and daughter. One day The King of the neighboring city came to the man to beg for help. The kings city had been infected with a terrible plague, A plague that no healer had ever been able to even slow down. It conquered city after city leaving nothing but corpse and a rotting stench. The king had brought his sick son to the healer hoping he could by some miracle he could stop the plague. The healer spend day after day casting his most potent spell to slow the illness. The boy grew stronger day by day and The man was beginning to save him. The plague was hatred the healer for thinking he could stop a plague as mighty as she was. She festered with rage waiting till just the right time to strike and take revenge against the healer. She waited till the man was tired and weak from his healing and snuck out of his lab to take to the streets of his own city. She spread with a fury leaving no man, women or child untouched by her vile hand. The man used all of his might to help those he could but he was helpless to cure so many at once. One by one the people began to fall to the plagues sickness. Until the plague snuck into his house and claimed his wife and daughter. The plague left the man untouched as she wanted to break him, to show him he could never stand up to her. The man was beginning to lost hope as he saw all he loved slowly destroyed before his eye. As his daughter took her final breath in his arms the man felt a rage like no other. He despised the plague with a hatred like no other. He climbed tallest building in the city looked over all he had lost and cast a terrifying spell; a spell to not cure but one of pure revenge. He began to collect the plague from all corners of the city into the air. The plague took the form of a red cloud looming over the city and cackled at the man's last attempted to save what she had already destroyed. He's soon bent the winds around the plague and started to twister her into a vortex. The plague pushed with all her might unable to free herself from the wind. She cried horrible shrill screams and wails as the man focused the vortex on his daughters lifeless body. The man then pushed with all his might forcing the plague slowly inside his daughter. The plague desperately tried to fight but couldn't pull herself away. In a desperate attempt to free herself she focused all her powers in the center of the vortex and away from the mans daughter at the bottom. She them used all her strength bombard the man with sicknesses and poisons of all types. The healer stood firm and unwavering continuing to force her inside his daughter. When the plague was almost all inside he reached deep inside the cloud and pulled out her powers she had focus. With all her powers gone the plague fell into the child's body defeated and banished. The man looked at the power he had taken from her, it was so condense it had become a blood red stone in the shape of a blood drop. The man felt the horrible powers the stone had decided he much keep it safe so no more would suffer from the plague wrath. The plague awoke in the daughters body, weak from the fight and unable to move she asked what he had done. The man said after what she had done he had cursed her live as one of her victims. He then turned and left leaving her and the city behind to protect the blood drop.

Summary

A miracle healer encountered a powerful plague from another city. As he began to heal the sick the plague spread in his city. He was unable to help everyone and his daughter died. Fulled with rage he used his magic to force the plague inside his daughter and took her powers of sickness and illness away. He trapped the plague in his daughters body were she would now live as a human. As for the powers they condensed into a stone blood droplet that he vowed to protect.

Historical Basis

People suspect the myth comes from Munafis. But there is no evidence it really happened.

Spread

It is a famous story spread around the lands of the middle kingdoms.

Variations & Mutation

In some variations the plague became his daughter instead of killing her and he took her powers away trapping her.

Cultural Reception

The middle kingdoms see it as true but the other lands are more sckeptical.

In Literature

The myth is mostly contained with other myths seen as an interesting story

In Art

The story of the Blood drop is used is some artwork from the middle kingdom.

Date of First Recording

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Date of Setting

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