Pard skin disease

The Pard skin disease is a conditon appeared recently in Eastern Phaldorya, characterized by pustules that sometimes merge into larger flat blotches filled with dark fluid.
The aspect of these blotches resembles the spots of the pard subspecies of mountain lion, from which it takes the name.
The Otadan believe it's brought by a curse hidden in the goblinoids' blood, but westerners medics start to suspect it is an infective disease transmitted by venereal route that's been crudely known from centuries in the western part of the continent as brothel's fever.
The suspect is that the disease followed the Dragon army during the Orc's war campaign and spread to the allied scouts and warriors of the Otadan, or that it came to he East with the settlers that started occupying the areas acquired as a repayment for the liberation.
In the Western continent the disease manifests usually with a fever of a few days and sparse papulae that disappear leaving only rarey a scar behind.
The variant that has been spreading in the eastern continent in the past few decades is more severe and causes several weeks of high fever, with pustules and blotches that often completely covers the affected body.
While rarely fatal, the debilitation that follows often leaves the affected unable to carry day to day activitis beyond the basics of feeding themselves and walk a few paces unaided. This convalescence phase lasts for up to two months and caused considerable damage to the tribes that found several of their warrior bedridden for such a long time.

by John Fowler

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Uncommon

Affected Species

• Human