Bloody Boils
'Bloody Boils' is the colloquial name for a plague that began spreading across all regions of Telluria ~130 years prior to present. Though the head-to-toe boils created by this disease appear deep blood-red, they are not, in fact, blood blisters; they are solid, bulbous semi-spheres that later deflate into hard black scales (typically within 10 days of symptom onset). Over the course of infection, patients’ movement becomes restricted, their backs arched, and eyes red. Those lucky enough to survive were afflicted with permanent ashy, flaking skin; some, even the wisest and strongest individuals, eventually succumbed to the strain; the worst cases went through unspeakable horror, devolving into Flaks (malicious, gibbering creatures that legends claim are born of the Underworld). At its peak (~75 years prior to present), the plague infected nearly all peoples living in the Capital, and, once the global government collapsed, the island was repurposed as a colony for quarantining the infected. No new cases of Bloody Boils have been reported in nearly three decades, but no one has visited the Fallen Capital in at least as long, either.
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Magical
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