The Blight

The Blight:

Introduction:

The Blight has marred the landscape of the known world since as far back as every existing culture's history extends. There have always been festerfonts dotting the landscape, blightbeasts prowling those territories, and danger. However, there exist remote implications nestled within ancient historical accounts, speaking of a time before. No surviving record was written at that hypothetical time, but there must have been a time. Now, however, the Blight is ever-present to all who do not care to cloister themselves in ignorance. The Blight is dangerous. The Blight seems to hunger for the land itself, claiming and summarily defending the territory with a vengeance, and it grows more virulent with every passing year. Blight Seekers of the Blightbane Guild believe there has never been a more dangerous time regarding Blight, but they've always been making that claim. They may be right. Description:
The Blight refers to what is known among scientists as an 'artificial natural phenomenon'. Unfortunately, there are only hypotheses regarding the instantiation of The Blight. These include a supremely technologically advanced ancient world's biological weapon run rampant, natural causes, Pulse intervention, and alien infestation. Scientists cannot agree on any cause to stand above the rest, with a lack of evidence for every one. Each festerfont behaves like a single organism, spawning blightbeasts to defend it like antibodies. However, new research draws attention to ancillary functions being undertaken by other blightbeasts. In addition, each festerfont appears to actually be a part of a web of infections. If one grows powerful enough, it increases the chance a new one will spawn somewhere nearby. All and all, The Blight is a strange and dangerous, enigmatic force.

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Note: Our Wayward Faction historians believe this entity was manufactured by a rival faction. We do not know how or for what purpose, but The Blight bears the mark of the forbidden sciences. Further examination is needed.

General Information:

The Blight is an "artificial natural phenomenon". It was engineered by the Orchestrators to use in the games, but the planet Caim ends up on has a copy of the engineered force embedded deep within its largest ocean. It is designed to act like a virus for planets, even able to transmit itself to planets within the same solar system.

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