Seventh Day Blight Fever

Transmission & Vectors

Seventh Day Blight Fever is a magical sexually-transmitted disease. Sexual contact with a person in the early stages of the disease, when the symptoms are milder and seem benign, is enough to be infected by it.

Causes

The consensus among biomancers and other healer-related professions is that Seventh Day Blight Fever is the result of a misapplied curse, presumably originating from a succubus acting as the carrier. Unrelated medical reports reveal that roughly 35% of patients admit to having sexual intercourse with a woman they identified as "from their city", but is an otherwise stranger to them.

Symptoms

For the first few days, common symptoms include high fevers, minor levitation, and a tendency to glow luminously, but only at night. In the mid-stages of infection, patients go through a delusional phase where they hear hallucinatory noises from beneath their feet, and believe that the ground is perpetually moving. This continues until the terminal phase where patients have their mind and soul eradicated and their body controlled by an external entity. It has yet to be determined what or who this entity is; the consensus among healers is that the entity has a female voice, which it uses when it speaks through the puppeted bodies.

Treatment

As a magically-induced curse that becomes bound to a specific patient, it takes powerful anti-hex magic to cure infected patients. Specialist biomancers must devise an anti-pattern unique to the patient's physiology, sexual orientation, turn-ons, and the circumstances leading to the act of intercourse that transmitted the curse in the first place. Many biomancers are unable to obtain enough information to devise a counter-curse, and many patients often die within the seven days.

Prognosis

If untreated, the disease results in the complete obliteration of the patients mind and soul. The patient's body is then used as a puppet by an as-yet-undetermined entity, to spread the cursed disease further.

Prevention

Avoiding sexual contact with an infected person will usually keep one safe. Bio-abjurers have also recently discovered an unusual test for those infected: glittery balls, made up of hundreds of small mirrors stuck to its surface. For some reason, infected patients tend to be more attracted to these items than the pursuit of sexual congress.

Type

Magical

Origin

Magical

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Rare