Dolorix
A powerful disease which haunts the lands of Saxony. Its a slow and painful death for which there is no cure. It seems to arise sporadically and spread with even less a logical pattern. All that is known is that, once a person has become infected, it’s more merciful to kill them then than to force them to endure the disease.
Symptoms
Often times, the disease comes on resembling the symptoms of a common cold. After approximately a week though, more egregious symptoms show themselves. These symptoms include but are not limited to coughing up blood or other oddly coloured discharge, leaking pus different orifices, hæmophilia, loss of hair, and painful lesions on the skin. After those symptoms arise, the sufferer May live anywhere between weeks and years though that remaining time is reported to be spent in a gradually increasing agony.
Treatment
Once infected, there is no known cure though several magical - and somewhat questionable - wards are commonly sold. The only treatments practised and/or supported by the Grand Church are mercy killings and tinctures to lessen the pain.
Affected Groups
The disease seems to strike at random, claiming the lives of men, women, children and elderly alike. Only those carrying the blood of the Old Races seem to be immune.
Cultural Reception
At first, sufferers of the disease were seen as being punished by the gods and so were ostracized. It wasn’t until Lord King Eastaughffe himself contracted the plague that it became normalized and the Grand Church began to help ease the suffering of the infected.
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