Grim Bloom

Burn the corpses and don't breathe the surrounding air unless you want to catch the grim. - Corpse Burner

Created through a magical fungus that is created through the reanimated Undead, Grim Bloom is an infectious disease that affects both plants and people. Even a single undead corpse can easily cause an epidemic should it not be properly taken care of, as it can be spread from person to person once they are infected. Once the signs are spotted, great lengths are taken to ensure it cannot be spread, or many untold deaths will result from the cancerous spreading.

Transmission & Vectors

Airborne spores released from infected corpses and vegetation that often burst when ready or when tampered with.

Causes

The fungus is often a result of Necromancy that lingers on a undead after it is killed once more and thorough decomposition the spores being to grow on it creating necrotic decay that creates Grim Caps. Once the caps are fully mature they burst and the disease become airborne infecting anything that that happens to inhale or setting around it.

Symptoms

Black Veins: As the spore spread within, the veins in the infected turn black beneath the skin.
Hallucinations: The longer the infection spread the more of the infected's mind begins to unravel as reality blurs.
Fever: The body of the infected becomes weak as a they mind is taken by sickening heat.
Flower Burst: Eventually the skin bursts like a flower through sores, releasing spores.

Treatment

Magic is often the only way to truly rid of it using Alchemy or magic to end their suffering.

Prognosis

Should the Grim Bloom spread to a large population it can wipe out entire harvests alongside settlements.

Prevention

Don't inhale the spores at all cost.

Cultural Reception

The burning of corpses are quite common in regions that had outbreaks of Grim Bloom believing all bodies have the disease if left out long enough.

Type

Fungal

Origin

Magical

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Rare

Affected Species

• Humans