The Rotted Blood Condition in Zepharog | World Anvil

The Rotted Blood

Stumbling through a crowd. A coughing leper, with a very nasty maniackle laugh, goes right in between the large mass of flesh. Pulls a knife from his coat and slices his arm open and from the wound, not blood, but this oozing black pus that looks like a tar and slowly itches forward to another body. As the pus is being sprayed and splashed all over the mass. it starts to seep into the skin only leaving behind a black veins present then normal looking skin.

Transmission & Vectors

the transmission first starts with the Death's Gate Bloom taking it's vines and forming a small stinger and injecting it into the bloodstream. The flower then leaks the blackish tar, withering and wilting it. After that contact is through blood and other liquids (water) as well as rotted food prepared with the flower if not properly used correctly. The victim shows no infectious until symptoms and side effects are shown.

Causes

the condition cycle starts with the host scratching at the wound, then between 3-4 weeks the victim starts to gain the hunger of rotted meat-flesh. After the 3-4 weeks the victim within 2-4 days after the skin turns rotten and the parasite  tries to take control. The battle of the 2 minds begins and can last from the minimum of 1 day to 6 months. The longer the process takes the more the victim can try to regain control.

Symptoms

The physical symptoms of the host begins to get a very nasty cough while also getting a strong craving for rotten flesh as well as beginning to smell as what they are consuming, as well as, the veins appear to be darker and a lot more visible then any normal persons veins should.

Treatment

there is no natural remedies other then to use a restoring spell. the process is tedious and can also hurt the healer and the healee

Prognosis

the condition slowly starts to turn the host into that as a rotting skeletal corpse that can attempt to fight the will of the parasite inside to regain control, most who end up going mad and when they do gain that control end up giving it up because of how much the body has changed.

Hosts & Carriers

the plants tainted by this is called The Death"s Gate Bloom

Prevention

they're are 3 spells that a low level magick user gain use to prevent such affects.
Type
Parasitic
Origin
Magical
Cycle
Chronic, Acquired
Rarity
Rare
Affected Species


Cover image: by LordGalakrond