Corprus

Corprus is a deadly disease profoundly affecting a victim’s mind and body.

Effects:

• Trait: Diseased (-30)
• Trait: Pain Tolerant
• Trait: Ugly
• Trait: Undying
• Drain: Agility 1pt per day (min 10)
• Drain: Intelligence 1pt per day (min 10)
• Drain: Willpower 1pt per day (min 10)
• Drain: Personality 1pt per day (min 5)
• Fortify: Strength 1pt per day
• Fortify: Endurance 1pt per week

Transmission & Vectors

Corprus Beasts and Blight Infected Creatures

Causes

Dagoth Ur Created the disease to gain cultists

Symptoms

Fyr has a theory that corprus is in fact not a disease, but rather a divine blessing that most mortals can’t handle, pointing to the fact that the victims are completely immune to other diseases and don’t age.

• dementia
• violent behavior
• distorted, disfiguring skin growths

Treatment

Those infected are sent to Tel Fyr to live in the Corpusarium, where they are treated and studied by Divayth Fyr, a 4000-year old wizard working to uncover the nature of the disease and create a cure.

Prognosis

Degeneration into the Corprus Stalker

A character that has Corprus gradually becomes little more than an aggressive monster, when the characters Intelligence reaches 10 they become a Stalker, a zombie like creature that is aggressive to any other creatures it meets. At this point they also gain Regeneration (4) but lose the ability to use tools (including weapons) or to speak. The characters characteristics continue to be adjusted until all minimums are met. It is said that some would seek the aid of Dagoth Ur to stop this process and instead become an Ash creature.

History

Corprus, also known as the Divine Disease, is the most terrible of the ailments associated with the Blight. The infection was created by Dagoth Ur and is spread by contact with a corprus beast or by specific curse. It destroys the mind of the sufferer and grotesquely deforms the body. It is not known how the transformation of Sixth House cultists into Ascended Sleepers and other monsters is related to Corprus. Some of the physical effects are similar, but the cultists remain lucid and attain a higher spiritual state whereas more mundane sufferers become mindless husks, like the common undead raised by necromancers.
The last known Dwemer, Yagrum Bagarn, was infected with corprus atop Red Mountain during his exploration of Tamriel. He sought refuge at the Corpusarium in Tel Fyr, where he offered his knowledge and provided theories on the disappearance of the Dwarves.
In 3E 427 the Calonas MacLyon the Nerevarine became infected with corprus, and Divayth Fyr provided a “cure” for the disease. This “cure” did not actually cure the disease but rather removed the negative effects, such as crippling physical deformities and insanity, while retaining the positive effects, including immunity to all diseases, increased strength and endurance, and possibly also immortality.

Type

Divine

Origin

Magical

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Common