The "Black Trade" Plague Houses

From 1038 AH to 1048 AH the known world was wracked with a great plague originating in the east. While the exact start of the plague is unknown, it was spread through trade, earning it the name Black Trade. During the initial waves, the Salariat people combatted the plague by building plague houses. Anyone suspected to have the plague were moved to these houses for treatment.

Purpose / Function

These houses were hastily constructed to house victims of the Black Trade plague. They were capable of housing at minimum twenty patients in one massive room partitioned into individual spaces with dividers. A separate house on the compound housed the medical staff and clergymen who tended the ill.

Alterations

Initially constructed of wood and utilizing dividers to partition spaces, the numbers of affected people quickly grew, requiring a quicker solution. Dwarves were contracted to utilize their stone working magics to quickly expand the houses. As numbers grew out of control, the grounds around the houses were converted into graveyards with unmarked mass burial pits.
Once the plague had died down, the houses were converted into hospitals or churches to Myrada.

Architecture

The initial houses rarely still stand, slapdash as they were. The stone buildings however, still stand tall and proud as any above ground dwarven architecture tends to. But unlike other dwarven architecture, the buildings are quite plain and drab. The buildings are constructed of massive slabs and pillars of magic worked stone, segmented to look like they were built of massive stones plastered together to make people feel more at ease. They take on the appearance of massive stone boxes with slanted roofs that direct rain away from the foundation and prevent snow from accumulating too much. The graveyards surrounding the buildings are lined with stone fences, the markers indicating a plague burial ground long worn by the elements.

Founding Date

1039 AH

Type

Graveyard