Ferroth plague

The Ferroth plague is the name given to the first major outbreak of plagues following the collapse of the Ancient Empire, it was first reported in the harbour city of Claudis sometime in the early 140s BIC where it said that its arrived on some ship coming from some eastern port but due to the nature of the period, not many documents have survived up to this day. One of the few pieces of literature that have been saved to the present day is the book of Aelius who wrote in the late 40s BIC, he tells about how victims who were infected with the plague would seek guidance at their preferred temple and pray for healing, although it never came, likewise, he writes that those infected would first show symptoms like headache and coughs for about a week until they would fall into a coma-like state and if they were strong enough to pull through would wake up a few days later.
The plague spread with rapid pace through the continent and cities such as Pearlhal, Arborses and Emitlestar which at this time for the most part still were small towns or villages with only Emitlestar being on a size that it could be considered a city, These places were wreaked with on average half of the population falling ill with the plague.
The outbreak of the Ferroth plague initially lasted for just under 10 months but it would last in areas for centuries with the last report of sickness contributed to the plague being reported around 134 IC in the small kingdom of Marmara, now part of the Empire of Dercia. The outbreak of the First unification war and the large movements of troops and refugees caused a minor outbreak of the plague but it was for the most part contained.
The city of Pelusi, which at the time was a major coastal city located in what today is the Principality of Clifia, was so badly hit by the plague that to deal with the bodies of the victims, the governor of the city ordered them to be loaded onto ships who when full was then pushed out into the sea were they afterwards were set alight. For a city which before the plague had a population of close to 240.000 people, less than 60.000 survived.

Type

Bacterial

Origin

Natural

Rarity

Rare