Blood Veil

Transmission & Vectors

Airborne, blood born, contact

Symptoms

headache, fatigue, coughing, rash, pox like blisters, black patches of skin.

Treatment

Miracle spell, wish spell, remove disease cast by three tenth level divine casters.

Prognosis

In its initial stages, the disease is characterized by headache, fatigue, coughing, and the aforementioned rash. As it progresses, the cough becomes more obtrusive, the rash spreads to the neck, face, and limbs and develops into pox-like blisters, and the lymph glands swell into painful buboes. At its most advanced stage, the blisters grow to the size of grapes or larger, internal bleeding creates black patches on the skin, and blood is expectorated. Ultimately, a most unseemly, wheezing death occurs. Death occurs in 7 days after initial infection.

Affected Groups

Any.

Hosts & Carriers

Humans and Elves.

Prevention

Plague masks, protection from evil spells.

History

The affliction that the people of Vedania most widely fear as “blood veil” is no natural malady. Created by plague shaping priests of Jubilex based in northern Avalon, and funded by the Shades, blood veil is a refined form of Vorel’s phage, an unnatural disease that first came into being deep under Foxglove Manor, on Avalons coast the arcane and alchemical manipulations of these two nefarious organizations have altered the potent necromantic infection into a weaker but more virulent weapon.

Cultural Reception

Carriers and victims are feared and avoided at all costs, Blood Veil is highly contagious.

Type

Viral

Origin

Mutated

Rarity

Unique