✷ The Blight

The Blight

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An anomalous manifestation of the world, Blight, lies all across the lands of Khurun. Behaving much like a weed, blight grows rampant in the right conditions, and has been observed to feed on the Shroud itself. While its exact origins are a mystery, the conditions wherein it is found follow an observable pattern.

Places of great tragedy and turmoil are often marred by the abyssal roots of blight brambles. Infestations of blight growth have been known to sprawl about the remnants of old battlefields, and upon the lands of guardian spirits long slain. Whether these are the root sources of the blight, or simply where the growths have been drawn to, is a matter of debate.

It is common knowledge that a Blight growth can despoil the earth around it, and that coming into contact with blight can cause sickness and disease.

Many believe that the blight is a manifestation of some divine punishment. A curse created by gods and spirits so that mortals may learn from their folly. Whilst those of academic standing have come to understand the blight as if a plant, like any other. Malignant and destructive, but ultimately a thing to be studied and learned from.

One thing is certain. Where the Blight grows, life and land twist to take its form.