Blight is a condition caused by exposure to Malice. It poisons the land and water, infecting all living beings. Only mild symptoms are felt at first but a short time after a host is infected, the Blight grants them benefits to strength, speed, and dexterity. These benefits increase as the infection spreads, even as rashes appear on the host's body. What lies beyond these initial stages is mostly unknown. Some say that the infected fall into violent rages, others that the Blight sprouts from their bodies to infect passersby, and others claim that it devours a person's heart, mind, and soul completely, leaving the infected a shambling host. All that is known is no settlement has survived keeping a Blighted amongst their number.
Despite this, there are groups who worship the Blight. They claim that its ability to enhance its hosts make it a blessing, not a curse, and the stories of berserker rages, Blight-zombies, and more to all be fabricated rumors preventing everyone from reaching a higher state of being. Villagers found to be holding these dangerous and heretical beliefs are typically exiled lest they act on these ill-conceived ideas and endanger those around them.
Worse, recently, the Blight has been expanding, and monsters are becoming more numerous. Places that were once safe to pass may now be wreathed in Blight or infested with monsters.
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