The Blight

The Blight was a long span of time in Terragardian History where magical sickness ravaged the population, animals and the lands and land itself, during a dark time when Terragard was not very well explored or understood.

The cause remains unknown. It is theorized that a mage or necromancer may have caused it, developing virulent poisons and diseases, and some of it got into the water supply, or went airborne. Some say that nature released a variety of illnesses as a self-defense mechanism due to the massive deforestation and strip mining operations that began when Terragard was first discovered to have such a surplus of rich natural resources.

The reports and accounts always varied wildly, thus the suspicion that there were several diseases instead of just one, or it was one disease that rapidly mutated to overcome obstacles in its propagation. Some of hte most vivid reports were of the dead rising up and mindlessly walking to heavily populated areas, seemingly in order to spread their sickness.