

Afflctions
Afflictions are diseases and parasytes of a supernatural nature. Infections that change a creature fundamentally. Each Affliction is transformative and requires special treatments to cure them, if treatment is possible at all. Nearly all Afflictions are deadly to their host and once they reach past a certain stage are near impossible to cure.
While Afflictions are considered deadly and lethal to their hosts as stated above, this is not exactly the truth. In fact they are such a large problem due to the fact that the hosts bodies tend to not fully die. See Afflictions don't simply kill their host, but instead change them on a fundamental level. Turning their subjects into something monstrous and foreign. In fact, a majority of creatures classified as monsters in Shattered Sun are created by the later stages of untreated afflictions. Some Afflictions, like the Consumption, can outright kill their host and take over the body. Yet many are insidious, infecting the mind and changing it into something foreign.
Infectiousness Levels
There are five levels to the infectiousness of Afflictions, which are listed below.
Whispering
Diseases of this level are not that infectious and spread slowly. As this name suggests you may hear only whispers of it's spread.
Cursed
Diseases of this level are more akin to an infectious curse. They spread relatively easily to those exposed to them, but only if the conditions are correct.
Haunting
Diseases of this level spread quickly and far. If in contact with their cause it is likely you will at least enter the first stage of the disease. They haunt entire area's of land.
Scourge
Diseases of this level are highly infectious and spread through the smallest contact with their sources. They are a scourge upon the land and outbreaks must be contained.
Wasting
Diseases of this level are catastrophically infectious. Each case causing epidemics as they waste away at entire populations.
The Ashen Blight
The Ashen Blight
The Blooming
The Blooming
The Corruption
The Corruption
The Emptying
The Emptying
The Encrusting
The Encrusting
The Fading
The Fading
The Forgotten Delusion
The Forgotten Delusion
The Fractured Doom
The Fractured Doom
The Hallowed Fever
The Hallowed Fever

The Malefic Consumption
The Malefic Consumption
The Purification
The Purification
The Twisting Haze
The Twisting Haze
The Warping
The Warping
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