Post by The Horror on Nov 8, 2018 16:20:03 GMT
If the predators and hostile natives were not enough, Sothoryos is also home for a variety of fatal diseases unique to the continent. These are but the diseases that have been catalogued by the Valyrian healers and academics that have visited Sothoryos, many unknown ones still hide in the deep dark jungles.
Blood Boils: The infection, in most instances, presents as several lumps or swellings and is often unaccompanied by fever. The lumps spread across the infected's limbs - but not hands or feet - and grow in size, developing a deep crimson tone. As the disease worsens, the lumps begin to rot the skin and starts digging through the flesh, until it hits the bone. Trying to perforate the lumps in the early stages will often lead to intensive bleeding that often results in the death of the patient.
Green Fever: Green fever is a mosquito-borne disease, its symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. They may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristically green toned skin rash. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into its life-threatening phase, where a combination of intensive bleeding and convulsions often lead to the infected's death.
Dancing Plague: The Dancing Plague attacks the muscles of the infected, causing increasing spasms and cramps, making the victim look as if dancing. It rots the muscle until the infected lose, at first, limb movement and in worse cases, full body control.
Sweetrot: This disease is caused by ingesting the Moley Moley Slug, endemic to the streams of the Zamoyos. The infected are afflicted by strong pains inside his body, accompanied by violent sweet-scented diarrhoea. In many cases the afflicted live with the disease for years before succumbing to it. Autopsia has revealed their digestive system to be rotting.
Bronze Pate: Caused by the parasitic larvae of a yet unidentified fly, Bronze Pate develops as the insect lays its eggs under the skin of an often unsuspecting victim's scalp. As the eggs hatch, the larvae eat away the victim's scalp skin, leaving behind a bronze substance as droppings. This causes severe itchiness of the affected area. Areas with a lack of access to water also have higher rates of disease. Records show more severe cases of the infection may involve thousands of larvae in a single subject.
Red Death: The most horrible of Sothoryi diseases, Red Death was first identified in the slave pens of the colony of Gogossos. It started as a little crimson rash that the local healers treated with a concoction of local herbs. At first, it subsided, but a couple weeks later the disease returned with much more violence, leading to fulminant bouts of pain followed by copious bleeding from every body orifice and the shredding of the skin like wet parchment. Just a couple weeks later, the colony had been decimated.
Greyscale: A disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stone-like to the touch. The victims are disfigured but also rendered immune to the rarer fatal form known as grey plague. The mortal form of greyscale begins by affecting the extremities, noticeable only by a blackened fingertip or loss of sensation. As numbness creeps up a person's arms or legs, the flesh stiffens and grows cold, and the victim's skin will turn grey, resembling stone. Blindness is common when the stone reaches the face, and the tongue and lips turn to stone. In the final stages, the curse turns inward, affecting muscles, bones, and inner organs. Although the disease is supposedly not painful, near the end, all victims go mad.
Brownleg: Brownleg is a common and complex form of infection that can affect anyone. It's characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, brownness and tenderness in the joints. It starts at joint at the base of the big toe but usually expands to the whole leg.
Wormbone: This little parasite called Boneworm infests rivers and ponds in Sothoryos. When it finds a host, the worm bores itself first into flesh, then into bone. In there it eats away the bone, leaving eggs as it eats through the calcium. If not treated, the Boneworm colony expands across the host's whole skeleton, until there's no bone left.
Pus Eye: A more severe version of the famous Pink Eye, Pus Eye is a quickly spreading inflammation that causes pus to ooze from the victim's eyes. It's very painful and may lead to blindness if left untreated, but in general is one of the least horrible diseases of Sothoryos.
Yellowgum: An infection of the gums, early symptoms include weakness, feeling tired, and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, the gums may start to rot, hair starts falling and intense bleeding from the skin may occur. As yellowgum worsens there can be poor wound healing, personality changes, and finally death from infection or bleeding. It is easily treatable by the consumption of citric fruits.
Blood Boils: The infection, in most instances, presents as several lumps or swellings and is often unaccompanied by fever. The lumps spread across the infected's limbs - but not hands or feet - and grow in size, developing a deep crimson tone. As the disease worsens, the lumps begin to rot the skin and starts digging through the flesh, until it hits the bone. Trying to perforate the lumps in the early stages will often lead to intensive bleeding that often results in the death of the patient.
Green Fever: Green fever is a mosquito-borne disease, its symptoms typically begin three to fourteen days after infection. They may include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristically green toned skin rash. In a small proportion of cases, the disease develops into its life-threatening phase, where a combination of intensive bleeding and convulsions often lead to the infected's death.
Dancing Plague: The Dancing Plague attacks the muscles of the infected, causing increasing spasms and cramps, making the victim look as if dancing. It rots the muscle until the infected lose, at first, limb movement and in worse cases, full body control.
Sweetrot: This disease is caused by ingesting the Moley Moley Slug, endemic to the streams of the Zamoyos. The infected are afflicted by strong pains inside his body, accompanied by violent sweet-scented diarrhoea. In many cases the afflicted live with the disease for years before succumbing to it. Autopsia has revealed their digestive system to be rotting.
Bronze Pate: Caused by the parasitic larvae of a yet unidentified fly, Bronze Pate develops as the insect lays its eggs under the skin of an often unsuspecting victim's scalp. As the eggs hatch, the larvae eat away the victim's scalp skin, leaving behind a bronze substance as droppings. This causes severe itchiness of the affected area. Areas with a lack of access to water also have higher rates of disease. Records show more severe cases of the infection may involve thousands of larvae in a single subject.
Red Death: The most horrible of Sothoryi diseases, Red Death was first identified in the slave pens of the colony of Gogossos. It started as a little crimson rash that the local healers treated with a concoction of local herbs. At first, it subsided, but a couple weeks later the disease returned with much more violence, leading to fulminant bouts of pain followed by copious bleeding from every body orifice and the shredding of the skin like wet parchment. Just a couple weeks later, the colony had been decimated.
Greyscale: A disease that can leave flesh stiff and dead, and the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stone-like to the touch. The victims are disfigured but also rendered immune to the rarer fatal form known as grey plague. The mortal form of greyscale begins by affecting the extremities, noticeable only by a blackened fingertip or loss of sensation. As numbness creeps up a person's arms or legs, the flesh stiffens and grows cold, and the victim's skin will turn grey, resembling stone. Blindness is common when the stone reaches the face, and the tongue and lips turn to stone. In the final stages, the curse turns inward, affecting muscles, bones, and inner organs. Although the disease is supposedly not painful, near the end, all victims go mad.
Brownleg: Brownleg is a common and complex form of infection that can affect anyone. It's characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, swelling, brownness and tenderness in the joints. It starts at joint at the base of the big toe but usually expands to the whole leg.
Wormbone: This little parasite called Boneworm infests rivers and ponds in Sothoryos. When it finds a host, the worm bores itself first into flesh, then into bone. In there it eats away the bone, leaving eggs as it eats through the calcium. If not treated, the Boneworm colony expands across the host's whole skeleton, until there's no bone left.
Pus Eye: A more severe version of the famous Pink Eye, Pus Eye is a quickly spreading inflammation that causes pus to ooze from the victim's eyes. It's very painful and may lead to blindness if left untreated, but in general is one of the least horrible diseases of Sothoryos.
Yellowgum: An infection of the gums, early symptoms include weakness, feeling tired, and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, the gums may start to rot, hair starts falling and intense bleeding from the skin may occur. As yellowgum worsens there can be poor wound healing, personality changes, and finally death from infection or bleeding. It is easily treatable by the consumption of citric fruits.