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Post by OperatorMeme on Jan 18, 2021 17:38:55 GMT
 The area corrupted by the Blight is highlighted blue. It's a devastated land, which nobody enters for fear of catching the disease. Blight cannot survive contact with water, but the damage is irreparable too quickly for washing to be a viable option to remove it. Prevention is necessary, not cure. Important QuestionsHow did the Blight originate? What exactly does the Blight do? In what ways could the Blight be destroyed, if it can be? I'd appreciate ideas for answering these questions! |
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Post by ? Box on Jan 18, 2021 19:00:11 GMT
If I were going to create some sort of super-contagious disease that was stoppable by water, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it unless I was on an island. If it's a man-made effect, I'd look to that purple island by the Southern League, all else being equal.
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Post by ? Box on Jan 18, 2021 23:53:09 GMT
Possible effect of the blight - desiccating effect, dries out people, leaving them as petrified, salt-colored husks?
Could play in with the Terramonteans' dual beliefs about it being a hoax / a sign of the end times, if there's any stories about their God turning people to stone as a punishment.
Or whatever it does, having (that exact method of death) be prominent in their religious literature.
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Post by Gray Wolf on Jan 19, 2021 1:32:41 GMT
It should turn people into cultists that disavow magic, don't believe in water, and who worship a big orange fraud as their leader
...too topical?
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Post by A Rock on Jan 19, 2021 1:35:28 GMT
I don't know why, but I want it to be create by a bunch of mountains getting up and walking away.
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Post by A Rock on Jan 19, 2021 1:40:19 GMT
But more seriously, not sure how it'd originate, but it'd be interesting if it was like timefall from death stranding, where it just makes you age much more quickly than normal. It'd also be pretty interesting if it was either a very snowy or icy place, so that the cure would be nearby and yet so far away. Also that would mean it could be destroyed just be warming it up enough, but would also put everything else underwater in the process.
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Post by ? Box on Jan 19, 2021 1:44:07 GMT
If water destroys the Blight, then one good rain should take care of it.
Except, of course, that's boring. So does it just not rain where the Blight is, or does rain not do anything against the Blight?
The former implies some sort of weather magic at play. The latter supports the desiccation theory - rain just isn't enough water at once to do anything.
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Post by A Rock on Jan 19, 2021 2:08:16 GMT
I mean, maybe it'd also just like made by really tall glaciers and there is a natural rain shadow everywhere outside the blight? But also weather magic sounds cool.
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Post by ? Box on Jan 19, 2021 2:48:01 GMT
The Blight covers a pretty large area - hard to imagine a desert that big (at least, one made by natural causes).
Of course, could also be that rain only hits some areas at once - those areas clear out, but as soon as the rain stops, the Blight creeps right back in.
Counter-magic to create rain constantly could allow limited incursions into the blighted areas. Assuming that there's nothing that would dispel that magic as soon as one got far enough in ...
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