Seraphic Plague

For the REAL plague, see the Great Plague.

The Seraphic Plague, also known as the Plague of the Forgotten, is the name of an historical affliction that only exists in the Present Verse and the Alternative Universe One. It is an illness that struck during the middle of the 14th century, contaminating almost every fauna it came into contact with, regardless of whether it was a human or an animal. Flora, however, has remained unaffected. The exact origin of the affliction is unknown, and it completely disappeared off the face of the Earth past a year of rampant contamination.

The symptoms of the disease are as follow: Any contaminated being, be it either a human or an animal, would first begin to see their body sparsely cover itself with silver patches of moss, before falling sick to high fever. Following this comes a few days of intense delirium as the temperatures rises and for humans, this is always inevitably followed by death. Animals, however, push through, and then begin manifesting signs of DNA splicing, leading them to change into more humanoid beings. While they do retain their basic features, they will all eventually show signs of higher intellect as they progressively recover.

The extent of the change caused by the illness varies from a species to another, but all of the afflicted animals end up winning over the disease, and all of them share a somewhat similar level of intelligence, which is to say, a human-like one. In order to make the difference between a normal animal, and one that has been altered by the disease, the latter became known as "Plagued" beings, even though they were no longer ill. Because of the sudden decrease in human population while the Plagued animals would have offspring, now sharing their mutation, the world balance shifted into one with less humans and more animals in it.

Marching forward onto the 15th century, Plagued animals eventually started to blend in with the human community thanks to their intelligence, eventually creating their own communities here and there.

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