Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20140726175925/@comment-24449631-20140727111038

The Current Situation in Hammerfell and Stages of the Merovian Plague.
The morning sun greeted the cities of Hammerfell from over the dunes of the Alik’r Desert. Causing the giant golden domes of the cities’ palaces to gleam bright.

Gilane’s towering palace in the middle of the city had been built partly with Dwemer stone and was shaped with Yakudan art and framework. Like its Skyrim sister city: Markarth, Gilane has lots of Dwarven influence because of the location close to the best preserved Volenfell ruins. Although perhaps it was not as blandly obvious as The city of Blood and Silver. Most of the town had been redecorated with colourful stalls, curtains, tapestries and rugs created with the fur and wool the domestic desert animals of Hammerfell.

Gilane was located close to both the grassy badlands and the alik’r desert. Serving as the portal city to Hew’s Bane which was mostly rocky canyons and ruins of a bygone age, and the odd hermit or small settlement or two. But it mostly served as the trade post between the western port cities, the likes of: Sentinel and Hegathe, And. The more southern port cities like: Taneth and Rihad. Although most of that trade had dried up some. People were afraid to travel the roads even more now that the Merovian Plague had spread.

Contact with cities like Dragonstar and Elinhir were completely gone as the plague had not yet spread to those cities in the far north-east of the kingdom. And because of their close proximity of Skyrim, most of those cities were governed with a huge amount of paranoia fearing the damned influenza coming from the west and ‘the fallen’ from the north.

King M’zarr II the current Highking of Hammerfell had packed up and replaced his government to Dragonstar, the new capital of Hammerfell, since Sentinel was almost completely turned into a ghost town by the feared Merovian Plague there was little keeping the monarch there. Sentinel’s giant palaces and busy streets all but fallen to the silent killer, whatever was left of Sentinel was mostly not good and certainly not worth risking your live over.

The Merovian Plague indeed is a nasty disease. Transmitted, by what people assume is direct contact, although not even the method of spreading seems to be unknown, the flu has killed almost 1/4th of Hammerfell’s inhabitants already, mostly in the port cities. It’s symptoms and stages, however, are known.

1: dizziness and light headedness

2: after a few hours of dilapidation the body finds itself unable to fight whatever is causing the sickness, this time period can vary from person to person, though a few hours is mostly how long it takes.

3: Deadly cough and organ failure, by now the person is noticeably infected and should be avoided at all costs. Some people will try and lock themselves away from others, while others, infected might wish to spread the disease in a fit of rage or despair and might attack you.

4: weeping blood. The reason why the disease is also been starting to be called: Weeper’s death and its signature recognition point. The eyes turn blood-red and cannot stop weeping

5: Death. From stage 1 to 5 about seven hours. But as mentioned before, it can vary from person to person.

