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 [Non-Fiction] A History of the Thrassian Plague |
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A History of the Thrassian Plague ? By Ja-Kha?jay
By Sven Storm-Singer
The Thrassian plague is a disease which killed almost half the
inhabitants of Tamriel near the end if the 1st Era. Its early symptoms
included itchy skin followed by a rash, as well as a runny nose,
bleeding from various bodily orifices and blood flecked vomit. Death
followed within days. All citizens of Tamriel were impacted by this
deadly disease.
The first known case of the Thrassian plague was reported in Stros
M?kai in the year 1E1998, but is was passed off as a sporadic illness
by the local healers. It was eventually learned that the Sload of Thras
were responsible for the plague, and more and more cases appeared which
lead to the closure of the Stros M?kai port, and an embargo was placed
in 1E2202 to stop the spread of the disease. It failed.
The Thrassian plague was reported on mainland Tamriel shortly after the
Stros? M?kai embargo was placed. Ironically, smugglers were the ones
who transmitted the disease to the mainland, before dying themselves.
When almost a quarter of the population of Anvil perished, the Colovian
King of Anvil, Bendu Olo, sailed with the All Flags fleet to Thras,
slaughtering as many Sload as could be found and somehow sinking the
majority of Thras beneath the waves.
This retribution failed to stop the plague and by the time the fleet
returned in 1E2209, the plague was ravaging the Colovian territories,
most of High Rock, Western Skyrim and north-eastern Valenwood. In the
year 1E2215 it had spread throughout Valenwood and the provinces of
Summerset Isles and Elsweyr closed their borders in an effort to stop
the plague.
By 1E2234 the population of Tamriel had taken a terrible blow.
Morrowind, Cyrodiil and Skyrim were ravaged, while Valenwood,
Hammerfell and High Rock are recovering slightly after the decimation
of it?s citizenry. The land that eventually became the Black Marsh came
out relatively unscathed, due the Argonians natural disease resistance;
they did take some losses though.
In 1E2339 the Thrassian plague crossed the closed borders of the
Summerset Isles and in the following years the population dropped
dramatically. In the year 1E2259 the Thrassian plague breached the
border of the Elsweyr Confederacy and almost entirely wiped out the
entire Khajiiti race by the end of 1E2260. Out of 16 clans that lived
in Elsweyr to that day, only two remained after the plague.
Gradually the number of cases of the Thrassian plague declined, and the
plague was almost unheard of. Still it took more than seventy years
before Tamriel recovered from the effects of the plague. In recent
years there has been increasing numbers of sightings of Sload around
various parts of Tamriel, typically around Tear, Morrowind, and
Senchal, Elsweyr. Let all citizens of Tamriel hope that the disaster of
the Thrassian plague does not repeat itself.
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