Bereave

Some illness that was developed in the Plaguelands that only seems to infect very specific dragons. The limited scope of its contagiousness and the fact that it seems to be highly aggressive against any other microbes infecting its host rendered it a 'failure' of a plague. Whether Bereave was shunned because of being the carrier of this, or simply decided to leave the Plaguelands of her own accord is unclear, but it seems that invariably if a dragon somehow contracts the disease that they find their way to her, even if they don't stay.

The contagion causes a loss of pigmentation first, then eventually a severe softening of the scales and skin at which point they turn almost completely transparent. This makes flesh wounds a common problem, because minor impacts could cause tears in them that most dragons would have no problem with, nor even notice. That is if parts of their flesh don't simply slough off entirely to expose the muscle and veins beneath.

While the nature of the Weeping seems to make them virtually immune to any worry of infection, it does often leave the infected bleeding to some degree almost constantly, or 'weeping blood' which is where the name came from. It also tends to give the infected a very strong desire to eat raw flesh almost constantly, even if they aren't a meat-eating dragon breed. Whether this is due to some chemical alteration in the brain from the contagion itself or some sort of physio/psychological effect of the body's constant need for protein to try and repair itself isn't quite clear.