StarPlague

Living Plague Curse (it/he)

Familiars : Blight Nymph , Spoiling Scorpio , Cinnabar Plaguebringer , Sanguine Multimist , Contaminated Ambassador , Ashspine Widow

Hoard list : Rotting Leather , Contaminated Featherback Pelt , Rotting Plaguebringer Effigy , Jar of Slime , Pestilent Slash , Feisty Poison



Bio WIP
Reviled Blessing

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『Ah ! Cursed Child of The Plague, what offends might have we committed to deserve such an ire ?

Those who wronged have long since passed away, their withered remains reduced to naugh by your miasms - yet you still remain, continuing your forlorn walk through our Domain, rotting everything in your wake, cursing innocents and sinners alike with your rot.

You've suffered for all too long ; perhaps it is that you yourself forgot the reasons of your pain.
How long until you're consumed and crumble under the weight of your own curse ?』

Born under the Blessing of the PlagueBringer, his particular gift turned out to be more of a burden than anything.
When StarPlague's egg hatched, it released a putrid, festering muck that reeked of pus. As he grew up, a festering poison infected his mane, then his tail.
Despite its aspect, StarPlague seemed to be the sole dragon affected by the plague - unlike him, none of the villagers around him grew sick and weakened.
Alas, it didn't prevent other from fearing it, and rejecting the poor dragon as a result.

Indeed, StarPlague was deemed Cursed by the villagers ;
As soon as he reached adulthood, he got chased away from Domain.
From then, life spared him no quarter:
Any villager that crossed his path fought him as hard as if they encountered a rabid animal, terrified of catching his illness. Food was scarce, his frail state preventing him from gathering food properly and to fight to defend his meager findings.

Famelic, exhausted and on the brink of death, StarPlague fully embraced his Blessing and wished to become z a Living Curse.
Using his last breath, he pleaded to the PlagueBringer to help him ; He swore to destroy them and their children's children after them - until their lineage was extinct.
Under the Plague Goddess, may his Blessing fully fester - let it be as much of a curse to others as it's been for him. May others taste the suffering that he was burdened with since birth, and the suffering that was infflected upon him in his adulthood as well.

And so, touched by the beauty of his suffering and the righteousness of his hatred, the Plague Mother provided :

• She bestowed to him a terrifying gift, a Great Plague like the village had never seen before.
• She granted him with sharp, irradiated claws to flay and melt their flesh away.
• She spread his illness to his entire body, rendering it contagious to any living being
• She nurtured his affliction until it spread to his whole body, illness emanated in foul swirls & putrid splashes of toxic muck.
• To appease his pained soul, she let the Plague errode his mind and eat away his painful memories, letting nothing behind but the will to spread the Curse and tear away his Foes.

Centuries later he still roams, his suffering undending - although he seems to barely be able register the pain he's in anymore.
Dragon from the Domain have since then changed their attitude towards him, and express a lot of concern & empathy for him.
They realise how wrongly he was treated, and they see him as always was: a dragon in dire need of help, someone that was left alone and suffering for so long that they only learned to lash out at others - like a wounded animal

His story is a stain on the history of the villager's descendants - one that they must not forget. So it is their duty to make things right. Risking their lives, they try to take care of StarPlague as best as possible, leaving offerings to him, building him a shelter ect...
The task is extremely dangerous ; StarPlague still tries to unleashe his curse on them and lashes out, but still, that doesn't stop the villagers from providing all the help they can to make his life a bit more comfortable.

Unfortunately, he still has to remain far from the village, as his Plague still affects him as well as others.

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Rewrite to make it more succinct

It's been long dead yet it hungers, it craves, it suffers.
But most of of all, it seeks vengeance.
StarPlague roams the lands in a rabid state, forever agonizing, until his festering curse has been inflicted on those that rejected him & his "blessing" - and their children's children, until their lineages has rotten off from this world.