The Disintegration of the Morden

While almost all of the godless Morden horde have wasted away in the year since the Second Cataclysm, there are some that stubbornly remain. The few that have managed to survive this long are mostly concentrated in the Desert of Kelvera. Throughout my last reconnaissance mission to the region, I observed two distinct groups. What follows is an explanation of where they are, what they are, and how to best dispose of them.
The first group calls themsevles the Ravagers. First and most importantly, they exhibit no signs of the rotting sickness that has helped push the Morden down the path of extinction. I do not know how they have fought off the disease, though I assume it has some connection to one commonality: their skin has been bleached a pale color and they are all marked by a long sigil in the center of their chests.
During my study of the Ravagers, I observed the following incident:
Three of the creatures trekked through the wasteland for three days, seemingly without care for food or water. When one of them lagged behind, its two companions turned and, without pause, murdered the straggler. I cannot accurately convey the depths of their bloodlust -- suffice it to say that they bathed in the blood of their former comrade and howled with more ferocity than I have ever observed.
The other group, the Refugees, was even more unsettling than the first, if only because their behavior was so uncharacterstic that it still gives me pause. The wretches I saw weakly foraging in the desert resembled no Morden that I'd ever seen. They appeared to be living corpses -- pus-filled bags of bones and shredded skin. I could smell them long before I came upon them, and the scavengers seemed to delight in pestering them, swooping down to snatch bits of rotting flesh -- sometimes still attached to the body. I never thought I could find it within myself to feel sympathy for the Morden.
It was not just their physical appearance, however. They moved with no sense of purpose. Their eyes were empty, dead. The fury that fueled the Morden to become one of the biggest threats to Aranna was nowhere to eb seen within these weaklings. They resembled the refugees here in the Outpost, only without any of the hope that the Humans desperately cling to. These Morden were defeated on every level, and do not appear to present much of a challenge.
Still, do not let down your guard around either the Morden Ravagers or the Refugees. They are desperate creatures, which could make them more dangerous then they have ever been before.
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