The Plague Coven

The Plague Coven is a group of individuals who fear sickness and disease and seek to eradicate it and immortalize themselves. They dress like plague doctors and have figured out how to immunize themselves from the majority of mortal diseases.

## History

A young man on a Northern Village in Hakana Island was training to be a doctor under one of the Island's best medical experts. One day, the young man was assigned to read about the deadliest uncurable diseases in the whole realm of Archara, and the horrible plagues he saw in the book caused him to go into a state of paranoia. Contact with anything beside his own body made him conscious about bacteria and the risk of infection. He could no longer enjoy his life knowing about the invisible dangers all around.

Seeing the young boy's distress, the doctor became worried about the child's sanity and sought to show him that his fear was irrational. He gave himself the Necrotic Plague, a powerful disease with low death rate, and presented himself to his apprentice, hoping that his probable survival would calm his worries. Upon hearing the news, the boy became terrified of receiving the Plague and killed the doctor with a knife. The boy then stayed in solitude, afraid of natural killers. He spent three years researching cures and attempting to immunize himself to diseases. Upon his 18th birthday, he took a knife and a book on dark artistry that he had also found during his research and ventured out into the public. Wearing a plague doctor suit, he visited sick patients across the Island, mercilessly killing the diseased. Eventually, his methods, considered barbaric and horrific by most, gained a cult following from those who listened to his madness and understood his mysophobia. He and his small army retired to the Northern Woods and have hidden in their underground temple there ever since.

## Structure

The young man is now simply known as the Plague Fanatic. He has hundreds of following cultists dressed in the same plague doctor getup to preserve their health. The smartest of the cult are set to work on cures in the lower floors of the Hideout. Every member of the cult has taken all possible disease cures and has the same lust to live pure and clean forever. The Plague Fanatic has six members of his inner circle, who exact his will and carry out his most important tasks, such as wiping out entire villages infected with diseases. His inner circle consists of:

-A Gun Fanatic

-A Pyromancer

-A Brute

-A Monk

-A Terramancer

-A Necromancer

He values them all for specific traits and talent, especially the Necromancer. Using his arts of control over life and death, he has managed to twist diseases easier than years of meticulous research ever could. The Gunner and Brute are typically tasked with carrying out attacks and sieges, while the Monk uses her powers of stealth to kill off the diseased in secret. The Terramancer is the one who built the entire base, due to his power of Earth control. The Pyromancer was among his first followers, and displayed a quality that the Fanatic admired highly: He would incinerate the bodies of the sick, not even leaving the germs of the infected intact.

## Rituals

The Coven keeps tabs on all the villages on their continent. When sicknesses come to their attention in the region, they typically go and kill off all the sick and dispose of the bodies as effectively as possible. The targets are typically killed from a distance, VIA grenade or gun, and then burned. All ashes are teleported elsewhere, where the Earth inhabitants won't have to worry.