The Purple Blight

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"The Purple Blight is a type of corrupted magical energy, it disallows the body and soul of the affected to pass into the planes of the dead. Effectively leaving a mindless corpse. The blight has the ability to expand and grow, infecting nearby surfaces. Plant life infected by the purple blight decomposes incredibly quickly, leaving behind short black tendrils. These tendrils point upwards and slowly wave as if they're underwater; they are extremely frail and sticky, so coming in contact with one will cause them to break off and stick to the surface, spreading the disease."

"Animals are not free of the effects that this blight inflicts, if an animal were to become infected, their condition will rapidly worsen, becoming rotten from the inside out. Once the animal is too weak to fight the sickness, it will completely take over, killing the animal. After a couple of days, corrupted fungi will grow on the rotting corpse. After the fungi has completely developed, it will reanimate the corpse, making it aggressive against all non infected beings. These fungi have the ability to burst, spreading toxic spores that infect those who inhale or come in contact with them."

"Once the corpse is completely devoid of flesh and only the skeleton is left, it will solidify in place, causing the same black tendrils mentioned before to grow from the desiccated body."

~~"Damaging the body shows signals of stopping the zombification process"~~

"Damaging the body does not stop this process. The only reliable way of disposing of an infected corpse is complete incineration, or the use of the Disintegrate spell"

"Completely removing the blight has proven difficult, as it is able to seep into the very earth, and it has shown the ability to seep into stone and sealed containers as well. Multiple uses of Meteor Swarm on a contaminated surface has only shown that the blight has spread deep underground."

"Another important thing to notice, when an infected creature exerts itself, the plague deteriorates the creature more often, accelerating the rotting process. It is recommended that an infected creature remains as still as possible."

-Aranvir.

## In-Game Implications

The Purple Blight is a status effect, it's a plague that spreads to those who come in contact with an infected creature/surface.

In-game, the plague works in the following ways.

The Purple Blight (Magical Disease)
Infected creatures gain advantage on saving throws after being infected by 3 days.
A creature affected by the purple blight takes `1d4` necrotic and poison damage at the end of their turns if they move, `1d6` damage if they take an action, `1d8` if they do both.
At the end of their turn, the afflicted creature can make a DC 20 constitution saving throw to end the effect.
If a creature reaches 0 hit points while affected with the purple blight they immediately die.
 Out of initiative
A creature affected by the purple blight takes `1d12-Con Mod` necrotic damage when making a short or long rest. Additionally, for each day the creature is infected, they must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or lose max HP equal to their level. (The lost health is recovered when cured of the illness).
At the end of each day, the afflicted creature can make a DC 20 constitution saving throw to end the effect.
If a creature reaches 0 hit points while affected with the purple blight they immediately die.
 Can't be cured by