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| - Many a housewife tale has spoken of the Dusk Fever with fear and, according to said fallacies, has told of its origination in Northrend. Though modern historians, who have checked accounts in both Kul Tiras, Stormwind and even Stonard, have decided that the records suggest its first notable appearance was in Boralus. However, the strain that is notable today seems to have first permeated Elwynn during the time of the First War, and then manifested itself seriously before the Third War. Only sporadic and unusual cases have been reported since, though some apothecaries still warn of the threat of its return.
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| - Many a housewife tale has spoken of the Dusk Fever with fear and, according to said fallacies, has told of its origination in Northrend. Though modern historians, who have checked accounts in both Kul Tiras, Stormwind and even Stonard, have decided that the records suggest its first notable appearance was in Boralus. However, the strain that is notable today seems to have first permeated Elwynn during the time of the First War, and then manifested itself seriously before the Third War. Only sporadic and unusual cases have been reported since, though some apothecaries still warn of the threat of its return. From rare accounts taken from sailors and peasant families (rare, because not many peasants or sailors are literate) in the periods mentioned, some apothecaries and critical historians have concluded that the disease was transferred purposely via fish imported from Boralus in Stormwind. The notable cause for this biological attack can be pinned upon tariffs placed by Stormwind upon Kul Tiran goods. In revenge, a major exporter of fish, one Earl Barworthy, hired only sailors who had been confirmed to have the relatively harmless disease 'Scale Fever'(*). Despite this petty attempt at revenge, the Kingdom of Azeroth was not to be affected until merchant travelers visited Southern Elwynn. A peasant farmer remembers the introduction of the disease in a diary procured from Darkshire's archives: It is clear to historians that, from this account and others, the disease wasn't lethal before the First War. This had led some to conclude that the disease may have mixed in with spores and humors carried by the orcs from Outland to Azeroth; culminating in the disease becoming more deadly to those who had it. Therefore, to give a better picture of what might have combined with the Scale Fever to create something all-round more deadly, orcish accounts have been collected; in particular, accounts from orcish captains during the invasion of Azeroth: From this evidence, Dusk Poison appears to be a reaction by some orcish bodies to the intake of the Blood of Mannoroth. This leads some to the assumption that the hybrid mixture must have been created in blood mixtures; the accurate assumption being that some orcs who had Dusk Poisoning went into combat with human soldiers who had contracted Scale Fever. However, the newly created Dusk Fever had seemed to have been contained, unintentionally, by the Orcish Horde. Though it managed to survive, presumably by clinging to wildlife and fauna, the orcish invaders seem to have killed off many of the orcs and humans who had developed the disease. It was only until the areas which the orcs had destroyed were repopulated (such as Raven Hill and Grand Hamlet) that the disease managed to create itself not only a deadly reputation, but an epidemic body count to its name. After the Second War, many humans returned to the Kingdom of Azeroth to repair their homes and begin again. Sadly, for the residents of the Duskwood, a disease was to grip them, and grip them at an alarming rate. Many written accounts were made, and the tales and stories of Dusk Fever still remain today. Its title, Dusk Fever, was to go with the new land that many of the citizens of Grand Hamlet were to live in now. Not many people even know where it "disappeared" to, though the tales like to suggest that the evil of the "catacombs" was banished. Though, indeed, the truth is related to the catacombs, the apparent "disappearance" of the disease is, in fact, darker than any creature or ghoul that a villein could imagine: Many apothecaries at the time believed that the Dusk Fever was an infestation of insects within the patient's blood stream, and therefore used leeches to try and suck said insects out from the veins. Though this practice was eventually found to be false, as the disease merely spread through the leeches, it did help some apothecaries to notice that the disease was spread through the blood. With these revelations, the apothecaries devised a plan: To quarantine the disease, they would take those patients infected, and lock them in the catacombs under Raven Hill. This proved to be successful, and, due to the death of the wildlife (because of the encroaching "dusk" that would eventually engulf Southern Elwynn in gloom) the disease had appeared to be successfully banished from society. The apothecaries were never found out; in fact, they were assisted by the myth and superstition bred by the peasantry that solved the vanishing of the disease and the patients in an all but too simple manner. As for the victims of the apothecary's subterfuge, they have most likely decayed within the catacombs: To this day, the chamber that holds the Dusk Fever captive has not been opened, and the disease lies unstirred.
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