For ages across many worlds and many civilizations prophets have foretold the coming of sweeping pestilence and blight through dreams and other signs - Imperial scholars have found a few of the legends to hold some measure of consistency. Once example of this is that many legends tell of village prophets having terrifying/sanity blasting dreams and visions of a great indescribable deamon writhing in an endless sea of filth and decay - sounds of creatures suffering the most vile stages of disease and affliction fill the air (some versions describe this sound as being the laughter of the terrible deamon).  Many descriptions of this dream involve a death shroud which appears partially embedded in the deamon's flesh. Bits of this shroud the deamon tears off and flings into the miasma of disease - causing a sudden and violent proliferation of disease and horrible mutation amongst the creatures already suffering so horribly. When pressed to describe these effects many of the prophets and visionaries became quite agitated - some would go into convulsions, some into comas - others died outright. Of the many things in these visions which terrified the visionaries, it was the shroud fragments which brought the most profound sense of dread - for the impression was that it was something special which the deamon was sending specifically for the visionary and his lands. that great epidemics and mutations actually DID follow these dreams only seemed to confirm the premonitions. Detailed descriptions of these shroud fragments are difficult to come by (many prophets with the most detailed visions lost much of their sanity - especially when pressed about the fragments) but all fragments of this deathshroud are said to be bloodied in some fashion, and all are soaked in the foulness of the diseased deamon - spreading the most terrible diseases and mutations wherever they are seen. 

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