Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20171008201431

The Immortuos Virus is a dangerous warp spawned curse that at times infects entire cities, populations, and even planets. It leads to those infected turning into either mindless shambles of themselves and becoming merely puppets of their demonic overlords or becoming avatars of both death and plauge leading these great crusades to destroy the 'unfaithful' as the demon lords would put it.

It begins with a 'touch' from the plauge lords themselves this is either a lost ghost ship reappearing from the warp, asteroid slamming into the surface of a world, or either a plauge ship or it's cult members being smuggled into a world. From here the faithful spread the virus with the true believers gaining abilities and powers they never knew they had and the unfaithful becoming merely puppets of their over lords.

The plauge itself is controlled by the 'Death Guards' or 'Sorcerers' who are devote followers of the Plague Lords as well as powerful psychics or mortals who practice the dark arts. They are able to help further spread the plauge and control the hoards of the unfaithful now turned Immortuos.

The Virus itself is biological and is spread by contact, air, and many other ways. It is said to seek out the weak from the strong and to corrupt them accordingly. For example a gladiator would become a Savant and some white collar worker a Immortuos. In between both of these are many different 'classes' of, as the terrans call them, Zombies.

Savants on the other hand have pretty much been brainwashed by the virus and now think themselves holy warriors of the Plague Lords as well as fanatical shock troops.

Once a world is infected only three things can happen:

- Total conquest by the plauge and the world becoming a hot bed of demonic activity as well as a breeding ground for the Plague Lords warriors. Now this could also lead to the planet being exterminated.

- Permanent siege happens when the plauge infects some cities and the out lands, but is unable to fully conqueror the world. This generally leads to the world being put on the back burner when it comes to Imperial Priorities with the locals cutting off the infected parts of the world which then become pretty much wastelands filled with adventurers, criminals, dregs, and Immortuos.

- Extermiantion happens when the infection is stopped at it's roots usually early and for the most part the world is saved with only a few causilties.

Generally Immortuos Virus only happen on the outer worlds of many different factions and worlds near Orcus and it's demonic realm. 