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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 3590008" data-attributes="member: 2020">The elves of Delrune lived in high densities, but were not subject to disease.  A lot of little clerical magic protected them.  The elves who survived the Greyhawk Wars, were quite subject to disease.  Despite using the dark powers of Lolth and others, they found disease flourishing amongst them, and in the ruined lands around Delrune (where plagues now roamed.)  The elves who survived the Coming of Vecna, did not live with disease:  disease, infestation, and starvation *were* life.  Until they developed agnakok abilities out of the inner strength, derived from their quintennsial elvishness, after which disease and infestation once more - this time forever - faded out of their lives.  Not many were left by then.  Disease was common in Calrune, and a problem.  In Calrose, the capital city, epidemics broke out constantly, and clerics had to battle them down.  In Swantmoor, gnomish clerics held disease at bay, until the food shortage hit, and then the whole disease/hunger situation in general worsened.  In Chautosbergen, the dwarves were afflicted with strange illnesses from Below, but the numerous clerics held these from becoming epidemics.  As the dwarves strengthened and the number of their clerics grew during the Greyhawk Wars, disease lessened.  Of course, modern medicine did not exist.  Indeed, the proliferation of clerics saw a lack of research into mundane cures in Delrune and Swantmoor.  In Chauntosbergen, more of an effort to produce common mundane cures was made.  In Calrune, an intensive effort was made and paid off.  Of course, after the Solistari War, neither Calrune nor Swantmoor existed anymore, so it became irrelevant.  In Chautosbergen, which suffered heavily from the first (and only) strike from the Solistarim, disease was contained.  After thousands killed were buried in solemn ceremony, the clergy held off the epidemics and grim personal illnesses afflicting all their neighbors.  After the Solistari War, being away from a city didn't help very much, against disease.  Millions of corpses lay rotting everywhere.  Rivers were poisoned by these bodies, and by soot from fires.  Marauders pursued refugees, and disease stalked both.  Monsters freely roamed everywhere, some eating the dead and carrying disease.  Forests were burned and cities laid waste, so no safe food was to come by.  As the lands changed, became poisoned by the sheer amount of blood shed and began to react in protest, so the vegetation that grew back turned sickly, waters fouled, and even the rainwater was laced with grit and soot from volcanic eruptions.  Disease became more prevalent than ever before.</blockquote>

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