Lâg Dávrit

The Lâg Dávrit, also called the pale blight, is a sickness spreading throughout the formerly verdant forest of Adagím. It corrupts water, ground, and wildlife all, creating a fungal infection that spreads throughout the area, steadily increasing its reach. The kintai who formerly lived in the forest do their best to combat the blight, but theirs is a failing battle, and the spread of the disease has even started reaching into the lands of Kighân to the south. This is not an ancient affliction of the land, as it came to the woods a man's life-span ago, brought forth by the Din of Stone from the south by the Ordâkhai to conquer their ancient enemies in Shagâna. The pale blight is so named due to the heavy pale stalks of spore-bearing growths that cover the landscape, and the pallid spore-laden mist they create in the air throughout Adagím. The Lâg Dávrit also reaches further west, through most of Imhûlar, where the fungal infection has yet to reach, leaving the trees merely dead and bleached like bone.

Travelling scholars mention a legend among the Kintai that speaks of Sívigush the Earth Terror, a great beast of unimaginable size and ferocity. These accounts say that Sívigush carried within it a great plague that corrupted all it touched, turning the forests pale and dead wherever it strode. These accounts attribute the Pale Blight to Sívigush, and claim it emanated from a place in Adagím once said to be the great beast's abode. This site was later settled by a group of Men who excavated the area to build for their king, and it eventually became known as Nagakhêdi's Folly after the name of that king.