It would take less than a month for the new disease to be noticed, just because a nobleman was infected. A few days afterward, the Temple of Saint Nightingale the Healer would declare a state of emergency all across western Albion as the new plague started to spread widely.
After investigating its nature, the doctors called it the Devil's Blood. The clergy officially named it Blackthorn Touch, which they shortened to Blackthorn. Commonly, it was also referred to as the Unholy Plague.
Like how the Gossipirium magazine in Elgard's reported about it in its second issue, the Blackthorn disease was a parasite that would develop as a strange, jagged, black, line-shaped skin spotting on the body with varying lengths; the shortest recorded length was that of a knucklebone. The area around the skin spotting would be paler than the rest of the body, indicating that whatever it was, it was feeding off its host.
