(09-23-2017, 04:21 AM)Valence Wrote: ...there was also the Creeping Death pandemic that killed  a third of the hyur there (no elezens though, it's just a hyur disease), but the main issue is that the two main accounts ingame are contradictory: one NPC says it was not so long ago, while the other says it was long ago actually. Hard to make an accurate sense of time here, but maybe Sounssy knows more?
The Creeping Death occurred in the Year 1322, 255 years ago. By the time a cure was found five years later by an Ul'dahn alchemist, over a third of Gridania's Hyuran population was dead, drastically altering the overall racial makeup of the city-state indefinitely.
The disease was cured but not eradicated, however. There have been the occasional minor outbreaks since. Which is why you can still find members of Gridania's Trappers' League and the Greatloam Growery taking measures to prevent future outbreaks.
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