The Elder Scrolls Treasury III - The Imperial Library

BlightBlightThe Blight is a weather phenomenon associated with → Vvardenfell's colossal volcano, → RedMountain. Persistent within the → Ghostfence −− that is, within the crater and on the volcano'sslopes −− and intermittent near the volcano, the Blight is a → health−threatening, ash−heavyvolcanic cloud. Plants and creatures exposed to the Blight may contract a variety of → blightdiseases. The blight diseases you get from being outside during ash storms. The sickness comesfrom Red Mountain; it makes normal creatures into terrible monsters.Blight DiseaseThe four blight diseases are → ash−chancre, → chanthrax, → black−heart, → ash woe. They comefrom touching → blighted creatures or from going about in → blight storms. Blight diseases resistcommon herbal and magical treatments, and are of two kinds: wasting → diseases which attackone or more of an organism's systems, and abnormal growth diseases, which distort the organism'sfunctions and structures. Natives avoid exposure to the → Blight, and wear special protectivegarments when traveling in Blight−prone → regions. Unless you walk upon → Red Mountain, youneed not fear the blight storms. You need magical resistance to blight disease if you go there.Blight StormsThere is bad magic in the dust from → Red Mountain. The grass dies, the → kwama and → guargo mad, bite and fight.Blighted CreaturesThe following creatures are susceptible to → blight diseases: → kwama queen, → kwama forager,→ kwama warrior, → kwama worker, → scrib, → cliff racer, → alit, → shalk, → kagouti, → nixhound, and → rat. Since → blight disease is contracted by contact, after an encounter with thesecreatures, make sure you haven't gotten a blight disease.Blight MonstersSee → Corprus Beasts.BlindThis effect obscures the vision of the victim, reducing his chance to hit an opponent with weaponor hand−to−hand attacks.BloatBloat is the thick, pulpy−white tuber of the bloatspore plant. It grows in dark, damp locations.BlockThe block discipline is the skill of parrying melee attacks with → shields. A successful blockreduces damage.38