Quote:Evidently, since that wasn't what I meant. The events you're describing are what happened after those several decades were up - the Festivals are at about 300 year intervals, stet? Searrs was aware of the Plague as early as 1305 or so - right after the Festival before last.
The first recorded cases of the Black Death suddenly appeared in Europe and swept thru the continent in less than three years. It took several decades for human beings to developed sufficient immunity to have a 1 in 3 chance of of survival after infected with the Black Death.
When it first showed up, it killed too fast to spread. In the modern day, with global air travel and such, it'd probably qualify as an all-out apocalypse... 90% primary kill within a week. We're not talking about a natural disease, here, we're talking about an all-out bioweapon.
What hit Europe in the 1340s was very much the watered-down version.
Ja, -n
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