Description (Healing Blade Lore)
Treponema pallidum are crafty Lords who penetrate Soma’s boundary by charming their way onto boats heading for the Southern Harbor adjacent to Fecal Outlet. They uses their feminine wiles to stow away on cargo ships, full of unsuspecting and impressionable young workers, then spread their terror across Soma once inside the Wall. Like mermaids at sea, they spiral their way swiftly upstream from the Harbor to Uterine Bay searching for imperfections along the shore through which they can infiltrate Soma’s natural waterways and travel to the far corners of the world.
No one knows exactly how T. pallidum devastate the lands they infect, but the results are far from subtle. The wily temptresses can wreak havoc on Soma’s filtration systems, the camps of the valiant Sentry, even making their way to the Skeleton Mountains. If T. pallidum are not eliminated quickly by the Apothecaries, damage begins to appear along the length of the Boundary Wall, with notable deterioration around Buccal Bay and the Southern Harbor. Their presence can also cause harmful rises in temperature and decreases in the nutrients that come in through Buccal Bay to supply the land. Eventually, T. pallidum will even permeate the Twin Cities and Sententia, where they can disrupt the overall rhythm of life in Soma and affect drastic alterations in Soma’s typically warm and inviting persona. While a handful of Apothecaries can successfully eradicate T. pallidum from the land, the Lords cannot be captured, and thus much remains unknown about how they inflict such destruction, making it nearly impossible for Soma to prepare for such attacks.