Tantvits the Pestilent

Description
Tantvits the Pestilent, shortened to Tants (Tanc), is a sexually transmitted disease that will eventually result in death.

Its symptoms appear around three months after contracting in the form of itching in the crotch are and green-red bumps showing up on the genitals. These continue to grow and spread across the legs and stomach for several weeks.

About seven months after infection, the person will develop sudden and high fever. The pustules will also start to explode in hopes of spreading infection upon whoever or whatever happens to be near the infected.

The infected person or animal will then die within one to three days.

There is no cure nor any real prevention. Occasionally, the disease may be cured in its early months if proper healing is applied, though it does not always work. The first five months or so are not infectious in any other way than through sexual contact, but after that, any contact can lead to infection.

If a person shows signs of infection, they are either treated or, if the disease has progressed past a certain point, quarantined, where they then die. The body is then left alone for a week or so for the disease to die out as it cannot survive without a host for long. After the waiting period has passed, the corpse is removed and burned. The area they died in is then scrubbed and cleaned.

Origin
Initially native only to Helvetia, the Tants spread to Ximizhlum during Bjorn's Campaign. Near the end of the civil war, Bjorn Varkamblood summoned an army of fearsome kumiho from Helvetia to help him fully overthrow the Takedan regime. The kumiho were extremely hostile, violent, and not very obedient, but indubitably efficient and useful.

Often, the kumiho would rape enemies and prisoners. Sometimes, even during combat. Thus the disease spread from kumiho onto the humans they had sex with. Thus the disease came to inhabit two worlds.

When the Takedans were overthrown and Bjorn secured his victory, the kumiho went on a rage filled rampage. Feeling betrayed, their leader, Tantvits, declared all humans as trash and ordered her soldiers to kill, rape, and burn every human and human settlement they can find. Their rampage continued for several weeks until they were finally killed or banished, leaving behind many burned villages and raped people. An event like this greatly helped the STD to spread.

Etymology
As the name implies, the disease earned its name after the leader of the kumiho, Tantvits.

Tantvits is known for being extremely arrogant and for naming artifacts after herself. For example, a staff belonging to Tantvits could be named "Tantvits the Mystical", a ring could be "Tantvits the Immaculate", and so forth.

The humans of Ximizhlum, believing that the kumiho betrayed them instead of the other way around, sarcastically attributed the disease to Tantvits, naming it Tantvits the Pestilent.

Tantvits herself most likely never had the disease.