The sight of those dark veins spreading across his beloved wife's skin like poisonous roots devastated the king in ways that Arthur could feel echoing through his very soul. Through the monarch's eyes, Arthur witnessed a man watching his entire world crumble around him, powerless to stop the inexorable advance of corruption.
The king's understanding of corruption was tragically limited, based more on fearful rumors and incomplete knowledge than on any true comprehension of the void's insidious nature. What he did understand, however, was terrifying enough: sometimes those affected by corruption underwent horrible transformations, their bodies and minds twisted into monstrous forms that bore little resemblance to the people they had once been. These corrupted beings became creatures of violence and hunger, driven by alien instincts to spread their taint to others.
