Walking Death

The Walking Death is an incredibly contagious plague that is both an airborne contagion, as well as one spread by blood.

Symptoms
Tremors, fever, unconsciousness. In final stages, victim compelled to get up and walk around even when the fever grows so that a victim's skin cracks and starts to bleed. The brain slowly dies in the process.

Victims
Upper class people are oddly immune from the plague, and it affects lower class people and workers. Yeine's Darren grandfather was considered lower class enough to become one of the affected, while her father was not.

Notes and references

 * The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Ch. 9.