Lore:Bog Blight

A Bog Blight (ESO)

Bog Blights are a type of naturally forming zombie that comes about when a xul-vaat, or grave-stake is removed from the corpse that it impales. When an Argonian dies, their corpse is laid to rest in the marsh, sometimes at the roots of the Hist. A xul-vaat is used to pin the corpse into the ground so it doesn't rise as an undead bog blight. Grave-stakes don't just prevent the corpses from floating to the surface of the bog. The deceased's story is carved upon their stake. Tales of their victories and defeats, tales from childhood, names of friends, dreams, and nightmares—a grave-stake tells those who see it about the corpse it impales.

Sometimes grave-stakes come loose, usually by being pulled from the mud by an unsuspecting or malicious individual. When this happens, a formerly staked corpse can rise from the dead as a bog blight. They are described as "dead-and-not-dead things that eat Nagas whole". They are dangerous in large numbers. Bog blights can be kept at bay with the use of pahnjees (or "fumers"), racks of oily, spoiled meat that mask a living person's scent from bog blights. Its uncertain how these undead form, but it was speculated that its something in the water that causes them to rise from the dead. In areas where Bog blights form, it is said only the Naga can drink the water where Bog Blights are submerged. Bog Blights are infamous for rushing at people and then exploding, possibly a result of their corpses being left out in the swamp water.

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  Bog Blights rising out of the water

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  A Naga kaal fighting bog blights

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  A Gravestake used to impale the dead