đź“– Written by The Twisted Realms:
A coastal Viking settlement begins to rot from the shore inward when the corpse of a frost giant thaws out of the old ice. The protagonist first finds the jotunn half-buried in the thaw-line, its ribs rising like the beams of a ruined hall and black mold blooming in warm pockets beneath its translucent skin. At low tide, the giant’s face emerges from the surf, one socket packed with mold that writhes against the movement of the waves. The villagers try to treat it as an omen, a resource, or a corpse to be ritually managed, but the protagonist sees the infection spread too quickly for any ordinary decay: a sick man coughs spores onto a boat plank, and the wood pulses like meat, sprouting pale hairs that bend toward the giant.
The plague does not merely sicken people. It gives them direction. The healer orders the infected bound apart inside separate huts, but whenever the tide turns their bodies strain toward each other with such force that joints crack, ropes cut into flesh, and families must decide whether to restrain their loved ones or let them crawl together. A fishing crew returns with its hull lined in black mold, all aboard speaking in one shared voice about “the harbor beyond winter.” Their words turn fear into faction: some villagers want the sick burned, while others begin to believe the jotunn’s rot is a summons from powers older than the gods they know.
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