Bearers of the Ill Wind
While many people have good reasons to hate and fear the Testers, the Bearers of the Ill Wind are probably the most universally despised sect among Maylar's core followers.
Like many Tester sects, the name "Bearers of the Ill Wind" is a label given to the group by their enemies, but it is one these Testers wear proudly. The Bearers of the Ill Wind do not have regular meetings, secret handshakes, special insignia or formal traditions. Most of them are unaligned individuals. They are united only in goals and tactics.
What unites the Bearers is the delight in spreading disease by both supernatural and mundane methods including poisoning water sources with bloated corpses, spreading magical curses, and releasing literal or figurative plague rats. Some groups and individuals spread disease indiscriminately. Others operate as extortionists, infecting a populace than offering magical healing services to the highest bidder.
The Bearers of the Ill Wind will also assassinate magical healers and mundane physicians whenever possible, so they cannot curtail the spread of diseases.
Even other Testers find the Bearers distasteful because of how indirect they are. Some of them view their skulking stealthy terror tactics as smacking of cowardice. Thus, more direct Testers may force them to defend themselves to prove their strength.
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