As she started to speak, with others around taking scrolls out and handing them over to William's friends to examine and read their content, everyone realised lots of things.
This wind… It wasn't normal at all! It wasn't just something naturally happening here, or something limited to this place.
According to what they read, the wind carried a smell, a substance that released foul odour. Yet at first, any one newly arriving to the capital area wouldn't smell anything at all.
By the passage of time, and with the longer exposure to this substance, anyone would start to smell the bad odour. And that means bad, terribly bad!
Smelling that odour was the first sign of a progressive disease that would take the lives of anyone in years. The source of this plaque stemmed from here, and all the efforts of the kingdom to seal it failed.