Corprus is a channelling of the divine power of the Heart of Lorkhan via a viral infection. So, what is the nature of it? How does it work? What exactly separates an infected who would become an Lame Corprus and one who would ascend towards the ranks to an Ascended Sleeper?

Corprus brings madness, but that naturally ends up wearing off, judging by the relative rationality of those ranked Ash Ghoul and above and Yagrum Bagarn. Talking about Bagarn, he appears to be a strange case. Those with Corprus tend to be large and muscular, or extremely puffy. Yagrum is bloated only in the gut, not over half of his body like a Lame Corprus. I assume that this is due to millennia of Corprus mutating him into an extremely unusual case. I also note according to the developer(?) forum posts in the thread "Dwem, little Dwemer of me..." (located here http://www.imperial-library.info/content/sotha-sils-last-words) that Yagrum's memory appears to be clearing after the death of Dagoth Ur. I do not know what consequences this will have. Will all who are infected with Corprus slowly turn back to normal, or will only their minds do so? Can Corprus ever be caught again, now the enchantments on the Heart are gone? I do not know the answers to these questions. So in this thread, people may theorize about the Divine Disease, and the fate of those infected with it.

Tiny, tiny, irate theocules (i.e. mini-Shors) that do all-kinds of monstrous protein work at a sub-cellular level.

Haute, I must admit that everything you say is like gold. If gold were really good words.

Corprus is just a device to efficiently grow more flesh to add to the Anumidium. As for how it spreads and functions... Could be like a god radiation that the infected channel. The more your infected the more you channel the more you can spread. No more heart no more god rads no more corprus.

I try.

fixed.

It's also good for eating!

So does anyone actually know if corprus is still infectious? Can people still get it from contact with the infected? If it still exists I don't really see why it wouldn't be.

Morrowind is purged. Most of the Corprus victims wuld either be in the Ash wastes of Vvardenfell or the Corprusarium. So its continued existence depends on how the Telvanni Isles fared in the Red Year.

As for how it works, Godhood his both a physical and mental/spiritual (if you distinguish) state. Imagine using a single person, via telepathy, to force godhood on an entire country. It will effect them both physically and mentally, as we have seen. Now imagine the person who is using himself as a conduit is bat[censored] crazy. That's why they become monsters. If Vivec had chosen to use the heart that way, it would have been different.

which is the main difference between Dagoth Ur and Vivec, really. Dagoth Ur does not realize that the responsibility of godhood is to allow your people to grow on their own while Vivec does.

From what I understand, corprus victims swell up and get all mutated because their bodies cannot contain the power of the Heart of Lorkhan.

They would have all become spear-biting hermaphrodites.

So, I has a question related to corprus. Corprus has the side effect of immortality from death by age. Would that property stay active after the blight, or would an individual eventually start to age and eventually die of old age anyway? Same for the supernatural strength.

From http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1356545-whats-the-nerevarine-doing/ because I asked this question earlier.


That's the most sensible answer I've run across. We have no indication after the heart's freed that corprus somehow magically turns off. Meh.

And here I was just calling it a zombie virus for all these years.

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Perhaps this was merely thrown in as a game mechanic to keep it in line with the other diseases of Morrowind, but I vaguely remember mentions on the UESP that one could also contract Corprus by chance when searching the body of a Corprus beast. Where would this fit into the divine nature of the disease, then - how can it be transmitted to the player if Dagoth Ur has not willed it (as later on in the Main Quest)?

I imagine that the physical effects of the disease wouldn't just magically disappear anyway, were that the case. Yagrum Bagarn is regaining his mind, but I would imagine he's stuck as a bloated blob unless he decides to start running laps around Red Mountain. What I really want to know is what would become of the Ascended Sleepers and Ash Zombies. Does the game ever even explain if these servants were produced by the disease, or were they simply transformed by Dagoth Ur? He has a rather inconsistent way of managing his legions.

If the caes of Yagrum Bagarn is to be taken as a sample then it may well be true that Corprus began to fade with the loss of the Heart. If that is not the case then most likely, the disease was destroyed with Vvardenfel. I believe it was said that Corprus rarely if ever made it to the main land thanks to efforts to contain it.

The Sea of Ghosts was expansive enough that the Blight from Red Mountain could never reach the mainland. Though I'm assuming that it was Dagoth Ur's intention to gradually exert influence on the mainland by having his agents ship Sixth House ash statues and other foul trinkets overseas.

The Blight was onset of Snake venom, when Akatosh bit his heart. The pocket cabal did a decent work of containment.