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Morrowind:Diseases

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This is a complete list of the diseases you can catch in Morrowind. You can inflict yourself with a disease through console commands with the AddSpell command and the disease ID.

Common DiseasesEdit

These are the most common diseases in Morrowind. They can all be cured with the Cure Common Disease effect, or you can protect yourself with the Resist Common Disease effect. Resist Magicka allows you to resist the drain effects of diseases, but does not protect from catching the diseases themselves. Some races are naturally resistant to diseases. Argonians, High Elves, Redguards, and Wood Elves each have 75% resistance. You can achieve 100% resistance after a point in the Main Quest.

Name Effect Catch From Description
Ataxia
ataxia
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Agility 10 pts on Self
Diseased Alit
Plague Bear BM
Ataxia is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and dexterity. Symptoms include generalized pain and muscle stiffness. It may be contracted from slaughterfish.
Brown Rot
brown rot
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Personality 10 pts on Self
Bonewalkers
Worm Lord
Wraith of Sul-Senipul
Brown rot is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. Symptoms include necrosis and sleeplessness. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.
Chills
chills
  Drain Intelligence 10-30 pts on Self
  Drain Agility 10-30 pts on Self
  Drain Willpower 10-30 pts on Self
Fedris Tharen Chills is an extremely dangerous common disease affecting the victim's mind and coordination. Symptoms include clumsiness and mental confusion. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.
Collywobbles
collywobbles
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self
Diseased Shalk Collywobbles is a serious common disease affecting a victim's strength, endurance, and mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable shaking and chronic weariness. It may be contracted from the fiery shalk.
Crimson Plague TR
crimson_plague
  Drain Fatigue 100 pts on Self
  Drain Acrobatics 10-20 pts on Self
  Drain Athletics 10-20 pts on Self
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self
Infected Rat TR
Shunari Eye-Fly TR
Athelyn Malas TR
Dampworm
dampworm
  Drain Speed 10-30 pts on Self (nothing) [1] Dampworm is a serious common disease affecting a victim's mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable muscle spasms and twitching. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.
Droops
droops
  Drain Strength 10-30 pts on Self Diseased Kwama Worker
Diseased Scrib
Assantus Hansar
Droops is a serious common disease that affects a victim's strength. Symptoms include weak and flaccid muscle tissues. It may be contracted from all forms and stages of kwama.
Greenspore
greenspore
  Drain Personality 10-20 pts on Self Din
Thoronor
Greenspore is a serious common disease affecting a victim's behavior. Symptoms include irritability and violent outbursts, and may include mild dementia. It may be contracted from slaughterfish.
Helljoint
helljoint
  Drain Agility 10 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self
Diseased Cliff Racer Helljoint is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and dexterity. Symptoms include persistent irritation and inflammation of joints. It may be contracted from the girdle-tailed cliff racer.
Rattles
rattles
  Drain Agility 10 pts on Self
  Drain Willpower 10 pts on Self
(nothing) [1] Rattles is a mild common disease affecting a victim's willpower and dexterity. Symptoms include muscle spasms and listlessness. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.
Rockjoint
rockjoint
  Drain Agility 10-40 pts on Self (nothing) [1] Rockjoint is an acute common disease affecting a victim's manual dexterity. Symptoms include painful swelling and immobility of all joints. It may be contracted from the domesticated guar or dusky alit.
Rotbone TR
rotbone
  Drain Fatigue 3 pts on Self Diseased Durzog TR
Rust Chancre
rust chancre
  Drain Personality 10 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self
(nothing) [1] Rust chancre is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and behavior. Symptoms include swelling and rash, and painful muscle spasms. It may be contracted from the waste rat.
Serpiginous Dementia
serpiginous dementia
  Drain Intelligence 10 pts on Self
  Drain Personality 10 pts on Self
  Drain Willpower 10 pts on Self
(nothing) [1] Serpiginous dementia is a serious common disease affecting the victim's mind and behavior. Symptoms include hallucinations and an itchy and unsightly scaly skin condition resembling snake scales.
Swamp Fever
swamp fever
  Drain Strength 10-20 pts on Self
  Drain Endurance 10-20 pts on Self
Diseased Mudcrab
Lette
Swamp fever is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. It may be contracted from the mudcrab. The symptoms include high body temperature and delirium, but there are no easily visible signs.
Porphyric Hemophilia[2]
vampire blood aundae
vampire blood berne
vampire blood quarra
  Restore Fatigue 1 pts on Self
  Vampirism on Self
Vampires
Sanies Lupinus BM
werewolf blood
  Drain Fatigue 1 pts on Self Werewolves BM
Weak From Bloodlust BM
werewolf hunger
  Damage Health 1 pts on Self
  Damage Fatigue 2 pts on Self
Witbane
witbane
  Drain Agility 10-40 pts on Self Diseased Rat Witbane is an acute common disease affecting a victim's memory and thought processes. Symptoms include loss of memory and disorientation. It may be contracted from the rat.
Witchwither
witchwither
  Paralyze on Self Hisin Deep-Raed
Wither
wither
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self
Dreamers Wither is a mild common disease that affects a victim's strength and endurance. Symptoms include loss of energy and shortness of breath. It may be contracted from dreugh.
Yellow Tick
yellow tick
  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self
Diseased Kagouti
Plague Wolf BM
Yellow tick is a mild common disease affecting a victim's strength and mobility. Symptoms include dark, bruise-like swelling, sensitive to touch. It may be contracted from the least kagouti.
  1. ^ a b c d e Although the in-game description of these diseases state that they can be contracted from various animals, this is actually false.
  2. ^ Porphyric Hemophilia comes in three strains or lineages with varying effects: Quarra, Berne, and Aundae.

Blight DiseasesEdit

There are also other diseases, called Blight diseases, in Morrowind. These are more serious, and slightly harder to cure. It is recommended to carry either a few potions, scrolls or an enchanted item (such as Amulet of Ashamanu or Amulet of Flesh Made Whole) with the Cure Blight Disease effect when venturing into the Ashlands, Molag Amur, or Red Mountain areas, where these diseases are prevalent. It's also possible to cure oneself of blight diseases with spells, but they are so expensive and hard to cast that this is not a practical option for most characters. Resist Blight Disease can protect from catching blight diseases, but is impractical to use compared to simply curing after catching one. Like with regular diseases, the drain effects of blight diseases can be resisted with Resist Magicka, though it does not protect from catching the diseases themselves. A free 'on Touch' Cure Blight Disease spell (with the lowest casting cost) can be obtained from the real Ashmask of Vivec, which makes it useful for a few quests where NPCs need to be cured. There is evidence within the Morrowind.ini file that suggests a plan to implement a percentage chance of catching one of the four blight diseases from ash storms (Disease Chance=.10), but for some reason the mechanic was never implemented into the game.

Name Effect Catch From Description
Ash Woe Blight
ash woe blight
  Drain Intelligence 20-40 pts on Self
  Drain Willpower 20-40 pts on Self
Ascended Sleeper
Ash Ghoul
Ash Slave
Blighted Shalk
Numerous Dagoths
Ash-woe is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's will and thought processes. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blighted creatures.
Ash-chancre
ash-chancre
  Drain Personality 20-40 pts on Self Ascended Sleeper
Blighted Cliff Racer
Blighted Kwama
Blighted Scrib
Bulfim gra-Shugarz
Ash-chancre is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's behavior. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.
Black-Heart Blight
black-heart blight
  Drain Strength 20-40 pts on Self
  Drain Endurance 20-40 pts on Self
Ascended Sleeper
Blighted Alit
Blighted Nix Hound
Blighted Rat
Lame Corprus
Black-heart is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's strength and endurance. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.
Chanthrax Blight
chanthrax blight
  Drain Agility 20-40 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 20-40 pts on Self
Ascended Sleeper
Blighted Kagouti
Blighted Kwama Warrior
Chanthrax is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's dexterity and mobility. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.

Corprus DiseaseEdit

Worst of all the afflictions is the dreaded Corprus Disease. While technically a type of Blight disease, it has (in lore) no known cure, although Divayth Fyr spends his days researching one in the Corprusarium.

There are only two ways to catch this disease:

Corprus is sometimes called the "Divine Disease" by followers of Dagoth Ur, as it is not truly a disease at all, but the physical effects of the deity's power on mortal flesh. Chunks of diseased corprus flesh (a.k.a. corprusmeat) are often eaten by the afflicted, negating any need for other food. It also plays a key role in the creation of Ash Creatures: followers of Dagoth Ur close to his power are slowly transformed into powerful Ash Creatures, such as the Ascended Sleeper, while his weaker followers, like the Dreamers, eventually rot and become Corprus Stalkers and Lame Corprus.

Name Effect Catch From Description
Corprus
corprus
  Corprus on Self
  Drain Intelligence 1 pts on Self
  Drain Willpower 1 pts on Self
  Drain Personality 1 pts on Self
  Drain Speed 1 pts on Self
  Fortify Strength 1 pts on Self
  Fortify Endurance 1 pts on Self
Dagoth Gares
during Sixth House Base

Tanusea Veloth
during Disease Carrier

Corprus is a deadly disease profoundly affecting a victim's mind and body. Symptoms include dementia, violent behavior, and distorted, disfiguring skin growths. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.