Oripathy

Item from Arknights by Hypergryph

The disease that justifies everything — a fatal Originium infection that kills slowly, discriminates socially, and gives governments the excuse they need to treat millions of people as less than human.

Also known as: The Infection, Originium Disease, The Crystal Plague

What They Know

• Progressive, invariably fatal disease caused by Originium exposure — manifests as crystalline growths that consume the body
• Infectious under certain conditions, providing governments with public health justification for systematic oppression of the Infected
• Rhodes Island's core mission is both medical (finding a cure) and political (fighting for Infected civil rights)
• The Infected are subjected to varying degrees of discrimination across Terra — from Lungmen's slum confinement to Ursus's death camps
• Oripathy can enhance Originium Arts abilities even as it kills the user — a cruel paradox of power through deterioration
• The social stigma of Oripathy is the thematic spine of the entire Arknights narrative

Connections

• caused_by — originium
• treated_by — rhodes_island_ship
• afflicts — amiya
• afflicts — patriot
• afflicts — frostnova

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