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- Aug 1, 2021
Even in origins it’s notable that there is some sort of disconnect between the blight and the fade. Connor says he can’t “see” the warden the very well(the desire demon can’t see the warden in the fade, at least not without effort). So the blight being tied to tranquility or a related process isn’t out of left field.If I'm not mistaken, the Blight is the result of basically making the titans Tranquil: cutting them off from their dreams, i.e. cutting them off from the Fade. The Blight itself is those dreams, basically just a big ol' ball of anger and evil that corrupts whatever it comes into contact with. It raises some interesting questions, like what happens if you expose a Tranquil mortal to the Blight. Would they be immune? Extra susceptible? Who knows! It's highly doubtful we'll ever get a competent followup on any of this.
At this point, I think you can just be relieved the game has resolved a lot of these questions. I don’t particularly like the blight explanation. But w/e