I hear the Malkier do too. Not that that has gotten them anywhere, of course.
Damn, I want to start reading them again!
It was not my intent to go off-topic though. I think the blight should be like some evil vapor coming up from the ground or marshes. A foul stench, that changes all happy living things into evil living things, basically.
That stench could be unbearably sweet too, of course
