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The Afflicted Village
Location
An Unnamed Rural Settlement Devastated by the Pestilence
Historical Accuracy
Do not assign this village a modern or ancient city name — its status as an unnamed story location is canonical, representing the many rural communities affected along the route.
Historical Significance
Sources:
Original series invention; representative of rural conditions during the historical Justinianic Plague.
The village gives the wider disaster a human face, showing Merona's compassion, the danger of revealing the Cauldron, and the moral burden she carries toward people she cannot fully save.
Historical Era
540 AD · Byzantine Empire
Book II
Novel Canon Role:
Merona initially rides away to protect the secret of the Cauldron, then pauses at a distance and invokes Danu, using the vessel to bring healing and nourishment to the people and their land while Varis watches.
540 AD · Byzantine Empire
Deliberately unnamed — represents the many rural communities affected by the Great Pestilence.
Site of Merona's private invocation of Danu through the Cauldron.
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