The plague this time started Northeast and East, near the Orc territory, but there were also cases mid-north, directly opposite to where it originated the previous time.
This meant that no one who had seen it before was there, and no one could detect the signs of a growing threat in time, which were not obvious in the first place.
Worse, this time, it spread even more quickly from the start. It started even while the Great Cold was happening.
The air right after the Cold Wave was still cold, and this meant it was still heavy.
Heavier air would contain more smoke. Then, natural wind would come in and spread it out, affecting even more people than usual. Add this to people's naturally weakened immune system due to the disaster, and the effect was even worse.
Even isolated villages, if they were near enough and if they were downwind, would've faced this right after the cold. They might even face the disease's maturity during or after the large beast mobs that came after the cold.
