The Quillville Contagion: Origins, A Wound in the Veil & The Birth of a Covenant
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Two founding myths in one brief—the tear that spilled a town, and the covenant that taught it how to feed.
Quillville wasn’t built. It spilled. When the Hayward Fault ruptured in 1868, the Veil tore—and everything denied learned to breathe. Addictions paved whispering streets, un-mourned dead raised houses that hum lullabies, forests rooted in buried crimes sang in children’s voices. Beneath it all: an archivist-shaped hunger that keeps perfect records of what the living refuse to name.
Then came the Covenant—not a charter but a bargain. Survivors crossed over and found lanterns already swinging, rooms already listening. The pact didn’t civilize the town; it gave its appetite a schedule. Quillville bled into four great regions with hidden mouths, each promising safety and delivering hunger.
“Don’t ask when it was born. Ask when it will find you.”
What’s inside
Part I — Origins: A Wound in the Veil
The First Tear (1868), how denial coagulates into streets, houses, churches, forests; what keeps Quillville alive (neglect, the unspoken, fear); the archivist beneath the town.
Part II — The Birth of a Covenant
A town that greets the living with appetite; the bargain that binds; the four regions and their hidden mouths (Elmwood, Lost Lakes, Wrathful Resorts, Dreadful Desert); why despair ensures Quillville endures.
Format: PDF lore brief (compact, phone-friendly).
Tone: Mythic worldbuilding (story-essay), not minutes or case files.
Content notes: grief, addiction, implied harm, civic/cult imagery. Fictional world; names and details altered.
Perfect for: Readers who want the spine of the myth before (or after) diving into dossiers and case files.