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| - When the castle was under the rule of the 8th Castellan, Los Iluminados - now being led by Osmund Saddler - was allowed to mine the area. Salazar felt that he should atone for the sins of his ancestors, who sealed the Plagas away from humanity. Eventually, Saddler was successful in occupying the castle and using said castle as a base for his cult. When Ramon Salazar released the Plagas seal no one thought they could bring them back to life. However, Plaga remains were found to be fossilized. Although they appeared fossilized, they were able to survive the long years by lying in a dormant state at the cellular level remaining in a spore-like form. These were found to be what first infected the miners, becoming full-fledged Plagas after many years of development. Likely using these first Plagas, Saddler perfected the ability to reproduce the organism and took to implanting Plaga eggs into new hosts. The cult's followers were soon implanted with Plagas along with much of the local population who had joined the cult. Saddler himself was implanted with a Dominant Species Plaga and as such has direct control over the others, using lieutenants with similarly augmented Plagas to monitor and direct the Ganados on the ground. The villagers then returned to life as normal as they could, farming, attending cult services at the local church, acting as guards for Salazar's castle or working the mines while the cult zealots engaged in dark rituals and sacrifices in the name of Saddler.
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