Plague of Despair was the name given to an EA-run scenario in UO that lasted from January to May of 2002. In this scenario, the immediate sequel to the scenario Blackthorn's Damnation, the forces of Blackthorn and Exodus, together with the Juka race that had been literally pulled from the past of Ilshenar, attacked Britannia, especially the cities of Yew and Trinsic. (An attack on Britain was referred to in fiction, but does not seem to have actually taken place in-game.) This scenario and its immediate predecessor heralded the release of the Lord Blackthorn's Revenge expansion.