Croatoan Virus (LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow)



The Croatoan Virus (also known as the C-Virus and Gift of Resheph) is an ailment specifically described as a "blood-borne virus" that is demonic in origin.

The virus will play a major role in LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow - Horsemen Saga - Conquest Arc, being one of the major weapon used by the Horseman of Conquest/Pestilence.

Normal Croatoan Virus


The Croatoan Virus causes nurmerous kind of strange disease in the people it infects. It had two kinds of virus: One would turned one's veins into black and slowly killed them in pain after coughing black blood which were carried by every Roanoke ghostly residents (though it could be healed by the water inside the Roanoke colony), and another kind of virus, which would came out later, shall randomly turned human into zombies known as "Coraots" when it causes a murderous rage in the people it infects.

An enhanced version of the C-Virus was engineered, but only six syringes containing it are known of — all six used before the end of Anti-Christ Saga. The designer of the enhanced virus, Michael Langdon, is the only one who knows how to produce it.

Enhanced Croatoan Virus
The enhanced Croatoan Virus was created by combining an enhanced version of the cursed blood of Carl Robinson with the Van Bilj blood variant within Betsy Ross' blood (after combined with Christine van Bilj's blood). After successfuly summoning the Horseman of Conquest, Michael used the Third Horseman's power to produce thirteen syringe with the enhanced Coratoan Virus.

Unlike the original virus, the enhanced Croatoan Virus allows the infected to maintain some of its intelligence, allowing the creatures that mutate from the virus to co-ordinate attacks and use weapons. The enhanced Croatoan Virus shall gifted anyone who was infected with supernatural power, superhuman strength as well as an ability to shape-shift into more powerful monsters form as they wished, and they could revert back into the normal form. However, their mental state would become unstable.

This time, the magical water in Roanoke could not avert the enhanced virus' effects.

Foreshadowing of the enhanced Croatoan virus

 * In The Corbin Files, Michael captured Carl Robinson and later took his blood and kept them as blood samples, storing them carefully so that one day he would use them.
 * In LOTM: Sword of Kings AA Final - Eckidina Arc, Michael mused that Carl Robinson's blood shall produce monsters when it was poured into resouvoirs.
 * By Blood Moon Sub Arc, the first Sub Arc in Death Arc, Atticus Nevins took away the body of Betsy, and Sister Mary Eunice deduced that Nevins was after the remaining blood of Christine inside Betsy.

Trivia

 * This storyline version of Croatoan Virus is an amalgram of the infecteous disease that Conquest brought in Sleepy Hollow and the Croatoan Virus used by Lucifer in Supernatural.