The Whispering Plague

A plague which has begun a rapid spread through Drakkenhall over the last couple of months. It appears to by contracted through drinking water from the Iron Sea, or which has undergone a strange treatment. Those afflicted typically go through five stages; There are no known natural cures for the disease, save through divine intervention. Those treated by the Whispering Cult appear to undergo slightly different and milder symptoms; suffers here appear to prefer isolation, recusing themselves from outsiders completely, but do not appear to die as others do.
 * 1) Light Sensitivity, hydrophobia, pallor
 * 2) Inability to open eyelids, physical weakness/exhaustion, mild hallucinations
 * 3) A fixation westward, blindness, hydrophilia, vivid auditory hallucinations.
 * 4) Eyes begin to secrete a strange viscous liquid, distinctive long red abrasions on the neck begin to appear. Subjects tend to remain silent, though hallucinations seem to continue through this stage.
 * 5) Death through asphyxiation as the subject appears unable to breath.