Great Plague of Hesperidesia

The Great Plague of Hesperidesia was the first in a series of devastating Hesperidesian plague waves that swept across the Hesperidesian continent during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The Great Plague is believed to have killed nearly 1.7 million people, which was approximately 7% of the entire Empire of Exponent at the time.

The Great Plague caused profound social and economic changes within Hesperidesia, and brought a decisive end to the Exponential Golden Age that began in the late 1300's. In the years following, several additional waves of disease, known as the Hesperidesian plagues, would continue to cause death and devastation on the continent into the 20th century.