Rise Of The Plague Doctor

IN THE BEGINNING:

Dr. Lazarus Callidora  (PICTURED) was lead surgeon and head of the newly developed transplant department at Queen Elizabeth the first's Royal Samaritan Hospital in Whitby, Yorkshire England. The doctor was a very powerful figure in the community and well connected to government due to his stature as the Queen's personal doctor and doctor to the entire royal family. Even more, the doctor held a special place in the queen's circle because his wife Abigale Callidora was second cousin to the Queen.  

Around this time, something deadly was spreading in the town that was killing off townspeople at a very alarming rate. This deadly new plague was of such concern to the queen that she felt compelled to have her best physicians work on finding a cure and the queen trusted one doctor above all to take on this role. And so, the doctor was personally appointed the cities lead Plague Doctor by the queen herself.

The queen designated that the new role of plague doctor would be defined as a specially appointed physician who treated victims of this new plague. These physicians would treat infected patients regardless of income, especially the poor, who could not afford to pay. After Dr. Callidora's appointment to this very prestigious position of plague doctor by the queen, he felt very proud and he took his new role very seriously. Just how seriously he took it we would all come to find out.

Now being that this plague was new, doctors were baffled by its potency to kill. Doctors at this time didn’t understand about germs and believed the plague was spread by bad air and other unknown forces. Any air that had an unpleasant odor was suspect and so, Dr. Callidora designed a special uniform especially for himself that could stop the bad air from reaching his lungs. This uniform was a long leather coat, long gloves, high boots, and a wide-brimmed hat with a long leather flap that hung down over his face covering his nose.  This was well enough but, having such a flamboyant personality the doctor could not resist adding a special personal touch to his uniform, a bird mask. This flamboyant mask made him look like a big menacing evil bird.

The reason for such a bizarre mask? The doctor believed that along with bad air, the plague was also caused in part by evil spirits inhabiting victims' bodies. Believing this, the doctor convinced the queen that with such a menacing looking uniform, evil spirits would be scared off adding in the recovery of plague victims.

The Nightmare Begins:

Now, after his appointment by the queen as lead plague doctor, Dr. Callidora felt empowered and very self-assured and at this time, life could not be better for this young medical genius. That is until the unexpected death of his newly pregnant wife (PICTURED) from the very plague that was taking over England and spreading fast throughout Europe. And this is where the Doctor's nightmare begins and where Doctor Lazarus Callidoras story takes a dark and horrific turn.

With the death of his wife and unborn child, Dr. Callidora became quite depressed and being as such, began to drink heavily and use morphine to dull his pain and suffering. In fact, the doctor became addicted to morphine and drank so much that it took a great toll on him physically, mentally, and financially to the point of ruin. Eventually, due to the doctor's state of mind he was let go from his prestigious position at the hospital and stripped of his plague doctor appointment by order of the queen herself, who by now, was no longer letting the doctor treat her or the royal family personally. This broke the doctor's spirit completely and any ounce of humanity or self worth the doctor may have had left was now drained from his soul completely. And so, the doctor completely withdrew from society all together.

Moving Forward:

In the year that followed, the doctor was rarely seen or heard from but for the occasional rumor by townspeople of seeing the doctor late at night scampering around the town’s graveyard. Now around the same time of these rumors, there was a rash of grave robbings in the town and although many people speculated that the grave robbing culprit was the doctor himself, no one could ever prove this true.

Later that same year, feeling as if he had nothing to live for, the doctor grew increasingly angry and depressed about his wife and unborn child's death and being forced out of his appointments by the Queen. These thoughts and feelings made the doctor vow to himself that somehow, some way, he would bring his wife back to him and have his revenge on the Queen for what she had done to him.

The Doctor's Plan:

And so, the doctor purchased a large castle outside of town with all the money he had left and within his castle, began experimenting trying to develop a potion that would bring his wife back to life. At first he began experimenting on small stray dogs and cats but found them too hard to keep in captivity for long and so he began to use rats. Rats were abundant on the streets of England and the doctor found it easy to capture and keep as many rats as he needed for his experiments. In time, he found some success re-animating dead rats by dosing them with a potion he created but after returning to life, the rats would mutate into blood sucking rodents that he found carried an even more potent virus then the one that was spreading throughout England. This virus that the newly re-animated rats carried was so potent that it would kill anything that caught the virus from the rats within hours.

Now to anyone of sound mind, this would would put a stop to the experiments, not to mention not beginning these horrific experiments in the first place but to the doctor, this side effect was a bright light in his very dark mind. The doctor began to fantasize about releasing these mutant rats out on the streets to infect and kill all who came close to them and in this way, the doctor would begin to have his revenge. And that, is exactly what the doctor did! After their release, the rats spread their virus later to be known as “The Black Death” quickly throughout England and as a result, people were dying by the hundreds and nothing put a smile on the doctor's face more than this fact.  With his plan and his rat potion in hand he put his evil plan in action.

The Doctor's Wife:

As the doctor released more and more infected rats onto the streets the doctor continued his work to find a new potion to bring his wife back to life to be by his side once again. Working hard, the doctor got this new potion more and more refined to the point where human trials were needed to continue his experiments but with no more dead bodies to work with, the doctor made the macabre choice to began to take the potion himself to refine the new potion even more. But, what the doctor didn’t realize was that while he was mixing his solutions he accidentally mixed the potions he created for the rats with the new potions he was working on to re-animate his dead wife but, he would soon come to realize this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.  

The Metamorphosis:

Growing bolder and braver with every self-induced treatment, and after 20 or so doses of his new potion, the doctor learned two things that would change his future and the future of all the townspeople in a very dark and disturbing way.  

First, the doctor learned that with each treatment he grew more and more angry, dark, and resentful towards everything and everybody. These feelings eventually lead to the doctor becoming deranged far beyond anything even he could imagine and in fact, drove him mad. But even through all of this, the doctor cherished these feelings as they made him feel alive, strong and gave him new purpose.  

The second thing the doctor learned was that with these treatments he became immune to the deadly virus that the rats carry that is killing the town off person by person.  

A Change Of Heart?

Now at first after learning these two things, the doctor had a very fleeting moment of clarity where he thought to himself that perhaps this could be his way back into society and his position at the hospital. He thought perhaps he could announce to everyone that he had developed a cure for the “Black Death” and in doing so, this would make him a hero to everyone, even the queen herself. And just maybe he could then petition the queen (PICTURED) for his job back and rejoin the world as the prestigious doctor and healer he once was. But in truth, these thoughts lasted as long as it took the doctor to take one breath.

A Dark Direction:

Once the thoughts of rejoining his once beloved community had passed, the doctor decided to go in a very dark direction. The doctor grew insane and crazier with every passing moment and vowed to himself to use his newly acquired immunity to spread even more disease and death throughout the town. And with this decision by the doctor, he transformed from a healer sworn to help anyone in need that he once was, into a dark and deeply deranged psychopath bent on bringing terror and death to all who crossed his path.   

And thus, we bare witness to the birth of the most deranged serial killer ever. A new disgusting and horrific version of “The EVIL Plague Doctor” And this plague doctor was not a healer but a killer!

The Future?

In the years since this metamorphosis into the evil plague doctor, the doctor continued his experiments to re-animate his dead wife all the while continuing to release his infected rats upon the town. But as time past he found his wife's body to be unsuitable anymore for re-animation. The doctor's solution to this? He began his grave robbing activity once again digging up the bodies of people who have recently died from The Black Death that he unleashed upon the world. He thought that utilizing his background in transplantation of human organs, he could possibly create / build his wife a new body from all the bodies he had dug up. He would than re-animate the newly created body for his wife and once again have her stand by his side. A darkly demented ambitious plan to be sure.   

And with this plan in place, The Evil Plague Doctor (pictured to the left)  began digging up the dead and kidnapping townspeople to experiment on. As the gears turned on this plan and to the delight of the evil plague doctor there came a bonus. He found his dark thirst for blood and terror to be quenched with each passing moment and his twisted mind grew darker and darker. And this made the evil plague doctor very happy. So happy, in fact, that he decided to take full advantage of his newly acquired insanity. And, along with all of the horrors he generated from his rat release, grave robbing, and experimenting, the evil plague doctor decided to use his kidnapped townspeople to satisfy his new thirst for the macabre. This took the form of the evil plague doctor torturing his kidnapped victims in ways too horrible to even speak of. And, oh, how he loved it!  

WILL YOU BE HIS NEXT VICTIM?