Plague in Vienna

A city as important and well connected as Vienna will always be vulnerable to epidemics and has seen many of them come and go through the centuries. The plague outbreak of is, however, something quite out of the ordinary. The disease has struck our city very hard and some say a third of the population is now dead or dying. As the people in other European cities brace themselves for the inevitable spread the term 'Viennese Death' has become firmly rooted abroad. As he flees the city vows to construct a Mercy Column when the city is finally free of this pestilence.