Basic Info[]
The Taint is Ianite's subconsciousness and was created when Ianite pulled the Sky Heroes out of the Void. As a result of that, it had drained much of her energy and out her in a coma like state for a decade. Whilst being in the coma, her subconsciousness came Alive and then became to be known as The Taint. The Taint became a major issue for a while in Season Two, as it was threatening Dagrun and the heroes.
History[]
Fully tainted forest without interference.
When the Taint was discovered, the players were wary and did nothing to stop it. They did however discuss what to do with it. Tucker was the only one actively attempt to stop it, dying many times in the process. Though, he was ineffective to stop it.
As the players built their houses, the Taint crept closer and closer, forcing them to create large walls to protect themselves and their homes. Then, the Town Herald requested 100 stacks of 64 cobblestone blocks to construct a mighty 'Great Wall of Taint' to protect the city of Ruxomar. Jordan, Tucker, and Sonja all hurried to gather the resources. Tom was trapped in the Twilight Forest and Wag was busy, so they could not help. When the cobblestone was delivered to the Town Herald, Tucker and Jordan had left the game, with Sonja soon to follow. Tom stayed on, feeling guilty about not helping, and left Tucker 3 chests full of cobblestone, but the Taint continued to spread until he left. The next day, the Great Wall of Taint was finished and the Taint was closer than ever.
Jordan quickly evacuated into the protected city, leaving his house behind. The King had returned to the Town from a trip, and told the players to try to create some Ethereal Blooms to destroy the taint. Tucker and Jordan began to research into creating the blooms, while Tom was forced to confront the Taint near his base. He built a moat and attempted to stay in his base for as long as he could, but eventually packed up and moved into Dagrun like Jordan had, abandoning his home.
Somebody (Not From Mianite) placing Ethereal Blooms in some taint.
Later on Jordan managed to finally create an Ethereal Bloom to push back the taint. King Helgrind congratulated Jordan for this breakthrough, and soon ethereal blooms were being produced by Jordan and Sonja en masse.
The Mianitees were worried that they might run out of shimmerleaf to produce the blooms, but a timely arrival of merchants and the contribution from Tim Burr providing silverwood, solved the shortage problem. Eventually they managed to make a line of blooms pushing back the taint. Sonja acted like a gardener, slowly moving the line of blooms against the receding taint.
Later on, after a heated argument between King Helgrind and Prince Andor, the Prince called Jordan to come to the Taint frontier. There, the Prince commented that he prays for Ianite when he sees the Taint, not knowing why but just feeling that it is right to do so. From this, Jordan speculated that maybe the Taint is connected to the goddess Ianite and that the Taint is the embodiment of Ianite's wrath.
The Taint Monster[]
After Prince Andor's confessional speech and his subsequent arrest by Lieutenant Al, Jordan finds a giant, grotesque Taint statue of a tortured version of Ianite. She was placed right in front of Jericho's dojo, and she seemed to be using the very last of her strength to hold up The Scales of Justice while heading towards Dagrun.
The Ianite Taint Monster.
Later on, when no one was on the server but, Jordan, Waglington, and Martha, Jordan got the idea to make a ton of TNT sticks and blow up the Taint Monster, thinking that he would be the hero. He told Wag about the thought and the wizard decided to help him with the idea.
They created the TNT, but right as they were about to start blowing up the statue, Martha told them not to but Jordan insisted. Martha, again told them not to do it, she told them that if they destroy it, Ianite's consciousness would get angry and the monster would expand 10x it's current size, but Wag and Jordan blew it up anyway when Martha left the Server, ignoring her warnings. When it was completely gone, and the duo left the server in satisfaction of their work.
The next day, Tucker got on the server and noticed that the server was laggy. He asked Sonja if it as for her but she said no. Jericho flew out of his garden and noticed that the monster was even bigger than before, it didn't even look like Ianite anymore. He told everyone to meet him outside of Dagrun. Wag and Jordan explained what they did the day before, and Jordan said that he didn't think that this would happen. Martha joined them at the scene and chastised Jordan and Wag for ignoring her warning.
