The Womb Plague was an epidemic that killed all the females of the Nonmen.[1]
Overview[]
In the hope of achieving immortality, the Nonmen (specifically, the great Cû’jara-Cinmoi) allowed the Inchoroi to live among them as their physicians. The Inchoroi moved freely among the Nonmen, dispensing their remedies, and the Nonmen did in fact attain immortality. However, a plague struck shortly afterwards, almost killing males and uniformly killing all females. The Nonmen call this tragic event the Nasamorgas, the “Death of Birth.”
According to the Isûphiryas, the first victim of the Womb Plague was Hanalinqû, Cû’jara-Cinmoi’s legendary wife. The chronicler actually praises the diligence and skill of the High King’s Inchoroi physicians. But as the Womb Plague killed more and more Cûnuroi women, this praise becomes condemnation. Soon all the women of the Cûnuroi, wives and maidens both, were dying. The Inchoroi fled the Mansions, returning to their ruined vessel.[1][2]
In a Q/A the author explains the womb plague:
The simplest way to look at the Womb Plague is as a kluge. The Inchoroi are stuck with the remnants of a technology they can no longer understand. At the same time, think of what it is the No-God, as a technology, yields the Inchoroi: the death of birth. They attempted to give immortality to their Nonmen allies to begin with, to save their souls, realized afterward that their gift was fatal to their women. This yielded a crude tool they needed to accomplish at least part of the No-God's function.