What exactly is Scarlet Rot?

[Kyle Nuva]

wasnt poison and toxic enough? now thats three types of poison now, but what is it really? a decaying flesh virus? the pit that where this stuff lays sure looks nasty and looks like blood, so what about it that makes it deadly? um idk demon blood that burns?

[Bill Waggoner]

it's a type of bumscuff........don't get it on ya

[Yagger]

theres still only poison and toxic, toxic is just now rot

[AlmightyDunkle]

I perceive it as a flesh eating parasite. Eating your essence away.

[yannypr]

It's probably a fungus that enjoys a symbiotic relationship with the Scarlet Aeonia.

Edit: It was originally introduced by an Outer God into Malenia.

[FreshlyGrilledPanic]

They said in the lore that its a curse from an outside elder god though they are vague in exactly what it does to your body.