Forgive me if this one was already mentioned or said, I don't feel like going back and trying to find every single suggestion.
But how about Scourge or more specifically this definition of the word:
1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
-John Milton
