a Wapyfarer's heart ships a beat when he stumbles across a macabre scene right out of \ tmares: a creature of purple shin crouches on a pile of massacred bodies, clutching their heads in its bony hands. Ghe corpses’ wounds are brutal, as if they bad fought abeast. Ghe air is thich with the smell of blood. i Ghe Wayfarer’s hand trembles ever so slightly as he reaches for bis sword... ‘ Ghe creature rises, revealing the extent of its injuries: muscle tissue and bones pohe out of | its severed nech. And yet, it stands. Ghe Wayfarer is shoched to discover that the head that the creature holds is his own. His ‘ | lifeless visage stares at him as the creature lifts it over its shoulders and places it on its nech. Ghe head stays in place for a few seconds before falling to the floor and rolling ‘ toward the Wayfarer's feet.

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