In the middle of Spinebride Forest, the air, usually thick with the scent of pine and damp earth, was instead heavy with a sickly-sweet demonic miasma. At its heart, a gargantuan stone pillar, stained crimson with ancient rituals, rose from the ground. It was bound by thick, corroded chains that seemed to writhe with a life of their own, all converging on a demonic sword pulsating with malevolent energy at the very top. The sword's hilt hummed with a low thrum that vibrated through the very ground, a constant, low-frequency hum that unnerved even the battle-hardened orcs.