(Olaf)
The royal guards pursuit drove Erek into the forest at the base of the infamously possessed Shadow Mountain. The soldiers refused to follow suit and enter the forests limits. However, the sanctity of Shadow Mountain brought little rest to young Erek, for the bard's drunken ravings played on in his mind, transforming redwoods into bumbling ogres, and the calls of the forest birds into the cries of the Behemoth foretold. Erek marched on over the sunken roots of the redwood forest, equally as scared of a scurrying rodent as the terrified creature was of him. This madness carried on until Erek's mind was driven to the point of insanity. The forest casting visions of his family's ruin across his mind's eye, draining his body of all energy and his spirit of all hope.