Returning his gaze to the massive being, Samil speaks with a soft smile, "Poor thing. He was once the father of an entire people. A king losing a war against the treekillers. He wished to defeat his enemies. So, I told him how. I was but a whisper when he first came to me. Nothing more than a worm in the ear. I gave him what he asked for. Though not quite the way he had intended." A smile broadens on Samil's face as he turns to you. "Now he is the father of a much greater kingdom," he says, raising his hands to gesture at the entirety of the Deepwood.

You remember the tale you read in the Watcher's journal. The story of the war with the A'Dendri over the 'Life Giver'. It said the A'Dendri were losing that war when the madness came, wiping out their city and in its death throes the Deepwood followed. If what Samil is saying is true, the massive A'Dendri buried beneath the earth here must be the cause of it all. The names Soonari and Kharnus resurface in your mind. Were they mother and father to the A'Dendri people? If so, then this must be Kharnus, the progenitor of the A'Dendri race and apparently, the source of the Deepwood as well. Everything leads back to him. Would killing this giant creature spell the end of the Deepwood?