After the victory of Dun'Sildur, the defeat of the Lord of Undru and the destruction of the Void Circle, nobody knew what they unleashed after all that!
As the void circle has been destroyed with the glorious help from the wood and the dark elves, something escaped it's eternal prison. A dark, dark, dark and also black with some signs of ebony humanoid figure surrounded by again, black mist moaned in a horrific unnatural tune as it vanished over the ruins.
Nobody before saw something like that escaping the void, until now. But what could that be?
Already some people in Athera met strange anomalies and paranormal actvities after that "Thing" appeard. From smelling rotting flesh, to freezing areas, flickering torches and lights, rotting walls and trees and so on!
Soon, the very first victim has been discovered, what ever happened to the dark elf, was pretty clear. From extreme wounds, to mental unstability. The Dark Elf warned of something, that he met before at the land before Athera, Anthos.
He called it an "Apparition"