The Stone Road would seem especially unwelcoming to those walking along it, as if it had born witness to something horrid. The closer one came to Petrus, the greater the feeling of dread would be, until one arrived at the crossroad between the Widow's Woods, Petrus, and Atlas Arena.
First, the feeling of dread would escalate. Your heart would speed up, adrenaline rushing, blood pumping. Your mind would be racing, asking questions such as "What is going on?", or "What has happened here?", however the answers to these shall not come - yet.
Then, you'd smell it. A pungent, evil, smell, the smell of death. It would fill your nostrils, cloud your vision, like a dense fog, consuming your thoughts. It refused to be ignored. You would continue on, now anxious to discover the source.
Finally, you'd see it. A corpse, relatively fresh, but decay would come soon. Blood soaked the cold stone beneath it, forming a dark, crimson, pool. Red blood trails away from the corpse east, into the Widow's Woods.*
You might rush towards the body, to get a better look. You'd be greeted with an even more gruesome scene.
The body of a man, thin, although tall, with a dark brown goatee. His hair would be long, going down to his shoulders, although it would be filled with leaves and other dirt, as if he had been running. His ears would be pointed, his skin tan, a wood elf. A chain, that of a necklace or amulet, would wrap around his neck, but the pendant would appear to be missing, severed. His face would be that of terror, his eyes wide and mouth open, as if he had been killed while screaming.
His throat would be torn open, but irregularly. The cut would start on his right side, very rugged, as if he was being cut slowly. But, around halfway across the neck, the cut would seem to suddenly increase in quality, becoming smooth and straight, like someone had suddenly slashed the rest of his neck open.
As you moved down the body in that fashion, the next thing you'd see would be his chest. His coat, possibly that of a nobleman, lined with gold buttons, would be torn open, his bleeding chest revealed. The mark of Iblees would be burnt into the flesh on his chest, and, with closer inspection, on both his wrists.
Scratched on top of the Eye of Iblees would be:
Mali', Beware.
You have stolen
Fifteen years of
my life, so I
shall take
fifteen lives
of yours.
From the
Covenant of
Mar to the
Mali...
*If one followed the blood trail, they would be led deep into the forest, until they arrived at a small clearing. Here, they would find nothing remarkable, except for a small pendant lying on the grass, the mark of Iblees engraved into it.