[ me laughing knowing this is critrole but holy shit yeah this is very xianzhou lore, huh. alfyn is clueless, as he speaks, staring ahead for a little bit as he turns over his words in his head before he gives them. ]

Not... exactly. There was a woman there, she was the one controllin' the undead, and the one that was doin' everythin' to the tree and town. She definitely had an influence on the tree.

She was - she was tryin' to revive herself. So I don't think she was related to Scawwy's cult or anythin'. Less lofty ambitions than revivin' a god. But... she used a lot of familiar faces against us. Friends from here, and from home. All undead puppets.