Blightantler Stag

THE WILDS

The forests of the Cinderwood kept their deer; the blight kept the deer's patience. Blightantler stags carry Malgareth's rot in their crowns — antlers gone to black branch and budding thorn, velvet weeping sap. Where a healthy stag flees, these charge, because the thing steering them has never once been prey. Hunters who take one find the antlers keep growing on the trophy wall.