The knight ascended the ruined hill, as grey clouds swirled above a sky split asunder, and lightning wreaked havoc in flashes of perfect chaos. Though the thunder made its fiercest effort to shake the earth, a message sent by the Gods to dissuade him, the knight pushed on relentlessly. The sound of his march matched that of the explosions in the sky, so mighty that brief showers of rain plummeted to the ground intermittently, like fallen angels, battering the rock and ruin.  

A stifling smell...