???, Terror Island; Not too long after the Great Gnoll-Sidhe War

A gentleman in black had appeared at Terror Island many years ago. He was quite out of place with his delicate robes and a single white rose over his heart. His face was hidden behind a grotesque mask - an upside-down fusion of smiling and crying faces. For a time he wandered the shores with two great black dogs, one chained to each wrist. Over time this traveler had built up a great empty city from the island's terrible materials. Whether the foulspawn were up to it or not he had several of them pidgeon-holed into a grim mockery of some civil life.

And for a while he watched and toyed with his great display on the side of the mountain. The fellow also spent a great deal of time carving out spiky things from choice pieces of bone and flesh in the ground.