Rifts of Despair and the Elvia Distortion Phenomenon

An arena of shadows created to temper heroes for the battle against Hadum. From a certain point, the Shadow Knights began losing control over the "Shadows of Nightmares," monstrous weapons originally created to test the heroes' mettle. Upon discovering several dozen of these weapons had vanished from the arena, a crippling fear overtook the Shadow Knights. Too soon had they realized Hadum's corruption upon the sealed forbidden arena, and the order scrambled to recover their rogue creations, eventually stumbling across a clue in the Elvia Realm of Calpheon. Hadum-infested Shadows of Nightmares utilize Hadum's power of despair to tear open and hide within rifts in space and time. By marking their own territories, they spread the power of despair like poisonous mushrooms to all things nearby, and they've trapped and twisted the will of the mightiest creatures of Calpheon such as Ogres and Cyclops within these rifts. After the Elvia Realm manifested upon Calpheon, strange occurrences have been reported. The power of nightmares once formerly wielded to defeat Hadum now twisted by the power of her despair, turning the ashen skies consumed by the Black Sun to appear bruised and spit out blood. Those who've observed the powers of Hadum have labeled this inexplicable occurrence as the "Elvia Distortion Phenomenon."