Untitled AI art by @positive-lantern5

A midnight forest crackling with released magic. The adventurers wearing a crow mask to, like the one used by the plague doctors in the medieval age stand among torn cage doors and broken chains, silhouettes of screaming figures dissolving into smoke. A red wave pulses from a circle of symbols as dark shadows rise—malformed spirits and a flaming-eyed guardian. One childlike figure, featureless and spectral, stares back before vanishing. The adventurers bleed and burn, but the night carries the faint chime of a distant bell. The sky weeps black ash.