I thought I knew what darkness was. I thought I could picture what misery and destruction looked like. But nothing, absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the sight that greeted me as soon as we crossed into Alfheim. I couldn’t believe that this was the same Alfheim I had once known. It didn’t look anything like home. This place was strange, and there was an evil that I could feel coursing through the very earth itself. The trees were all dead, and the grass had faded to a very dark and sickly brown. Even the air smelled dead, and there seemed to be a permanent gloom which hung above the land like a storm cloud. It saddened me to think that this was once my home. I couldn’t believe that I used to live here once, and it was the most beautiful place I’d once known. "It’s horribl

