Don't let it see you. Once you are seen, there is no escape. It cannot even be touched.
These are the messages scrawled on the ground when you enter the Abyssal Woods in Shadow of the Erdtree, displayed at the forest's border with all the warmth of a buckshot-peppered "trespassers will be shot" sign. Beyond those warnings, the woods loom over you, formed of towering tree trunks that fade into a swirling haze of cancerous mist, the sunlight warped into something yellowish-green. The whole place looks diseased and sickly. Roots buckle the ground, shot through with red veins that glow dully through the bracken. Still, there's no real sign of conflict - no claw marks or burnt undergrowth. Though actually, there's no sign of any life at all. No songbirds, no squirrels, nothing. There is no nature in these woods. The implication of that is… troubling.
