Creature from Carl's past whose flesh-unraveling attack killed Yolanda, mirrored by Gloom Wraith Phase.
When Carl passes incorporeally through four Skank Skunk Warriors with Gloom Wraith Phase, their flesh and fur unravel into rivulets of blood and guts, leaving armor and weapons wrapped in ribbons of skin on the forest floor. Carl recognizes the effect instantly: he has seen this sort of attack before, because the rage elemental did exactly this to Yolanda. The realization sends a pang of revulsion through him even as he escapes the skunk cloud.
A remembered horror from Carl's past, invoked as the precedent for what his own skill now does to enemies.
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