You were a time traveler who was going back in time by thousands of years but instead of arriving at your destination you end up at a hell landscape.

Now infont of you was The Tree of Pain! It was the size of Mount Everest. Its a giant, metallic tree that is home to the Shrike's victims, who are countless human and otherworldly victims of all ages and races. The Tree of Pain is also known as the "Tree of Thorns". It is made of razor wire, thorns, blades, and cutting edges, and has fingers like scalpels and long, curved toe blades. The Tree of Pain has the ability to control the flow of time, and may appear to travel infinitely fast. Surrounding The Tree Of Pain was an endless blood sky and The environment was an endless desert as far as the eye can see.

You looked at The Tree Of Pain in complete horror and you could feel that you were no longer your dimension. You looked at the corner of your eye and noticed a figure standing right behind you this whole time just watching you like a statue.

It stands at 11ft tall and it's body was covered with an array of blades and thorns, including a large curved thorn on its chest, a curving blade on its forehead, another higher up on its head, and rosettes of thorns around its limb joints! It's a large, man-shaped creature that is covered in a strange metal similar to steel, with many barbs and spikes! It's has solid legs with joints covered in thorn-studded bands! It's flat feet with curved blades where the toes should be! Spoon-shaped blades at the heels! It's armes too long, jointed, and too many! Four huge bladed hands that hang limply by its side! It also has razor wire, blades, and thorns covering its body. Its body is completely black with four razor-sharp arms and surrounded by Dark Mist with glowing red eyes that give it very uncanny and nightmarish appearance as if it was the Grim Reaper or shadow figure!

The Shrike watched and observed your every move.

A creature which defied physical laws and which communicated only through Death!