The town of Darktide, a ruined settlement on the edge of the Haunted Coast was noticed by the Velvet Covenant and the settlement next to Crater Coast. The latter found people had vanished, and the covenant felt a change in the energy on the edge of their territory. They both contacted the party to find and figure out the threat.

The town had multiple undead residing there and around it. They also found an underground hidden arcane laboratory that has long since been left. Inside was the demon threat faced before by Glutamus. It eventually fled after sustaining damage, leaving a finger behind.