Following the attack on the Serpent's sanctuary, Lysander and his companions returned to Kaelen, seeking his guidance. Kaelen, examining the serpent amulet, revealed its true nature: a conduit for a powerful ancient evil, a being known as the Shadow Serpent.
The amulet, Kaelen explained, was the key to unleashing the Shadow Serpent upon the world, plunging the land into an eternal night of darkness. The Serpent's Coil, it seemed, were pawns in a much larger game, their actions merely a prelude to a far more sinister plot.