A crow's skull, a meager witch amulet, a simple implement of a dark power".

This is how one of the red wizards described a bird skull which he found amongst many other things inside the witch-cave in Spider swamps. But gods how far from the truth that was. This skull is skull of Rakara the Black, one of the most powerful witches who walked these lands. Rakara was a notorious practitioner of black magic, a tyrannical mad witch who ruled over the Spider swamps and its people for more than a century... Until one day a witch hunter came into the swamps, determined to end the reign of Rakara the Black.
For years he studied the ways of witches and black magic only to learn how to counter Rakara's dark spells, and in that process he lost his soul and his sanity. But at the end the Witch hunter managed to hunt down Rakara and strip her of all of her powers but one: In a desperate attempt to flee from the zealous witch hunter, Rakara transformed herself into a raven.

But Witch hunter was ready for that, and with one expert shot of his crossbow landed Rakara once and for all, but failed to retrieve the skull of his prey...