Is it a Druid requirement that everything has to sound so mysterious? He possessed a huge capacity for evil, being selfish, hateful, enjoying duplicity and hurting others.
Some sad deaths, a character chokes a young boy to death.
Apocalyptic visions with dead bodies including a blood-covered child, bloody piles of skulls, and a character dying in a puddle of gore.
Where our current civilization long ago destroyed itself, causing off-shoots of human evolution into dwarves, gnomes, and trolls.