[i]You will arrive along the old road. It winds with a troubling serpent-like suggestion through the corrupted countryside; leading only I fear to ever more tenebrous places.

There is a sickness in the ancient pitted cobbles of the old road, and on it's writhing path you will face viciousness, violence and perhaps other damnably transcendent horrors. 

[b]So steel yourself and remember there can be no bravery without madness[/b]

The old road will take you to hell, but in that gaping abyss we will find our redemption[/i]