It is said the Ashen Wastes were formed from the decomposed remains of innumerable souls over the ages. The Flayed are a testament to this, souls who wandered too long or suffered too greatly and lost all vestige of their humanity. Some appear as skinless apparitions, others as skeletons or merely just floating skulls. What distinguishes them is their utter lack of speech or emotion and their aggression toward any being, living or dead, who wanders too close.