Summary

The Wither is an infernal abomination, an avatar of wrath and destruction, summoned into an artificial body constructed from hellish skeleton skulls and soul-infused sand from the underworld. Once summoned, the Wither will immediately turn its undying rage upon all around it, including the one who summoned it, killing indiscriminately until its new body is finally destroyed.

One may ask why anyone would be so foolish as to summon such a monstrosity. It is said that anyone who can summon and then defeat the Wither will be rewarded with a "nether star", a relic which can then be fashioned into a shining beacon of light, granting its builder the power of a god. Those who have succeeded at this trial, it is said, have gone on to become mighty kings whose deeds will be remembered for eons. Those who fail, on the other hand, will be memorialized only by vast fields of toxic black flowers that were once living creatures, now eerily beautiful monuments to foolishness and greed.