'Incantation originating from the maddening Three Fingers. Releases a maddening shriek that causes madness buildup in foes nearby. It is said that the sickness of the flame of frenzy began with Shabriri, the most reviled man in all history.' The Howl of Shabriri attests one of the canon's clearest origin claims : that all later infection by the yellow flame traces back to a single man, named Shabriri, whose deeds were so reviled that the Lands Between scrubbed even the memory of them. The Tarnished encounters him only as a possessing spirit who climbs into the corpse of a dead pilgrim called Yura ; everything else of him is the disease he left behind.

'In times past, every single person who attempted to control the flame of frenzy succumbed to madness after a desperate internal struggle. This incantation is testament to a meager victory.' The Frenzied Burst description names the cost. Madness, in this world, is not chaos for chaos's sake : it is a counter-Order, summoned into being by the Great Caravan when they were buried alive for heresy, that promises the cessation of all life and all birth. Shabriri's role was to be its first willing speaker. Hyetta, the blind pilgrim who guides any Tarnished toward the lord-of-chaos ending, hears the same Three Fingers ; Vyke, knight of the Roundtable, and Midra of the Manse all caught the same fever from the same buried voice. Where the Greater Will gave the Erdtree, the Three Fingers offered to end the entire question : a final embrace, and the world dark and quiet at last.