They said that the first time they encountered it was when a small party of adventurers went into the depths of the forest and came across a Demonized Boar. By appearance, it looked like a small animal and was a fairly young one, but its strength was nothing that they could have imagined. It was as if they fought with a freaking bear!
After that, they mentioned a few incidents where these creatures would come and destroy their food reserves and take away animals, and as for help, the capital was so far away from where they lived.
All this combined and the men couldn’t leave the village, a small party of 3-4 people couldn’t even get past the main roads as they’d get attacked easily.
After losing too many lives for them, they decided to move out and that is when I appeared.