The deadwood staff was a powerful necromantic artifact in the possession of the vampire Malvich. It had the power to kill any creature, whether living or dead. When he acquired it, he realized that the head was missing. Knowing that the missing part would make the staff even more powerful, he spent almost seven hundred years looking for it, without success. Gauldoth returned to Axeoth and decided to stop Kalibarr. He killed Kalibarr in battle, preventing him from unleashing the power of the staff.