behold
the pinnacle of dogshit quest design
the developers decided to intentionally lean into the "souls quests being obtuse and requiring a guide" meme
>find this random tree 1/3rd of the way into the game
>interact with it
>it just says "...."
>you need to use a specific emote in front of it that you only find like 6 areas ahead
>now 5 giant flaming hands spawn in your world (you will have already passed 3/5 of them by this point, you need to backtrack through the entire map to find them or look up a guide)
>extinguish the hands (the last one is in the final area of the game where everything is already on fire, make sure not to miss the flaming hand here!)
>after this, return to the tree and use yet another gesture (no clue which you're supposed to use either, just try them all!)
>it brings you to a secret boss that has absurdly high stats (ng+2 level difficulty in ng)
>after you kill him you get teleported out
>use a third emote on the tree to get his loot :)