A potentially unusual sight

[Hunter ツ]

High up in the woods, among the moss and stone, stands a dead tree bearing some unusual marks. At about chest height, the bark appears to have been clawed away by a bear, sharpening its claws. Anyone examining the marks in the wood more closely may notice that none of them quite line up with one another, hinting that the defacement was not the work of a paw of claws, but rather the work of a knife or other cutting implement.

Scattered around the base of the tree are flakes of bark, and the ground appears to have been churned by dozens of footprints.