I was a spectator as he progressed, learning to feign death, earning new weapons, and taking on greater challenges as he got closer and closer to the level cap.

Varieties like the death cap, Destroying Angels and Deadly Webcap are highly poisonous and capable of inducing death (i.e. killing you).

We added that sigil and enchant because death knights had difficulty reaching the defense "cap" in part because they don't have shields, ranged weapons or often tanking weapons.