"Something evil" is a general name on player corpses, meaning any unattributed damage. It will appear in cases where the monster cannot be identified because it has despawned, or because there never existed a monster. The name will appear on player corpses but never on the website character data.
Common causes are:
- Walking over natural fire, energy, poison fields or an underwater tile (drowning) and then dying,
- Curse, Soulfire, Envenom, Electrify, or any other damage-over-time afflictions,
- Receiving any kind of damage from any monster, killing that monster and then dying shortly after by any cause. If another monster finishes the player off, that monster will also be attributed (as, "killed by a weeper and something evil")
However, the name is a catch-all for any damage where the damage dealer cannot be identified by the server.